What in the hell was Comedy Central thinking. Noah is so bad, they let a diamond go in Samantha Bee and now the rest of us have to suffer. We only get her once a week and she's doing great with TBS btw. Daily Show is dead.
shareBee did some great work as a correspondent, but she needs to work on her skills as a moderator. Also, just because you belong to some group doesn't mean you need to look at every issue from that group's angle. Imagine Stewart had constantly presented every issue from a "Jewish" perspective, instead of using his Jewishness occasionally for comedy.
shareBee's also pretty good as host of her own show, even if her humor is a little off sometimes---but she's good at satirizing and calling politicians on their bull****, something Noah's gotten much better at,too. I like her fresh spunkiness, her bluntness, and her understated fashion style,too. And I've come to like her show.too----I liked that hour-long political special she did,too----that was a trip in itself.
shareShe turned it down you ignorant dung pile. Noah sucks, but Bee turned it down.
shareNot according to Rolling Stone:
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/samantha-bee-very-zen-about-not-being-offered-daily-show-host-gig-20160418
Joel McHale for host.
shareSamantha Bee is as bad as it gets, not funny, unwatchable.
shareSamantha Bee is as bad as it gets, not funny, unwatchable.
@RealReviews
Seen clips from Bee's new show, and actually liked it---she's an entertaining host, and kind of funny, be to be fair,her show just started too---give her a chance to find her footing, so to speak. And I liked Wilmore's show too---he was a bit restrained and reserved, but when he got revved up about a subject, he could really let loose and go off about it. I hated to hear that his show was going off the air, because he really dealt with a number of hard-hitting issues in a comedic way. Also, the man is a longtime showbiz veteran and was doing TV and comedy long before anybody even heard of Jon Stewart, so he's nobody's "toady" anything, think you very much. The send-you Stewart gave him was really sweet.
I must not GET IT! Because Samantha Bee is probably the only female comedian on the face of the Earth to ever actually make me laugh.
shareI must not GET IT!
I watched the one where she jerks off a pig :P.
shareReelReviews:
Oh, so only right-wing talk show hosts on Fox can express their worldview? Because that's what they do all the time there on Foxhole news----it was basically one big expression of Roger Ailes' right-wing worldview when he was there, and it's still always basically been a promotional tool for the conservative right-wing. The conservatives on Fox educate people about their worldview every damn day. Funny how the same complaints you're voicing are only aimed at supposedly left-wing shows. This is America--there's rooms for all points of view, including both liberals and conservatives. Tired of right-wingers acting like everybody in the whole world is just supposed to fall in line and think like them---and act like there's something wrong with everybody else who dosen't agree with you. Get over yourselves,please----everything ain't about you.
NotAnUndervcoverCop:
What a stupid thing to say---because men don't have the damn corner on everything funny---I've seen just as many male comedians who I don't think are funny at all as much as some female comedians. Gender dosen't have a damn thing to do with how funny you are. Either you're funny, or you're not----plain and damn simple. It' ain't that complicated.
The same rolling stone that published that UVA Jackie drivel? Oh, and http://www.businessinsider.com/samantha-bee-on-hosting-the-daily-show-after-jon-stewart-2016-2
shareSamantha Bee was great as a sidekick, but not very good when she's the lead. Just like John "shouting-my-lines-makes-everything-automatically-funny" Oliver.
shareI agree on Bee, but I generally like Oliver. He has become a little preachy lately, and I think he is a bit too committed to the PC story line, but he has done some great comedy on his show while kicking off, or contributing to, a growing list of national debates on important topics, and that's an achievement few can lay claim to.
shareI agree. His new show started off fine, but preachy is exactly what he has become. Hectoring instead of comedy. And that's fine when you're a sidekick, but when that's the whole show it becomes quite dull.
Working in the movie business since -92
Bee , noah, Wilmore, oliver , maher are all hilary propaganda garbage
shareI really wanted to like him. I'm the last person to say Trevor Noah isn't talented in his own right, but he just had the misfortune replacing the by now comedic legend that is Jon Stewart. He'll be more than capable of carrying his own show, not soon, maybe someday, but he just isn't cut out to carry The Daily Show. Not now nor ever in the future. The awkward laughing with his own (scripted) jokes is too much a sad contrast with the silence in too many viewers homes... I wish him all the best, and there'll most likely be more TDS seasons with him, but there's no denying he's never gonna be more than a puppet operating in Jon Stewarts shadow. He isn't funny, and would be even less so if he were white. There: I said it. Call me racist or whatever you want, but admit that if he were a white guy, he'd have far little credit, if any, left.
shareThe problem isn't so much that Stewart looms so large, as that Noah just isn't the right guy for the job. He isn't interested in the folly of the discourse or the absurdity of the political system as such, his mission is what I'd call "partisan propaganda comedy".
By "partisan" I don't mean the lack of political "neutrality", whatever that might even be --- Stewart is certainly a "liberal" by U.S. standards, but the primary object of his comedy was the system, even if viewed from a political angle. The primary object of Noah's attempts at comedy are people and issues he disagrees with, which really makes him a left Bill O'Reilly that tries to be funny and laughs at his own jokes because nobody else will.
Call me racist or whatever you want, but admit that if he were a white guy, he'd have far little credit, if any, left.
@bobmartens
He isn't funny, and would be even less so if he were white. There: I said it. Call me racist or whatever you want, but admit that if he were a white guy, he'd have far little credit, if any, left.
Yeah, you're racist---because skin color dosen't have jack to do with how funny you are----you're either funny, or you're not--period. Just say you don't like him because he ain't Jon Stewart, and leave it at that. Watch some of Noah's concert films or clips from them to see how funny he can be when not on the Daily Show----that's how I found out about him a yer or two before he was tapped for the DS---so I already knew who he was when he got on there.
Yup, it's depressing.
shareTo the OP:
Nothing about Noah's approach "sucks" as you put it---after his first year, he finally seems to be finding his own rhythm---seems like some people are just ticked off at him because he's not Jon Stewart. I remember way back in the early '90s seeing a then-virtually unknown Jon Stewart host his first late night TV show (I don't even remember what the hell it was called) on either CBS or whatever (can't recall what network it was on either) and frankly, he was just plain horrible as a host on it---I remember him literally freaking out and waving his arms in complete desperation in front of the camera because he didn't know what the hell to do after asking a question of one episode's headlining act---a punk rock group called Old Skull, whose members consisted of mostly nine and ten year old kids---they actually made one album that I know of. Anyway, I'm watching this and thinking, "Damn, this dude is horrible as fck! How the hell did he even get on TV?" The show barely lasted a season, as I recall.
Anyway, just over a decade later, I'm watching some cable somewhere and I see this Stewart dude on TV making pointed political commentary on some other political show and dogging out some then well-known conservative. I was amazed to see how well-spoken, confident and funny he'd become in front of the camera---couldn't believe it was the same dude I'd seen fckg up on that lame-a** late-night show years before. The point being, that even Stewart, like any other talk show host, had to start somewhere and get better at what he was doing (which he eventually did.) So let's just give Noah the chance to do that. I like him and his unique approach, and how he manages to skillfully dog the hell out of everybody, including crazy-a** right-wingers.
Uhm, no. Noah is just garbage.
shareSamantha Bee is annoying and crude, but I agree she is relatively watchable if the story is good (probably less on her own). I think Jon Stewart was often crude himself, but the show was definitely watchable (besides, I'm certainly no conservative, but also not an American). One could see this, for example, when John Oliver was a replacement for a week and the interviews were just as funny and probably a little smarter on the whole. Shame he doesn't do them anymore. Trevor Noah is rarely funny and unbelievable boring and tame.
shareThey both suck balls.
shareTrevor Noah is still terrible after over six months on the job. I was watching a link my sister put on on FB where he was mocking Donald Trump ,and while the subject matter was very funny and some of the jokes should have been as well, his deliveray was flat and very unfunny, so i didn't laugh even when I should have been laughing.
Obviously it's not the accent, because I find John Oliver ot be very funny indeed. Nor is it the black thing, because while he could be boring sometimes, when Larry Wilmore was on he was ON and i laughed uproariously. It's just I don't find him funny. At all. He's not my kind of comedian, and his delivery is terrible. Maybe he might get better, but I'm not going to hold my breath. Also, something about him flat out irritates me, and i can't tell you exactly what. Maybe it's his smile, which I find smirky. Could be the fact that he's not funny. Or that he tries to hard, something that can be corrected. Whatever it is, he rubs me the wrong way. So i probably won't watch The Daily Show ever again as long as he's the host.
Obey My Dog! -Mugatu
Yeah, well, Noah has not only improved on the show since you posted this, he's shown how good of an impressionist he is, and he's done interviews talking about how he wants to improve the show----it's always fun to watch him being interviewed because he always has so many interesting things to say about everything---he's clearly intelligent as hell. It's not hard to see why Stewart picked him, besides the fact that he's both funny and handsome. About time for him to start looking at doing some movies or something different like that.
shareBee is an ass-faced ignorant C.
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