The '90s were certainly not lacking in partisanship but I think people have just gone even more into their partisan boxes now. In my experience (as a person a lot further left than the Democratic Party) Obama and even Bill Clinton are now considered totally sacrosanct among a lot of liberals, to the point that any…

Okay….so maybe do something else occasionally? If nothing else there are plenty of systemic issues (which contributed to the rise of Trump) that could be talked about, rather than making the same obvious jokes about his hands every night. At least Oliver does it right and focuses on other things. Sometimes.

I don't know if I agree with this in the strictest sense. Even if humor isn't belatedly offensive it does still tend to age, and there is genuinely good comedy that is sometimes only funny literally on the day it is made (lots of topical late night or Twitter comedy for instance. Who is going to care about "Covfefe"…

There are so many fucking things about The Simpsons that make no sense anymore. The last time I even watched a new episode was probably a decade ago, but I remember thinking even then that it was kind of anomalous that Marge is a stay at home housewife (which was already kind of a throwback in 1990, but whatever, it…

I'm a leftist (not a liberal…a leftist. But the point is I'm not a conservative) and I would say Matt and Trey's (whose politics I don't exactly agree with generally) characterization of Hollywood is perfectly apt. One leftist critique of the media is often that media elites are in a bubble of self-importance and…

Audiences are also coached into laughing, so that doesn't help. I've been to a bunch of them including both of Colbert's shows and the warmup comic always literally has the audience practice laughing as loud as possible. And they always say to laugh even when a joke isn't funny. Obviously they say it in a cheeky way,…

The tourrette's episode still puts every other show's handling of mental disabilities to shame.

Well I mean, there is the "Cissy" episode they did more recently which was a plea for tolerance. The "trans dolphin" episode from years ago is a little embarrassing in retrospect, but consider that even liberal entertainments were full of those jokes at the time. There were literally lists compiled of all the…

Even if everyone in America who is currently suffering at the minimum wage decides to become a plumber or trucker, you will still be left with a ton of people at minimum wage because there is simply no way that there is enough need for truckers and plumbers to actually provide jobs to the sheer number of people living…

Yeah apparently they even debated doing their one episode in 2015 (where they had Garrison kill the "real" Trump! People forget just how brutal they were) because they felt it would fizzle out quickly and people would wonder why they wasted an entire episode on him. In every interview they've given they seem genuinely…

I think even to the extent that South Park necessarily influenced trolling culture (and I think being easily memeable isn't necessarily the same as influencing it; The Simpsons is memed even more often in troll arguments), it's often overstated just how much of an influence they necessarily had on the right…

Also, their reasoning apparently was that they didn't want to give Trump the actual satisfaction of having his own character on the show because Trump seems to feed on that kind of attention (and because they view him as an asshole), so they made it Garrison. Afterward they just kind of got stuck with that because…

Worse books have made great films.

And Jaws was "a shark eats a bunch of people."

Yeah not sure how I feel about the idea either. I mentioned this elsewhere but I love The President Show and feel like it does the general conceit of in-character mockery of conservative ideas pretty well. Alex Jones I feel like might just honestly be too hard to parody effectively, and he isn't even really as…

I loved The Colbert Report and have been sorely disappointed with The Late Show and stopped watching it.

We went to the same outdoor thing and while I didn't talk to that other person really I actually made a mental note not to talk to my girlfriend about how The Daily Show sucks now within earshot of them

I mean, I would assume they just won't rerun them? It's not like they rerun old Colbert Reports or whatever. (Those shows do tend to have their online clip archives stick around though.)

Apparently he'll be playing a character, a sort of Alex Jones-type. (I'm not kidding, the other day I overheard someone talking about a conversation they had with "my friend at The Daily Show" about it.)

If it helps keep The President Show around, I'm down. I mean, I hate this show anyway, but regardless I'm down with whatever keeps The President Show around. It's like Colbert when Colbert was still funny.