Dennis in MA
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I've spent a lot of time watching old comedy re-runs on Comedy Central. (Mostly That 70's Show - very well done.)
There are COUNTLESS adverts for the "news" shows on CC that are effectively just anti-Trump shows. Several have come and gone as people don't care. They had The Opposition with Jordan Someone. Some fake Trump show. Annoyingsounding Jim Jeffries is still around, but weekly (weakly?). I'm sure I've forgotten 3-4 more that have come and gone.
But The Daily Show still remains. ???? Is anyone really watching?
Turns out, No! They aren't.
When Jon Stewart ran it, it was left-leaning, but he was fair. When Obama F'd up, he called him on it. When a R did something good, he praised them. He was a bit left of most of the late-night hosts - he just criticized everyone b/c it was funny.
Then this Trevor Noah cat comes in. Completely unfunny. The guy is just Not. At. All. Funny!
And he's got this anti-Trump thing down to a science. He never met an untrue sound-bite he didn't like. Hell, he praised that dumb-as-a-rock dumpster fire waitress-running-for-Congress from NY. Corazone Aquino or whatever her name is. She says crap like there are 200 million people out of work in the US and he's all nodding and Mmmm'ing and s-word! WTF,O???
They push that show through commercials like it was going out of style. Crazy! So I did some research.
Back in 2013, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart reached 2.5 MILLION people a night, on average. Not bad for a 3rd rate cable channel going up against tons of news in that slot plus 3 or 4 other interview comedy shows. He continued to do well until his retirement in 2015/6.
Noah took over 2 years ago. He's DOWN to 540K viewers a night. Down EIGHTY percent!!!!
I think this "look at me call them stupid" entertainment thing has finally gotten to an end. Maybe SNL will be funny once more. Maybe.
I'll be happy when this tool is off my TV. This will be looked at with ??? like the era of those creepy puppets back in the late 80's. Between the crank-yankers or whatever and the "sitcom" of fake puppet celebs, it was Uber-creepy. If you weren't around during that time, you'd not understand.
(Here is a clip of them in the Phil Collins song)
I'd rather watch that than the Daily Show. LOL
There are COUNTLESS adverts for the "news" shows on CC that are effectively just anti-Trump shows. Several have come and gone as people don't care. They had The Opposition with Jordan Someone. Some fake Trump show. Annoyingsounding Jim Jeffries is still around, but weekly (weakly?). I'm sure I've forgotten 3-4 more that have come and gone.
But The Daily Show still remains. ???? Is anyone really watching?
Turns out, No! They aren't.
When Jon Stewart ran it, it was left-leaning, but he was fair. When Obama F'd up, he called him on it. When a R did something good, he praised them. He was a bit left of most of the late-night hosts - he just criticized everyone b/c it was funny.
Then this Trevor Noah cat comes in. Completely unfunny. The guy is just Not. At. All. Funny!
And he's got this anti-Trump thing down to a science. He never met an untrue sound-bite he didn't like. Hell, he praised that dumb-as-a-rock dumpster fire waitress-running-for-Congress from NY. Corazone Aquino or whatever her name is. She says crap like there are 200 million people out of work in the US and he's all nodding and Mmmm'ing and s-word! WTF,O???
They push that show through commercials like it was going out of style. Crazy! So I did some research.
Back in 2013, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart reached 2.5 MILLION people a night, on average. Not bad for a 3rd rate cable channel going up against tons of news in that slot plus 3 or 4 other interview comedy shows. He continued to do well until his retirement in 2015/6.
Noah took over 2 years ago. He's DOWN to 540K viewers a night. Down EIGHTY percent!!!!
I think this "look at me call them stupid" entertainment thing has finally gotten to an end. Maybe SNL will be funny once more. Maybe.
I'll be happy when this tool is off my TV. This will be looked at with ??? like the era of those creepy puppets back in the late 80's. Between the crank-yankers or whatever and the "sitcom" of fake puppet celebs, it was Uber-creepy. If you weren't around during that time, you'd not understand.
(Here is a clip of them in the Phil Collins song)
I'd rather watch that than the Daily Show. LOL