bbeagle
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This is an awful point.
So, unless you practice what you preach, you can't preach at all?
That's all the orange politician trying to be president again does. Every single day.
Jon Stewart Returning to 'The Daily Show' After Apple TV+ Series Cancelation
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So, unless you practice what you preach, you can't preach at all?
That's all the orange politician trying to be president again does. Every single day.
Born Again
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Just a thought - why can’t conservatives be funny?
He literally did, you have heard of Trevor Noah, right? He was fantastic, but he’s doing other cool things now
Right now Stewart’s joining a temporary set of rotating hosts until they find a new permanent one next year because Trevor Noah moved on
Also, Stewart is *very* well known among comics for mentoring other comics and helping folks get their start, including lots of performers of color. He absolutely practices what he preaches
Sidenote btw, Trevor Noah’s autobiography is fantastic, and I highly recommend listening to it as an audiobook, he does the narration himself and it’s well worth the listen
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randyhudson
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My new favorite game is "6 degrees of Apple". It's where you take an article from MacRumors, and try to find a chain of relationships, no longer than 6, connecting the subject of the article to Apple.
I agree, this situation really makes me disappointed in Apple. I thought The Problem was really good and interesting and am very sad to see it end. I just wish I could get the episodes that did run on Blu-Ray...
In politics, "common sense" means "I've found a third way to ignore reality."
fenderbass146
macrumors 65816
The Office wouldn't exist. The writer (Mindy Kaling) even apologized for it and said it couldn't be on tv today...It's insane.
Supercyborgninja
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Yes it would, it literally is still super popular. Mindy Kaling said that because she knows some of the 'jokes' she wrote were rooted in her actual views. But The office is a SUPER smart comedy especially for its time.
You picked a really strange hypocrisy to judge. Corporate greed is a systematic approach to capture as much revenue without any regard to community, environmental and legal standards and has nothing to do with the salary of an individual entertainer.
There are plenty of funny conservatives but they typically don't send their entire set making fun of straight white people so they don't get Comedy Central specials.
DMG35
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Shouldn’t you practice what you preach? And I’m not sure what Trump has to do with anything but you do you. And it’s my opinion. I also think your opinion is awful so who cares?
So how come we trust the content and truth in their jokes more than we trust the content and truth in the actual mainstream news networks? Comedians and comedy are not the problem here.
DMG35
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It does when said corporations are paying his salary.
Please show me an example of when Jon has been racist or demonized the working people. I'll wait... It's almost like you haven't watched anything he has actually done and instead listened to what some right wing pundit had to say about him.
Right. They make fun of straight white people for being woke and liberal.
So if he was quietly taking a big salary form corps to secure his silence you wouldn't have a problem with that?
I saw a big difference between 1st and 2nd seasons. It got funnier, better bookings, better researched and flowed better overall from S1 to S2. I never liked any of the video interstitials - too goofy and self serving. And I hate most live audience tapings because the audience generally responds to every point with long, obnoxious applause breaks. It's the reason why I fast forward through most of Bill Maher. But Stewart's audience was a little less raucous which helps.
The ones that do that don't even get views on Rumble. It gets old quick.
DMG35
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They do secure his silence. When he was working for Apple did you see him talk at all about Apple’s corporate greed or labor practices? Oh right, no you didn’t. You think he’s gonna go on tirades against Viacom? He won’t. It’s the “other” big corporations that he likes to go at.
I think it's hard to judge people with this line of thinking though. In the society we live in, everyone needs to work to survive. You are also working for a company that participates in this same game and I bet you would also like raises regularly. I would argue that's no different than Jon. He makes a lot more money than either of us, yes, but he is nowhere near the amount that the real problem people are at. I'd only start trying to draw these kinds of connections when he gets into the Billions of dollars of net worth. According to google his net worth is somewhere between 60 million and 120 Million, that's not pay, but net worth which would include any retirement or anything else.
Another angle, do you have a 401K? Because if you do, then you are somewhat reliant on the "number always go up" mentality too. So, my main point is that if those are the markers for being a hypocrite, then you and I are as well. The current system forces us into this mold, so we have to work on changes from within. If he didn't play the game to some extent, he wouldn't have the platform to speak out on like he does.
fenderbass146
macrumors 65816
Lots of stuff from the past is super popular. I love the office. Doesn't mean many of the great episodes of that show would have been made today.