Fine kettle of fish ........... comedians make sense explaining our government..
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I thought Larry Wilmore had a great show. I miss it. I now fill
that TV slot with Colbert, who is brilliant. Love Trevor Noah, too.
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Jordan Klepper was the funniest corespondent the Daily Show has had in a long time. I'm really looking forward to his show.
Nothing new here. I'm sure Jordan is a nice guy and I sometimes enjoy his bits of the Daily Show but he's no Colbert. Copying Colbert is really lame.
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I love Klepper and his "big, dumb face" and will be all over this show.
How do you satirize media that is satire, only being sold as sincere?
Alex Jones' Info Wars should be seen by everybody as the reason for the manufacture of tinfoil hats, but he has an audience. Rush Limbaugh invented the form; Jones perfected it.
Breitibart publishes treatises on why birth control makes women crazy and why we ought to have a cap on the number of women studying science (because they'll just have babies and quit.) How do you satirize this?
Tina Fey satirized Sarah Palin by quoting her directly. Think about that. How do you build a character that helps us understand how someone can believe this insanity?
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What John Stewart has wrought. Amazing
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John Oliver & Sam Bee aren't "competition" during Klepper's time slot: their shows only air once a week and, more to the point, aren't in his 11:30 time slot.
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Wading into Stephen Colbert's old river is a tricky business. You don't want to be too similar but there are some elements you shouldn't give up without careful consideration. For instance, I look at the teleprompter and I immediately want to see a split screen. One side is Donald Trump speaking. The other side is a teleprompter writing the live speech of what he should be saying. The comedy writes itself. However, you can level a justifiable criticism that the joke is too close to Colbert's "The Word" segments. Is that a bad thing? Yes and no. I hope Klepper can thread the needle.
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I hope this will be funny, but I still miss the bejesus out of Larry Wilmore and his whole very smart cast on "The Nightly Show." It was a great show.
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Much as I like Klepper, reading this article only reminded me how much I miss "The Nightly Snow".
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Well it's about time that a white male was hired as a late night host rather than the usual "Larry Wilmore" type. And what an original idea, a fake right winger.
Honestly, this is so lame. At least Larry Wilmore has a weekly podcast (Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air).
Larry Wilmore was cancelled because the show was not doing well ratings-wise. And people were not watching because he wasn't a particularly charismatic or funny host. He was smart, obviously, but he didn't pull you in the same way that Stewart or Colbert did. And in that business, if you don't have that ineffable charm that makes enough people want to stick around and watch you, then you're not gonna be on the air for long. And his panels were pretty sloppy and not interesting to watch. It just wasn't a very good show.
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Why is this story so prominently played while the acquittal of yet another white police officer in the unjustifiable death of a black man in this country is buried inside? For that matter, how can Harry Dean Stanton's obit compare favorably as front page news in the digital edition?
"Confidential tip": You don't bury a story of the acquittal of a police officer in any shooting when the ONLY dna found on a gun supposed carried by the victim belonged to the officer.
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It's the ARTS section, Janice.
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I've always viewed him as the poor man's Craig Kilborn...That's not saying much about Mr. Klepper's comedic skills....
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What's called comedy now days only adds to the already long list of reasons not to watch TV anymore. Ha, ha. Nothing but pure venom and hate. It is true what they say about us as we get old, thank God.
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I didn't see the clip, but excuse me, why is it wrong to ridicule to death the stunning ignorance of people (on either side) who exercise their vote based on idiotic assumptions? If you are calling questions like why Obama was absent from the Oval Office on 9/11 "limited knowledge" (and I'm not certain you are), then there is no limit to the ridicule such people deserve who wield their voting power from the well of ignorance.
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The problem with Klepper's new show is it does nothing to skewer the bubble that Trump's base lives in. Political humor works best when it both makes fun of those in power, and exposes the hypocrisy of those in power, or their self-righteousness. From what we have seen of the new show, Klepper succeeds at presenting a paranoid, uneducated grass-roots perspective, but it does NOTHING to help shine a light on what is wrong with the topic being lampooned.
This is all too close to the wound we've already suffered. Jordan, you're a really smart comedian, but you're a bit tone-deaf in regard to what your current audience is able to tolerate at this time. You're presenting material which isn't very different from what we already see on a daily basis from 'serious' news outlets and commentary.
This approach might have worked for Colbert, but it is derivative, redundant, and beneath your skill level. Take the time to find your own voice; don't adopt this one because TPTB at ComedyCentral want you to.
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How about we start promoting real discussion instead of comedic dialogue. It really concerns me when the 'Court Jester' is constantly the only source of brilliant insight on the politics of the day. It is a foul humor when we can do nothing but to grin and bear it.
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The brilliance of Stewart and Colbert was they made discussion of real issues entertaining enough that it reached a wide audience. I think Jordan can pull of the same trick.
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He's very talented- leave it at that..
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City vs. Country Nobody HAS to sound condescending, I think that's what Trump supporters pick up on that offends them so much, specifically. Although, maybe not a lot of 'country' people have ever actually lived in the city before. They don't have a clue to what it's like. In reality, everybody who lives in the city acts condescending to people they don't know that they think are 'unintelligent'. I honestly, don't know anybody who doesn't act like that. People truly are 'nicer' in the country. It's the byproduct of too many people.
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Looking forward to this!
We'll see how it goes, but I miss Larry Wilmore's show.
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So, "Colbert-Redux" is worth a puff-piece of its very own.
Reductive, in a reductive sort of way...
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His performance as a hype-man in the Trump rapper skit "They Love Me" was absolutely hysterical. Same goes for Roy Wood Jr. If Klepper's work reflects the same ridiculous premise and production, then the show should go well. Those two had me in stitches, I still pull up the clip on occasion when I need a good laugh.
Based on the title of "a Colbert for the Breitbart Era," I thought this was going to describe a show focused on poking fun at the absurdity of Anti-Fa and the anti-First Amendment movement on the far left that equates speech with physical violence. Sort of taking the mantle from Bill Maher. We could use a "Politically Incorrect" for the current era. Jerry Seinfeld has remarked that he can't even tour college campuses anymore.
We already have Trevor Noah; John Oliver; Colbert; Samantha Bee. All saying the same thing. "Opposition with Jordan Klepper" sounds like more of the same.
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If I were you, I wouldn't watch it.
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Poor Jerry and Bill, thwarted by so-called political correctness.
Sorry but those bemoaning PC are usually looking for a pass to be offensive or inappropriate.
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I hope it's good, but being derivative of Colbert gives me pause.
There was plenty of room for Larry Wilmore's show, but they really didn't give it a chance.
Let's see...
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With you on Wilmore. Really sorry that ended. Actually, I'm even more sorry that they didn't hand him the Daily Show job after Jon left.
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If only HBO or Netflix would pick up Wilmore's show - entire cast and all.
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Demographics, obviously. They are targeting a younger audience.
The preview clip shown on September 14 was condescending and belittling to the Trump supporters he interviewed in Arizona. Ridiculing the limited knowledge of people is not the way to address the dangerous divisions in our society.
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Yet the right wing shows he is satirizing do the same to liberal values and supporters.
Perhaps it's time they got some of their own medicine.
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Ridiculing the lies that Trump supporters rely on is exactly what needs to happen.
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As somebody who has to endure both the miserable summers of southern Arizona a-n-d retired folks of a certain political bent who cannot stop talking politics, I am definitely going to watch that preview clip! I need some catharsis here.
As for the show, I'm hoping they mine the worst of the extremism I hear on AM radio while driving my beloved (and endangered) Southwest US. Some of what gets mentioned on those radio frequencies is comedic gold!
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I look forward to watching "The Opposition" as I like Jordan Klepper's comedy style
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Jordan is hilarious. Love that the writing staff is diverse and gender-balanced.
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I can't wait for this series to start. Jordan has all the ammunition to make this a hilarious take on "fake" news. Would't it be great if someone mimics with satire people like Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Waters, Hannity etc. I really miss the Colbert Report!!!
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Did you read the article? "Mr. Klepper and his cast mates will play characters inspired by more incendiary and conspiratorial sources that have gained prominence in the Trump era: broadcasters like Alex Jones and Jesse Watters, and sites like Breitbart and Infowars."
Comedy is a great weapon for the 'alt-right'...yes, but it's also the ONLY weapon, and it's really ineffective...which is, by design. They change the laws, while we sit around laughing.
The joke is on us.
That's right, T, his politics won't allow him to do satires on the corrections that CNN and MSNBC has had to run.
Or that statistical analyses have mainline news 91% negative on "Not Hillary," so far. Which, of course, for BHO, would have been his entire second term .. because, of course, the MSM was frightened to hold BHO to high standards. A shameful chapter of USA journalism, IMHO.
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Humor is the best weapon against far-rights.
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Yes, but it's also the ONLY weapon, and it's really ineffective. I think that is by design. They change the laws, while we sit around laughing.
The joke is on us.
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