this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
317 points (97.3% liked)
Television
4618 readers
180 users here now
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's really refreshing. Like jumping back into the late 00s.
I didn't realize how much I missed Jon's style of humor and commentary.
He's the only one IMO who can deliver a nuanced take without letting the humour suffer.
Most of the other people who try to copy the JS formula just suck at political commentary. They always have the most ice-cold takes that are usually just "republican bad"
John Oliver comes close, but he has this problem where, the more complex the subject, the less funny he becomes. His jokes usually reek of "we couldn't figure out how to make a joke out of the thing John is talking about, so we'll inject some non-sequitor reference to something totally unrelated"
Stewart on the other hand can deliver a deeply nuanced commentary that directs criticism at the broken systems of the American political process, rather than simply at the beneficiaries of those systems. And he does it while still coming up with relevant jokes that leave me on the verge of tears from laughing so hard.
I mean, I'm sure that most of Jon's writers went on to work for other DS hosts and Oliver. Trevor Noah absolutely seemed to be reading from Jon's script, even attempting the same gags. But it always fell flat to me, because as you say, Jon's delivery is what makes it.
He's also much sharper on the interviews. I know he hasn't gone on the attack yet in this run, or if anyone would even be dumb enough to spar with him, but he is a master debater.
Hehe master debater