Those of us who watched a handful of eps this summer were blown away by how well Oliver did in his "substitute teacher" role. Nobody can replace Stewart, but Oliver did an amazing job making us forget who is normally behind the Big Desk.
So the IMDB comments were all about "when Stewart leaves TDS will Oliver be picked as his replacement? etc. etc.
Now, looks like probably not.
...because he's getting his own satire news show on HBO!
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/11/14/john-oliver-was-so-good-hosting-the-daily-show-hbo-has-given-him-his-own-weekly-series/
PS: watching 2nd season of Community, every damn scene Oliver is in (as "Professor" Duncan) is hilarious, a drunk Brit college psychologist who really doesn't give a crap about the mental health of of his students? NAILS IT.
Also, boy has a podcast too (http://thebuglepodcast.com/). All satire, apparently. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1056659/board/nest/145050651
Yeah, he did a good job. Dunno if I'll end up watching it, as it's on HBO and that's a pay-extra channel.
The Daily Show has been spot-on for years. And has really latched onto Rob Ford the last couple of weeks (but come on, that's easier than when they would make fun of George W. Bush).
Quote from: Thorin on November 15, 2013, 11:15:57 AM
Yeah, he did a good job. Dunno if I'll end up watching it, as it's on HBO and that's a pay-extra channel.
The Daily Show has been spot-on for years. And has really latched onto Rob Ford the last couple of weeks (but come on, that's easier than when they would make fun of George W. Bush).
Not now but maybe soon, HBO is testing it in the US with Comcast http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/comcast-becomes-first-pay-tv-distributor-to-offer-hbo-without-basic-cable-1200761863/
Yeah, I thought Oliver did an excellent job. I'll have to see how quickly his new show goes up on the internets ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Week_Tonight
And so it has begun (premiered April 27, 2014 -- weekly but certainly not weakly) !
https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight/videos
I gotta say John Oliver has found the perfect hosting sweet spot between Jon Stewart's Daily Show overly-seriousness and Joel McHale's Soup smarminess!
For example, here is how he beautifully and self-mockingly handled that ridic "right to be forgotten" EU search engine case:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ERajkMXw0
(and SWEARING really works for his style of delivery 8) )
BTW forum admins what is up with the LAG today?
Oliver & Co. deal with the newly-rehashed Net Neutrality issue.
Briliantly, as usual.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU
PS: cable companies are freakin' EVIL!
by the way...
Quote from: Darren Dirt on May 28, 2014, 04:57:53 PM
BTW forum admins what is up with the LAG today?
STILL. >:(
What lag?
Sometimes the page takes many many seconds to load.
Quote from: Tom on June 04, 2014, 01:02:18 PM
Sometimes the page takes many many seconds to load.
The lag issue is worse that it simply taking a few extra seconds to load some of the time.
In all web browsers, what is happening is that most* page requests are completely failing -- if it doesn't complete within 5 seconds you might as well just press F5. But ditto for SUBMITTING an edit or new post, which means I am back to the old "copy to Notepad before hitting Submit" way of doing things to be safe :(
*then suddenly it's all lightning-quick response times (which is when I can paste from Notepad, yay!)
How about splitting the lag issue into its own thread in the Help forum or something?
LastWeekTonight is starting a new series examining the leader of not-the-United-States countries.
WOW Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has a way with words!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3IaKVmkXuk
(or perhaps he's a robot, and @ 2:54 until 3:14 he was simply rebooting!?)
I believe the term "evil killbot" has been used in the past
Quote from: Mr. Analog on June 05, 2014, 11:02:07 AM
I believe the term "evil killbot" has been used in the past
Perhaps he's a real-life "Meet Dave (https://www.google.com/search?q=Meet+Dave&tbm=isch)"-bot! #creepy #forMultipleReasons
Makes you wonder how he ever got into office, eh?
Quote from: Thorin on June 05, 2014, 12:12:48 PM
Makes you wonder how he ever got into office, eh?
Give me 30 seconds or so to reply...
(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view2/4649314/tony-nodding-o.gif)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Dr. Oz and Nutritional Supplements
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA0wKeokWUU
ABOUT. DAMN. TIME. His uppance has been LONG coming!
(love most of the comments @ http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/06/23/watch-john-oliver-skewers-dr-oz-with-a-little-help-from-george-r-r-martin-steve-buscemi-and-an-adorable-puppy/ )
Quote from: Darren Dirt on June 04, 2014, 12:42:20 PM
Oliver & Co. deal with the newly-rehashed Net Neutrality issue.
Briliantly, as usual.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU
PS: cable companies are freakin' EVIL!
Dammit, after Oliver's brilliance, millions of human persons voicing objections vs dozens of corporate persons submitting legal-team tomes... guess who the FCC listened to? http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/26/net-neutrality-dead-age-of-digital-discrimination-is-here
(not too shocking though, since FCC chief = former high exec for the cable companies ... and all corporations are by nature just ethics-free profit-motivated sociopaths (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/06/we-shouldnt-expect-facebook-to-behave-ethically) at the core)
re. FCC's Net Netrality decision, a neat idea: techies protesting via throttling FCC access (only wish Google, Youtube, Wikipedia etc would join in!)
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/134371-FCC-Throttled-By-NeoCities-In-Net-Neutrality-Protest
https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-is-now-rate-limited
Simple throttling code here - lotsa lols in the comments...
https://gist.github.com/kyledrake/e6046644115f185f7af0
(Federal IT decision being made by the FCC aka the bureacracy with stone-age IT infrastructure (http://www.fcc.gov/blog/need-modernize-fcc-s-it-systems) :sigh: )
SUPER glad Oliver got the LWT gig, that show is so fantastic beyond expectation. New host coulda been Brian Williams (since he was available, lol) but nope: http://forums.righteouswrath.com/index.php/topic,10555.msg84238.html#msg84238
LWT is becoming Serious Business.
33 minutes including almost 20 interviewing Edward Snowden!
The perfect "get-Americans-angry!" key point begins @ 24:46 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M#t=24m46s).
(you can see a funny 2 minute excerpt on choosing a strong password here (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-edward-snowden-schools-john-oliver-password-making-20150409-story.html))
...and on a purely comedic lebel, @ 31:10 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M#t=31m09s) Best* Quote Ever:
"That is a pretty inspiring answer to the question 'Hey why did you just send me a picture of your dick?' -Because I love America, that's why!"
...as former "Spill.com" cartoon/reviewer and "Sinister" screenwriter C. Robert Cargill says @ https://twitter.com/Massawyrm/status/584990249387864064
"So in just 18 minutes, the guy who played the drunk professor on COMMUNITY got Snowden to explain the NSA programs in plain English. Woah."
via http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-viewers-react-to-john-olivers-edward-snowden-interview-20150406-story.html
*close runner up:
"The good news is there's no program NAMED the dick pic program. The bad news is they are still collecting everybody's information, including your dick pics." -- Edward Snowden
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/14/john_oliver_laughs_in_the_face_of_a_reporter_who_calls_him_a_journalist_im_doing_the_job_of_a_comedian/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17TPkXGVCo
Thanks to the Snowden scoop by LWT, now John Oliver has to respond to being called (accused of being? [lol]) a "journalist"...
I'm doing the job of a comedian so I make jokes about the news -- I?m pretty clear about the lane that I?m in.
And he had to further respond to "you have more credibility than most journalists in the United States", thusly:
That is more an insult to the current state of journalism than it is a compliment for the state of comedy.
Yikes. So folks hosting COMEDY shows STILL have to explain to serious journalism-focused folks that they are not serious, credible journalists? How is this still a thing?
Quote from: Darren Dirt on May 14, 2015, 11:53:26 AM
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/14/john_oliver_laughs_in_the_face_of_a_reporter_who_calls_him_a_journalist_im_doing_the_job_of_a_comedian/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17TPkXGVCo
Thanks to the Snowden scoop by LWT, now John Oliver has to respond to being called (accused of being? [lol]) a "journalist"...
I'm doing the job of a comedian so I make jokes about the news -- I?m pretty clear about the lane that I?m in.
And he had to further respond to "you have more credibility than most journalists in the United States", thusly:
That is more an insult to the current state of journalism than it is a compliment for the state of comedy.
Yikes. So folks hosting COMEDY shows STILL have to explain to serious journalism-focused folks that they are not serious, credible journalists? How is this still a thing?
I'm not surprised. News people (in NA at least) have been in the entertainment business, not the journalism business for years if not decades. No one really does hard journalism anymore, it just doesn't bring in the ratings. Except maybe these comedy shows. In LWT's case, it looks like they do a significant amount of research into John's rants.
But yeah, it is a big diss on the state of journalism in north america these days.
btw for fairness, there is a CONTEXT for the above -- 2:38 - 3:32 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17TPkXGVCo#t=2m38s)
So, really, he's just paying a compliment** to Oliver & Co. -- he's not some out-of-touch confused old-guard guy who is actually THINKING he's talking an actual journalist... so... my bad, [accidental click bait kinda -- I feel like BuzzFeed now, but WAY less dirty]
Info on who this "Jorge Ramos" interviewer guy is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Ramos_%28news_anchor%29
** and WELL-DESERVED! I mean, John and his writers pretty much single-handedly saved the internet! see 4:08 - 4:36 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17TPkXGVCo#t=4m08s)
"The Business" started in the 80s with 60 Minutes it was the first news program that turned a profit, prior to that news was disliked by TV networks because it was both a requirement and not attractive to advertisers (who wants their product in your face after hearing bad news, nobody)
I found a good article on the rise of TV news media as entertainment, particularly how editorializing shifted news from simple fact based fear-mongering (i.e. number of MURDERS on a daily basis) to less obvious fear-mongering (i.e. Government legislation COULD change how much you pay at the pump... after these messages)