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Post by "American Cream" Dusty Loads on Jan 8, 2012 4:31:56 GMT -5
I love both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report but I'd trade them both in for Tough Crowd to come back. Though it definitely wouldn't be as good without Patrice Oneal :-(
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Post by Cyno on Jan 8, 2012 12:03:51 GMT -5
Greg Giraldo, too. He was great on Tough Crowd.
Amazingly enough, I liked the show, but I don't like Colin Quinn.
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Post by FUNK_US/BRODUS on Jan 8, 2012 14:44:18 GMT -5
Did Craig Kilborn ever get back from his special report in Kuala Lumpur?
And yeah, Jon Stewart blew up The Daily Show into what is now one of my favourite things on TV.
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Post by Cela on Jan 8, 2012 15:00:34 GMT -5
Jon Stewart improved the show exponentially.
But does anyone have a clip of when they had a preview for an early version of The Colbert Report? I remember a spin no fact zone being involved.
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Post by chazraps on Jan 8, 2012 15:29:51 GMT -5
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Post by anticonscience on Jan 8, 2012 16:56:20 GMT -5
I loved Tough Crowd. My friends and I in college would watch it most nights and discuss right along with it, cracking each other up.
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Post by alabastergrim on Jan 8, 2012 17:21:06 GMT -5
I loved the original Daily Show. I still have the 5 Questions book too. Kilborn always cracked me up and I never got the hate for his Late Late Show. Honestly, I wish he'd do something again.
That said, Stewart's Daily Show is leaps and bounds better and quite possibly the most consistently brilliant thing on TV. Anything that can take how terrible things are right now and make me laugh about it for a half-hour is an instant win.
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Post by zeez on Jan 8, 2012 19:16:38 GMT -5
I watched the original Daily Show once. I didn't watch the show again for about 4 years. Craig Killborn is not and has never been funny. Ever.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jan 8, 2012 19:22:38 GMT -5
I loved the original Daily Show. I still have the 5 Questions book too. Kilborn always cracked me up and I never got the hate for his Late Late Show. Honestly, I wish he'd do something again. Kilborn had a too cool and didn't seem like he wanted to be there. I don't think his material was the greatest and he didn't really have the personality to will the laughs through weak material.
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Post by chazraps on Jan 8, 2012 19:30:17 GMT -5
I loved the original Daily Show. I still have the 5 Questions book too. Kilborn always cracked me up and I never got the hate for his Late Late Show. Honestly, I wish he'd do something again. Kilborn had a too cool and didn't seem like he wanted to be there. I don't think his material was the greatest and he didn't really have the personality to will the laughs through weak material. Kilborn fit the time. He was a detached cool at a superficial irony, which works perfectly when the biggest news story in the country circles around whether or not the President lied about getting a blowjob. The Stewart years became a much different show, but I don't fault the Kilborn years for being what they were.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 8, 2012 19:37:34 GMT -5
I loved the original Daily Show. I still have the 5 Questions book too. Kilborn always cracked me up and I never got the hate for his Late Late Show. Honestly, I wish he'd do something again. Kilborn had a too cool and didn't seem like he wanted to be there. I don't think his material was the greatest and he didn't really have the personality to will the laughs through weak material. Stewart does have a more "on the fly" style then Kilborn did. Basically Kilborn went out there, did his bit, if it didn't work he shrugged his shoulder and moved onto the next one. If Stewart is seeing a bits not working, he'll improv something or make a face or atleast just hang a lantern on the fact that it wasn't working. Anything to try to get some reaction out of the crowd. Although considering the problems the writers and producers had with Kilborn at times I doubt they would've appreciated him improving anyways.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jan 8, 2012 19:38:38 GMT -5
Kilborn had a too cool and didn't seem like he wanted to be there. I don't think his material was the greatest and he didn't really have the personality to will the laughs through weak material. Kilborn fit the time. He was a detached cool at a superficial irony, which works perfectly when the biggest news story in the country circles around whether or not the President lied about getting a blowjob. The Stewart years became a much different show, but I don't fault the Kilborn years for being what they were. I thought he was okay in the Daily Show years but I was mostly talking about the Late Late show. Especially at the end it was clear he didn't want to be there
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Post by chazraps on Jan 8, 2012 19:46:37 GMT -5
Kilborn fit the time. He was a detached cool at a superficial irony, which works perfectly when the biggest news story in the country circles around whether or not the President lied about getting a blowjob. The Stewart years became a much different show, but I don't fault the Kilborn years for being what they were. I thought he was okay in the Daily Show years but I was mostly talking about the Late Late show. Especially at the end it was clear he didn't want to be there Ahh, yes, totally agree. NEXT QUESTION: Craig Kilborn or Tom Snyder?
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Post by wcw on Jan 8, 2012 20:14:41 GMT -5
Cable news gives the Daily Show too much material. I think that with Killborn it was more so an Inside Edition spoof. They would just make fun of "Soft" news pieces and stupidity of the stuff inside edition would cover as "News".
Jon Stewart is more so satire about what is going on in the world. I do agree that he should do more stuff with non-political stories as he is funny when he does that kind of stuff.
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Post by horsemen4ever on Jan 8, 2012 20:24:31 GMT -5
I loved both versions. I loved Stewart's Rippy Awards, and his recent Barbara Walters "what" quote is hillarous.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jan 8, 2012 20:56:33 GMT -5
Kilborn's style was less about throwing red meat to the 'congregation', as it were. It was just kind of goofy. Stewart's seems more about re-affirming dislike for those you disagree with.
And I think I've had enough of that.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jan 8, 2012 21:09:26 GMT -5
Count me in as someone who likes Jon Stewart, a lot more than Kilborn.
Really without Stewart and the shift to more politics, I don't know if it would still be around. What started the shift and started The Daily Show's ascension into being as big as it is, was Indecision 2000. That coverage took them to a whole other level.
Without the shift we probably would have never gotten Gitmo, Puppet Michael Steele, and Jason Jones being lost in Washington D.C.
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