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Post by anticonscience on Mar 5, 2013 14:58:56 GMT -5
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Post by Sparkybob on Mar 5, 2013 15:00:35 GMT -5
Should be interesting, I'm a big fan of Mr. Oliver.
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Post by Michael Coello on Mar 5, 2013 15:01:57 GMT -5
Like Oliver, so should be good.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Mar 5, 2013 15:10:10 GMT -5
Ollie's awesome, so Stewart's leaving the show in good hands.
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Post by Juice on Mar 5, 2013 15:19:46 GMT -5
Possibly a sign of things to come? Testing the waters for the future of the show perhaps.
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Post by Widow's Peak on Mar 5, 2013 15:20:07 GMT -5
So does this mean we get Patrick Stewart back as Replacement John Oliver?
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Post by Cyno on Mar 5, 2013 15:41:47 GMT -5
Oliver should be a fantastic fill-in host for the first two segments. The guest interviews are a question mark, but I'm sure he'll do fine.
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Post by Mayonnaise on Mar 5, 2013 16:09:42 GMT -5
Nice, I love John Oliver so getting more of him is welcome.
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Post by Psy on Mar 5, 2013 16:10:09 GMT -5
John Oliver is going to do great.
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Post by Sephiroth on Mar 5, 2013 17:02:08 GMT -5
Possibly a sign of things to come? Testing the waters for the future of the show perhaps. I've been wondering myself. Stewart has been taking more and more one week breaks lately, and his tone has been increasingly bitter and cynical. I get the impression that maybe he is just burnt out on The Daily Show and wants to move on to other things. |
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Post by Mayonnaise on Mar 5, 2013 17:14:44 GMT -5
Possibly a sign of things to come? Testing the waters for the future of the show perhaps. I've been wondering myself. Stewart has been taking more and more one week breaks lately, and his tone has been increasingly bitter and cynical. I get the impression that maybe he is just burnt out on The Daily Show and wants to move on to other things. I'm kinda hoping this is just that. Test the waters with someone new and move Stewart to a guest role like Lewis Black has or even like a once a week wrap up style show. Doing an almost daily show on politics and the stress that come with it, combined with being in the entertainment industry and his personal stuff (not that I've heard anything, just saying living in the NYC area and dealing with Sandy lately) is extremely taxing and you can see it in how much he's aged which he's even admitted to in interviews. |
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Post by Cyno on Mar 5, 2013 17:15:34 GMT -5
Eh, I think that's the CC more than anything. Colbert always does the same breaks, and a lot of the late night shows tend to break around the same time, much to my chagrin.
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Mar 5, 2013 17:57:16 GMT -5
get Kyle Rayner as the replacement
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Mar 5, 2013 18:26:17 GMT -5
Oliver would make a good temporary host. The Daily Show's team of writers do most of the work, John Oliver just has to deliver it properly and adapt on the fly, which he's really good at doing. Yeah, but Jon Stewart is on the writing staff and I think some of the correspondents are too. It tends to be overlooked that the late night shows usually tend to be on their shows' writing staff in addition to executive producing the show. So it's not like they're just given the material on a silver platter to perform. That being said it should be interesting to see TDS uner John Oliver just to see if Oliver's comedic voice as host will be different vs when Jon Stewart is behind the desk. |
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Post by mjolnir on Mar 5, 2013 18:35:45 GMT -5
I love Oliver, so I'm perfectly okay with this.
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Post by Square on Mar 5, 2013 18:36:37 GMT -5
...I hate this for the simple fact that it means that The Bugle will suffer
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Post by Sigma: Current SRW Champ! on Mar 5, 2013 19:00:05 GMT -5
I think the time has come for him to depart. He was a great host for the show, but it's time for him to move on to bigger and better things. Craig Kilborn was great and then he moved on to the Late Late Show. I think Jon's next step might end up being The Tonight Show?
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Mar 5, 2013 19:36:48 GMT -5
get Kyle Rayner as the replacement Screw that,I want Guy Gardner. |
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Mar 5, 2013 20:00:36 GMT -5
I think the time has come for him to depart. He was a great host for the show, but it's time for him to move on to bigger and better things. Craig Kilborn was great and then he moved on to the Late Late Show. I think Jon's next step might end up being The Tonight Show? I don't think Stewart would head to the Tonight Show; either Fallon will take over or Leno will outfox NBC again and host until he dies or gets a residency in Las Vegas. It's more likely Stewart would take over the Late Show with Dave Letterman, but then again, Jon is a Conan O'Brien guy. It'd be awfully hypocritical to take that spot away from Craig Ferguson, who has been toiling away in the 12:35-7 spot for years now. At one point Jon Stewart was signed to a holding deal with Worldwide Pants. But oddly enough, when 12:35 opened they offered Kilburn the chance to replace Tom Snyder over Jon Stewart (which gave Stewart the chance to take over TDS). From what I've read in The War For Late Night by Bill Carter that Stewart didn't get the Late Late Show was that they would essentially have to hire another set of writers that would match Stewart's comic sensibilities and since Stewart's comic sensibilities mirror Letterman it would be like staffing Late Show all over again. Plus having a younger version of Letterman right after Letterman would cause a lot of talk of succession. |
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Post by Sephiroth on Mar 5, 2013 22:24:45 GMT -5
Stewart has definitely aged since he took over the show-then again it was over a decade ago. You would expect that the next step would be for him to host another late night show, but it could be that he has had his fill of being in front of the camera for a while and wants to focus just on writing and directing. And yeah, I definitely think that having to work with the same political BS day in and day out has taken its toll on him. He doesn't seem to be as enthused as he once was, and that makes me think that maybe he has just gotten bored and wants to be done with it.
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