Attention junky Jon Stewart tried to kick the habit, but just can't seem to find the equivalent of methadone, and is now shooting up with a TV program that is not all that dissimilar from his successful Daily Show - except for the "successful" part. Perhaps his biggest problem, as indicated in the linked article, is that he now would like to be taken more or less seriously, but his actual political opinions, lacking the sugarcoating of his particular brand of drollery, are just a garden variety collection of leftist talking points - and those can be found anywhere.
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I never liked Jon Stewart, and I never found him funny. He always came across as insufferably smug.
ReplyDeleteAh, Jon Stewart... one of those people known as "comedians" who are the opposite of funny. Like, say, Joy Behar or Hannah Gadsby. Or for that matter, Stephen Colbert.
ReplyDeleteHow does one become a comedian without ever saying anything amusing, let alone funny?
Rebecca: Nailed it.
ReplyDeleteStephen: Someone, I've no idea who, came up with the word "clapter" (an amalgam of clapping and laughter) to describe the response of woke audiences who are cheering a "comedian's" political snark, rather than laughing at something that is genuinely funny. Stewart's audiences (and those of Colbert, et al), to use one of Veeshir's amusing analogies, are just trained seals playing "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (or perhaps, more appropriately, the "Internationale") on their squeezy bulbs in return for affirmations of their ideological prejudices.