Films that are immensely popular and feature pretentious dialogue are the best targets for parody and there is one scene in the film The Matrix that has been repeatedly targeted for spoofing. Here is George Carlin in one of them.
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The former was a guest on the latter’s show last night and these two alumni of The Daily Show had a good time discussing how Oliver manages to make interesting shows on topics that on the surface seem utterly boring, such as the plight of chicken farmers. Oliver is also, to put it mildly, not impressed with Donald Trump.
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Trevor Noah took over from Jon Stewart and, as can be seen in these two clips from his first show, he is clearly trying to make minimal changes in what has been a very successful format and style. He only had five weeks to prepare and I suspect that he will slowly make more changes as time goes by and make it more his own.
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Jerry Seinfeld has an online show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which is exactly as the title says, with each episode featuring a different comedian and a different car, and the two comedians chatting while driving, walking, and drinking coffee.
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The ignominious early departure of someone as unlikable as Scott Walker was bound to create a great deal of schadenfreude, especially given the risible way he tried to describe his defeat as somehow a call by god for him to exercise a novel form leadership. Stephen Colbert decides to give Walker a farewell too, likening the elimination process in the Republican primary race to what happens in The Hunger Games. Not having read the books or seen the films, some of the allusions are lost on me.
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Stephen Colbert takes stock of the current Republican campaign ads and finds them wanting and comes up with his own.
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Even if you’re a Republican tea partier who thinks that people of color are moochers and looters living off the fat of the land produced by the real, hard-working Merkins, it may be advantageous for you professionally and personally to have at least one black friend. Well, this is America and where there is a need, there is a business that caters to it.
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Bernie Sanders appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show last night to a rousing reception from a clearly supportive studio audience and Colbert spent quite a bit of time talking about and with him about politics. Here is Colbert in his opening monologue talking about the presidential race in general and Sanders in particular.
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On his show Last Week Tonight, he runs through a list of school subjects and distills what he feels is their essence, all that you will need to know or will remember.
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