He had a hilarious bit about the maneuvering to not become the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. I have not been watching his new show but it looks like the set-piece monologue segments like this are exactly like the ones he used to do on his old show and that is a good thing. The one difference is that he no longer has to act like a right wing nutter.
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It looks like Ben Carson has become the new target of comedians because of the crazy things he is saying. Donald Trump will have to up his game to even higher levels of nuttiness to regain the lead.
First off, Trevor Noah of The Daily Show examined some of the weird things that Carson has been saying and has a plausible theory about what makes him do so.
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By a curious coincidence, just as Republican candidates seem to be doing everything in their power to alienate minority voters, Republican controlled states are taking steps to make it harder for minorities to vote by creating hurdles to voter registration. Of course they claim they are taking these steps because of the problem of voter fraud that repeated studies have shown to be almost non-existent.
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With Donald Trump cornering the market on Mexican-hate, it looks like Ben Carson has decided that Muslim-hate will be his own vote-getting message with the frothing-at-the-mouth crowd. But this time, when he was called to account by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, instead of whining about political correctness that has become his trademark, he went even further and urged that the IRS should investigate the CAIR, showing that, like most hatemongers, he can dish it out but can’t take it.
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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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