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Wow, that Criminal Justice segment was an eye-opener!
This show should be mandatory watching for, well … everyone.
Had to give a nod to this though:
"I'll be skipping the second day of this safari to masturbate in the hotel"
It's a shame that the show is basically an echo chamber though. Nobody whose views they want changing will watch the show, it's basically just people on the left agreeing with each other. It won't change anything despite all it highlights unfortunately.
I'm still looking forward to the episode about the coal guy that sued them and lost
I would, yeah. It's probably a bit long, but the guy is an excellent writer, even when he's scaring the crap out of you that'll you'll be wrongly accused and convicted of a crime you didn't commit.
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Cheers
You are dead right in respect of preaching to the converted, but I still honestly think the show has a very important role to play even with it's skewed audience profile.It's a shame that the show is basically an echo chamber though. Nobody whose views they want changing will watch the show, it's basically just people on the left agreeing with each other. It won't change anything despite all it highlights unfortunately.
I'm still looking forward to the episode about the coal guy that sued them and lost
It's discussing important topics, rationally and in detail, that people might have touched on but did not necessarily know enough about to use as argument or in general conversation. Knowledge, backed up by real facts, is seldom a waste of time.
"I Can't Say … I badly want to but I've explicitly been told I can't!"
The baby rant
The baby rant
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Melania and the steelworker switching bodies
Melania and the steelworker switching bodies
It explains so muchHoly Crap! Searching for economic advisors on amazon. 20 years down the line the movie on this debacle would not even have to fictionalize anything for more drama.
20 years down the line the movie on this debacle would not even have to fictionalize anything for more drama.The funny thing it will be to much for anyone to believe it was like this in the first place.Holy Crap! Searching for economic advisors on amazon.
Trade Guy, Nothing Boy, Drunk Grandpa, Daughter Wife, Liar Lady and Jesus Pleaser
Why did he use amazon to find an economist? Why not just use google or linkedin?
It starts with an "a" so perhaps it was at the top of his list?
The episode was great... but feel like they are running out of content and feels like the are not as detailed as they used to be.
The pumpkin spiced latte bit again
The pumpkin spiced latte bit again
That was such a good episode.
I proper lol'd at the guy with the alligator in the off license.
That was such a good episode.
I proper lol'd at the guy with the alligator in the off license.
that was brilliant, full Florida
Excellent!Is it wrong that when I saw it (4:16 on the vid below) I immediately thought of @Billy Blaggs
Is it wrong that when I saw it (4:16 on the vid below) I immediately thought of @Billy Blaggs
The canoe guy?
I actually meant the guy (from 4:15) who ran round his favourite bottle store with a live alligator tucked under his arm only to deny any memory of it when interviewed on the news the next day – not the otter incident
Oh
Can't say I've ever done that. I have put my English Bull Terrier (R.I.P. Joker) in a cart and pushed him around the grocery store ignoring the manager continuously telling me that that dogs weren't allowed in the store.
Out of all of that, why did "amazing person I admire Twit" crease me up so much?
That Facebook advert
Facebook, the place where morons treat memes as rock solid news sources.
I don't watch as much as I used to but I feel the show has lost a bit of it's magic.
I feel this with the current season. It doesn't seem as detailed and as research oriented as before. More of the efforts seem to be spent on the jokes, which aren't bad, but this was an informative show at the same time.
My issue is more with the formula - in that there's a very obvious one and after a while it becomes a bit monotonous. Especially the jokes, or the way of telling them. I think he needs to add some variety.
It may have gone down in quality a bit after a stellar few episodes at the beginning of the season, but for me, it's still the best late night talk show on TV
I don’t know, jim jefferies is pretty good. Last week has become a bit samey, still good though.
If they answer "I dunno have you?" … that person blew a dog!
Despite agreeing with everything he says i find it's got uncomfortably snooty liberal elite and less as you say informative. It's largely because Trump is so ridiculous i guess but i prefer when he dives into in depth issues rather than playing to hid audience with "look at this idiot" jokes.
This show has called many Democrats to heel in the past and it has always used the same kind of humour to denounce it's targets. You will always love it or hate it but don't make any mistake … It's merely dealing with what is put in front of it. It's probably more a damning indictment of the huge slip in the standards of what has become acceptable American politics than the standards of this show!
A potential SCOTUS lying under oath that a devils triangle is a drinking game is a fecking joke
Great point by Oliver that Kavanaugh should be disqualified just on the fact that he's making a play to please Trump and throw Cintons under the bus. It's clearly partisan bollocks and he's going to be a SC nominee for left and the right together. I made this point in the Kavanaugh thread as well, so naturally I agree readily with Oliver.
Not as strong a response to this week's events as I'd imagined. Was hoping he would not touch SA in lieu of what's going on domestically but he actually put a good spin on it. Whole thing was a bit vanilla though, lacked bite really!
I imagine the main problem is that current US politics seems to get daily more ridiculous than the scathing satirical shows would ever have got away with portraying under any previous administration so … why bother.
It seems to me that when you can "Meh, it's only Trump" the fact that he can stand before the camera as the President of the United States of America and "openly" admit the profit from selling arms is bigger than human or civil rights abuses … we're all fecked!
I imagine the main problem is that current US politics seems to get daily more ridiculous than the scathing satirical shows would ever have got away with portraying under any previous administration so … why bother.
It seems to me that when you can "Meh, it's only Trump" the fact that he can stand before the camera as the President of the United States of America and "openly" admit the profit from selling arms is bigger than human or civil rights abuses … we're all fecked!
@Carolina Red and whoever else was chatting about Attorneys General all those months ago... 10:26
"And yes, that is the correct plural, and if you already knew that... I'm sorry that high school was such a rough time for you"
"And yes, that is the correct plural, and if you already knew that... I'm sorry that high school was such a rough time for you"
@Carolina Red and whoever else was chatting about Attorneys General all those months ago... 10:26
"And yes, that is the correct plural, and if you already knew that... I'm sorry that high school was such a rough time for you"
it was @Rado_N - he got mad at a tweet using the wrong plural form.
That definitely sounds like something I would do
The fake WWE promo was great
That family separation segment, especially towards the end, showed him being genuinely emotionally affected about the story.
You could see his hand shaking and he stuttered a few times he was getting so angry/upset by the poor kid crying on the VT saying his mum didn't love him.
Trump is such a piece of shit.
You could see his hand shaking and he stuttered a few times he was getting so angry/upset by the poor kid crying on the VT saying his mum didn't love him.
Trump is such a piece of shit.
Just watched it 5 minutes ago. Unusual to see him like that.