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LakeArenal

(28,823 posts)
2. I wasn't thrilled with that interview...
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 09:55 AM
Jun 2020

He think Biden has a schtick. Whereas, Bernie had none. 🙄

Biden not his guy emphasized.
Then you get the “but”..... he’s a good guy.

Not great agenda. Just a heartfelt guy.

I was very disappointed. That he basically said he’d have to hold his nose.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
3. Yeah, he's kind of jumped the shark
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 10:20 AM
Jun 2020

As evidenced by the bomb his new movie has laid. With a meager 40% approval rating (like Trump’s!) on from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, it is apparently out of touch to the point of insult. What happened?

East Coast slickness meets heartland folksiness in “Irresistible,” a political satire so broad and blunt that it flattens every joke and deflates every setup. Movies like this should skip and jab; instead, this second feature from the writer and director Jon Stewart (after his impressively accomplished prison drama, “Rosewater,” in 2014) lumbers and flails. Set shortly after the 2016 election, it feels like an artifact from a particularly contentious past, a stale corn chip trampled into Party-convention carpeting.

. . . Attacking both political affiliations with equal disgust, “Irresistible” seems disappointingly fatigued, its glossy veneer concealing a hollow core. Stewart’s plodding script, far removed from the light-footed political commentary he regularly delivered on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” evinces no apparent zest for its subject.

. . . Trafficking in the elitism it purports to deplore, “Irresistible” presents a homespun cliché of Middle America, where Wi-Fi is like gold dust and political ads scream with flags and fear-mongering. This patronizing tone can at times be troubling

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/movies/irresistible-review.html

2naSalit

(86,650 posts)
4. I have some serious disagreements with Jon's
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 11:41 AM
Jun 2020

political views. I love him as a comedian but I think he stinks when it comes to politics. He should stick to what he knows and keep his political views out of the public realm. He needs to take some classes to get more educated about the political structure we have and that what he's advocating is not in line with that.

LakeArenal

(28,823 posts)
6. I thought I'd be creamed when I said I didn't like him in that interview.
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 02:08 PM
Jun 2020

It’s great to find out I’m not the only one.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)
7. Me too, but I mostly liked his "reporters" back then.
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 02:12 PM
Jun 2020

People like John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, Steve Carell, etc.

Trevor Noah didn't have as strong a supporting cast, the last time I checked. I stopped watching it after awhile, then dropped cable entirely soon thereafter.

Edit: Stewart stepped down in August 2016, which fits for me. I dropped my cable subscription not long after Trump was declared the winner in November. I couldn't stand the idea of seeing him constantly on cable, as had happened before the election.

applegrove

(118,696 posts)
10. I miss him too. Trever Noah has really stepped it up during the pandemic though.
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 09:02 PM
Jun 2020

They are our touchstones for reality, political comedians. Thank god for the internet and the new venues we can hear them in.

applegrove

(118,696 posts)
12. Noah has done his own thing and grown. What i liked about Jon Stewart
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 10:48 PM
Jun 2020

was whatever people were saying online during the day, his take was always completely original.

Rhiannon12866

(205,552 posts)
13. He's been making the rounds this week, also appeared with Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert:
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 11:09 PM
Jun 2020
The Daily Social Distancing Show: Jon Stewart Talks "Irresistible", Confederate Statues & COVID-19
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017589800

Stephen Colbert - Guest Jon Stewart
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017589569

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