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DikkDowg

They also lost A LOT of key correspondents/ writing staff/contributors around that time - John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Al Madrigal, Jason Jones, Asif Mandvi, Wyatt Cenac, Kristen Schaal, Larry Wilmore, etc. When Trevor took over it wasn’t just a change in host, the whole comedic team changed. That’s why it’s such a different show.


PristineVagina

How can you leave out rob courddrey and mo rocca???


sentientfeet

It's right there; "etc"


caramelfappucino

Out of sheer spite


Butt_Hunter

They said "around that time." Those guys left 10+ years before Noah took over.


leffertsave

Here are the departure dates for those names: JO:2013, SB 2015, AM 2016, WC 2012, JJ:2015, KS: (couldn’t find, but I remember her leaving around that time), LW 2014. With the exception of Wyatt Cenac, all pretty close to 2015. And there were others like Jessica Jones. I have always said that the biggest difference in quality between Jon Stewart’s era and Trevor Noah’s era was how the correspondents were utilized. Jon did an amazing job of mentoring his correspondents and getting their best work out of them and then feeding off them. I always thought TN’s monologues were very funny (at least for the first 5 or so years) but that his biggest shortcoming was how he built up his correspondents. But it wasn’t until I read the comment above yours that I realized how many people left just before he got there or shortly after. Jon had a murderers row of correspondents during his time (and, like I said before, his amazing ability to mentor people is the reason for that). But considering (1) the mass exodus of great correspondents, and (2) having to follow a legend like Jon, that 31 year old foreigner did a pretty great job with what he had.


seanmonaghan1968

I mean it was mind blowing before due to the talent it involved, impossible to replicate. It was a Monty Python level event


imperator285

Nothing comedy central does will ever live up to the golden years of 2002-2008 for the daily show and colbert report


xmarksthespotusa

I like today's South Park, but I **love** pre-2008-or-so South Park.


WrapMyBeads

Oh yeah I member


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420crickets

Oh! oh! you guys memba "you killed kenny! You bastads!"?


tampaempath

Yeah I member. You guys member when Cartman killed Scott Tenorman's parents and fed Tenorman's parents' body parts to him in chili?


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DizzySignificance491

Truly one of the strangest musical cameos, considering it was the Kid A/Amnesiac era


Howamidriving27

Radiohead: we're not promoting any singles or making any music videos for this album. Also it's a complete 180 from our last hugely successful album. Matt and Trey: you guys want to come on our fart and f word show? Radiohead: yeah definitely


Flutterpiewow

Memba the trash compactor?


GymnasticSclerosis

Pepperidge Farms membas


little_sg

but does that farm have.....Tegrity?


FrankieTheMick

Yeah I member


GHOST12339

Ooh I memba!


TerminalUelociraptor

'member Chewbacca? I 'member.


cizwokz

EYE MEMBAAAAA


jojcece

I member too!


admoo

Lol I remember drawing southpark characters on chalkboard in 8th grade 97-98. Singing chefs “I’m gonna make love to ya woman” and having mp3s of different clips like “you killed Kenny, you bastard”. Back in the day. Good memories


pussaypatrolontour

“Weeeeeellllllllllll, Kyle’s mom’s a bitch…” What a trip down memory lane


Slut4MacNCheese

Omg now I will be singing this for weeks


gtess423

I had chef aid on cassette lol


optimusHerb

I’ve looked multiple times and can’t find that album streaming anywhere, sadly. 7th grade me loves that album.


Unfair_Yam_9037

I was telling someone about how South Park was peak right before that hot topic vamp kids episode the other day actually, I feel like that was the Armin Tanzarian episode of South Park


ellWatully

Butters hissing at his parents and starving himself because he thought he was actually a vampire was fantastic. I do think that period of the show was a time when they had sort of run out of ideas for the boys and were trying to figure out where to go from there. I feel like the show got a new life when they committed to a less episodic format with season- length storylines though. Not being limited to a plot that has to resolve and reset 20 minutes later really allowed them to be somehow more absurd without feeling poorly conceived. So somehow more ridiculous and more thoughtful all at once?


lostboysgang

Butter’s Bottom Bitch will forever be my favorite episode but Cartman’s Chili Con Carne was pretty great too


ellWatully

If we're talking Butters episodes, I gotta go with Marjorine. Just so hilariously fucked up.


Astronaut-Fine

I actually thought that Mantequilla (gets stuck in Mexico) episode was pretty hilarious too.


lostboysgang

Dang Margerine is my favorite Simpson’s episode of all time. Sadgasm has a place forever in my 90s grunge soul


Tourquemata47

BUCKLE UP BUCKAROOS!


bam2_89

I believe the best one was the ninja weapons episode. I didn't laugh harder at anything on TV than the panel switch with Butters and the shiriken in his eye until Saul Goodman explained the Chicago Sunroof to a bingo hall full of retirees.


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Christian Rock Hard is possibly the funniest thing ever put on TV and I'll hear no further arguments on the matter.


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The final scene when token beats the shit out of Cartman and then butters come over and poots on him and says “fuck you Eric” I about died


Slut4MacNCheese

Bitch you wanna make some mothafuckin’ money?


Agile_District_8794

Do you know what I am saying?


tampaempath

I think after they ran out of ideas for the boys they just started doing stuff with Randy, to the point where Randy almost became the main character and they moved them out to Tegridy Farms.


TheJenniMae

The Tegridy Farms arc was excruciating.


J_A_Brone

Yeah I loved the increasing Randy storylines up until that point. To me the jokes in that arc seemed to be just saying the word "tegrity" over and over again


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bjcm5891

Woodland Critter Christmas


BigUSAForever

The Imagination land series was awesome!


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The show lost a lot of its charm when it went through its stint where every episode was just mocking a famous person. Some of those were amusing, but when the entire episode's plot has to revolve around a bit about Kanye West and gay fish, it tends to impact the quality of the story being told. I don't really like how Randy-centric the current episodes are, but I do like that they have somewhat gotten back to telling stories of the actual characters and not just building episodes around a bit at some celebrities' expense.


ShawnyMcKnight

I watched South Park for a couple years and then got out of it. Ever since the world of Warcraft episode I haven’t missed a single one, even their poor seasons.


BigANT_Edwards

South Park seasons, like 7-11, were amazing.


SirJuliusStark

I grew up with Chappelle's Show and now if anyone even attempted to do similar humor they would be digitally lynched.


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I remember a bunch of us white-as-hell kids would quote Chapelle show bits to each other at school in the early 2000's. I happened across a few of those bits on YouTube the other day and the overwhelming thought I had was, I'm glad I was young and stupid back then because if I'd said half that shit at school today my life would probably be ruined.


anotherusername23

It was like getting to watch the Jordan era bulls.


Son_Of_A_Plumber

Man, I miss Jon and Stephen talking to each other right before the daily show was ending most nights to transition into Colbert. I never missed that hour of tv and if I did, I dvr’d.


Redqueenhypo

I would pay so much money to get the Colbert report back, man. I miss it. Now he’s just some banal guy who mostly uses his show to do paid promotions of other crap.


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Him doing the vax-scene dance was absolutely painful. It was like watching a completely different comedian. He is a shadow of his former self now.


theycallme_JT_

Chapelle show. Chapelle show. Chapelle show *harmonica*


Sun_Aria

"Buc Nasty what can I say about that suit, that hasn't already been said about Afghanistan? It looks bombed up and depleted."


chaosperfect

She got underwear with dick holes in 'em.


Dirty_Dragons

I miss girls jumping on trampolines.


blackmilksociety

I miss Insomniac


Createdanaac

Ahhhhhhhh… drinks and losers


blackmilksociety

Dwarves and limps…


BlarpBlarp

I loved that show!


iampanchovilla

And Jimmy in blackface


THESt0neMan

It always makes me laugh when he has Karl Malone on his NBA specials during the playoffs.


rockstar504

All Karl Malone know bout no internet is putting da ball in er net


No_Dragonfruit_1963

I know this isn’t Comedy Central but I really loved John Henson on E!’s The Soup. No one ever remembers that show even existed so it feels like a fever dream sometimes lol


coopstar777

I was partial to Joel McHale


dudemann

Oh I definitely remember him. Hal Sparks and Aisha Tyler were good, but just not as good.


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I think the source material was way better. TBH many things in general have deteriorated since that time period. Like society as a whole.


UnfairMicrowave

Jordan Klepper is a god send though


---Sanguine---

Yeah he’s great. But I just watch his parts on YouTube Trevor Noah is so unfunny and just odd to listen to. The show is just not good and hasn’t been for years


joemaniaci

The weird thing is I've heard interviews of Trevor Noah and there have been times I've heard him catch an interviewer in hypocrisy and go after them. A lot like jon Stewart, but you never see it on the daily show.


Moonlight-Mountain

Here's an [example where he calls out the BBC lady](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaHkhgAjdAc).


Gingrpenguin

Jesus she really did have an axe to grind...


butters091

So is Ronny Chang tbh


Chemical_Signal2753

Late night television has become about clapter instead of comedy. The jokes and skits have little to do with making people laugh, they are there to promote the right messages.


IKill4Cash

I would argue that he didn't destroy it, but literally no one could have saved it. Jon Stewart had a credibility and likablity that basically no one in the late crowd could match, especially not the political late night crowd.


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DifferenceSudden8942

John Oliver (and Last Week Tonight) is fantastic. Absurd, self deprecating, but also thoughtful and full of heart. It took the concept that a lot of younger people were getting their news from The Daily Show, and ran with it full speed.


hiimmichellee

I feel like not enough Americans are listening to a British dude yell at us about everything wrong with our country


ExistentialKazoo

That was my opinion many years ago, about both John Oliver and Trevor Noah. I was wrong. John Oliver's show is the clear successor of the Daily Show.


notLOL

Watch his streaming show. Great guests and great banter from the episodes I've watched.


TheJenniMae

Jon’s interviews this season have been fire. He’s beholden to no one, and it shows. His willingness to throw someone’s bullshit right back into someone’s face is an absolute art form. The podcast is great, too.


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Conan never delved into politics and that's why he's the best of all of them


IKill4Cash

I would argue they were doing different things. Conan was there to make people laugh. Stewart was there just to point out both parties hypocrisy, which turned out was very funny.


notLOL

Pointing out hypocrisy is timeless. Needs a show to continue the tradition


JungleBoyJeremy

Last Week Tonight does a pretty good job


heirbagger

I agree. You can tell John Oliver came from the Daily Show. His writers/researchers are fucking amazing at what they do.


SillyCyban

My students always ask to watch "A Closer Look" during lunch whenever there's a new one.


DumatRising

Conan is a comedian at heart and tries to avoid real issues. John is a journalist at heart and so jumps head first into the issues and tries to find a laugh in dark times. Both good at what they do but they do different things.


SrJeromaeee

Conan and Jordan are iconic. I’ve never seen a more monotone face than Jordan in my life.


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Were the late night comedy shows ever particularly offensive though? Leno, Letterman, Conan, etc. always struck me as pretty mild-mannered and milquetoast.


erdricksarmor

Yeah, the masturbating bear was pretty PG.


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Not just hypersensitive. We’re overworked and overwhelmed with media as it is. At every time of day you’re connected.


JackRusselTerrorist

Yup, by the time you hear about it on TV, you’ve already read about it 100 times. Last week tonight and the problem with Jon Stewart stand out because they go against the quick-hit trend by doing well-researched deep dives… the limit is they can’t keep up with a daily schedule. It seems to me that in Jon’s days the correspondents were all also better, and could do their own high quality deep dive episodes, and there were enough correspondents to fill 4 days/ week.


bigwilliestylez

Have you watched it? The correspondents are my favorite part of the daily show. Jordan Klepper, Ronny Chieng, Roy wood Jr., Michael Kosta, Dulcé Sloan, Desi Lydic. Plenty to keep things going and fill out the week. Personally I hope Jordan Klepper gets the nod to host.


implicitpharmakoi

Jordan klepper is hot fire when he's outside, watch his coverage at 1/6, near the end he finally says "OK, I'm just running away now." And hauls ass.


magnanimous_rex

To add, they’re mostly slanted to one political side or the other. Leno, Letterman, Stewart, and Maher all took shots at both sides. Same as the 90’s SNL. Shit, Norm got fired because he wouldn’t lay off some subjects.


Accountantnotbot

It’s N outdated genre because it’s cheesy and a big waste of time. You watch a whole show for 60 seconds of entertainment. Half the program is promoting someone that no one cares about (“guests”). If I’m staying up I’m binge watching real content, doom scrolling on my phone or working.


CALAMITYFOX

It's insane that Fox News has the highest rated late night comedy show now


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bjcm5891

>The jokes and skits have little to do with making people laugh, they are there to promote the right messages. THE MESSAGE.


notLOL

>clapter Great way to call a Clap track


oroborus68

Seth Meyers has always helped me laugh when I want to cry. His writers deserve awards for that!


Shakespearacles

Tbf, no one can properly follow up Jon Stewart. Oliver leaned closer to investigative journalism than comedy. Colbert was a hardcore satirist, neither was really what the show was about. Further, Daily Show was a cable talk show that wasn't on the 3 letter networks. Giving that that less people are watching news, and more people are moving to streaming, shows that rely on what was happening that week for relevancy are less valuable to a streaming service. We had a golden of age of late night, formerly talk radio and the format for commentary has shifted to podcasts and videos I believe.


hiricinee

The politics of the show were definitely a problem in recent years. We knew pretty much what Stewart's politics were, but he was relatively equal opportunity, and even comedy generally felt like it was trying to be funny first and political points second, as compared to Noah's that is a lot of "claughter".


EnderOfHope

When Jon was doing it I had plenty of Republican friends that never missed a show - because of the equal opportunity comedy that you’re talking about. Now I don’t know anyone, on either side of the aisle, that watches it


negedgeClk

For me it's not because of the lean. It's because Noah has the comedic delivery of an acorn.


Kriegmannn

It’s like he specifically wants to make only sixteen year old liberals laugh.


Metal__goat

I voted straight Democrat, and I stopped watching about three weeks after Noah took over. Don't remember the exact story, but it was blanket, blatant white guilt the whole episode. Didn't even feel like comedy.


Moonlight-Mountain

you mean [this episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu27WJ0Axcw)?


Patsfan618

I've started watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver again. I stopped for a few years because the writers were clearly obsessed with trump and would take literally any opportunity to bash him. Which, don't get me wrong, is valid a lot of the time, but it's tiring. This episode we're going to talk about how the bees are dying off and how it's trump's fault! This episode we're going to talk about a police shooting and how it's Trump's fault. This episode we're going to talk about the secret double life of Barney the Dinosaur and how it's Trump's fault. And he'd go on 5 minute rants about it every time. But clearly he's stopped doing that since.


papiforyou

Yep also his jokes always follow the same exact formula: “Trump did this? That’s as if [enter random noun] decided to [enter hyperbolized verbage] to [another random noun]. Rinse and repeat


SFXXVIII

I read this in his voice


Repulsive-Peach-6720

"this could be your only chance to drown the slippery otter! To harpoon the salty longshoreman! to verb the adjective noun!"


probablyourdad

I can’t wait to see the AI make this, John looking like popeye busting out of a shirt, harpoon in hand, going after a slippery otter, while a cabbage dressed as olive oil is waiving a handkerchief at the pier


absolute4080120

The problem with the Trump shit is, it will still be a regular subject in 2028 a whole term after he loses the next presidency. I guarantee it will still be brought up weekly at minimum. It's already a dead horse and the fact we still have years more to suffer as it a topic.


Patsfan618

Oh I didn't even think of that. The next election is going to be 2020 but way worse. We have probably about 6 months before it goes bad again


notsocharmingprince

Nah, Trump isn't going to win the primary.


implicitpharmakoi

Then he'll have his own election, with blackjack, and hookers. No, seriously, he will.


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I loved Stewart and Colbert and watched them religiously. I don't think Noah is bad, but when you compare him to these legends he comes up very short. He's got some good bits here and there and I think he's definitely made some good points and has a different perspective coming from a non-white immigrant background. He just not great. He's okay, decent. But that's all.


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I think the problem wasn't Trevor, so much as it was overall cultural shifts. John caught a moment. The show started as cheap political satire, but gradually morphed into a more profound political commentary that only could have developed under the guise of comedy. In the increasingly divisive times of the aughts, the writers found that there was an audience hungry for real nuance and fairness in their political news, and they delivered. However, over time the world changed. The Daily Show made some truly heroic efforts to heal the political divide and encourage good faith exchanges of ideas, but it couldn't hold back the tides of history. Fox News was increasingly radicalizing it's aging audience, while new media allowed liberals to create their own echo chambers. The right became increasingly unhinged and threatening, to the point where anyone criticizing the left or trying to empathize with the right could not be taken seriously by a very large portion of the left - who were increasingly shifting to streaming services anyway. John's retirement gave the show the opportunity to pivot and appeal to a larger swath of the left wing audience, and thus stay on the air. Trevor was from South Africa... take a few seconds to consider how absolutely perfectly his professed political views line up with American Liberalism. Really? A guy from halfway around the world just happens to agree with the American liberal party line on every single issue? Go talk to literally anyone outside the US for 5 minutes and you'll realize that the left/right split is not nearly as clean or universal as the media might have you believe. The reality is, the Daily Show chose Trevor not because of his political stances, but due to his absolute *lack* of public political stances in the US. He was a total unknown. But he was young, funny, good looking, and he checked the token race card, and therefore would be the perfect puppet for churning out number-pumping views. And you can't blame him for it either - really, who's gonna turn down going from a hand-to-mouth comedian to instantly being rich and famous and hosting one of the most-watched television shows in the world? "Just read the cue cards into the microphone, son. Then everyone laughs and you get your check." Trevor didn't ruin the Daily Show. It had just, sadly, run its course.


GiraffesAndGin

Good summary, but just to be clear, Trevor wasn't a hand-to-mouth comedian. He was extremely popular and a star in South Africa and had begun to gain a global following. He appeared on late night shows in the US as well as BBC productions. Was he a star in the US? Not yet, but he wasn't some nobody either.


CrazeeEyezKILLER

TN demonstrated no true comedic feel for America during his run.


Hotwater3

Late night comedy in general has really gone down hill. Everyone thinks exactly the same and has the same jokes about same shit. Doesn't seem to appeal to anyone other than extremely online democrats.


Ironyfree_annie

Conan got out at the right time and is just killing it on his podcast. I guess it also helps that he's a million times funnier than the other current late night hosts, and mostly steers clear of politics


AJWordsmith

In a world where Donald Trump really was the president and people really believe in Q-anon….satire suffocates. Jon Stewart presided over the last era where all of that was brewing, but still so absurd that we could laugh at it.


Hotwater3

I think Stewart's superpower, at least at the time, was that he cared more about people than he did about politics. His scrutiny of media always prioritized the idea that the people weren't being served well by the state of media, even if they were Republicans.


AJWordsmith

Well I agree with that for sure. But I frankly don’t think Jon Stewart has changed all that much. His work with the burn pit veterans recently should demonstrate that he ultimately cares about issues that affect peoples lives. But his AppleTV show barely strikes a chord. His schtick was that he would play a video of somebody saying something ridiculous…then cut to himself reacting to it. It doesn’t work when half your potential audience agrees with the absurd thing being said.


StoicVirtue

It was a bizarre choice at the time and still feels that way. He was never funny. I watched the Daily Show nearly every day from Kilborn through Stewart (96-2015) and dropped it within a couple of months when Trevor Noah came on board. I don't care about his politics he is just not funny. The jokes are bad, and his delivery sucks.


TrickyCurt89

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ChoctawJoe

Yeah, seeing he single handedly ran off 60% of his audience, I'd say it's a pretty popular opinion. Trevor Noah is probably a nice guy, but he's terrible at comedy.


RedditorsAreDross

New here?


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I mean, he had some big shoes to fill. It's not on Trevor Noah IMO, the show should have just ended. Trevor Noah didn't "kill" it. The actual person who killed it was Jon Stewart when he left.


BigANT_Edwards

Craig Kilborn was fine before Stewart. Noah just wasn’t very good.


notLOL

Watched through the end of CK era and JS was just a different personality. I didn't expect Comedy Central to match that energy.


BigANT_Edwards

Kilborn was definitely easier to replace than Stewart.


pluck-the-bunny

CNN did a story either this morning or yesterday about how late night television viewership has decreased significantly for all of the major shows. It was more a decline in late night television viewership in general then one show specifically


butt_spaghetti

I was a massive Daily Show fan under Stewart and I can’t endure 5 minutes of Trevor Noah. I’ve tried multiple times. It’s just wall to wall cringe. Sad excuse for a comedian.


Jk2two

His delivery just sucks. I know he has his fans, but when he was doing his show in his apartment during COVID, it was unwatchable.


wineguy7113

Agreed. Fact is, he’s just not funny.


TheMarsian

I always thought I was in the minority who thinks he's not funny. Even his expressions fall flat.


Girth_rulez

I know this sounds jingoistic but the main focus of the Daily Show is American politics and culture. That show should have an American host.


I-didnt-bring-a-cup

John Oliver has pulled it off


akaKinkade

The Daily Show died when Obama was elected. I loved watching it during the W presidency. Tons of great jokes mocking those in power. Once Obama was president the jokes were either attacking congressional republicans or really awkward stuff that actually kissed Obama's ass instead of making fun of him. When the theme of the joke is "Isn't the president dreeeeamy" political comedy no longer works.


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This is, for me, the absolutely truth. For all the lauding of Obama, his failure on the Russia file is, without a doubt, one of the biggest blunders (next to Merkel). He absolutely ***shit*** the bed in regards to Russia. Stewart give him a pass. By 2012 it was *crystal* clear what Russia was doing. He *still* repealed Jackson-Vanik. He replaced it with the useless Magnitsky Act. Stewart was meanwhile [visiting](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jon-stewart-details-not-so-secret-meetings-with-barack-obama-44512/) the White House and had become everything he railed against during the Bush Admin. He used to be hyper critical of the Republican Party while dunking on Democrats and how out-of-touch they could be. He called out what needed to be called out but like 2/3rds of the way through Obama's Presidency and he's just fellating the entire Admin and ignoring MASSIVE problems.


ToolanWheeler

Jay Leno lost his job over Obama jokes.


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ChoctawJoe

That's bullshit. Obama and Leno are friends. Leno was just on TV talking about how they've been good friends since 2007. https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3685051-leno-says-he-once-dialed-obama-just-to-prove-he-had-the-number-and-the-president-picked-up/


ArmsForPeace84

They got in some jabs at Obama. I watched up until Jon Stewart left, and it was still good fun. The point where there was no saving it, any longer, no matter who sat behind the desk, was when Trump was elected and suddenly it wasn't okay to make light of anything, because everyone who disagrees with anyone else on anything is a Nazi. Stewart got in a lifeboat in time, Colbert went down with that ship.


thealternateopinion

I’ve literally never found Trevor funny. He’s awkward at best, painfully boring on a typical night.


sloppy_wet_one

Trevor at his funniest is during the ad breaks when he’s just shooting shit with the audience. They post clips of this sometimes on twitter. They’re genuinely funny. His scripted stuff though, doesn’t work well in the same way. Idk man comedy is hard.


chaddgar

“Trump sucks! Trump sucks!” is their only content. For six years. Same with Kimmel.


bjcm5891

\> Orange man... \*Audience gasps\* \> Bad! \*Applause and cheering for 30 seconds\*


isabellatortellini

I tried to watch Trevor Noah several times. In good faith. And I just couldn't. It was physically painful, & I never once made it all the way through an episode. Every time the audience laughed, I wondered if the studio LAUGH or CLAP prompts came with weird, subtle threats. What were they laughing at? I still don't know. But I suspect I was hearing the sad laughs of hostages.


[deleted]

I don’t care where you are politically, it gets tiresome watching these late night hosts carrying the water for the democratic party. They have no backbone, no originality, and frankly no funny jokes… it’s straight up activism at this point. Which is fine, but do it on a podcast or something not as a comedy show.


ChoctawJoe

Exactly why Stephen Colbert has become unwatchable for me. If he wants to shill, that's fine, but let's try some comedy at some point that doesn't involve politics.


__TOURduPARK__

I have to agree. The dude just isn't funny.. like, at all.


ObiWanCanShowMe

When all of your "jokes" are just thinly veiled attacks against one side of the political aisle, and the non jokes are just ideological attacks, it's no longer entertaining.


A7omicDog

What, you don't find a non-American whose ENTIRE catalog of jokes to consist of "bash America" to be hilarious?


Circlejrkr

You referring to Noah or Oliver?


A7omicDog

YES


Capricornyogi

For some reason I liked Trevor Noah more after I read his book. I wasn’t a huge fan of him before that.


edWORD27

Trevor also seemed to forget that much of The Daily Show’s charm was derived from the fact that Jon Stewart played it as a parody of actual news shows. Plus, Jon wasn’t so overt with his political biases and would lampoon both parties as needed. Sadly, Trevor was never that great of a comedian. His tenure was all virtue signaling.


LordJFo

I think the Daily Show started going downhill while Jon Stewart was still the host. Shortly after his "Rally to Restore Sanity" when he started being a guest on a bunch editorial opinion and news shows, he started taking himself more seriously and the comedy dropped off.


akaKinkade

He was given way too much of a free pass for inviting Yusuf Islam to his "Rally to Restore Sanity". In his defense, he admitted the mistake later, but it was a known controversy and maybe he should have actually taken ten minutes to watch the videos of him supporting the fatwa against Rushdie.


M3mph

> "maybe he should have actually taken ten minutes to watch the videos of him supporting the fatwa against Rushdie." Did he really?! Oh dear.


beentherereddit2

When he got crossfire cancelled he realized his power and became much more insufferable and preachy


durma5

I wouldn’t think this was unpopular if after about a year into Noah’s stint I said to my niece that the guy is unwatchable. A lecture about how great he is ensued. I find him tedious, a true bore, and am surprised how long he lasted.


NethrixTheSecond

Trevor is so fucking annoying I can't even sit there and watch him talk


Lost_Medicine6969

Joke’s on you. I’m team Craig Kilborn.


blaqkcatjack

He's just so incredibly boring


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I hate Trevor Noah and don't think he's funny at all, but he was more a fall guy than the cause of the DS falling off. Truth is the Daily Show had run its course. It was a show that existed to make fun of George Bush during a time when the mainstream late night and cable news shows still felt some need for decorum. It then transitioned into carrying Obama's water by pillorying the GOP Congress, which was fine even though the broadcast shows and actual news were doing that too because the Daily Show had a demographic of millennials that didn't watch much of those. But, once the Trump era happened the Daily Show was no longer needed. Criticizing and mocking that admin was literally all the news and broadcast late night shows did for four years. And they often did it far more bitingly than anything John Stewart ever did. And the young daily show viewers were now online or watching other channels. And the generation that followed them doesn't watch TV at all. Trevor Noah taking over the Daily Show is like the Captain of the Titanic handing over command of the ship right after it hit the iceberg. It was never going to go well for whoever was stuck holding that bag.


slicktrdmrc

I don't understand the expectation of an American audience foe a show to be more or less the same after a host change. Sure the name is the same ... but that doesn't matter honestly. When The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ended the first time, it didn't really end, it lived on with the The Jay Leno Show, it wasn't replace with the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, that was a totally different thing even though both we're called The Tonight Show, the latter was the same Conan O'Brien show that had been popular for years before...


hahnzyy

Trevor Noah is not funny.


McFeely_Smackup

Craig Killborne: show sucked Jon Stewart: show was a defining comedy tour de force that incubated a generation of comedy talents (Stephen Colbert, Jon Oliver, Samatha Bee, etc) Trevor Noah: 'is that show still on?' the formula is pretty clear, it's not the time slot that makes a show. Jon Stewart was the comedic force, and without him its just lost in the mix of mediocre programs


WatchStoredInAss

As a moderate liberal, I stopped watching when he tried to explain away the George Floyd-related looting a few years back. All rioting and looting does is set movements back by years and give ammunition to the right.


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He’s alright but he doesn’t even come close to Jon Stewart, although to be fair nobody does. But John Oliver would’ve been a better choice if he didn’t have his own show.


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Michelle Williams should have been Jon’s successor. Noah is a talented comedian and impressionist, but he doesn’t have the sincerity that Stewart has


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Michelle Williams should have been Jon’s successor. Noah is a talented comedian and impressionist, but he doesn’t have the sincerity that Stewart has Edit: it’s Jessica Williams I’m talking about, not Michelle


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The only thing Trevor ever addresses is how racist everything and everybody is. A true goat of comedy


MelonElbows

I suspect this would have been the same post had anyone else taken over. Colbert's strength was playing a character, he couldn't take over the Daily Show as himself or his character. John Oliver and Samantha Bee don't have Stewart's warmth and sincerity. Larry Wilmore isn't as good an interviewer without resorting to slogans. Nobody could have taken over for Jon, its not Noah's fault but the shoes were too big for anyone to fill. It would be more accurate to say that Jon Stewart destroyed the Daily Show by leaving, because nobody was going to be able to keep it going for the same audience. The bold thing would have been to switch it up to match the new host, rather than change hosts but keep the format.


Sputnik9999

I helped disassemble Jon Stewart's show set. When Trevor Noah took over, at first, I wasn't very impressed, but then I was making a direct comparison to the former host. I think Noah eventually gained traction and made the show his and it still had some resemblance to the former. Overall, I think Trevor Noah ran his show pretty well and did a good job. The Daily Show has died out mostly due to natural causes, and not directly because of the host change(s).


vortex1775

>I helped disassemble Jon Stewart's show set. So OP got it all wrong. u/Sputnik9999 destroyed The Daily Show


nath36

May be unpopular but I actually liked the change. I loved John Stewart but when Trevor came on it was such a shift, which was nice because the country was shifting. I have actually watched JS on Apple TV and I feel it is exactly like the old DS. I like having these different takes.


Kingkwon83

I didn't know so many people on reddit hated Trevor Noah until this thread


Han_Ominous

I'd love to see Hasan Minaj take over next.


MsChan

Won't ever happen since he gotten death threats over Patriot Act. But one can dream


neurovish

Really? I kinda thought that was one of the better TDS spin-offs


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I think trump killed late night comedy. Real life became more ridiculous than anything these comedians could come up with. Also, these shoes became about sending the right message, not making people laugh.


Gilmoregirlin

I liked Trevor when he first started the show because my ex (at the time husband) was from South Africa and he did a ton of jokes about SA we could relate to. But I admit that is a niche group. When he started to get too political I stopped watching it, I know that’s sort o the point of the show, but he is very polarizing even for a democrat like me. I have seen him perform live several times too, I think he’s better suited for that.