Indecision 2000: How Jon Stewart made Fake News become real news
A 2018 midterm election retrospective of The Daily Show’s 2000 presidential election coverage
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Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart talk about their tour, politics, and the state of comedy with CNN
Jon Stewart and Dave Chappelle are currently out on a co-headlining tour and they sat down with CNN to discuss… MORE
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Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart review – sharp satire at America’s expense
Royal Albert Hall, London
The world-renowned pair team up with comics Mo Amer and Michelle Wolf to tackle Trump, the opioid crisis and gun violence in a night which delivers big laughs
Plenty of comics critique Donald Trump. Few until now have been greeted with cries of “Run for president!”. Such is the stature of tonight’s American headliners, Dave Chappelle and – the president-not-quite-elect in question – Jon Stewart. I’m not sure this level of reverence is ideal for comedy. But – give or take a self-mythologising moment, most of them in the post-show Q&A – Chappelle and Stewart keep it at arm’s length, delivering strong sets about the state of their nation, with peppy support from compatriots Mo Amer and Michelle Wolf.
There certainly is a statesmanlike quality to Stewart’s 40 minutes, which prove he’s got standup chops while staying resolutely on left-liberal message. It’s textbook stuff, starting with jokes about how he looks (“Jews age like avocados”) then broaching one by one the racism, sexism and gun violence that exercise his Daily Show fanbase. Some jokes are old hat, such as the one about Leviticus, homophobia and shellfish, or the one about Obama’s un-American name. (Stewart argues persuasively that Obama’s, not Trump’s, was the anomalous presidency in US history.) Some are neatly done, like the switchback that makes a mockery of the safeguards around buying firearms.
Continue ReadingDazzling drama: the unmissable theatre, dance and comedy of autumn 2018
Gender-swapped classics, Hans Christian Andersen’s closet secrets, two giants of US comedy sharing a stage, plus Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo as rulers in love
Twenty years after they made their names, the individual members of The League of Gentlemen are riding as high as ever – with Inside No 9 a cult smash on BBC2, and Mark Gatiss prominent in practically everything on TV. But they’ve carved out time – after a screen revival last Christmas – to return to their sinister Royston Vasey-based sketch comedy for an autumn tour (their first since 2005). Gatiss promises “some old favourites, some new stuff and some sort of sequels” to the three recent Christmas specials.
At SEC Armadillo, Glasgow, 28-29 August, then touring
Jon Stewart took over Stephen Colbert’s late night desk to try to negotiate with Donald Trump
It’s always a pleasure when Jon Stewart returns to Late Show w/Stephen Colbert, well more specifically returns to the space… MORE
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Jon Stewart’s personal message to cruel and dickish Trump on The Late Show
Jon Stewart popped back out from under Stephen Colbert’s desk on Thursday’s episode of The Late Show with a very personal message for President Donald Trump. In part: “Everything’s off its axis. It’s a little unusual. Apparently now Putin and Kim Jong Un are noble, intelligent role models, and Canada’s a bunch of giant assholes. […]
Continue ReadingMarc Maron: ‘I’m familiar with coke, anger, bullying, selfishness’
The Glow star and hit podcaster talks drugs, divorces and his ‘horrible’ feud with Jon Stewart
The night before I meet Marc Maron, I go to his standup show in London. These days Maron is best known for his hugely popular podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, which he started in 2009, and on which he has interviewed everyone from Barack Obama to Keith Richards and Chris Rock. He conducts most of the interviews from his garage in LA, and they are almost always revealing and always entertaining. In 2010, Robin Williams talked about his depression and addictions, four years before he killed himself. Obama talked about the racism and African American stereotypes that shaped his sense of self. WTF now gets 7m downloads a month.
But in the 90s, when I first discovered him, Maron was not known for his empathetic dialogues; rather, he was seen as an aggressive monologuer. Back then, he was a struggling standup, with a style that was often described as angry and arrogant – or, as his friend Louis CK once put it, “a huge amount of insecurity and craziness”. He was known as a comedian’s comedian, which is a nice way of saying the industry liked him, but audiences didn’t.
Some of my behaviour was not great. It was emotionally abusive
The food stuff is my deepest issue, more than the drugs. I guess it’s about self-loathing and control
Continue ReadingJon Stewart has some words of advice for Samantha Bee and faux outrage culture
“My identity in this business, for me, will always be stand up.” – Jon Stewart #Clusterfest (📸: Josh Withers) pic.twitter.com/CJgBo1FbQQ… MORE
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Jon Stewart returns to “The Late Show” desk, well underneath it
Last night’s episode of The Late Show made good on a fundraising promise for a nice lady named Rachel. Rachel… MORE
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Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart are hitting the road for some co-headlining dates
Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart are going to hit the road for a few dates of what we’re sure will… MORE
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