I love the guy and the courageous left-leaning progressive stances and slandering he’s doing to the you-know-who administration atm.
I think he’s up there with Ruby Setnik, Romesh Ranganathan and Stephen Colbert as my favourite leftist satirist, and his podcast is such a fun time-waster of a audio frequency too.
But I respect your opinion if you aren’t a big fan of his.
He seems like an ok guy especially when he helped people involved in 9/11.
Guy has called out abuses of power, non-stop, for decades. What’s not to like?
And he doesn’t just do it on his show for ratings. Guy stood the fuck up, in person, in DC, for 9/11 responders for YEARS to get them what they deserved.
I generally like him, but he can be frustrating because his general mindset seems to be that of the comfortable liberal. Sure he sees problems, but he’s wealthy and comfortable and doesn’t really want the system changed because it works for him and at the end of the day that matters more than the people currently getting hurt. Order and property like all the rest.
Thats why so many of his takes seem focused on market solutions. He’s a capitalist who refuses to acknowledge that capitalism is the inherit source of all the issues he claims to care about. So no matter how much I enjoy his wit or comedy he’ll always come across as somewhat hypocritical.
Jon is on the side of common sense and that’s his biggest advantage. If you look at his career as a whole you’ll see that he’s not afraid to call out absurdities and injustices regardless of what side of the aisle it comes from. He critiques government, not just republicans.
Also incase you haven’t picked up on it from others, you’re using the word ‘slander’ incorrectly.
And not even using the word ‘slander’ incorrectly to be able to quote j jonah jameson
I don’t recall, did he ever apologize for the two decades of the daily show where he constantly used trans women as the butt of jokes?
It’s not slander if it’s true or satire.
Biggest annoyance with him is that he doesn’t take responsibility for anything he says. “You got this wrong and you skewed the facts!” “We’re just a comedy show! Don’t take us seriously!”
Huge fan of Jon but you know what this is spot-on.
Just a prank bro kind of quality to it. It’s serious when it’s expedient; it’s a joke when the truth falls flat.
Of course that’s part of how comedy can broach uncomfortable things that can’t be said anywhere and I think at heart he has good intentions.
You know it is just a comedy show right? Do you also take SNLs news update segment seriously?
The Daily Show should not be held to a standard higher than we hold Fox News to.
He is a traitor to America and the American people! Who does he think he is to abandon me on my vacation! I have had an entire week with no Daily Show! Please come back Jon.
What a bastard, Columbus day indeed!
Oh! America has Columbus Day on Original Thanksgiving day. T.I.L.
Top tier comedic timing and master of facial expression physical comedy. He just brings an energy to the Daily Show that’s unmatched.
It’s not slander at all if it’s true, just saying.
John is a hardcore Neo-Liberal. He’s always looking for a market solution to the problems of capital.
John will platform absolute ogres; ask them softball questions while holding up their new book. True, John gets a better class of ogre than Joe Rogan, but that’s a pretty low bar.
He’s also a member of the wealthy and celebrity elite and is quite out of touch.
I must follow a completely different Jon Stewart.
I think he has mistaken Jon Stewart for Bill Maher so far as the soft ball questions go
No thoughts. No idea who they are.
then why answer?
Are you the person answering Amazon review emails with shit like “I don’t know, I bought it for my grandniece”
Because it provides activity for the post which will bring in more activity.
so you’re just serving the algorithm?
Lemmy has limited content so make it organic when you can.
