Re: [TV orNotTV] Colbert Continuing To Ride The Trump Resistance Wave

2017-02-20 Thread PGage
Or, as John Oliver Utah it last night "Trump dominates the news cycle the way a fart dominates the interior of a Volkswagen Beetle. There is simply no escape from him." That's fine for comedy shows, but it would be nice if TV News would come up with the discipline to cover non-Trump Nes in their

Re: [TV orNotTV] Colbert Continuing To Ride The Trump Resistance Wave

2017-02-20 Thread Adam Bowie
As someone who watches a fair few of these shows (John Oliver, The Daily Show, and yes, even Real Time a little), I am beginning to grow tired of Trump's domination of them. On the one hand, it's inevitable, and frankly inescapable. If he gives a press conference like Thursday's then you can't help

Re: [TV orNotTV] Colbert Continuing To Ride The Trump Resistance Wave

2017-02-20 Thread PGage
I understand your point, but what else can a political satire show do? I can see a one-off "Day Without Trump" kind of episode, but unlike the first six months of his campaign, when he should have been ignored, he really can't be now. What they can do is maybe dig down to the third and fourth layer

Re: [TV orNotTV] Colbert Continuing To Ride The Trump Resistance Wave

2017-02-20 Thread Kevin M.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:41 AM PGage wrote: > I understand your point, but what else can a political satire show do? I > can see a one-off "Day Without Trump" kind of episode, but unlike the first > six months of his campaign, when he should have been ignored, he really > can't be now. What the

[TV orNotTV] He ain't gone yet

2017-02-20 Thread Bob Jersey
90-something Sir David Attenborough, whom some of us thought was hanging it up years ago (link), will narrate yet another BBC nature series when "Blue Planet"'s 2nd go-round arrives later this year... Guardian

[TV orNotTV] Why do all the women on Fox News look and dress alike? Republicans prefer blondes

2017-02-20 Thread Steve Timko
Thought I would pass this along. . . Why do all the women on Fox News look and dress alike? Republicans prefer blondes https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/feb/20/women-fox-news-dress-alike-republicans-blondes-pundits-ann-coulter-kellyanne-conway-rightwingers ⁣Not sent from an iPhone.​

Re: [TV orNotTV] Colbert Continuing To Ride The Trump Resistance Wave

2017-02-20 Thread PGage
You have a point, and I felt something similar for most of the campaign (when I thought both news and comic media legitimized him) and I was so sick after the election I could not laugh about almost anything. But I do see an important distinction between the kind of thing Fallon (for example) does

Re: [TV orNotTV] Frequent Maher guest bolts

2017-02-20 Thread Kevin M.
24 hours later, and Milo has been dropped as a keynote speaker at CPAC and his book -- which I assume was a coloring book -- has been dropped by Simon & Schuster. Milo claims his words were taken out of context (even though whole uninterrupted segments of at least two interviews have been posted on

Re: [TV orNotTV] NotTV: RIP Stuart McLean - CBC Radio's The Vinyl Cafe

2017-02-20 Thread Chris Neuman
I always thought of Vinyl Cafe as a Canadian analogue to Prairie Home Companion, and the Dave and Morley stories as Lake Wobegon set in residential Toronto. I was of two minds about Vinyl Cafe. Here's my FB post on it, if anyone cares to hear an opinion that wasn't as effusive. -- So. Stuart McLe