Amph [The Daily Show] Once Again With Jon Stewart (sometimes)

It's amazing how little it took to find some sexist 2011 tweets by Noah.

 

What?

 

https://twitter.com/Trevornoah/status/124793524095950848

 

Man, people need jobs.

 

i view the fact that he's a relative outsider as a big plus. TDS was never going to live up to 2008, prime Stewart. And had they just bumped up somebody who had been there forever and was largely a product of Stewart's shadow (like Mandvi), I feel like the show would have continued on in the same direction it had been going, only not as good (because nobody can do Stewart as well as Stewart), and we're all tired of it anyway.

this choice allows the show to change in ways that other choices wouldn't have, and i think that's a good thing.

 

So Trevor Noah is 31 and James Corden, new host of The Late Late Show, is 36. Granted the two shows are very different beasts but I'm wondering if this is the beginning of a trend... Oh wait Colbert is 50 never mind.

 

I find the outrage over things like this ridiculous. People are genuinely saying that they won't be watching TDS because the guy made one offensive tweet four years ago. That's idiotic.

I've enjoyed the segments he's done lately on the show and I think he has an interesting voice; tonally very different from Stewart. Which I think has to be the way to go if the show wants to survive; no one's going to survive if they come on and try to imitate Stewart. I don't know that this will work and just because he's done some good segments doesn't mean he'll be a good host. But it's an interesting choice and I won't pass judgment yet (especially not based on a tweet from years ago).

 

I can't say that I'm a fan of this choice. Trevor's (very) few segments have been decent, but not as funny as the other new guy, Hasan Minhaj. I had suspected that Jason Jones and Sam Bee might do a co-hosting format, but then Jones just resigned last week. Unfortunate.

 

Because it's Twitter.

 

lol yeah, if your joke requires a particular tone or delivery then maybe in writing isn't the best way to express it. anyway, i agree that there's a bit of an over reaction to one tweet from four years ago. but also, it is awful and i can't imagine a different tone would make me think otherwise. and also it wasn't just one offensive tweet.

https://twitter.com/Trevornoah/status/4081446354
https://twitter.com/Trevornoah/status/141229204829249536

 

I'd be pretty much okay with Twitter not existing. People post inherently stupid things on it. Furthermore, huge crowds of people join in witchhunts without reading more into a situation. It's a recipe for disaster.

 

inherently stupid things and witchhunts - totally unique to twitter.

 

Stupid things aren't unique to Twitter, obviously. However Twitter's character limit is uniquely stupid and encourages stupidity in a unique way.

Also, if I ever become a public figure, remind me to nuke the JC's servers. I'm pretty sure I've said something offensive in the past six years that I regret.

 

Twitter is a major source of contemporary stupidity. Among the worst offenders are journalists who choose to "report" on Twitter's reaction to an event. I can read the website myself, thank you. I hardly need your summary of a bunch of half-considered opinions that someone smashed onto the keypad of their telephone while waiting in line at the grocery store. The fact that the author was too lazy and unthoughtful to investigate an actual story does not mean that we will find the musings of other lazy people to be enlightening. On the other hand, hey, Captain Crunch is the number one trending cereal on Twitter this week.

 

Yes, I literally said this in my post.

 

no, but your complaints are literally true of the entire internet.

 

The entire internet isn't as conducive to what I'm complaining about as twitter is. The 140 character limit was already brought up, which encourages being as brief as possible at the expense of content. There's immense pressure for anyone who's anyone to have a twitter account and get followers. Furthermore, there's pressure to keep tweeting several times a day, regardless of how inane the content actually is. You tell me this isn't more conducive to stupid comments than other places. At least in other places you get stupid comments from stupid people; on twitter you have stupid comments from everybody simply because the system is set up to make stupid comments. Next, on to witch hunts, the ease in retweeting comments allows for people to simply retweet popular tweets without even thinking about them or even reading them.

Are there other stupid places on the internet? Yes. Does the internet in general allow for more stupidity than personal interaction? Yes. But to sit here and tell me that the system set up around twitter isn't especially geared towards stupidity is ridiculous.

 

eh. it, like most of the internet, has both good and bad. my twitter feed is awesome, entertaining and informative. i'm not going to defend the entirety of the website, but i like what i get out of it. the idea that celebrities are feeling "pressure" to tweet a lot is insane to me, but i guess could be true? that idea is just so sad and bizarre. people retweeting things without either reading them or thinking about them doesn't strike me as a very effective witch hunt.

i mean i agree with you to an extent, a huge portion of the content on twitter is awful. i've just never found that hard to ignore.

 

But why should we have to ignore it? Lord of Vivec is arguing for a better world where it does not exist at all.

 

If you became a target of a witch hunt (and these witch hunts do affect people's lives, including doxxing, death threats, and other nonsense) because of something stupid you said, I think you'd see. And don't tell you me you've never said anything stupid. We all have.