Posted on 03/31/2015 11:13:37 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Not since John McCain selected Sarah Palin as his running mate have the vetting capacities of a powerful political force been cast into such doubt. When Trevor Noah was announced Monday as the next host of satirical powerhouse The Daily Show, most observers had little familiarity with the 31-year-old, South African–born comic, save perhaps for his three awkward appearances on the program with current host Jon Stewart. The New York Times piece announcing the succession threw up a few vague red flags (Comedy Central never auditioned Noah, who provided reporter Dave Itzkoff with a weirdly self-aggrandizing non sequitur comparing himself to Beyoncé). But the excitement of a fresh face bringing a unique perspective to a hallowed franchise (Noah's mother is black and his father is white, which made their union illegal in South Africa's apartheid era), combined with Stewart's full-throated support, seemed like endorsement enough.
[SNIP - text and tweets about Jews, fat women, hookers and hitting women]
Maybe his hiring is a form of basic-cable performance art. Maybe Jon Stewart just wanted to blow the building up as he strolled away with his shades on. No one will ever know. But Comedy Central’s haste and lack of due diligence amid so much eminently qualified talent—your Jessica Williamses, your Aasif Mandvis, your however many other fresh-faced unknowns with unique perspectives—is a surefire way of alienating your audience. Almost as surefire as dismissing an entire swath of that audience with one thunderously idiotic tweet among many.
[Tweet] "When flying over the middle of America the turbulence is so bad. It's like all the ignorance is rising through the air." - — Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) June 24, 2013
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Does she see this hire as a bad move politically, commercially, both? - hard to get in this author's mind.
I don't watch these shows but a lot of people do. Rush was talking about this new hire yesterday.
It's hard to tell what was the tipping point for this writer. Maybe too clear a look at the way the Left really sees others?
It would appear that popular liberal culture is waging a lot of "wars" against a lot of groups.
Comedy Central..the only thing that has made me laugh on that channel is the Key & Peele series. And I only watched when my brother showed me the youtube clips.
What I’ve seen of Key and Peele is quite funny.
too bad they don’t get the hype Stewart gets. I’ve never heard of them til my brother made me watch their sketches!
Mark Steyn: “On Monday, when Trevor Noah landed the gig as Jon Stewart’s replacement, Salon’s headline writers assured us:
Right-Wing Rage At ‘The Daily Show’ Is About To Get Very, Very Ugly
That’s because Trevor Noah is a mixed-race South African, and everyone knows right-wingers are ugly racists consumed with rage over miscegenation. As it turned out, there was not a peep from rage-consumed righties, perhaps because they don’t watch “The Daily Show” and had never heard of Trevor Noah, or perhaps because they were preoccupied with inconsequential foot-of-page-37 news stories like the nuclearization of Iran.
So instead by Tuesday morning it was the left that was all in a lather - or as those self-same Salon headline writers put it a mere 24 hours after their previous headline:
Did Trevor Noah’s Twitter History Just Kill ‘The Daily Show’?
That’s because the lefties were all mad about the oddly misogynist and anti-Semitic Twitter feed of Mr Noah, full of jests about.......”
http://www.steynonline.com/6886/there-noah-business-like-shoah-business
And another affirmative-action hire goes bad. Just like Obama.
The hiring of Noah reminds me of the old line about if a tree falls in a forest, and nobody hears it, does it make a sound? Whatever Noah does or says will not affect me in the slightest, because I’m not going to watch the show. Just like I didn’t watch it when Stewart hosted the show. Both unfunny nitwits.
I don’t watch the Daily Show, but I was interested in the article. I found it interesting what she felt was out of bounds. So fat chick jokes are out of bounds? Jeeeshhh! What can comedian’s joke about anymore? Is the white male conservative the only material you are allowed to use now? I guess if Freddy Mercury were alive, he couldn’t sing about fat bottomed girls making the rocking world go round... That would be misogynist..
Commode Central, 10 minutes of a show with 50 minutes of commercials.
Trevor Noah is clearly a racist and a bigot. The liberals are twisting themselves in a pretzel to keep this guy on that show.
Not just libs. The dopes on “Redeye” were making all kinds of excuses for him. That show has really tanked.
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