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lil · 4084 days ago · link · · parent · post: Thanks, John Oliver: a browser extension that warns of sponsored articles
Exactly -- he was ok, even good, at times, replacing Jon Stewart when JS was in the Middle East -- a year ago. He was filling in someone's shoes rather than having his own voice -- but I agree, that now he's "blowing well beyond." I've only seen two of these sustained monologues - this one and the prison one -- which was both hilarious and painful. The pain is what gets me. Let me venture that Jon Stewart's clips of political duplicity, doublespeak, and self--contradictions are more of the gotcha variety. Would you say there is less gotcha and more genuine sadness in John Oliver? -- more disappointment than despair. I have to see more of these clips.