For me Louis C.K., Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld hold the top spot in their respective styles.What should have been a fascinating look inside the process is derailed by an insecure Ricky Gervais looking for validation through this vanity project.
I was glued to the first 10 minutes but when he says "I don't think I have a thing?" I was praying for a lighting to crash through his pandering face.
Intelligent discussion on each material, the nature of an act, persona and timing, what constitutes a show are insightful.
Gervais is painful to watch; his "hysteria" is trite and draws deserved looks. A telling moment is when he says that he just "got" the Office (which I love) and afterwards thought he should show he can do something else. They don't pander to him and I respect them more for it.
Talking Funny is enjoyable when Gervais isn't driving, though there is a lot to be had when he says something and they look at him like he just farted in their mums mouth.
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I thought Ricky, while the 4th best comedian on the panel, was a great compliment to Jerry and Chris. They are more ego and performance where as Louis and Ricky are more for the audience and for messages. Without Ricky, Louis would've been outnumbered on a lot of his points.
watched the pilot, but colbert just isnt funny (he has never been), felt i wasted my time, will skip this version of the late show.
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I enjoyed him hosting, I am a fan from The Colbert Report though. I just don't think the show is for you. I see you like Real Time With Bill Maher, I'd put Colbert much higher than Bill, even though I watch both.
I don't see much comedy in your history either, maybe try some more.
Does anybody knows when is season 2 coming??
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probably August 2016, that would put it a year after the release of this season and fitting with their Summer/Fall release schedule
great episode, can't wait for more!
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yeah, feels like the beginning of something big, they destroyed all three books!
Never into musicals but I am liking this show. It is fun and different and makes me laugh. The singing is entertaining and sounds good. I hope the ratings increase so that they will keep making it. Probably one the few shows I look forward to anymore.
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I'm loving it, I really hope it finds its audience. It would be a bigger hit on Netflix or somewhere online to stream it.
i don't understand people who gives a 6 for this
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I gave it a 5.
First episode of the show I've seen, and it wasn't really my cup of tea. Many of the articles I've seen recommending this show compare it to Last Week Tonight, and I don't think the comparison is a favorable one. At his best, Oliver walks a nice line between information and advocacy, while throwing in some quality humor (that may be related to the topic at hand or may just be a fun flight of fancy) to help the medicine go down. In this episode, Bee seemed much more interested in scoring political points and getting in the usual digs than achieving anything like that. Even the non-political humorous asides felt flatter compared to Oliver's. (Though the description of Hillary "breaking out of the phantom zone" in the video package for her acceptance speech tickled my funny bone.)
For better or worse, I think Bee is a more direct inheritor of Jon Stewart than Oliver, Stephen Colbert, or Trevor Noah. She has his political snark and his "look at this asshole" qualities down pat, at least in this episode. Her rhythm and delivery don't seem quite as natural as Stewart's yet, though I expect that will come with more time. But more than that, there's the same smugness and sanctimoniousness that always kind of bothered me when it came to The Daily Show, particularly as compared to its sister show, The Colbert Report, which offered the same political perspective through the lens of satire rather than sanctimony. Bee certainly has a perspective, and that's vital to standing out in the crowded Late Night landscape, but I've heard this song and dance before, and I'm ready for some new notes and new steps. Colbert offered that with his satirical, goofier bent; Oliver brings it with his eclectic focuses and self-effacing comic energy, and by comparison, Bee just feels like Stewart mk. II.
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@andrewbloom I wouldn't use this episode as a standard of her or the show's quality. This with the RNC and Cleveland episodes were campaign specials. I'd recommend you check out the others that more fit the format.
Well, I gave this one another shot, and it's just not for me. The biggest thing is that I just didn't laugh, which hey, is fine for most advocacy, but it's not what Full Frontal is pitching itself as, and the easy insults as humor bit doesn't really work. I didn't always love Jon Stewart, but one of the things I appreciated about him is that he at least took pains to point out the deterioration of political discourse (even if he too was guilty of that at times and brushed it off as him just being a comedian and not a pundit). Full Frontal feels like it's contributing to that rather than fighting it. Maybe Samantha Bee is just responding to the times, but there's a lot of punching down, superiority, and mudslinging going on that isn't my cup of tea or something that really tickles my funny bone.
There's also not much nuance to the points made, independently of the comedy. There's plenty to take the media to task over in its coverage of the presidential race and the importance of putting candidates and their statements into context. But Bee doesn't even bother to take the idea of journalistic objectivity or the divide between coverage and editorial seriously, and making fun of Matt Lauer's admittedly ridiculous morning show antics feels like a cheap shot in service of her point. A strident tone is fine, especially when there's a lot to be angry about these days, but just being a dick about your point without engaging in the complexity of the issues (admittedly difficult in a 7-minute segment) is no substitute for real insight.
This was worth a try, and I'm glad to see some more diversity in the late night world, but I wish the results were better. I'll stick with John Oliver.
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@andrewbloom Sorry to hear that, I'm still loving it for anyone reading. Try it yourself and make a choice
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VIP6Just 25 minutes in and I think Westworld could be the next Battlestar Galactica. It's more dark than the movie from the 70's. Just not sure why the engineers don't see all the crazy shit Ed Harris has been up to though. If they are always watching the robots.
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@jim222001 maybe engineers don't monitor human acts for privacy. Humans would be killing and sleeping with the hosts. Would allow users to act freely. Just a quick thought
"The price is on the can, though."
A conversation between two people who understand their roles (i.e., customer and cashier), but don't understand the world they live in... now that's a statement!
This show's saying things most are scared of saying but need to hear... let's have conversations about the difficult stuff guys. But most importantly let's laugh about it.
Oh--and the premise for this episode? Creative, a little heavy-handed at times, but ultimately really fun to watch.
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@tehmarvelman "The price is on the can, though"
This is wrong, first episode is the all stars live.
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@mromsoe that's a special episode, data is based off of thetvdb: https://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=293322&seasonid=680729&lid=7
The people that rate the episode before it's even out, I think should be deprived from their voting rights for some finite period. This is a joke. I don't understand why do they do it, is it fun or something?
The episodie page is reporting 75%, 38 watchers, 60 plays, 217 collected - and it has not been released yet...
I don't understand people anymore. I understand that there are apps an people click everything... but rating it, that must done on purpose, not by accident and it must have an intention don't know why they do it with unaired episodes -more weight to game the whole series or season ratings- I don't know but it's extremely annoying.loading replies
@metalcoholicfreak to play devil's advocate, that would stop early voting when episodes leak early or released early like episode 2 was.
I hope Ford faked his death with a Host version of himself.
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@konvar I hope he's making the sacrifice just like Arnold did and will be reborn as a host. That way Dolores kills his human body to be reborn in code.
For a second I decided I'm gonna watch this for Leighton Meester. But I can't. It's too stupid and Adam Pally is too much of a douchebag. Not even Leighton Meester is worth this shit and that's saying something. The problem is not that it's a comedy. In my opinion if you want to do time travel you have to do it tongue in check. The problem is that the two main guys are so unlikable I can't watch it.
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@galileo5 wait, so this has nothing to do with the people behind Another Period and Drunk History?
https://trakt.tv/shows/another-period
https://trakt.tv/shows/drunk-history-2013
How is that 55 people already voted four months before it was released? Seriously?
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@nalliendraug far from perfect is an eight? I enjoy the games but didn't enjoy this. My rating would be lower if i hadn't played the games tbh
Far superior to the previous film, it's unfortunately let down by the nature of being a prequel; we know where the pieces are all going to end up which takes away much of the tension.
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@agomist unless like me, you go for this one first before watching Ouija. I really enjoyed it
So season one of Legion has finished. Easily the best (non anime/comic) tv show currently running. Can't wait for more!
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@razze but it is a comic tv show, no?
So season one of Legion has finished. Easily the best (non anime/comic) tv show currently running. Can't wait for more!
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@razze I get ya, I really enjoyed the season, it didn't portray itself like a comic show we've seen so far so I thought ya missed the comic source material.
I watch(ed) alot of zombie/slashers shit.
Iam dropping this tv show after 2 episodes.
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@nextstep if ya don't have anything to watch I'd retry this, some great development and season 2 builds on it. Not better than a movie but on par and different enough.
Was it really cancelled? 3 episodes? :\
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@rohanwesz not cancelled, it ends perfectly for the show
a historical movie where everyone speaks english. Yes, Nazis speak english amongst themselves. Total non sense.
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@onlyyou that's not new tho, happens in lots of movies like Valkyrie or The Hunt For The Red October
a historical movie where everyone speaks english. Yes, Nazis speak english amongst themselves. Total non sense.
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@onlyyou ah! I do admit I haven't seen it yet, just found it when adding to watchlist. I understand what you're saying.
Nancy attempting to speak when she's drunk off her ass was probably the worst thing i've seen all day.
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@ameliashepherd that was so bad, like she was in slow motion
If you hated The Blair Witch Project, it type of production (photography, direction, script, postproduction, etc…), simply skip American Vandal all together… it’s not worth suffering, don’t even bother looking at the ratings, as someone must have already said “people like flies eat all kinds of shit which doesn’t mean you should eat it too”.
I hate anything whose production style smells anything like “The Blair Witch Project”, the only movie that has made me get up and walk out of the movie theater, if a movie bores me I just sleep thru most it. But that one was a different beast, they were, and I couldn’t bear it, laughing at the audience (me) so I got up, walked out just before the ten minute mark and got my refund.
American Vandal didn’t make the cut after barely playing the first five minutes, it stinks to The Witch Proyect. The look of an amateur documentary, it doesn’t mean that the production has to suck (you can go and see by yourself the quality of most documentary scripted, directed and postproduced by teenagers on Vimeo.com). But I guess, we’ll continue to see this shit surfacing from time to time.
There’ll always be producers who couldn’t care less about the quality of what they produce and don’t want to spend a cent making a TV Series or Movie and trech behind the old off-beat creativity excuse to sell a subpar production to the audience. If it happens to catch, they’ll make a huge (∞) return on their nil investment worthy of celebrating have a laugh over a few martinis.
But at least they’ll neither be laughing at me nor be paying any of these martinis with a cent gotten from me.
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@abetancort wow. I didn't get any feel of The Blair Witch off this. Is it found footage or mockumentary that you dislike most? I felt this hit the look and feel of Making A Murderer and played on it very well.
Looks like #21 was added by mistake.
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@hiimdannyganz woops, it was, thanks for the spot
Wow. Did not feel this premiere at all, downright mediocre. These last seasons are really going downhill unfortunately.
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@r_lewis agreed. I think now is time I quit this show.
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VIPEP7Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz make me crazy, she is so sexy in this movie and act so well perfect acting :) three fearful "rich" motorized machos against the tactician young bare foot, beautiful without fear, sexy young and very smart girl :) Could be the title of the movie...
The best movie of that genre ( horror ) is fantastic, great, In few words don't miss it : the movie of the year 2018 ..
Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz is super great in this role & she is so beautiful :) what a performance :)
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@jarvis-1783384 you've watched it 10 times since April 22nd!?
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VIP4I couldn't even watch the film fully as it was too boring. Usually, that does not happen, but now I want my 30+ minutes back.
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@samip537 but your only 10/10 is Agent Cody Banks https://trakt.tv/movies/agent-cody-banks-2003
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This makes for a challenging watch. This movie is at least 40 minutes too long and once it gets to the point, it takes a while to resolve itself. Not very satisfying. This is the first movie in a LONG time I saw people leave the theater after already sitting there an hour. So it's not just me. This is a slog.
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@tkpnpodcast what do you mean 'his new normal'? I can only find this being his only film made with an iPhone. He's expressed using it more in future but I can't find examples of him using iPhones more. His last film Logan Lucky wasn't.
The Movie is great, but it seems like the only actor who gave a really good performance was Jack Nicholson.
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@chickenshit what!? Shelley Duvall plays it great too, she compliments and helps sell Jack's insanity. She's the audience, we're feeling what she's feeling when things go down.
