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Been watching this for a while now, but with new eps out finally thought about posting. It's a Daily Show style thing, but with each episode focused on one topic. His delivery is good and some of the jokes are great. Sometimes he makes references that this old man can't understand, but not that often. Some of it topics are frightening, particularly the recent show on government erosion of human rights in the US.
DM - you will want to watch the latest episode, on Hip Hop and how it's used politically in China and elsewhere.
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(03-12-2019, 12:53 PM)King Bob Wrote: DM - you will want to watch the latest episode, on Hip Hop and how it's used politically in China and elsewhere.
Thanks for the rec.
I watched the Censorship in China ep (I only remembered that your rec had something to do with China and forgot the Hip Hop part). It was amusing. I've been following PRC's #mitu movement on our KFM forum. We ran an article a little while ago #kungfumetoo - the author is a rape survivor and tai chi master, but that article took a lot of reworking before it was publishable. And she didn't know #mitu at all, much to her discredit because it's something any current sinophile knows.
However Hasan didn't really get the Peppa Pig story at all. He only had a tiny frag of the tale. Yeah, I got a KFM thread monitoring that too -
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/show...-Peppa-Pig
I'll check out the Hip Hop one later.
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The Hip Hop one was engaging. I may watch more when the topic grabs me. Maybe the drug pricing one. Maybe not - I'm living that nightmare now. Same goes for the Trump one. We'll see.
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Interesting how many of the Stewart correspondents have all done the same thing, many of them successfully. I liked Wyatt Cenac’s “Problem Areas,” I adore Samantha Bee’s “Full Frontal,” and of course Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. I enjoyed listening to Preet Bharara interview Hassan Minaj on his podcast, and I suspect I’d probably enjoy and appreciate this show, too. However, I also wonder how much of this genre I can take without needing strong mood-lifting medication.
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The Kal Penn show (can't remember the name right now) is also pretty good, but the episodes are longer, and I think would be better if shorter and more tightly edited.
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(03-13-2019, 09:10 PM)The Queen Wrote: I also wonder how much of this genre I can take without needing strong mood-lifting medication.
There's just so much fodder for this sort of thing now.
I watched a little of Samantha when it started. I was watching the more pop broadcast ones - SNL news & Colbert - but I've tuned out of most of this now. Just can't take too much of it before it makes me all agro. And I'm agro enough of late.
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