TDS with Trevor Noah getting an audience again

[Adam Bowie]

According to Deadline, they're testing having an audience back with Noah: https://deadline.com/2021/11/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-to-test-out-studio-audience-return-1234866100/

I've got to say that with TDS being the one US chat show I at least on/off watched (aside from John Oliver), the pandemic production values didn't really help. First they increased the length when really, if anything, the show needed tightening up. Then when they went back to the studio, it was without an audience. 

I certainly understand the safety aspects, but I can't help thinking that Comedy Central were cheaping out. Audiences cost money to wrangle, added to which, it felt like they'd moved into a much smaller - cheaper - facility. 

I watched one recent episode and I could swear I heard a siren from outside the studio somewhere at one point. If you're not even soundproofing your facilities can you even call them studios?

I still like Noah overall, and Jordan Klepper's remote pieces are some of the best bits I ever see, but the show's reboot at this point hasn't worked, and they need to shorten things up and get an audience who will at least let them realise to an extent what is and isn't working.

Adam

PS The fake TV show that Kendall nearly appeared on in this week's Succession, "The Disruption" seemed to be a cross between TDS, Samantha Bee and John Oliver. I did enjoy that even if the jokes on the show within a show were a bit crass. 

[M-D November]

There may have been logistical hurdles to bringing back an audience - TDS just moved into new digs @ 1515 B'way (the ancestral home of Carson Daly), and while that's not a location unfamiliar to handling audiences, it's more complex than TDS's old "let 'em wait on the street" approach.

[Mark Jeffries]

Which now leaves Sam Bee as the one show that hasn't got its audience back.  I suspect that Bee doesn't want an audience, although the fact that they're taping somewhere in Connecticut for the tax credits may also be a factor.

Mark Jeffries
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[Dave Sikula]

I think I've expressed before my feeling that Noah has done a lousy job on TDS, if only because of his insistence on doing crappy dialects. (Klepper and Wood are the only reasons to watch now.)

To the point of "Succession," though, while I have never been a real fan of the show (I think it's okay, but it's not the devastating satire it thinks it is), that "Disruption" thing made no sense, even within the terms of the  Successionverse It was unfunny, uninsighful, and I struggled with the concept of inviting one of the Roys on to do emergency surgery on his image. To tell the truth, the best part of the show may be the crawl on the Royco show in the credits that changes every week.

--Dave Sikula