The Problem With Jon Stewart

[PGage]

Debuts 9/30 on Apple.

It sounds a little like “I want to do the John Oliver show, with a twist”, but certainly willing to give it a try. Afraid it will really be more of: “Finally, I can fully fly my inner Bill Maher flag!”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jon-stewart-apple-show-premiere-date-1235004953/

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[PGage]

ADD: here is a link to a pretty good story on this from back in April in Vice (have we already talked about this here? I looked but could not find), with a quote from Wyatt Cenac that kind of captures part of my anxiety about the show, but misses my residual hopes:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93y9n3/the-problem-with-the-problem-with-jon-stewart

 

“If you think this sounds like the premise of a number of shows from former Daily Show contributors—think: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, and Problem Areas with Wyatt Cenac—you're not wrong. In fact, Cenac, who hosted Problem Areas between 2018 to 2019, when HBO canceled it, tweeted his displeasure with the undeniable similarities between the two programs. He posted a clip of a monologue he'd delivered on Problem Areas: "But if there's one thing I've learned: If you want somebody to take a Black guy saying something meaningful on TV seriously, you really need to have a white guy saying basically the same thing right after," he'd said. “

[Bob Jersey]

Style flag on Mr Terry...     B

PGage, quoting vice.com, August 30th, in part: