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Jon Delfin

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Apr 10, 2020, 10:33:51 PM4/10/20
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Anybody else think Bill Maher's monologue jokes sound even more desperate than they did last week? The canned laughter makes it worse. 

Kevin M.

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Apr 10, 2020, 10:35:46 PM4/10/20
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Calling Bill Maher (or his jokes) desperate is redundant 

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 7:33 PM Jon Delfin <jond...@gmail.com> wrote:
Anybody else think Bill Maher's monologue jokes sound even more desperate than they did last week? The canned laughter makes it worse. 

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PGage

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Apr 10, 2020, 11:45:35 PM4/10/20
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In haven’t watched Bill Maher since the Bush administration...

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Melissa P

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Apr 11, 2020, 7:48:39 PM4/11/20
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Okay, I noticed the canned laughter this time.

Despite last night not being his best work, I still believe the show has the finest writing staff in late nite.  (I know, I'm a voice of one here.)

Here's a sample of the show at its best:




PGage

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Apr 11, 2020, 8:48:53 PM4/11/20
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This (that Maher’s show s the best written in late night) seems extremely unlikely to me, though I suppose I can’t eliminate a zone zero possibility, since I have not watched him (and will not be). 

I think Colbert has really found his footing during the Virus in the last week (his show with Bernie and Carlisle was virtuoso). But I can’t imagine any shoe being better written than Oliver’s.


David Bruggeman

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Apr 11, 2020, 9:13:40 PM4/11/20
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While Full Frontal doesn't go as in depth as Last Week Tonight, (I don't recall them ever taking a full episode on a single topic), Sam Bee and company do produce some well-written, clever, informative and funny pieces that could stand next to a lot of what Oliver and company have done.





David


stannc

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Apr 14, 2020, 10:33:58 PM4/14/20
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It’s only been a month and I can’t believe how much I miss HD-quality talk shows, with a desk, a set, a band, and two people in the same shot.

-Stan

Dave Sikula

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Apr 15, 2020, 5:59:02 AM4/15/20
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As I noted after Colbert's first night at home, I'm mostly enjoying the format, as the panels seem less canned and more spontaneous. Tonight's interview with Cate Blanchett was refreshing in its conversational presentation; just two people who like each other having a chat.

Now, that said: Fallon's show continues to be an amateurish nightmare (so he's continuing the standard he set at 30 Rock) and his kids continue to be less charming than he thinks. Meyers's interviews run hot and cold, since he's not the performer Colbert is. The scripted material in the first half-hour is good, although why he continues to give his writer Amber a spotlight is as much a mystery to me as Colbert's obsession with Brian Stack. I can't speak to what Kimmel and Corden are doing, since I rarely watch the former and can't stand the latter.

For me, the biggest loser is TDS, because Noah's material is weak (especially without a braying audience), his delivery obnoxious (I'm really growing to hate his lousy dialects and Trump impression), and the correspondents are mostly second-rate (exceptions: Roy Wood, Jr. and Jordan Klepper--though the latter is hampered by not being able to do remotes). The saving grace is that the interviews with public officials and experts have been generally good; far better than the celebrities he drags out.

I am ready to go back to real shows, though.

--Dave Sikula

Karen Owen

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Apr 15, 2020, 4:42:31 PM4/15/20
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Kimmel did some YouTube only monologues from

his house,  then went to doing full shows from his

house with about half being repeated segments.

This week he is doing 1/2 hour shows from home

that ABC is running at 11:35, then Nightline

at 12:05 and repeating Kimmel's 1/2 hour at 12:35


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Mark Jeffries

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Apr 15, 2020, 6:32:51 PM4/15/20
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And in Chicago, the Kimmel repeat is being followed this week by "Wheel of Fortune," which would normally run at 6:30 p.m., as it has on WLS since January 1984, excepting the occasional news event or sports pre-emption.  (Actually, 6:28 p.m., but you know.)  As they did two weeks ago, WLS is taking advantage of a repeat week on "Wheel" to repeat "World News Tonight" at 6:30 p.m.  "Wheel"'s delaying the repeat of the local talk show "Windy City Live!" to 12:35 a.m., although I don't think they've done a first-run show for a month now, unless they're going the remote at home route.

Mark Jeffries
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David Bruggeman

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Apr 16, 2020, 12:52:31 AM4/16/20
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FWIW, Corden started live shows from his home this week (he did do a quarantine-themed primetime special in late March).  Bandleader Reggie Watts appears, for about as long as Jon Batiste does on the Late Show.

Corden's dad, a retired military musician, features tonight, as he's taken to doing weekly concerts from his driveway in High Wycombe.

David

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