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Jordan
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Date: May 03, 2019 01:56PM
stillanon Wrote:
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> No, he doesn't write his own scripts, he's got a
> team of writers. That makes him a "hack"? Colbert,
> Fallon, Kimmel, Leno, Letterman, Carson, O'Brien,
> didn't write their own scripts either.
Yep and that's why none of them are that funny and their humor comes over forced and lazy.
P.S. your
> local and National newscasters don't write their
> own stuff either. I guess they're all hacks.
> Trevor Noah speaks 7 languages.
How does being a polyglot make you a good comedian? If that was the case, Scandinavians would be among the funniest people on Earth. Now, I know some Scandis are funny, but all of them?
In some parts of the world, it's normal to speak more than one language. If you speak Hindi, Urdu, Gujarti, Punjabi and English (as a number of people in India and Pakistan do) that doesn't make you a comedy genius, does it?
I have qualifications in several languages, does that alone make me funny?
He's a smart guy
> with a penchant for calling out Bullshit.
Or a lazy partisan hack, with formulaic material, predictable jokes and a penchant for a big paycheck.
"Oh look, the other political party did something."
(Canned laughter)
"Isn't it funny, they vote for the other party?"
(More canned laughter)
In the meantime, some intern is probably writing this stuff for free, because "it will look good on your resumé."
> Which
> explains why you don't like him.
No, I dislike him because like a lot of these hosts, he isn't actually funny. You can hear better banter in a downtown bar. For what it's worth, I'm not a fan of Alex Jones, Glenn Beck etc who are equally lazy. But I find their unintentional humor funnier than the bland pap regurgitated by Noah & Co. There's a Noah, I wish had gone down with his ship.