Re: The Emmys Thread


"Jess Band-ee-Coot" <LateShoBandicoot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm considering it. I'm already fast-forwarding through
the monologues because I don't need to hear the same jokes
night after night.

I've been watching Dave regularly since his second year at NBC.
I know what he's capable of, and screw you if you think
I'm unqualified to express how disappointed I am with
the repetitive dreck he's turning out these days.

I've been watching since the first LNwDL on NBC. I don't enjoying hearing
the same jokes repeated as some here do because I think it's an insult to
regular viewers. Some of them weren't that funny the first time. Maybe it's
unfair to compare Dave to Carson, but to me, that's who he seems closest to.
Johnny had a few regular themes; "How hot was it?", Ed's drinking, Doc's
clothes, come to mind. But he did a nightly show with a topical monologue
and I don't remember ever noticing him repeating the exact same joke,
word-for-word, several nights in a row. And for weeks.

But my comparison up-thread was of The Daily Show writers to Dave's writers.
Stewart only has four nights a week so maybe he has an slight advantage even
though Dave's Friday show is usually blatantly slumming even for him. Humor
is subjective (repetition is fact) and I laugh out loud at Stewart's takes
on the hypocrisy and idiocy of politicians and the media that covers them.
As Dave Sikula points out in another thread, Letterman's observations on
politics are largely superficial and they don't get funnier to me with each
repetition.

What I do laugh at in the monologue is when something gets screwed up and
Dave banters with Tony Mendez. That's because off-the-cuff Dave is a lot
funnier to me than scripted Dave. And unfortunately off-the-cuff is not in
fashion anymore. Parr's been dead a while now.

And I don't care how many times he shouts, "What?! What!?", after it, I'll
never think saving money with Geico is funny.


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