Oh, is he going to finally pay his former costars their worth for those years of dedication that brought him to this level of fame & affluence? My money’s on him continuing to be an insufferable, greedy shit.
What is it with the obsession with infinite growth for every company anyways? Why can’t they be happy with a stable, still extremely high, income? The people at the top already have more money than they need but still want more for no reason
Why can’t they be happy with a stable, still extremely high, income?
Shareholders. If you buy a share of a company for $5, you expect it to go up in value so you can make money from your investment.
Any publicly traded company must (by law!) try to maximize profit beyond what they're already doing, to satisfy shareholders. They could be sued if they don't.
It’s capitalism. Driving the economy by profit means that each company has to race to obtain as much profit as possible, or risk losing to their competitors who are trying to do the exact same thing.
Because capitalism is broken. It’s predicated on increasing share price. This means a functional company regularly making good stable income based on consistent product is a failure, because share price becomes stable if income and production remain stable.
Wouldn’t the share price follow inflation, and wouldn’t the stock holders keep getting dividends that themselves follow inflation? I’d say that a stagnant company can still be profitable. But yeah, there’s greed and people expecting to make fast, big earnings by buying low and selling high…
Fuck this propaganda shit. Tv, and everybody associated with tv/streaming/movies/sports/ip/critics/partners/senior correspondants/sponsors etc, are always somehow the victim of the evil and all powerful consumer’s whim. This sickening narrative and “toxic fandom” are just stupid little games played to keep the investors placated while they figure out how to cover their ass, because they never had a good idea to begin with. All the while they change the rules to bleed everyone dry while trying to shovel the least entertaining shit into our faces. “Show Chasers?” wtf? Naw, yeah sorry, you unearned parasitic cancerous pustules, we don’t give a shit anymore. May your Mercedes catch fire while tumbling violently off the road to Malibu.
Also literally the point in the Reacher books. He never stays the same place for too long, and almost no other characters are recurring.
OP is comparing apples to oranges 🙂
I wholeheartedly missed his narrative on the last few election cycles. Nobody clicked like him on CC, Colbert is close but still on NBC which waters down content
Colbert is on CBS, but I agree, he is watered down. NBC had Jimmy Fallon who… Well let’s not talk about him, But NBC also has Seen Myers and I think his closer look segments are on par with the old days of the daily show. He can get away without being watered down since he’s on later.
He’s the only one IMO who can deliver a nuanced take without letting the humour suffer.
Most of the other people who try to copy the JS formula just suck at political commentary. They always have the most ice-cold takes that are usually just “republican bad”
John Oliver comes close, but he has this problem where, the more complex the subject, the less funny he becomes. His jokes usually reek of “we couldn’t figure out how to make a joke out of the thing John is talking about, so we’ll inject some non-sequitor reference to something totally unrelated”
Stewart on the other hand can deliver a deeply nuanced commentary that directs criticism at the broken systems of the American political process, rather than simply at the beneficiaries of those systems. And he does it while still coming up with relevant jokes that leave me on the verge of tears from laughing so hard.
I mean, I’m sure that most of Jon’s writers went on to work for other DS hosts and Oliver. Trevor Noah absolutely seemed to be reading from Jon’s script, even attempting the same gags. But it always fell flat to me, because as you say, Jon’s delivery is what makes it.
He’s also much sharper on the interviews. I know he hasn’t gone on the attack yet in this run, or if anyone would even be dumb enough to spar with him, but he is a master debater.
Yeah, I just watched his video on Carlson and he really does have the skill of perfectly debunking the topic whilst keeping the atmospnere light-hearted and ironic.
IMO Seth Myers has been amazing over the past few years. He really dialed it in when he got back from lockdown. I feel like he’s under rated because I hardly see him mentioned.
To expand on what you’ve said, that I agree with entirely:
I think the vacuum he left behind, that was filled with the very flawed “replacements”, left a serious scar on society.
It’s like if you quit on a “balanced nutritional diet” and ate nothing but Doritos and Mountain Dew for a decade. Like, we got fat and we got scurvy… And a lot of people I think ended up addicted to a trash diet.
I’ve seen some really terrible takes regarding Jon’s return. Like," I used to think he was funny, but now he’s an enlightened centerist."
Oof. We’ve forgotten how to even coherently articulate a single thought, apparently.
Yeah political discourse really suffered in his absence. It was so hard to find any commentators who had takes that embodied his “sanity and/or fear” approach. They all wanted to throw punches at the people they perceived as the problem, when someone with an understanding of politics would have known they were only a symptom of the problems.
Like others on here, I did not renew my subscription for Prime. You could see where they were heading and the cost/benefit ratio is not there.
My wife shops on Amazon way more than me and she has never had Prime. Not having 2 day shipping never (ad in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1; Here at Target we >>Skip) bothered her and she never watched shows on there other than what you already have to rent to watch even with Prime.
I encourage others to drop it, give it a spin, see how you (ad in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1; Don't let psoriasis get >>Skip) enjoy a little extra jingle in your pockets.
I have prime membership for the 5% off prime card. It pays for membership easily as I shop there a lot. Also, they typically do a 6% discount if I select the slower shipping. Idk.
If it’s the prime credit card, you get the 5% back regardless of your prime status. Also, shipping is free for non-prime Members, it’s just 4-5 days instead of 0-2
You don’t have to pay for shipping on Amazon without prime?
Here it’s 2,9 USD for shipping unless you spend more than 22,90 USD That price is for shipping to a pickup location that’s. Shipping time is 3-5 business days.
Priority shipping to a pickup location is 4,9 USD. Shipping time is 1-2 business days.
Home delivery is 4,9 USD. Shipping time is 3-5 business days.
These shipping prices are similar to of other stores in my country. Although some stores offer always free home delivery nowadays.
Prime costs 5,9 USD/month (4,575 USD/month for annual plan). So it seems that prime has a better value in my country.
Ugh, I was so excited for the adaptation, since TWOT is one of my favorite fantasy series. I made it 17 minutes into the show before I turned it off on disgust. Poor casting, poor acting, and they couldn’t even get the damn premise right!?
Most people who pay for prime, do so for the reduced shipping costs Prime video is just an add-on.
Putting ads on the video generates extra income without necessarily losing subscribers. So putting ads in the videos creates a new revenue stream with close to zero downside for them. It’s an MBA’s wetdream.
The closest I can think of in the U.S… was the Smothers Brothers. They were cancelled by the network, not the government, even though they were very popular . They frequently criticized the Vietnam war and government officials.
Why didn’t Stewart go to HBO or them to him? You’d think a double block of Jon John would be a slam dunk. Apple was a dumb idea from the start. The last thing I associate with Stewart is a corporation like Apple.
I’ll do it for just $500K and it’ll be a series about a man (me, extra savings on casting) wildly misspending the money battling a capitalist society run amok by paying off his mortgage and student loans. Episodes are about 30 secs to 1 min, depending how long the payment sites take to load.
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