I love the guy and the courageous left-leaning progressive stances and slandering he’s doing to the you-know-who administration atm.
I think he’s up there with Ruby Setnik, Romesh Ranganathan and Stephen Colbert as my favourite leftist satirist, and his podcast is such a fun time-waster of a audio frequency too.
But I respect your opinion if you aren’t a big fan of his.
Guy has called out abuses of power, non-stop, for decades. What’s not to like?
And he doesn’t just do it on his show for ratings. Guy stood the fuck up, in person, in DC, for 9/11 responders for YEARS to get them what they deserved.
Jon is on the side of common sense and that’s his biggest advantage. If you look at his career as a whole you’ll see that he’s not afraid to call out absurdities and injustices regardless of what side of the aisle it comes from. He critiques government, not just republicans.
Also incase you haven’t picked up on it from others, you’re using the word ‘slander’ incorrectly.
I’ve never heard/watched a US satirist whom I actually thought to be funny. It just seems like reflecting my existing opinions and trying to derive enjoyment from that, rather than saying anything interesting or insightful. Maybe it feels different if you’re embedded in the US media landscape where everyone else is a sop to the far-right MAGA crowd. This applies to Stewart, Colbert and also John Oliver who although British seems to also exist in that style of aggressive agreement.
British satire seems to have more going for it. But I have a fairly high personal bar because I also don’t really like satire which consists of mischaracterising a person or situation in order to make fun of it. I remember Frankie Boyle often doing this when he’s doing political stuff - I just find myself thinking, “but that’s not true” or “that’s not what they think” and being unable to find that funny.
Ah yes, the famed British opinion that if something isnt British then it is inferior.
You forgot the part where they steal it anyway.
He started Tucker Carlson’s villain arc, which is at least hilarious. He has a higher hit rate than most but also occasionally suffers from old man syndrome. As progressive as he started, he is now an affluent old white man that’s been insulated from hardship for decades, and sometimes suffers from the lack of contact with reality that results from that.
i remember he was making fun of his boy- bowtie and he stopped wearing it after. conservatives and thier wealthy supporters(who arent neccesarily cons themselves) care alot about thier appearances.
