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would you say the same of john oliver?
by ccktlmazeltov 6y ago
would you say the same of john oliver?
- theplague42 6y agoDo you sincerely think Last Week Tonight is on the same level as South Park?
- jeltz 6y agoYes, I do. His stuff is often poorly researched and presented for maximum entertainment value rather than for accuracy. I may be pretty close to him politically but his stuff is mostly just entertainment.
- theplague42 6y agoCan you point to a specific instance of him valuing entertainment over accuracy?
- ccktlmazeltov 6y agoReally? Any example? I rely pretty hard on his show.
- disown 6y agoIt's worse. It's literally foreign propaganda. I know oliver became a citizen and he loves the mets.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoKinda? South Park is more obscene, but I’ve seen quite a few Last Week Tonight clips where the takeaway is clearly meant to be “haha, those people are such dummies!” I really do get it, and I personally enjoy both shows, but the genre of political humor tends to inevitably involve cheap shots at political opponents.
- theplague42 6y agoThey aren't even remotely the same type of show! I don't know how you could possibly try to compare them. You wouldn't try to compare the Super Bowl against Downton Abbey, would you?
- jansan 6y agoLast Week Tonight and a similar German show heute Show are the worst, because the make fun of people from an assumed moral high ground, which they do not have. They really want to show their viewers; "Ha, look how stupid other people are. It's alright to laugh about them, because they are so dumb. Good thing we the good ones!". It is absolutely despicable. South Park never does this. They just make fun of people or current trends in society, without evaluating them morally. They are more drastic, but never claim moral superiority.