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You are entitled to your opinion but try to keep in mind that you are describing three milestones in an evolutionary process. These are performers who are in ev
by flycaliguy 12y ago
You are entitled to your opinion but try to keep in mind that you are describing three milestones in an evolutionary process. These are performers who are in every sense building off of the work of the one before them. You are outlining the construction of a machine that began with Stewert in 1999, Colbert in 2005 and then Oliver in 2014. A machine with elements from 1999 that don't work as well anymore and elements from 2014 that wouldn't have fit in 1999.
- briandear 12y agoActually it started with Dennis Miller far before that. SNL really pioneered this genre.
- borispavlovic 12y agoColbert and Oliver are not the only 'children' of Stewart. In these days of Serbian populist government Zoran Kesić's show '24 Minutes with Zoran Kesić' is one of the few islands of open critique of the regime on the TV with national coverage. (https://www.youtube.com/user/24minutaofficial https://www.youtube.com/user/24minutaofficial)
- myth_buster 12y agoI would also add to the list Bassem Youssef, Egypt's satirist, who happens to be a cardiac surgeon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassem_Youssef http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassem_Youssef
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- jarcane 12y agoThere's also a strong tradition of this kind of thing in Britain (That Was The Week That Was, Brass Eye, Private Eye, 10 O'Clock News, etc.), and Canada (This Hour Has 22 Minutes is legendary, and has been running since 1993).
- dspillett 12y ago"10 O'Clock News" - are you critiquing standard news coverage, or do you mean "Not The Nine O'clock News" there?
- jarcane 12y agoI think I was actually thinking about 10 O'Clock Live. My mistake (and a shameful one, it was one of my favorites).
- lurkinggrue 12y agoBut yes, Let us not forget Not the Nine O'Clock News.
- sogen 12y agoSpitting Image (TV Series 1984–1996) "The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Television Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category."
- maxerickson 12y agoIf you are going to credit SNL you have to credit Chevy Chase.
- elf25 12y agoNope, Chevy Chase's 'Weekend Update' segment was huge.
- Torgo 12y agoRush Limbaugh had a show in 1992 where he photoshopped mocking photos of politicians and made montages of politicians "debating" themselves saying contradictory thing.