Rest of the show: https://youtu.be/wznD7uCEcLk
I’m kind of scared to watch this. I like Jon Stewart and don’t want to have my image of him ruined by possible bad takes lol. Anyone knows how he does during this segment?
EDIT : I watched it and it’s not bad. Feels like old Jon Stewart, he hasn’t lost a step.
I’d say it’s perfectly watchable and low in the bad takes department, at the result of kind of just stating the obvious (ceasefire now). A couple of things my leftist heart disagreed with, but generally in the “which solution is actually the most viable” sense and not the “we disagree about if 30,000+ people deserve to live” sense.
Glad to hear it! So kind of similar to Jon Oliver’s segment on the topic, which I thought was pretty good?
I didn’t get a chance to watch Jon Oliver’s but I would assume so! I wouldn’t be afraid to watch this one at least, nothing really surprising in it.
But if you know Jon Stewart, he doesn’t really have bad. Takes on just about anything
Except Chicago-style pizza.
He’s dead right about that
Lol you really started something
I take pizza very seriously
And Chicago makes seriously good pizza
It’s just tomato sauce casserole
It’s a pie
I respectfully disagree, it has no lid.
Yes, because it’s pizza
I think he did a pretty good job of walking the tightrope between levity/seriousness about Gaza for what is after all a light current affairs show.
I actually think the follow up discussion with an American journalist representing each faction was more impressive, and contained a decent amount of nuance regarding the practicalities of how the region might find its way out of this mess.
It’s a relatively nuanced take, even if I don’t agree with everything he says.
Of course, if you’ve become radicalised, you might think he’s a Zionist shill or making excuses for Hamas.
There was a disclaimer at the start of the show that covered that bit. I thought it was clever
