Thursday, April 9, 2020

Bricks, Baby Drool. Broadcasting in the age of Pandemic: The Daily Show and other comedy

RantWoman promises not just to mindlessly repost Daily Show items, but this one stands out for two reasons.

--RantWoman is finding herself absurdly grateful that content including audience reactions is getting posted in between all the host alone in living room current content. RantWoman finds it reassuring somehow to be reminded that people will at some point be able to gather again and in the meantime, there is content available to remind people what it is like to laugh together.

--Pay attention to the stories about the brick. Just pay attention to the brick items..


RantWoman does want to offer a couple moments of appreciation for people continuing to broadcast via the "Host in the living room" option though.

RantWoman does not sleep as easily as she might prefer. However, sometimes when it is obvious that RantWoman should just GO TO BED, RantWoman gets an energy boost from specifically choosing to find things to laugh about. Things like the Late show for instance.

RantWoman is deeply amused by the great "is the host wearing pants" conversation: RantWoman's favorite answer in a clip of Stephen Colbert Interviewing John Oliver: Oliver has a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old. He said he was indeed wearing pants, but in true stay-at-home dad mode admitted that the pants he is wearing are also stained with peanut butter and baby drool. There. Way to keep it real.

In the same interview Oliver also talked about one time just bombing in a standup act: after not doing so well in his own performance, he asked another performer to use the encore time and opened by proposing to celebrate Irish culture--by reading the opening of Jame Joyce Ulysses! RantWoman thinks that is, um, bold; RantWoman is also glad Oliver survived that effort.

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