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If you didn't see Last Week Tonight with John Oliver last night, his Main Story was on..."JD Vance"! It's a wonderful, detailed piece on the emptiness, lack of personal foundation, racism and fascism of someone who could (if Trump has to leave office for any reason) become president or could be the MAGOP nominee in 2028. The show nails most every point, even beyond all those we've written about here. For a while, I didn't think they'd get to the influence that the truly awful, deep fascist Curtis Yarvin holds -- though eventually the show does get to it, somewhat. My only quibble is that they don't go at all into his many name changes -- from being born James Donald Bowman to James David Hamel to James David Vance to eventually "JD Vance." Worth the show bringing up, not because it's an oddity and funny, but because it shows his total lack of foundation for who he is, which informs all the emptiness they bring up. Still, it's a terrific report -- detailed, spot on and very funny.
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We go out and about once again with Jiminy Glick. And this is his third video with Steve Martin. Actually, though, it appears to a sequence from one of the others that didn’t make it into the final edit. They’re wearing the same clothes and in the same chairs, and it ends leading into a question that’s asked in one of the other videos. Besides which, it starts mid-conversation and cuts off during the discussion, but it’s wonderful on its own because not only is it very funny (with Steve Martin continually cracking up), but it’s the closest I’ve seen to Jiminy, near the end, fighting not to break character. Which is probably why this part of the interview didn't make it on the air. If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of The Daily Show, his Main Story was on (and I know this will come as a shock) Trump launching a war against Iran. There's not much I can add to that -- I suspect most people will be able to imagine the different topics he covers. It's detailed, interesting, angry and very funny. And yes, he also does return at the end for a few more comments on 'Punch' the monkey, about who he went off on a very funny tangent last week, and got a hilarious audience reaction. If you didn't see Last Week Tonight with John Oliver last night, his Main Story was about police body cameras. It was an extremely interesting report, on the use of them, the misuse, how video can be deceiving, how even audio can be deceiving and much more. And it's also very funny. The guest on this week’s Al Franken podcast is a repeat of his conversation with Jimmy Kimmel. As the show writes, “In this Best Of episode, we revisit our 2020 conversation with Jimmy Kimmel! We go through his long career, beginning with his start in radio and his transition to television. “We discuss the birth of Jimmy’s late night show back in 2003 and how, in his own words, the show was ‘genuinely terrible.’ With time, Jimmy figured it out and established a template for what makes a good show and learned what makes a good guest versus a bad guest. “A major turning point for Jimmy was when his son battled health challenges. He became more vocal on issues like healthcare, which led to him butting heads with the GOP over their attempts at repealing the Affordable Care Act. “While this interview was in 2020, Jimmy continues to butt heads with the GOP, which resulted in his censorship battle with ABC and the Trump administration earlier this year.” This is the second of the Amy Poehler SNL sketches I’ve found which are my favorite of hers. As I mentioned before, she plays a little girl named Kaitlin, filled with almost unimaginable energy who gets taken to places with her stepfather “Rick,” played wonderfully-patiently by a profoundly low-key Horatio Sanz. (In fact, this is one where you can see him fighting to keep from cracking up – which almost gets Amy Poehler to start laughing. In fact, she almost cracks him up twice.) In this sketch, Kaitlin is especially excited than usual because her Uncle Scott is getting married, and she can waaaaaaait for the wedding. And making the sketch all the more fun is because her uncle is played by that week’s host, Tom Brady. |
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AuthorRobert J. Elisberg is a political commentator, screenwriter, novelist, tech writer and also some other things that I just tend to keep forgetting. 
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