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If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of The Daily Show, his Main Story was basically about Trump and MAGOPs dealing with the government shutdown and those they care most about. It's a wonderful, highly-pointed report, and extremely funny.
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If you didn't see "Last Week Tonight" with John Oliver last night, the Main Story about about police chases. Yes, they're popular to watch on TV, but the reality and huge danger from them is another matter. The show deals with it in detail...as well as a lot of sardonic humor. If you didn't see the Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of The Daily Show this week, it was wonderful. Extremely funny. Basically, he spends most of his time seeking sympathy for Trump who feels so underappreciated. And offers his form of appreciation... If you didn't see "Last Week Tonight" with John Oliver last night, the Main Story was one I've written a bit about in the past and was thrilled to see them do -- and do so wonderfully: Medicare Advantage. Despite its name, it's not Medicare, and is just on the good side of a scam. And not always on "the good side." Their report is terrific, dealing with all the important points (notably the convoluted Medicare Advantage rules, like if one spouse has a disease, the other spouse can be considered to have the same illness!), and is infuriating and hilarious at the same time. There is also one of their funniest pieces at the end. It would be funny on its own, but it parodies something earlier in the story which is what takes makes it such a joy. I don't want to give away too much of it, just that I'll say it uses a real-life married couple (each of them Emmy winners), and while both are great in the segment, it's the actress's over-the-top, yet meticulous performance (a rare combination to pull off -- but then, she's a Northwestern grad, so she'll well-trained. And yes, I'm biased...) that makes this stand out. I think the full report is highly-worth watching. But if it's simply not a topic of interest, I'll do something I haven't for previous "Last Week Tonight" videos -- provide where to jump to for both the closing sketch and the set-up. The set-up comes around the 6:00 mark and runs for two minutes, which includes Oliver's follow-up, and the finale starts around 27:00. It's just so well-done. If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of The Daily Show, the topic of the day was the No Kings rallies, and the response to them by Trump and the MAGOP. The short version is that the episode was wonderful and very funny. This is a wonderful rarity. As part of one of the TV series that Harry Secombe starred in, this is from a 1966 episode of Secombe and Friends. And it reunited his Goon Show compatriots – Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan (who wrote pretty much all the Goon Show episodes, which ran from 1951 to 1960) – as they recreated one of the old radio broadcasts for television. As such, it’s not great television (in fact, the full episode they did got edited down for broadcast, interspersed with interviews), but nonetheless, the nine minutes here are a treasure to have a record of. Also reunited is Ray Ellington, who was the singer on the show, but here he fills in as the announcer. One other change – in the original Goon Show, the character that Harry Secombe played was named ‘Neddy Seagoon,’ but here they call him ‘Harry Seagoon.’ The characters who the other two play won’t mean as much to those who don’t know them from the radio. But much of the humor should come through. And a bit odd, too, that the script they chose to do doesn’t give Spike Milligan much to do (at least in this segment), other than sort of direct the others and joke around – though we get to seem him do his beloved character ‘Eccles,’ who was always referred to as The Original Goon, a sort of ‘Goofy’-like character, whose catchphrase upon entering the first time was usually, “How’s yer old dad?” |
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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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