• Adderbox76
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    612 days ago

    I’m pretty sure Seth is entirely aware of where his bread is buttered. I recall him joking about it in the past. As much as I’m loathe to admit it, short digestible clips are the way things are right now.

    I think Quibi’s only problem wasn’t the length of it’s shows, but it’s assertion that their content should be vertical because people watch on their phones; without stopping to realise that auto-rotate is a thing…

    • @[email protected]
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      112 days ago

      Many of the interviews (across all of late night) just don’t interest me, so the clips work well.

      • Adderbox76
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        412 days ago

        Same here. I only watch Seth on YouTube, and sometimes Colbert. About the only thing I’ll go out of my way to watch in it’s entirety is Jon Oliver; which is a whole different beast entirely.

        Incidentally, I love Seth and John’s bro-mance. They seem to really get along whenever John is on Seth’s show.

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          212 days ago

          Jon Oliver; which is a whole different beast entirely.

          I used to love him, and still try to watch.

          But oh my god, now I’d rather watch birthday clips from Auschwitz, it is SOOOOO depressing. I get that it’s reality, but it’s funny how it followed Game of Thrones and Chernobyl, and was always far more depressing than either.

          • Adderbox76
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            612 days ago

            Yeah. Oliver really is a “Welcome to the hell that is our reality” type of show. But his gimmicks and his absolute love of spending HBO’s money on random crap is still crazy entertaining to me.

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          212 days ago

          John Oliver is definitely a different thing. And I can definitely sit through most of his shows.

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        12 days ago

        Oh really? You’re not enraptured by hearing an anecdote about how this random young actor/actress was so surprised when they first came to LA?

        There are actually funny interviews too, mostly old people who do not give a shit about promoting anymore, and watching Harrison Ford be all over everything is great.

        But 90% of it is the monologue and first feature, ie A Closer Look, Roll Call (Scollins, man, get another wifebeater, come on), and that one guy who did proper one-man skits (Jeff Wright, “then why’d he give me mine in the butt?”)