Aieeeee - "Uncorked," the sommelier reality show

Well, it's not really that big a deal. Personal preferences vary, fortunately.

I find Oliver a tiny bit precioius ('twee') and feel he leans on the word 'fuck' too much in his humor. He also preaches heavily for a comedian, but that may not be a bad thing in fake news. In any event, I still think he's funny and watch his show when I can. However, at this time, for me, I prefer Noah and Wiltmore. Go figure.

Anyway, I don't want to quarrel. Let's go back to agreeing how appaling Uncorked is.

As for reason in New York, that was just another weak joke on my part, apologies.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
How does one identify fake news these days? The "real" stuff is so unbelievable....
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Mort Sahl famously quit comedy in the early '70s, saying that political satire had become impossible in an era when politics satirized itself. I'm quite chuffed to see political satire back and in good form these days, despite the ongoing parade of clowns that is the GOP primary debacle.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
I am the lambda audience for this show
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Perhaps I am the omega audience for this reference...please, what is a lambda audience?

[I am assuming that you are not referring to Lagrange multipliers, the Poisson distribution or option elasticity, the lambdas I am kind of familiar with.]
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
However, at this time, for me, I prefer Noah and Wiltmore. Go figure.
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I haven't watched much/any of John Oliver's show, but I preferred his character on Community to what he did on the Daily Show. He didn't seem to have the impeccable timing (although that was always an issue for their pieces in general), but now Sharon is making me curious!

I also haven't been very impressed with Wiltmore. The few times I checked it was lacking both the humor and the biting social critique of the best TDS bits.

On the other hand, I've been very impressed with how quickly Trevor Noah has settled in. The first week was rocky but now he seems confident and his voice is coming across very clearly. More importantly, the humor is pitched at a nice and clever but unsettling level that I really appreciate. I hope he keeps it up.
 
Community fact-checkers have advised me that the correct spelling is "Wilmore," without the 't.' My apologies for leading others astray - I've edited my post.

Wilmore is not the most polished, but I think he fills a void that's needed to be filled, and he's continuing to improve. Anyone who can get Bill Nye the Science Guy to tell dick jokes on broadcast TV does have some special skills.
 
Good Daily Show episode yesterday: 158 household have donated nearly half of total 2016 presidential campaign funding so far. True? Fact checkers? If so, that's quite remarkable.
 
originally posted by Cole Kendall:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Sorry, it's a French usage.
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Ah thanks; my knowledge of French is gradually evolving; My other new word for the week (non Zola related) was nareux (which apparently is more dialectical than not).
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I had to look this one up. Wiktionairre gives it as Belgian, Canadian, Ardennais, Picardien and Lorrainien, a weird enough concatenation right there (well, the last three places I can see as contiguous) and quotes a dictionary that bemoans that it is not a French word (the French having different notions of what makes a word than do the OED people). Where did you ever come upon it?
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Good Daily Show episode yesterday: 158 household have donated nearly half of total 2016 presidential campaign funding so far. True? Fact checkers? If so, that's quite remarkable.
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Well, America is an oligopoly.
 
Getting there.

What exactly does one do with one's second billion? Change the rules, evidently. I guess it beats shocking yourself with eletricity out of boredom.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Good Daily Show episode yesterday: 158 household have donated nearly half of total 2016 presidential campaign funding so far. True? Fact checkers? If so, that's quite remarkable.
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Here is the source of that claim.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by Cole Kendall:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Sorry, it's a French usage.
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Ah thanks; my knowledge of French is gradually evolving; My other new word for the week (non Zola related) was nareux (which apparently is more dialectical than not).
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I had to look this one up. Wiktionairre gives it as Belgian, Canadian, Ardennais, Picardien and Lorrainien, a weird enough concatenation right there (well, the last three places I can see as contiguous) and quotes a dictionary that bemoans that it is not a French word (the French having different notions of what makes a word than do the OED people). Where did you ever come upon it?
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I saw it in an online chat and my friend claimed it was "patois champenois"; the Latin root is pretty clear and evidently the usage goes back a century or more.

And back to lambda, it appears to have come from university slang referring to the approximate middle of the Greek alphabet. Zola uses beta in the sense of stupid quite a bit but never lambda.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
John Oliver is the most cutting, informed and by the bye funniest person on that type of television. He also swears like a longshoreman.

His timing is flawless, his buoyant delivery is like puppies but then downshifts to wrenching in three to five ways, etc...

ETA: I also never-to-rarely guffaw audibly when watching television, and yet you can put that in the ledger for John Oliver's show, as well.
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I started watching some of his shows on YouTube and was quickly convinced. Very nice stuff, and it also makes me audibly guffaw (again, a race occurrence).

Quite a step up from when he was on TDS, in my view. But then we're all supposed to get better with age, just like wine.
 
originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
originally posted by Florida Jim:
originally posted by MLipton:
I caught a bit of that show while looking for the GOP debate. It looked pretty insufferable to me, but I didn't watch even half the show.

Mark Lipton
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You stumbled across something insufferable while searching for the GOP debate?
Let the thousand punch lines bloom . . .
Best, Jim
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most of TV is pretty insufferable these days.
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I heartily disagree, TV has never been better.

Fargo, Knicked, You're the Worst to name just my favorite 3 examples right now.

And then there is Show Me a Hero, another Simon opus.

In the YMMV department, The Americans, Broad City, Mr. Robot, Inside Amy Schumer, Jessica Jones, Catastrophe.

Anyway, lots of good stuff out there. Better than movies anyway, although nothing at the heights of The Wire or Breaking Bad right now. Fargo is the closest.
 
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