“The Daily Show” Squandered the Opportunity That Was Trevor Noah

I enjoyed Jon Stewart&#x27;s the Daily Show as much as the next person, but this article makes me <i>really</i> appreciate how much I dislike all of its successors. The whole &quot;Progressives Yell At the Camera About Things They Read on Twitter&quot; genre is thoroughly saturated at this point. And criminally unfun. Even Jon Stewart&#x27;s new show I have found to be unnecessarily doomful - not only does it host it&#x27;s own fair share of misleading stories, crackpots, and pitchfork sharpening - it&#x27;s just not <i>fun</i>.<p>I think the thing all of these shows are forgetting is the Daily Show was FUN. <i>In spite of</i> &quot;Stewart taking things personally.&quot;<p>The Daily Show was <i>literally a parody</i> of the pearl-clutching, panic-driven serious news shows on cable at the time. They brought levity and lowered the stakes.<p>Instead these shows have become the &quot;serious&quot; shows.

Trevor Noah squandered the opportunity that was &quot;The Daily Show&quot;

&gt;Only occasionally did the series fully deliver on its initial promise of using Noah’s outsider’s gaze to satirize America.<p>The issue I had with Noah on the daily show was that criticism and satire from an outside comes across completely different than from an insider.<p>Stewart and Colbert were insiders, so when they satirized the US, there was a level of self-deprecation, and the idea that we are going through through this absurd madness together.<p>Because Noah didn&#x27;t have this shared identity with the viewer, the satire generally fell flat and came across as mere ridicule.

I loved Noah&#x27;s run on TDS. I would&#x27;ve preferred Stewbeef of course, because I love me some J-Stew, but Noah was alright and grew into his role in one of the most tumultuous times of our nation&#x27;s history and the world around us.<p>Anyone who criticizes him for &quot;shitting&quot; on America, it&#x27;s institutions, and it&#x27;s people, are just mad that they belong to the groups he was shitting on. It&#x27;s ok! Be mad. It&#x27;s funnier that way.

No one owes anyone anything in terms of expectations. As long as he&#x27;s happy and isn&#x27;t harming any other people, it&#x27;s for him to decide to quit and go do something irrelevant, if he wants to.

Is there any other country that loves commentators that come and shit on it’s citizens? I can’t imagine India paying Brits big money to crap all over them, but in America we have Trevor, Piers Morgan, John Oliver.<p>I never got the appeal frankly. Maybe we can listen to Noah and become more like the paradise that is South Africa.