PEL Presents PMP#184: !BREAKING! Comedy News
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Many people use shows like Last Week Tonight or The Daily Show to not just satirize the news but to provide us with our news. Late night shows, SNL, and many other shows get in on this, and conservative media is catching up via Gutfield! How does the comedy news format relate to panel shows, podcasts, and other light-hearted political talk?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Pretty Much Pop, a culture podcast, now in the running for America's most trusted source for cultural commentary about comedy news. That is our topic today, the plethora of current places where humor and news are combined. My name is Mark Lindemeyer reporting on location from Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:22.3 | This is Al Baker occupying a distinctly awkward place in our political culture. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm Sarah Lynn Brooke, and I remember when satirical news was funny. |
| 0:31.0 | Wow. |
| 0:31.3 | My name is Lawrence Ware, and the only news like this that I consume is Arsenio Hall. |
| 0:38.6 | I remember that guy. |
| 0:39.9 | Is he still on the airwave somewhere? |
| 0:42.1 | He's still not doing it. |
| 0:42.9 | He doesn't have a podcast. |
| 0:44.3 | Okay. |
| 0:44.7 | No, he doesn't. |
| 0:45.5 | No, he doesn't. |
| 0:46.4 | I have not kept up with Arsenio. |
| 0:49.8 | I'm a religious watcher of John Oliver. |
| 0:52.8 | Me too. |
| 0:53.4 | Me too. |
| 0:53.9 | Me too. I love that. |
| 0:54.8 | And I watched John Stewart back in the day and have kind of most of the time have been watching him since his return and occasionally the other days of that. |
| 1:03.6 | And my news feed will feed me Stephen Colbert and a closer look and just other things. |
| 1:09.9 | So sometimes I'll check those out. I was looking at |
| 1:13.4 | this book that I had had for a while, but had not actually started. That's not funny how the |
| 1:18.4 | write makes comedy work for them. It's from about 2021. Interesting. So I took in a little gutfeld |
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