{"id":180998,"date":"2016-11-01T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/01\/worst-the-daily-show-ever\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T23:30:00","slug":"worst-the-daily-show-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/01\/worst-the-daily-show-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst \u2026\u2026\u2026 The Daily Show \u2026\u2026\u2026 Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <i>The Daily Show<\/i> last night, and I was profoundly unimpressed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve generally been supportive of Trevor Noah in his (rather thankless) job replacing Jon Stewart, but their (for lack of a better term) Halloween special missed the mark.<\/p>\n<p><i>It&#8217;s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown<\/i>, it ain&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I found it boring, pedantic, and profoundly unfunny.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Half way through, I gave up, and watched Alton Brown doing <i>Good Eats<\/i> on the Cooking Channel.<\/p>\n<p>Truly awful:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:ed191e02-8d99-433e-bc2f-9fa8f24ffd26\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw The Daily Show last night, and I was profoundly unimpressed. I&#8217;ve generally been supportive of Trevor Noah in his (rather thankless) job replacing Jon Stewart, but their (for lack of a better term) Halloween special missed the mark. It&#8217;s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, it ain&#8217;t. I found it boring, pedantic, and profoundly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[860,768,785,801,849],"class_list":["post-180998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-entertainment","tag-fail","tag-humor","tag-media","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}