Flicking through the Freeview megasphere I came up against the documentary-laden übershit of More 4. Unlucky for some, Channel 13 is the home of this responsible heavy-browed thoughtful channel. And every night at 8.30pm, Sarah Smith’s brows can lift slightly, as the Daily Show with Jon Stewart light-heartedly skips on to the channel it was born to be on.
Like Bremner, Bird and Fortune, I started out liking the Daily Show, solely from internet clips, and was asphyxiwanking with anticipation when I heard it was coming to a British Channel near you. Unfortunately, exactly like Bremner, Bird, and Fortune, the level of satirical humour has dropped appallingly. I know there may be those who can’t understand why anyone would watch it in the first place, and that the level has stayed continually bad; I would disagree, I definitely think it’s got much worse recently.
TV Squad hits a few nails on some heads, stating that the new people on the show are not as good as the old ones, but then makes the fatal error of congratulating 
Rob Corddry for being brilliant. He isn’t, even if you are American.
I am now starting to wonder why I ever liked the programme, I think it comes down to Jon Stewart’s laugh, Jon Stewart’s bits to camera and everything else Jon Stewart does.
The biggest beef I have with the programme is when I was absent-mindedly watching it, glum face in hand, and who should pop up as a [guffaw] special reporter from London Heathrow? None other than Jon Oliver. Tumbleweed ensues. Well you should recognise his face if, like me, you have watched all the 100 Greatest Showstopping TV jazz hands &c. He is one of the oiks who comes on as says:‘Well it was like ‘Shit he’s actually trying to get an axe through the door’ and you’re like ‘Shit, this is really scary’ and when he says ‘Here’s Johnny’ you’re like ‘Shit, I can’t believe how scary this is!’.Proper twat, worse than that he isn’t amusing at all, like the bastard child of Justin Lee Simba and Alan ‘Ooh pop it in me inbox’ Carr. He did a truly awful stint as the reporter from Heathrow going on about how crazy it was that you couldn’t take liquids on to an aeroplane now! And then he told the gag everyone knew was coming but prayed would be spared, alas: ‘The human body is made up of 50% water, so what, they’re going to ban people from travelling?!’ [cue girlish giggle from Stewart and weird whooping from Tabbed-up audience]. Absolutely pitiful
I think they should probably cancel it, like many things that are daily programmes it loses its fizz cf. So Graham Norton I know you used to find it funny when it was weekly so don’t pretend.
Tags: More 4, John Oliver, media, television, freeview, The Daily Show
