Perspective: Why John Oliver’s anti-catharsis comedy is political late night’s reigning template
). The preponderance of video explainers stemming from mainstream sources like corporate TV lends YouTube a smidgen of the kind of fact-checking that the site could desperately use. And if bloat is a perennial blight of the streaming age, well, at least the political comics are using their extended run times to better edutain us.But there remains one juncture at which the domination of the Oliver model leaves us wanting. Two decades ago, during Stewart’s heyday in the George W.
To his credit, Oliver usually concludes with solutions to the problems he describes, but they’re often abstract and reliant on larger social change. His critical race theory segment, for example, proposes that we as a society embrace discomfort in the classroom as an inevitable part of maturation and growth — a prescription hard to disagree with on paper, but difficult to execute in real life.
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