Hadley Freeman on Jon Stewart.
My own feeling is that Stewart did for television what Charlie Chaplin did for the movies, that is he broke through the dominant shield of the ordinary and caused it to collapse on itself in a revolutionary moment. But because both mediums draw from--are indeed dominated economically by--the self-satisfied middle the effects are singular and difficult to duplicate.
Some very good ones followed Chaplin. Will anybody worth a damn replace Stewart?
John Oliver's HBO show is quite good, to be fair. I like his work.
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