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Jon Stewart's New Show Isn't Very Funny. That's What Might Make It Great.
Having inspired a huge subgenre of political comedy, Jon Stewart, who walked away from The Daily Show in 2015, has returned to television in a determined but defensive crouch. That he's both worried about and pre-emptively rebelling against criticism is evident in the extremely '90s credit sequence that introduces his new weekly Apple TV show, The Problem With Jon Stewart. Over grinding, Rage Against the Machine -style guitars, the credits cycle through unflattering potential titles like The Money Grab With Jon Stewart before landing on a title that both sets up the show's format--each weekly episode deals with a central problem, like "War" or "Freedom"--and preempts the title of skeptical think pieces. Stewart plays defense as host too, alluding early and often to how old he looks and to how little his audience is laughing. Concerns that The Problem's writing staff might be too white and male, like The Daily Show's, are staved off by literally showing us Stewart bantering with his staff, which is admirably diverse.
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Online Dating Is Rife With Sexual Racism, 'The Daily Show' Discovers
On Tuesday's episode of "The Daily Show," correspondents Jessica Williams and Ronny Chieng took a humorous yet hard-hitting look at a form of bigotry not often discussed: sexual racism. "Racism affects nearly every aspect of life, even -- and it truly pains me to say this -- f**king," host Trevor Noah said as he introduced the segment. Williams and Chieng specifically looked at how some groups, like black women and Asian men, faced undue discrimination in the world of online dating. "There is kind of a systemic racial bias pretty much in every dating site I've ever looked at," Christian Rudder, co-founder of OKCupid and author of the dating statistics book "Dataclysm," told the duo. "We found that 82 percent of non-black men have some bias against black women… And Asian men get the fewest messages and the worst ratings of any group of guys."