One day before he left, Jon called me into his office and he had a pair of shoes and he said, "What do you think of these shoes?" And I said, "Oh, they're good shoes." He said, "What size are you?" I said, "I'm a size eleven." He said, "I'm a size eight." And he said, "Will these fit you?" And I said, "No." And he said, "Don't let anyone tell you that you can't fill my shoes. You're not meant to fill them."
--Trevor Noah
Hi, Kirk!
ReplyDeleteI was not aware that comedian and political commentator Trevor Noah finished his seven-year run as host of The Daily Show this week, having replaced Jon Stewart in 2015. I read that a new permanent host has yet to be named, unless you've got the inside scoop. I'm wondering if you were watching The Daily Show on August 5, 2015, the night that Jon Stewart's longtime friend, comedian Louis C.K., became the last guest with Stewart as host. Mrs. Shady and I never missed an episode of his FX series Louie, and I'm curious to know if you watched that series in which the edgy comic starred as a fictionalized version of himself.. All three of the above mentioned comedians are grade A in my book.
So, who will be the next Daily Show host? Can they fill Trevor's shoes? Have a great weekend, good buddy Kirk!
Shady, I'm afraid I never watched Louis C.K.'s show. I cut the cable cord in 2011, and then got a job with odd hours that curtailed quite a bit of TV watching. It's catch and can with me these days when it comes to television, and I never caught C.K. on his occasional forays into noncable television, whatever they may be. I was aware of him, of course, and saw that his show got good reviews, so I probably would have checked it out had there been an easy way to do so. As for Trevor Noah, I no longer had cable when he took over for Jon Stewart, however, since I also followed The Daily Show on Facebook, I was able to see him that way.
DeleteI just now watched some Louis CK standup on YouTube. It was from about 12 years ago, and I found it funny enough, but the whole regular-guy-against-an-increasingly-irregular-world shtick just doesn't appeal to me as it once did. Sorry.
Shady, I looked at the Wikipedia page on the Louis CK series you talk about. Had I been watching cable at the time, and yada, yada, yada, I'm sure I would have checked it out.
DeleteUm....any thoughts on the scandal that almost ruined Lewis CK's career? Art doesn't always happen in a vacuum, I'm afraid.
Wow, those old foot measuring machines. They made a perfect fit for childhood shoes for a couple of months until our feet grew bigger. The dude in the bow tie is rather handsome.
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DeleteAndrew, the handsome dude in the bow tie--I believe that's a tuxedo he's wearing--is Trevor Noah, a South African comic who took over for the handsome dude on the left, Jon Stewart, on the American news-related comedy TV program, The Daily Show. At the time everyone thought Stewart (who himself followed the now-deservedly forgotten Craig Kilborne) was an impossible act to follow, but seven years later, the departing Noah now seems like a similarly hard act to follow. We'll see. Noah gave a shout-out to black women in his final broadcast, a hint, perhaps, on who he would want to follow him. Wanda Sykes would be great, in my opinion.
DeleteAnd now who will fill Trevor Noah's shoes?
ReplyDeleteDebra, it's going to be rotating hosts for a while. Here's the most recent list: Al Franken, Chelsea Handler, D. L. Hughley, Leslie Jones, John Leguizamo, Hasan Minhaj, Kal Penn, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes and Marlon Wayans. I imagine whoever gets the best ratings will get the job permanently if they want it. Of course, there could be someone else waiting in the wings we don't know about.
DeleteI told Andrew that Wanda Sykes would be a great choice, but that's before I knew Sarah Silverman would be one of the rotating hosts. I love Sarah, and she would flat-out be terrific!
Debra, or anyone else reading this, do you have someone you'd like to see in that spot? Let me know. The person doesn't have to be on the list provided.
May there be another exceptional one-of-a-kind host to come.
ReplyDeleteAnybody you'd like to see get the gig, Mitchell?
DeleteNo. I had no idea who Trevor Noah was until he began hosting and he turned out to be brilliant. I hope they’ll do the same this time.
DeleteI get you, Mitchell. A young, relatively unknown comic that will surprise everyone.
DeleteMy uncle, now my cousin, owned a shoe store. They had many Brannock devices all over the store.
ReplyDeleteI take it this was a cousin who was so much older than you that you called him uncle? As for the Brannock devices, I think I spotted one the last time I was in a shoe store, but someone else was using it, so I just went with the size of my most recent pair of shoes.
DeleteI thought about fixing that before I posted it. Naa.
DeleteYour cousin inherited a shoe store from his father, your uncle. I got it, Mike.
DeleteI have no idea who these guys are Kirk, but I think the quote is very clever!
ReplyDeleteYou're comment pleases me, Ananka. When I do these post on on pop culture celebrities (or, as I'd like to think of them, artists working in a veeeeerrrry commercial environment), be they from the present or (much more likely though I'm trying to change that) from the past, I hope against hope, that the reader will take something away from it whether they heard of the person or not. So, thank you, Ananka.
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