The good and the bad of the Daily Show

[kwassa]

What do you like, and don't like about the Daily Show?

I really like the opening news coverage segments with Jon, almost all the interviews with Jon conducting them, the funny commentators shtick .....

and I really dislike the idiot interviews of real people by the correspondents being stupid. It is very remeniscient of the "Ali - G" show on HBO. This is where the correspondent asks extraordinarily dumb questions of real people, or accuse them of positions they don't hold or things they never said. It just isn't funny. This is one reason I don't like Samantha Bee, who seems to specialize in these. The side people all do these interviews, though.

It is a stupid concept, and contrasts strongly with the intelligence and wit of the regular show, to me.