This is the most press The Daily Show has gotten since the Jon Stewart days. Having new hosts every week possibly brings in new audiences. It’s basically SNL now.

  • maccathesaint@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    The best thing about that coke scandal was the fact the host presented the same week that it broke. I remember Merton wearing a T-shirt with the front page of the news of the world under his shirt that said “TVs Deaytons drugs romp with vice girls” as the headline. They fucking mauled him that episode and the fact he did that episode knowing that was bound to happen was fantastic lol

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      10 months ago

      Seems pretty stupid and non progressive to run someone off for doing recreational drugs and having sex with women

      Wow this famous guy on television bangs woman and does coke ???

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        10 months ago

        It was 20 years ago now but he was a public figure breaking the law so it was never gonna end well. If it was weed he’d probably have gotten away with it but coke is a class A. Theoretically possession is 5 years in prison I think.

        I do recall at the time the general public was pretty forgiving but the BBC is publicly funded, the optics of keeping someone on who is doing coke and shagging hookers aren’t great for that.

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      10 months ago

      Reminds me of the Eight Out of 10 Cats episode after Jimmy Carr’s tax avoidance scandal.