The Indie has a piece today asking Where’s our Jon Stewart?
This is in response to the, apparently, international fallout of Stewart's ball-shattering interview with business cable channel host Jim Cramer.
The article (rightly) largely laments the demise of British TV satire. But in the wake of the Cramer interview I think some of the other comment I've read is right: we don't need another 'hard-hitting' interviewer. Stewart delivered better than Paxman or Humphrys has ever done (more wit, less arrogance) but we still have far better interviewing than the US MSM has had for years.
The article also laments that chat shows like Graham Norton's don't have the political content that someone like Letterman has, but, again, they're not filling some MSM void. Plus Norton pushes the envelope on a different sort of 'politics'.
What we do lack for sure is decent TV satire. On radio we have it in spades.
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