The Daily Show had a constant buzz, and popped up in my newsfeed every once in a while.
I've never once had his Apple show pop up in my feed!
I haven't seen the show but I wonder if it had the same quality as The Daily Show.
Without the ironic humor, (and without editorial oversight) jon comes across as arrogant and self righteous rants which don't use hyperbole as a punch line but as if a legitimate replacement for informed journalism. The script reads as an unhinged op-ed with rare and cherry-picked factual justifications.
Even when I agree with 90% of what he's saying, I cringe at how over the top he takes it and at how his emotional investment and self-righteous attitude undercuts any thoughtful or reasoned articulation of the facts of the issue he is discussing.
I'm not shocked at all that apple cut this show, and I don't even see it as censorship.
The one good thing I'll say about Stewart is I think he's genuine, even if I don't like that side of him. For that reason, I respect him more than Stephen Colbert whom I think is always "on" and is more of a people pleaser, even though I think he's (somewhat) funnier than Stewart and is more likeable.
EDIT: Wow, he was more insufferable on Millionaire than I remembered. I just found the episode on YouTube and he starts being a dickbag in the first few minutes. Apparently people still think he was funny here, but to me this is one of the least funny Jon Stewart moments I've ever seen. My personal taste, I guess.
As this lady says, what people feel they're coming across might be quite different to how others perceive them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owORxKqX0nU .. in her book she uses an example of Obama feeling great after a debate with Mitt Romney, but the public's perception was he was too stand-offish...
I think they also just had an incredibly high concentration of talent for a while.
Sure it was a product of its time, and Stewart himself was a big part of its success, but in the early 00's (especially before Colbert left) they had some really talented comedians on the show at the same time.
I dunno, maybe it's a loss leader/retention play, but it's a deeply strange product to me. Right up there with HBO Max dropping the only part of their brand that anyone recognized.
Interestingly, the headline doesn't even refer to the service (Apple TV), but it refers to just "on Apple" -- which further reinforces that consumer thinking that it's an Apple-device-specific offering.
* Was a streaming service with a library that could stream on any smartTV, like Netflix
* Only cost $5/month (I assumed since it was Apple it would cost double what other services cost, as opposed to half)
That said, it doesn't have much I want to watch. Severance and Ted Lasso season 1 are good and what else?
Also I had high hopes for Salvor because they were a badass in the first part of the first book. Instead now they are a scowling child who defaults to violence. The writers really screwed up the characters.
Shrinking is the "sophomore" Apple TV+ show from many of the creators of Ted Lasso. It's far less "twee" and covers a lot more dark topics more regularly, but still tries to be rooted in "punch up" comedy when it is trying to be a comedy and still manages some incredible "feel good" moments from out of the darkness. (It's also the wildest reunion of Bill Lawrence show regulars of the past: you'll spot many character actors from Spin City, Scrubs, Cougartown, and others. It's also especially fun because many of those cameos are incredibly dark in contrast to their past roles, but the actors seem to presumably be having a grand reunion just off screen.)
Schmigadoon is an amazing comedy if you either really love Musicals and/or really hate them. (If you are somewhere in the middle of the spectrum it can be a fun dumb thing with the right libations.) If find out that you do love musicals and enjoy the "Bento Box" animation format (Bob's Burgers, etc) you will want to watch Central Park while you are at it.
Every time I tried it, we needed to find a Mac in the house and that was a faff.
We have an Android TV with all the other apps on it.