Today,
I’m staying home for Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
I’m
going to try doing something a little different with News Satire Roundup. It
seems like I always wind up spending most of my posts summarizing the episodes’
stories rather than talking about how I felt about them. So today, I’m going to
try using more of a list format and focus more on highlighting my favorite
parts.
Sunday, April 19
·
Main
story – COVID-19 misinformation
o
I
loved the description of Rush Limbaugh as a man “who definitely has a room in
his basement his housekeeper isn’t allowed to enter”
o
Some
awesome rebuttals to the right-wing media hosts deliberately touting
misinformation (that note about Fox News practicing social distancing even as
their coverage insisted the virus was “the flu,” yeesh) – I especially liked
this one, re: anecdotal evidence about hydroxychlorquine, “Yes, anecdotally,
you did get to work on time. That doesn’t mean everybody did, or even most
people. It just means you did.”
o
Great
point about Trump being both the subject and the target of Fox News’s
misinformation campaign
·
And
Now This – All-Coronavirus Inside Edition
·
Wendy
Williams
o
It
was an easy laugh, but I loved John calling for his 28 cats – my favorite was
“Daniel Craig the cat”
Monday, April 20
·
Ray of Sunshine – training dogs to smell COVID-19, San Francisco students might all
get A’s for the year, David Attenborough teaching virtual geography classes in
the U.K.
o
I
laughed at, “Your dog will smell that you have coronavirus, and your cat will
be there to eat you when you die!”
o
The
fake clip of David Attenborough getting all salty over bats was great – “Look
at them, just flying around like they didn’t do shit…”
·
Headlines
– Negative oil prices, NYC “snitch” line to report social-distancing violators,
small business relief loans
o
OMG,
the bit about white women’s glee over calling the cops for social-distancing
violators! “Hello, Verizon? I’m gonna need all
the unlimited data!”
o
Of course chain restaurants and places like
Harvard were snatching up money meant for small businesses, of course they were :shakes head:
·
Main
story – Anti-quarantine protestors
o
As
with Last Week Tonight, we covered
how it’s not just that these people are out protesting, risking their health
and likely prolonging the very thing
they’re protesting as a result. It’s that people in power are egging them on
o
Good
response to Dr. Phil – “First of all, your ‘360,000 swimming pool deaths’ is
off by about 357,000. Second, you’re
not in danger of drowning if your neighbor
goes swimming!”
o
Seriously,
Trump’s administration puts out guidelines for the process of states to reopen
gradually, and then Trump spends the weekend cheering for the prote"stors
agitating to open things back up immediately? Great analogy to Trump being a
football coach who berates the team for the field goal he told them to go for
·
Interview
– New Jersey governor Phil Murphy
o
How
many times do governors have to say, “The supplies for the level of testing
we’re going to need just aren’t there,” before the administration gets it?
Trump can’t get his economic rebound without it
·
Interview
– NBA player Stephen Curry
o
It’s
great to see how many public figures are using both their money/resources and
their platform for good right now
Tuesday, April 21
·
Ray of Sunshine – Zoom chats with farm animals, virtual weddings, “Code Rocky”
o
I
laughed at Trevor’s warning about marrying anyone during quarantine – “I spent
most of last week in a relationship with a bottle of Purell!”
o
I
loved a hospital discharging recovered COVID-19 patients with the Rocky theme playing in the background
·
Headlines
– Kim Jong-un surgery, Nairobi’s governor includes Hennessy in quarantine food
packages, Germany previews door-to-door testing
o
The
Weekend at Bernie’s footage to
“prove” Kim Jong-un’s good health cracked me up
o
Trevor
killed me describing the Nairobi governor’s fashion sense, especially “the most
‘Florida Man’ of Kenya” and “the last king of NASCAR”
o
Good
dark humor on the German police knocking on doors for COVID-19 testing – “We’re
just here to test the purity of your blood- oh mein gott, that doesn’t sound
good either…”
·
Main
story – governors make steps to reopen their states while Trump moves to close
the country to all immigration
o
I’m
with Trevor – who is even immigrating
right now?
o
Classy
showing from the Fox News host who was suddenly worried about whether or not
she’ll be able to keep her au pair. As Trevor noted, she’s fun with Trump’s
policies hurting people until they affect her
·
Correspondent
piece (Jordan) – interview with a survivalist
o
So-so
piece. I chuckled at Jordan working out by lifting various things in his
apartment
·
Interview
– Rise founder Amanda Nguyen
o
Good
on the show for drawing attention to domestic abuse survivors who are may be
trapped in quarantine with their abuser right now
o
Rise’s
work to create secret signals for grocery store workers and pharmacists to use
with survivors was really cool
Wednesday, April 23
o
The
whole episode was the interview – I think the last time Trevor did that was
when he interviewed Obama
o
It
was sobering when he talked about how direct the correlation is between the
rise and fall of people not social distancing with the rise and fall in
hospitalizations
o
I
think all the governors Trevor has interviewed have understandably played
politics when answering questions about Trump. I appreciated Cuomo freely
admitting that Trump doesn’t like him, and I liked that he stressed the
importance of working with Trump anyway, saying, “[COVID-19] is bigger than we
are”
o
My
favorite part was Cuomo’s response when Trevor asked why he chose to be so open
and direct in his discourse with New Yorkers. Admitting he knew he ultimately
couldn’t force a city of 19 million people to do what he told them to, he
recognized that his plan “was dependent on New Yorkers buying in,” and that
required being straight with them
Thursday, April 24
·
Ray of Sunshine – IKEA Swedish meatballs recipe, Banksy strikes his own bathroom, a
news gaffe over a recovered COVID-19 patient
o
It
was an easy joke, but I laughed at Trevor wondering what to do with the “extra
screws” from his meatballs
·
Headlines
– COVID-19 hit the U.S. far earlier than previously thought, cancellations of
the National Spelling and Oktoberfest
o
I
liked the bit that we’ll eventually get the coronavirus’s full “origin story” a
la Joker
o
Good
point on the loss for those spelling bee kids, especially since those skills
don’t come in handy anywhere else – “I’m having a heart attack! Is anyone a
doctor?” “No, but I can spell ‘defibrillator’!”
·
Main
story – Chaos in the Trump administration
o
Whether
or not he was lying, “I’ve never heard of the guy” is a terrible response to the abrupt firing of the lead scientist
working towards a vaccine
o
I
loved Trevor arguing that Trump should have plenty of time to get work done if
he’s so bored he’s resorted to baseball reruns – “Baseball is boring as it’s
happening! Watching reruns is like watching paint dry through a PowerPoint
presentation!”
·
Correspondent
piece (Roy) – making a quarantine cocktail
o
Stanley
Tucci Roy is not
o
I
liked, “I’m not sure white people should be saying ‘negroni,’ but it’s Stanley
Tucci, so I’ll allow it”
·
Interview
– R&B stars Keith “Babyface” Edmonds & Teddy Riley
o
The
two guys’ history with one another and affection for each other’s music really
shone through. I liked that
o
I
think Trevor always does a nice job balancing things when he interviews more
than one guest at a time, and you could tell interviewing two people over
video-chat required extra care
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