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kleinbl00  ·  3187 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Please give Samantha Bee the Daily Show

Okay, I can explain that.

The people bitching about television on the Internet? They watch TV every now and then, when they're slumming, when they can't find anything they want on Netflix or HBOGo or Amazon Prime or their giant useless library of Pirate Bay shit that they don't have the time to organize. So they have a lot of opinion about a product they barely consume.

The people watching television? They're still at yahoo.com. They love "sign in with Facebook" because they can barely remember one password. The relevant quote can be summoned by googling "william gibson potato." You feel lucky.

I mix a very large, very famous reality TV show. I've been doing it for ten years. Our producers are very good and contrary to popular opinion, our contestants aren't always stupid. One time I was mixing a conversation about Kant and existentialism. We cut away. I asked Story why - "I was enjoying that!"

"Me, too," she said, "but our audience doesn't even know who Kant is."

She wasn't wrong.