The line about the Gold Sharpie deserves some sort of award. Such a burn I haven’t heard in years.
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As long as we’re discussing Oliver more than Trump here, I want to point out something that’s confused me. I really didn’t like Oliver on TDS, because his humor was so broad and removed from any actual news item. (See his very very funny, but basically evergreen and vacuous The Stupid Vote.)
And now with his show, he’s entirely changed focus. Thank goodness. But what brought that on?
(Admittedly, he’s still going for the broad, non-news-based gags, like replacing the SCOTUS with dogs. So, there’s a mix. But on TDS his segments consisted of only such gags, or so it seemed to me.)
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I’d guess mostly the movement from sidelines to center, and a freer rein at HBO.
I don’t think his politics have changed. I remember listening to some episodes of a podcast he was doing before the HBO gig, and he was staunchly to the left already back then.
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I miss the Bugle 
I wonder why Andy Zaltzman hasn’t made it on US TV?
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The straight man rarely does.
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Never bring a golden sharpie to a poison pen fight.
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I wonder if it’s more than just geo-blocking/licensing… Since the “Drumpf” site is paid for by HBO, it falls under their privacy policy and terms of use:
2. REPRESENTATIONS: By using this Service [u]you represent and warrant that you are a resident of the U.S.,[/u] that you are a legal adult, that you meet all other eligibility and residency requirements, and that you are fully able and legally competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in this Agreement and to abide by and comply with these terms and conditions.Good thing John has his green card ; -)
Also – I would encourage Tronald Dump to go with Oliver’s Drumpf re-branding, if only because the next-best choice – “Brian Williams” – is already taken.
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Campaign to change Trump’s name?
Of course, we increasingly irritatingly smug Canadians get to say: “Been there, done that.” - more than 15 years ago.
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It’s the cricket: Zaltor could never leave the cricket.
I was at the last gig they did together in Edinburgh, when Oliver was in town, jet-lagged, for just one or two nights, and good grief seeing those two friends back on stage together was just lovely. Certainly the most I’ve laughed in that tiny club in years. The ‘God’ sketch with Kitson behind the scenes was bloody brilliant.
Gawd, I miss the Bugle, too. F*** you, Chris!
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Me too, and that was my favorite incarnation of the show. Jon Stewart completely changed the tone, and I preferred Kilborn’s straight up mean parody.
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Ha! I definitely prefer Stewart, but there’s some part of my brain that’s all How can Jon retire, he just took over the Daily Show?
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Me too, in fact I wasn’t happy when Jon first took over.
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I have a feeling that is a rush order price. So it probably is cost, but only because that is what they had to pay per piece.
I hope that’s true though the 20 minute sustained attack via HBO against the Trump brand will sting.
It’s not just revealing the candidate “behind the curtain” as demystifying the brand and causing it to instead signify something cheap and foolish — Drumpf.
That’s going to cause Mr. Drumpf’s investments to lose market value.
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That was nearly excoriation, and I loved it.
#DumpDrumpf
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Yup, they didn’t even get started on the bankrupt casino. I’m sure they have enough material to last them all year long.
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After reading Fred C Trump’s obituary…I don’t quite feel like joining the mocking bandwagon of ridicule. Actually, am ashamed for many of those who’ve ONLY read what their shallowness allowed.
Egotistical? Who? Jon Stewart? Not a chance! Unheard of! Crazy! 
He seems to be getting better. It has often irked me when I liked his material a lot and he was just not funny anyhow. (To me.)
But he cracks me up frequently now.
I really think he is getting funnier.
“Drumpf” is funny, but not too funny because the Drumpfs changed the spelling of their name before 1650.
In the Palatinate dialect of Donald’s ancestral hometown his name is still pronounced “Droombh”.
57 varieties Heinz also are from Kallstadt, a village of 1200 people who are known throughout the region to be “Brulljesmacher”, loudmouths.
When Kallstadt sent its people, they were not sending their best. They were not sending you. They were not sending you. They were sending people that had lots of problems, and they brought those problems with us [sic]. They brought drugs. They brought crime. They were rapists. And some, I assume, were good people.
Another true fact: Donnie’s grampa Friedrich was revoked his Bavarian citizenship because he was a draft dodger like Donald. He emigrated to America as a refugee.
Edit: Seems like he had become US citizen in 1891 and was made to leave Bavaria for tax evasion and draft dodging in 1902. So he went back to the states.
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