Last Week Tonight is a direct spinoff of The Daily Show. Oliver took the Comedy Central format and applied HBO to it to rid it of its problems (commercials, crappy celebrity interviews).

And now he can swear!

Trevor Noah is too nice though.

He is growing into the role.

is he? It's been a little while since i've watched [his] show, maybe the last one was with Ricky Gervais. I don't have the same urgency, there isn't a bite to the way he presents. I miss watching the correspondents though, Jessica Williams and Jordan Klepper are both awesome and they have been put to use a lot more.

Sam Bee's full frontal and Oliver's Last Week Tonight are now both my staples of american news consumption.

I haven't felt urge to watch a single episode with him.

You're proud of the fact you've pre-judged Trevor Noah's performance without watching a single episode?

I saw Trevor Noah do the "Africa or America"[0] bit on The Daily Show back when the news about him taking over was out. I loved it and went and found all the stand-up of his I could find. I thought it was similarly great. He's actually a large part of why I decided to sign up for Hulu, but to be honest it lacks the punch I was expecting. Maybe he'll grow into the role, but it's turned into a show I just watch in the background while I'm working.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHO1a1kvZGo

I think he means that, after watching show X, he wasn't feeling an urge to watch show X+N, for multiple values of X.

I've watched clips. Just doesn't do it for me.

You mean like you pre-judged him to be prideful of this fact?