kbps » The Daily Show http://www.kilobitspersecond.com A blog about Destroyer, foobar2000, and Last.fm. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:18:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 colbertsonnet.flv http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2007/07/31/colbertsonnetflv/ http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2007/07/31/colbertsonnetflv/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:41:56 +0000 Jay http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2007/07/31/colbertsonnetflv/

These things are all The Colbert Report is good for.

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]]> http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2007/04/17/so-it-goes-ii/feed/ The Daily Show’s Tacky New Set http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2007/04/10/the-daily-shows-tacky-new-set/ http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2007/04/10/the-daily-shows-tacky-new-set/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:18:20 +0000 Jay http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/2007/04/10/the-daily-shows-tacky-new-set/ I turned on yesterday’s episode of The Daily Show today, and noticed that they had made some significant changes to the opening sequence. Not only that, but the set had been entirely revamped. Here:

At first I was happy about it — it’s glassy and modern and makes the old set look cheap by comparison. But there are a lot of new visual elements meant to complement the set that just end up being a tremendous mess. Look at the correspondent conversation window thing for example:

The weird orangey-red and the blue are bad enough, but then there’s all that gold trim, and the light blue hue of John Oliver’s title and “LONDON,” the red-blue gradient behind “LIVE,” and the new, awkward Daily Show logo font, which has only been adopted by select elements of the show. They look like a pair of ‘84 Topps cards.

Then, during the interview (where both Jon and guest are turned 90 degrees from the audience, due to the new desk), they even introduce a swooshing sound effect with the appearance of captions. Keep watching after the first one, it happens again less than a minute later:

It all just kind of sucks.

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