Jon Oliver is very careful to segregate jokes for levity from sensitive topics. Jon on the Problem would regularly never make a tonal or topical shift when putting in a joke, which really made it feel like a desparate, uncomfortable interjection on a serious rant rather than a lighthearted reminder that we’re still on Earth while discussing a travesty.
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njm1314@lemmy.world 11 months agoMan have you not watched last week? Morose and serious is like how I would define it. I even made a joke last week about how ‘if I’m talking about something it’s probably horrible and tragic’.
willis936@lemmy.world 11 months ago
MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think this all goes to show tone shifting is a difficult art and artists who choose to do it need to be able nail it or get ready to fall flat. I think Oliver is a master at tone shifting and it’s all done with taste and confidence.