I love Jon Stewart. He is earnest and smart and funny and on the same side of politics as me.
But he's not a very good director.
Not everyone has that skill set. And it shows in the most basic ways. How he frames a single, a two-shot, a joke. How he likes his films cut. How he manages the visual rhythm of his films.
I also watched a silly little film from …
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