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Eytan Mirsky, who my sources assure me is the coolest, had a letter in the Times this weekend calling The Daily Show "formulaic and intermittently amusing," and recommending instead Colin Quinn's Tough Crowd.

My impression is that Tough Crowd consists mostly of remarks that are bigoted, ignorant, and, yes, intermittently amusing. I guess de gustibus etc.

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Yeah. I have the same problem with Lewis Black: Sometimes his material is funny, but his weird mid-word stumbles throw me off.

I remember liking Colin Quinn on Remote Control years ago, but I don't remember anything about what I liked, just the fact of liking.