american-themed don t, he doesn t really do any of the things that are obvious. where are your ancestors from? congo, ivory coast. southeastern bantu region. i don t know. this spooky thing called slavery happened and my entire ethnic identity was erased. sometimes you ll laugh, other times you might be cringing. but through it all, these characters are really showing who they are and how they react to each situation. ma, what about your first day in america that must have been pretty exciting. no. i just got dropped off from the airport and your father went to work. i didn t know nobody, and i barely knew your father. aziz came in with this pitch that blew us all away in the meeting. what about that first day, though? did you go and explore the city? no. i sat on the couch and cried. an immigrant story that was a comedy, that had a lot of heart, that had license to get very, very serious in any given episode. this was the opportunity to give someone a shott a televis
a couple of those seasons. one year, sarah paulson played a woman with two heads. i think she likes it. shut your disgusting mouth you slut. american horror story was so good in showcasing its actors, and fargo, in addition to that, was brilliant at showcasing the possibilities of the anthology format. you going to hit me? that s a laugh. i heard they were going to make something called fargo, i thought, what, a sequel? it wasn t a sequel at all? instead, it was a whole other sensibility. you have three seconds to pick your ass up and get out of here or i m going to squash you like a bug. what he proved was as long as the logic held and was authentic, you could go anywhere with how cruel and odd and weird this story was. each season, as it comes back, it s a different set of characters that is in some way connected to what happened before but mostly its own thing.
was so much conversation about who was going replace him, and it ended up with trevor noah, this relatively unknown south african. what he did is came in and really brought a totally different perspective. south african president is sounding a lot like donald trump, see that, sir? like xenophobia, with just a dash of diplomacy, which is also the title of paula deen s new book. the nighttime host that made us laugh in the trump era were veterans of the daily show. our main story tonight, and i cannot believe i m saying this is donald trump. and i say that, i say that knowing that every time his name is said out loud, he has a shattering orgasm. last week tonight with john oliver is all about activism, but thoroughly researched. he ll pick one subject, drill down on it. net neutrality, the only two words that promise more boredom in the english language are featuring sting. they basically encouraged viewers to be citizens, to pay attention. this isn t just a passive
storyteller. and that s why the best example of the genre is probably the jinx. there is a twist in the jinx where the perpetrator is caught on tape confessing to the crimes. i remember that confession. everybody was talking about it. can t win them all, of course. it s still being talked about. it s still very controversial, but conversation was what the point of it was. we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant orenthal james simpson not guilty of murder. o.j. made in america went so far deeper than the melodramatic aspect of the o.j. simpson story. it talked about race. it s going back an awfully long time. it ended up being a much greater examination of certainly los
angeles, but also the united states of america. i think o.j. made in america is certainly the most powerful docuseries of the decade and maybe the most powerful of the decade. and it happened in the same year as ryan murphy s american crime story installment about the o.j. simpson trial. i did not and could not and would not commit this crime. and so here is this story that we were obsessed with, and now here we are obsessed with it again. it became this kind of reference point for younger generations to understand the way that those murders and the trial consumed the country and how we as an audience turned this into a circus. we couldn t see it at the time, and the series forces us to look at that. people are used to learning a lot from television in the form of miniseries. and i think this mixing of somewhat documentary storytelling and the art of