I like the new Daily Show set! I'm glad it's still blue.

[Melodybe]

His first guest was pretty awesome too, God VS the Gavel looks like a great book.

[Maat]

1. Don't spoil it for us on the West Coast that watch it at 10 ..

just tell me, on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being best, how was it?

[PDittie]

2. about a 7

Good but not great

[Maat]

13. Thanks.

[jayctravis]

8. Was an 8.

Could tell was a little weird the first time being on the new set with the cameras trying to find angles.

Essentially Jon's in front of a screen at a desk and they can do all sorts of nifty things that look to be video projection instead of blue screen. I was a little overwhelmed watching it because the scale is different. A couple of interesting geometric designs projected on panels. When the guest came in, the set completely changed over the break, and there were several seperate panels each with different graphics that the cameramen seemed not to quite have figured out how to frame. It looks very flexible like they can do anything with it.

I miss the blue lucite desk, but the new one is a lot more conversation-friendly, and the guest is more in arrangement with Jon face to face with guest on what I'm recalling as sort of a cocktail chair rather than perching at the edge of a couch with him twisting to the side like a late night talk show host. The effect is more immediacy and the cameras can shift angles. I'm sure they will use this setup to be able to mock the technomasturbatory designs on the other news shows.

[Maat]

14. Thanks.

I think I will miss the old set, also.

Well, we'll see in about a little over an hour.

[Salviati]

3. looking forward to it...

That, and adult swim has done one of it's periodic Futurama/Family Guy flips, so now Futurama is on after TDS instead of during it, w00t!

[Cha]

4. Caught the last 15 minutes

of it!

The set is more of an official news set.

Oh gawd ..they just played brit hume..chirping.."It's time to buy!"

[Melodybe]

5. What a great moment of zen!

I give the new set about an 8.

[Cha]

6. I liked it..it's where I get

my news on tv from so it might as well look like a really bright blue news stage.

It's progressive!

It was dead on when Jon said to Marcie Hamilton.."so you're saying there's a dark side to religion?"

[jayctravis]

9. Oh...and the graphics...

are updated. They still can do the giant transparent DAILYSHOW logo slowly drifting by...essentially making it look almost exactly like the previous set, but they also added some neat smaller wordcrawls of the logo sort of like a hightech screensaver.

They haven't figured it all out yet, but looks to have all sorts of flexibility in what they can do.

[Peachhead22]

7. I miss the couch

The couch has basically been a prop in many interviews. The way people sit or laid on it was sometimes part of the interaction. Now people are going to have sit up at a desk? Much more stifling this way. I can see it being an issue with building repoir and making the guest more comfotable (therefore getting a better interview).


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[gatorboy]

10. I miss the couch as well.

The new set looks way too sanitized and looks too much like a newsroom.
At least with the couch, guests could feel more comfortable during the interview. He couldn't get a single laugh tonite during the interview and he's been able to do that in the past on more serious matters. Guests are going to come in and automatically stiffen up cause it looks so serious now.

[jayctravis]

12. That guest wasn't supposed to be funny!

Jon tried to lighten, but he seemed really walloped by the ideas she was presenting. He will have to learn the new space bubble.

[jayctravis]

11. I'm sure they can bring the couch back for celebrity interviews.

The whole set changed over the commercial break, so if they wanted to bring out the couch or beanbag chairs, I'm sure it would be possible. The new arrangement also lets them set up for what could possibly be group interview/roundtables and I'm sure they can do the CNN "Fortress of Solitude Satellite Feed" with a guest if they wanted.

The one reporter -- Colbert, right? -- is getting his own show, and I would very much imagine this set will be used for his as well.

[skids]

15. I bet they get lots of email about the couch.

Were I a celeb, and going on the show, I'd bring some sort of instant-inflatable couch with me for humorous effect.