Why is Chris Matthews so awkwardly likable?
Like, a news anchor from a Christopher Guest or Judd Apatow movie.
Newsman or superfan?
He actually dedicates a daily portion of his show to a segment called "Sideshow" where a carousel spins in the background and they play clown music. This is during a show called "Hardball" allegedly about tough questions on serious political topics. As pictured above, today Matthews wore a Phillies hat and big stupid red sweater as he narrowed his eyes and spoke gravely about the presidential race.
In the infotainment of cable news, there really aren't many personalities I genuinely like. Fox News has Shepard Smith, who's on during the day, CNN has Campbell Brown, but otherwise the networks are void of likability. On MSNBC there is Rachel Maddow who is amazingly pleasant but sounds a little too hipstery in real life. I agree with Olbermann at least as often as not, but I would never want to meet the man and once I'm done gorging on election coverage Nov. 5th, I doubt I'll watch his show anymore.
Chris Matthews is in a league of his own. Beyond the ideologue spitting match moderator, he's half Fred Willard-esque man-child, half History Channel zealot, all oddball. I'm not quite sure why he's on television. He's well on his way to being a fascinatingly senile old man who I would eagerly have a very awkward conversations with over some ridiculous lunch like ribs and ice cream sandwiches. We'd talk old movies or antique slang and I'd keep a polite straight face and everyone once in awhile slip in a joke he half-gets but laughs anyway, maybe even simultaneously admitting he doesn't get it.
I think that's what it comes down to. At least two or three times per show, Matthews will laugh awkwardly at something that is either not a joke or not funny. Sometimes he's obtusely rude to guests but somehow without venom, usually cracking up as he sends them off into the void of a commercial break.
Part of me genuinely believes that news should be boring and that the blurring line between real news and Jon Stewart's fake news is a sign of the apocalypse. The other part is less of a douche and admits I wouldn't be watching the news if it was boring and that shit like Chris Matthews' show is too funny to let die.
Newsman or superfan?
He actually dedicates a daily portion of his show to a segment called "Sideshow" where a carousel spins in the background and they play clown music. This is during a show called "Hardball" allegedly about tough questions on serious political topics. As pictured above, today Matthews wore a Phillies hat and big stupid red sweater as he narrowed his eyes and spoke gravely about the presidential race.
In the infotainment of cable news, there really aren't many personalities I genuinely like. Fox News has Shepard Smith, who's on during the day, CNN has Campbell Brown, but otherwise the networks are void of likability. On MSNBC there is Rachel Maddow who is amazingly pleasant but sounds a little too hipstery in real life. I agree with Olbermann at least as often as not, but I would never want to meet the man and once I'm done gorging on election coverage Nov. 5th, I doubt I'll watch his show anymore.
Chris Matthews is in a league of his own. Beyond the ideologue spitting match moderator, he's half Fred Willard-esque man-child, half History Channel zealot, all oddball. I'm not quite sure why he's on television. He's well on his way to being a fascinatingly senile old man who I would eagerly have a very awkward conversations with over some ridiculous lunch like ribs and ice cream sandwiches. We'd talk old movies or antique slang and I'd keep a polite straight face and everyone once in awhile slip in a joke he half-gets but laughs anyway, maybe even simultaneously admitting he doesn't get it.
I think that's what it comes down to. At least two or three times per show, Matthews will laugh awkwardly at something that is either not a joke or not funny. Sometimes he's obtusely rude to guests but somehow without venom, usually cracking up as he sends them off into the void of a commercial break.
Part of me genuinely believes that news should be boring and that the blurring line between real news and Jon Stewart's fake news is a sign of the apocalypse. The other part is less of a douche and admits I wouldn't be watching the news if it was boring and that shit like Chris Matthews' show is too funny to let die.