The Friday Link for 5/1/15

I've been in absolute heaven today as I embraced my inner geek.  The Avengers: Age Of Ultron was a very good movie.  Matt's review - different from the first, but it had to be.  Where the first movie established the Avengers, the second movie embraces the concept of an ever changing, ever morphing team.  They started by wrapping up a lot of story lines still open from the previous films, created a self contained plot of an sentient robot (Ultron) coming alive and deciding humanity needs to end, and finished with not only a sensational battle scene with Ultron and his robot army, but they nicely set up the next few movies, primarily Captain American Civil War, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor Ragnarok.  The battle scenes are pure summer blockbuster madness at it's best, and three in particular are unbelievable.  The plot is not the deepest, but I think it's best to save the deeper thinking for the individual character movies. Go see it, it's amazing.

I still want to bring a little humor to Friday, and it would seem only fitting to focus on the latest top notch correspondent from The Daily Show leaving.  I did think about posting the Judith Miller interview Jon Stewart did, but there was no humor in it, just the sad twisting in the wind of a fake journalist, too desperate to hide her own culpable behavior.

Samantha Bee was sensational.  Her segments were usually either silly or sarcastically serious.  Her bit, a one woman show ripping on Fox News' The Five, was sensational, and she was probably the best women's issue reporter on TV, fake or real.

Here are two of my favorite Samantha Bee moments.  The first is her pointing out a woman's right of Choice is not only about abortions and birth control, but also a woman choosing to have her child.  Her pointing that out to GOP convention goers in St. Paul in 2008, trying desperately to get the right to use the word "Choice," was epic.

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/bfqbbx/bristol-palin-s-choice

The other bit is one of the funniest things I have ever seen, but not necessarily because of Samantha.  Her 'Long Island as the 51st State' story is littered with some of the dumbest human beings on the planet.  Even her double takes at the ever dumber responses from the meatballs she found to interview are priceless.

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/kctbhb/long-island-wants-to-secede

I am worried at whether The Daily Show will be half the shell of its former self.  Not only with Stewart's departure, but the additional losses are not easily replaceable either.  On that sad note, I hope you have a nice weekend.