Jon Stewart on The Problem With Jon Stewart. Credit: Apple TV+
Comedian Jon Stewart says that tech giants like Apple and Amazon have wrought an “earthquake” in the manner stream-on-demand exhibits like these on Apple TV+ are made.
Stewart, who has returned to “The Daily Show” as one of a rotating array of hosts, spoke with fellow comedian Conan O'Brien on the latter's podcast about how making TV exhibits has modified. He pointed to Apple and Amazon particularly as tech firms that are actually producing TV exhibits and flicks.
He lamented how tech giants have introduced a ruthless effectivity to tv production. Stewart likened the change in kinds to the shakeup that occurs when highly effective tech executives take over smaller firms.
“Silicon Valley walked in, in the way that Elon Musk walked into Twitter and went, How many people work here? 10,000? Make it two'” Stewart stated.
Stewart noticed his personal Apple TV+ big-issue dialogue present “The Problem With Jon Stewart” canceled a 12 months in the past for what he referred to as “different agendas.”
The dying of the “writer's room”
Stewart particularly targeted on the discount of the conventional “writer's room,” the place storylines had been historically hashed out amongst a bunch. He admitted that this “legacy business” mannequin for scripted exhibits was “the most inefficient way” to create applications.
“The ethos of legacy entertainment is we've created this incredibly eccentric business where you need an agent and a manager and a lawyer, and they're gonna take about 60 percent of what you make, but without them, there's nothing you can do,” Stewart famous. “And you join the studio, and the studio will give you a deal and you'll sit in your room.”
Apple and different tech firms' kinds of making their very own merchandise, companies, and leisure depends on far fewer folks. Tech executives, particularly, promote solely those that can deal with high-pressure deadlines and but reliably produce high quality work.
“I can't function like that,” Stewart admitted. O'Brien agreed, noting that his comedy-writer associates are discovering it a lot more durable to get work.
Stewart has beforehand identified that Apple blocked him from having US Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan on “The Problem”‘s spinoff podcast, which set off a battle that finally ended his Apple TV+ present.
Streaming TV productions: large budgets, however tighter management
“That's the schism, the earthquake that's been going through it,” he stated. “So, now Apple and Amazon, they go in and they go, Writer's room? Wait, you've got 14 writers and they're with you from start to finish on the production?'”
“Well,” Steward stated in reply to the hypothetical abstract of Apple and Amazon's issues, “it's important for the writers to be invested and also we're showing them how they're on the page because it's different about the page to the screen. They've got to understand how that works and understand how we interact with the props.”
“And they're like, They can have three weeks and it's gotta be on Zoom. And you can have four of them',” Steward stated. O'Brien agreed, saying the manner TV is being produced is “changing radically.”
“These companies don't believe in institutional knowledge that allows people to grow and get better and create more,” Steward stated. “What they believe now is the auteur system, which has always sort of existed within film and TV … and this idea of ruthlessly efficient content factories, where what matters is the real estate and not the individual creative,” he added.
The interview with Stewart appeared on the September 27, 2024 episode of the “Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend” podcast. The episode is out there on YouTube, and will soon appear on each Apple Podcasts and Spotify Podcasts.
