While it’s too early to call a trend for 2019, the first full week of the year was encouraging for science and technology related guest bookings. And, as per usual, The Daily Show can be counted for the occasional desk piece that skewers technological developments, or our reaction to them.
Rami Malek was a guest on the January 8 edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live. Malek is still promoting a film about the rock band Queen, but he stars as a hacker in the television series Mr. Robot.
Bradley Whitford was on The Late Show on January 10. He was promoting his new project, a drama called Valley of the Boom. He plays James Barksdale, head of Netscape Corporation, which was a major player in the technology sector in the 1990s. The film focuses on Silicon Valley during that decade.
The Daily Show ran a few segments in early December touching on technology issues that are worth checking out. Ronny Chieng, who often covers science and technology on the show, discussed Bill Gates’ efforts to update the toilet on the December 5th program (NSFW due to language). On December 6th correspondent Jaboukie Young-White discussed the increase of cashless commerce with host Trevor Noah (through his voice interpreter correspondent Desi Lydic). Chieng returned on the December 11th program to express his skepticism over the notion that video game addiction can be a diagnosable condition.
New episodes of MythBusters Jr. continue on the Science Channel (and rerun on the U.S. version of the Discovery network).
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