Jon Stewart on Crossfire, the best tv moment of the year.
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John Stewart is a smart man... only problem, he gives out his views in a comical fasion.
He always has a good point to get across either way.
He always has a good point to get across either way.
Truest Comedy and Tragedy are never far removed.
Truest comedy.....
It is the same as saying that blacks like fried chicken.....
True or not, I find it very wrong to use race as a comical outlet.
Yet it is accepted in the stand up comedy world.
It may be funny to some, but it still divides us as ONE Species. Which is wrong...
It gets worse.... A black person can make fun of whites, but a white cannot make fun of a black without being "BOOed off stage."
Everyone falls into 2 catagorys: Either the world is a joke to them, or everything they say or belive is too serious. Is there some sort of medium? People will always be offended by something....
I love comedy and stand ups.... but is laughter really the best way to unify all mankind as ONE?
It is the same as saying that blacks like fried chicken.....
True or not, I find it very wrong to use race as a comical outlet.
Yet it is accepted in the stand up comedy world.
It may be funny to some, but it still divides us as ONE Species. Which is wrong...
It gets worse.... A black person can make fun of whites, but a white cannot make fun of a black without being "BOOed off stage."
Everyone falls into 2 catagorys: Either the world is a joke to them, or everything they say or belive is too serious. Is there some sort of medium? People will always be offended by something....
I love comedy and stand ups.... but is laughter really the best way to unify all mankind as ONE?
John Stewart said on a CSPAN interview that when the show stops doing funny the show will be over.
I agree, true tragic titilation. Comics are historically able to broach subjects the mainstream won't touch. Pryor did the same thing in the 70's.
As for the race thing, same thing. The comically bad 'tough crowd' regularly banters about racism. I watch it like a train wreck, mesmerizingly awful.
I started watching Stewart when Bill Maher show went off the air. Very politically incorrect, but I thought a great show.
Stewart's audience is more educated than the mainstream news media. This is similarly tragically comical.
I agree, true tragic titilation. Comics are historically able to broach subjects the mainstream won't touch. Pryor did the same thing in the 70's.
As for the race thing, same thing. The comically bad 'tough crowd' regularly banters about racism. I watch it like a train wreck, mesmerizingly awful.
I started watching Stewart when Bill Maher show went off the air. Very politically incorrect, but I thought a great show.
Stewart's audience is more educated than the mainstream news media. This is similarly tragically comical.
Tucker Carlson compares CNN to Comedy Central; George Bush compares undecided voters to insects ... is the right wing really that clipped? What the hell is going on here?
At any rate, it occurs to me that folks who agree that the political discourse as played out through our news media is disgraceful ought to email CNN and ask them directly what business they have calling themselves a news network if their journalistic credibility is comparable to Comedy Central.
I mean, I try to look at it from CNN's point of view, and while the Stewart episode probably does bump ratings, one of the company's employees just defended his job by disparaging the network on national television.
If enough people remind CNN of this, Carlson's contract might not be renewed, and Tucker's scourge against thought and communication might begin its appropriate decline.
Maybe CNN doesn't need reminding, but still, it's an excellent opportunity to ridicule them. I'm still arguing over whether or not I really want to be that petty and minute, but as I sat listening to George Carlin answer for Keith Olbermann the question of Stewart's propriety, it struck me again how downright strange Carlson's performance was.
Begala may have been dickless for that show, but as Alan Colmes shows, every network needs a eunuch.
At any rate, it occurs to me that folks who agree that the political discourse as played out through our news media is disgraceful ought to email CNN and ask them directly what business they have calling themselves a news network if their journalistic credibility is comparable to Comedy Central.
I mean, I try to look at it from CNN's point of view, and while the Stewart episode probably does bump ratings, one of the company's employees just defended his job by disparaging the network on national television.
If enough people remind CNN of this, Carlson's contract might not be renewed, and Tucker's scourge against thought and communication might begin its appropriate decline.
Maybe CNN doesn't need reminding, but still, it's an excellent opportunity to ridicule them. I'm still arguing over whether or not I really want to be that petty and minute, but as I sat listening to George Carlin answer for Keith Olbermann the question of Stewart's propriety, it struck me again how downright strange Carlson's performance was.
Begala may have been dickless for that show, but as Alan Colmes shows, every network needs a eunuch.
Ha, I was watching the daily show back when Greg Kinnear was the host. The Daily Show is not really news, it news-comedy, basic news made funny. If you want to know what going on in the world watch news or better yet read news or listen to news. If you want to laugh at what’s going on in the world watch the Daily Show. 
Ha, I was playing basketball against Greg Kinnear (I lost) when he was a snobby kid in Beirut.
ooh wait it was not Greg Kinnear, my bad, what the fuck was his name?
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after looking it up it was Craig Kilborn! sorry got my talk show hosts confused.
http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/daily-show/
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after looking it up it was Craig Kilborn! sorry got my talk show hosts confused.
http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/daily-show/
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That's right- Now I remember, Kinnear (the fouling bastard) was the host of the forgettable, regrettable Talk Soup- a milestone in American infotaintment.
The Daily Show is becoming more important with a lot of top-level people on the program. So the Daily Show is walking a thin rope between news and comedy.
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Or maybe it's just that white people do a lot more crap that is stupid. You won't see black people line up at 7 am the day after thanksgiving running in to buy a stereo on sale. You won't see a black person lock their doors while driving through a white neighborhood. You won't see....A Canadian said:
Absolutely. If we don't laugh, we get pissed and then the bombs and the guns and the deaths.
WellCookedFetus said:
Greg Kinnear? He never hosted the Daily show, sorry. You're probably thinking of Craig Kilborn.
. . . right, and you already pointed that out for yourself, DOH! See it pays to read the whole thread before responding, sorry!
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