Jon Stewart does Glenn Beck [Archive] - Straight Dope Message Board

5 time champ

11-06-2009, 10:09 AM

Magnificent- and Jon Stewart has his own schtick down, but really isn't an actor. Put he absolutely nailed Glenn Beck. And a lot of credit to the writing staff. TDS has had some great shows since that weeks vacation in mid-October.

I only wish they would have answered whether or not Glenn Beck raped and killed that teenaged girl back in the 1990s. I don't beleive Beck did rape and kill that teenaged girl in the 1990s, but I would like to see Beck put the rumors to rest by denying them.

11-06-2009, 10:12 AM

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Don't let the commies take Glenn Beck's organs!

don't ask

11-06-2009, 10:19 AM

Shit he's a funny guy. Half the time I don't know what he's talking about, most of the time I don't care about what he's talking about but nearly every time I see him he is laugh out loud funny.

MyFootsZZZ

11-06-2009, 10:25 AM

It's a thing of beauty.

TDS: The 11/3 project (http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-5-2009/the-11-3-project)

I was shocked how long Stewart stayed in character. Sometimes he seems to; "give up" or "trail off". Obviously it was rehearsed but it was actually not a bad impression of that "Banana-Nut Bread News Personality".

I hate when Stewart injects unfunny comments, (often breaking character from a guy sarcastically and satirically reporting on news -- often to tell the audience WHY they're making fun of it as if we can't figure that out), and then trails off, and starting fresh with his next bullet point.

He didn't stop to start giggling at the sketch after hearing the audience found it funny. I know Stewart doesn't always play the "fake and naive pundit"; He leaves that for Colbert... and often out-right mocks new coverage without a facade.

Very funny, I'm glad to see he took it all the way. Wonder what people in Cafe Society will think. Maybe I'm wrong and this does belong here... I just just speak from all the other threads I see moved there from other places.

Good topic none-the-less redtail!

redtail23

11-06-2009, 10:41 AM

:o Thanks for moving this. I knew that. :o

Critical1

11-06-2009, 10:51 AM

Pee Your Pants kinda funny, I loved it.

mobo85

11-06-2009, 10:52 AM

Well, I guess I'll have to participate, seeing as I'm a little late for the 10/31 Project (http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/223279/march-31-2009/the-10-31-project).

born too late

11-06-2009, 11:29 AM

Wow - that really showcases his underused acting skills. He didn't crack up once (although it looked like maybe he was on the verge of it more than a few times, maybe that was just part of the act.) It was jaw-dropping how spot-on that was. Of course, as often as he has to watch that tool, it's probably second nature by now.

pravnik

11-06-2009, 11:48 AM

Yes, but can he play Glenn Beck...on weed???

Hal Briston

11-06-2009, 12:16 PM

"...they can't ORGANize??"

Beautiful.

redtail23

11-06-2009, 12:55 PM

Nevermind, C3 already got it in.

Gangster Octopus

11-06-2009, 01:20 PM

That sketch was exactly something Hitler would have done.

MsWhatsit

11-06-2009, 01:25 PM

I lost it when he started hysterically eating his own tie. That was classic, start to finish.

Knorf

11-06-2009, 01:57 PM

Very impressive, and very, very funny.

Kamino Neko

11-06-2009, 01:59 PM

Can someone post a transcript or description for those of us who don't live in the US, and thus, can't watch the video?

BMax

11-06-2009, 02:19 PM

I about died when he rolled out the chalkboard and it said "Purity of Essence" on it.

Miller

11-06-2009, 02:38 PM

The communists want to socialize your nazism!

Le Ministre de l'au-delà

11-06-2009, 02:39 PM

Can someone post a transcript or description for those of us who don't live in the US, and thus, can't watch the video?

If you google Daily show + the name of your country, you might be able to find it. For Canadians, it's here (http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/full-episodes/#clip230564).

redtail23

11-06-2009, 02:55 PM

Can someone post a transcript or description for those of us who don't live in the US, and thus, can't watch the video?Well, first you have to be familiar with the insanity that is Glenn Beck.

Stewart does a brilliant parody of Beck's ravings.

It's also on Hulu (http://www.hulu.com/watch/107208/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-113-project) - can you get that?

maladroit

11-06-2009, 03:52 PM

My husband had just gone to bed when this skit came on. I'm sure he thought I was out of my mind, cackling as I was.

I saw this comment over at the freep today, thought you might like to giggle along with me.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2380040/posts

"As you watch the clip it becomes increasingly obvious Stewart is actually doing a parody on Beck's show though I don't think it is all that obvious in the very beginning."

"To: Ruby Slippers
It is easy to let this incident slip by with a cackle and a wink. However, this is war and Jon Stewart should be quacking in his boots in fear of the consequences.
5 posted on Friday, November 06, 2009 11:56:12 AM by jonrick46 (The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.) "

Bosstone

11-06-2009, 04:25 PM

However, this is war and Jon Stewart should be quacking in his boots in fear of the consequences.If it walks like a Stewart and quacks like a Stewart...

Kamino Neko

11-06-2009, 04:33 PM

It's also on Hulu (http://www.hulu.com/watch/107208/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-113-project) - can you get that?

Nope, for the same reason. US only for copyright reasons.

Le Ministre - thanks.

Ogre

11-06-2009, 04:41 PM

There is so very, very much hate and contempt oozing out of his every pore during this spot.

I love it.

shantih

11-06-2009, 04:42 PM

That sketch was exactly something Hitler would have done.

You know who else would have made that comment?

Hitler.

palindromemordnilap

11-06-2009, 04:47 PM

The only times I have seen Glenn Beck are the snippets on TDS but I thought Stewart nailed his mannerisms and facial expressions to a tea-bag. Pretty impressive for a guy who did the world's worst GWB impression for eight years.

Kamino Neko

11-06-2009, 04:48 PM

'The communists who want to socialize your Nazism!' is just a brilliant line.

5que

11-06-2009, 05:09 PM

I was a bit surprised when he raped and killed that girl though.

Jeep's Phoenix

11-06-2009, 05:10 PM

I caught this while channel-surfing this morning...it was awesome! The tie-eating bit was particularly hilarious.

(I share an office with a guy who adores Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.)

Fuzzy Dunlop

11-06-2009, 05:20 PM

I was a bit surprised when he raped and killed that girl though.

You mean in 1990? Is that official? I thought there was a lot of circumstantial evidence that Glenn Beck raped and killed a girl in 1990 but that he was never charged. What I always thought was strange was that Glenn Beck never addressed whether he raped and killed a girl in 1990 on his show when he could do it so easily.

Shirley Ujest

11-06-2009, 05:52 PM

I caught this while channel-surfing this morning...it was awesome! The tie-eating bit was particularly hilarious.

(I share an office with a guy who adores Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.)

My profuse apologies.

I watch Fox New pretty much never, but my FIL could be a parrot for them.

Where in the heck did Glen Beck come from? He just seems to have catapulted into the national awareness, what, in the last year or so. First time I saw him I thought he was a TVpreacher that decided to try politics. He's a crackpot.

woodstockbirdybird

11-06-2009, 06:04 PM

You mean in 1990? Is that official? I thought there was a lot of circumstantial evidence that Glenn Beck raped and killed a girl in 1990 but that he was never charged. What I always thought was strange was that Glenn Beck never addressed whether he raped and killed a girl in 1990 on his show when he could do it so easily.

Could somebody explain this to me? I get it's an internet meme, and I see it here a lot (twice in this thread, even!) with very similar wording (especially the "I find it odd that Beck refuses to address it..."), so I assume it's a parody of something Beck actually said about someone else. But, not being willing to watch his foul ass even on a Youtube clip, I have no idea what it's based on. Anyone?

Darth Sensitive

11-06-2009, 06:06 PM

See:

Asking somebody to prove a negative: Obama + Kenyan birth

Bosstone

11-06-2009, 06:08 PM

Could somebody explain this to me? I get it's an internet meme, and I see it here a lot (twice in this thread, even!) with very similar wording (especially the "I find it odd that Beck refuses to address it..."), so I assume it's a parody of something Beck actually said about someone else. But, not being willing to watch his foul ass even on a Youtube clip, I have no idea what it's based on. Anyone?Stewart's bit is actually the same kind of parody, just without all the shock value. It's making fun of the way Glenn Beck and his friends at FOX love to make shit up and then cover their asses with "I'm not saying it's so that Obama hates white people, I just think these kinds of questions should be asked." The 1990 meme and Stewart's bit are intended to satirize the kind of surreality FOX engages in regularly.

woodstockbirdybird

11-06-2009, 06:15 PM

Got it. Thanks.

Guinastasia

11-06-2009, 09:33 PM

I caught this while channel-surfing this morning...it was awesome! The tie-eating bit was particularly hilarious.

"Woooo...I'm a kukubird!"

He completely NAILED it.

pricciar

11-06-2009, 09:49 PM

Stewart's bit is actually the same kind of parody, just without all the shock value. It's making fun of the way Glenn Beck and his friends at FOX love to make shit up and then cover their asses with "I'm not saying it's so that Obama hates white people, I just think these kinds of questions should be asked." The 1990 meme and Stewart's bit are intended to satirize the kind of surreality FOX engages in regularly.

It started here:

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4608536&IDComment=54042337#c54042337

boytyperanma

11-06-2009, 10:01 PM

I was impressed he plays a very good Glen Beck. That was unexpected as he's never been much of an actor. His contempt for Glen Beck must have really got him motivated to pull it off so well.

panache45

11-06-2009, 10:25 PM

Can someone post a transcript or description for those of us who don't live in the US, and thus, can't watch the video?

Mere written words couldn't do it justice.

don't ask

11-06-2009, 10:31 PM

Can someone post a transcript or description for those of us who don't live in the US, and thus, can't watch the video?

Are you living in an "Axis of Evil" country, because I can watch it all here in Australia.

Attack from the 3rd dimension

11-06-2009, 11:10 PM

you can download it off many iTunes, if you're willing to drop a couple bucks.

ToeJam

11-07-2009, 12:16 AM

I thought the clip was great, but the Stephen colbert one wasn't bad too- his pure quoting of Glen Beck on disliking the family's of the 9-11 victims just brought the Audience down to SUCH a somber mood, but he didn't really go in to finish him off after that one.

He could have REALLY just crushed the man right there if he had wanted to with the way that audience reaction was.

The Tooth

11-07-2009, 12:43 AM

I for one am all for stealing Glenn Beck internal organ by internal organ. I wonder how long it would take for him to go off the air after they got his brain.

Sampiro

11-07-2009, 01:33 AM

His Beck parody was a beautiful thing, but last week's take-down of Fox's news-entertainment-let's literally make the news" methods was on par with anything Thomas Nast ever did, the sort of thing that should be shown in classes.

The entire first 12 minutes (http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/253737/thu-october-29-2009-wanda-sykes) or so really, but particular the parts beginning around 5:00 about "news v. opinion" (in which he uses Fox's own words to hang them) . I started to open a thread on it last week for it's "wow"-ness.

boytyperanma

11-07-2009, 01:55 AM

Equipoise

11-07-2009, 02:11 AM

I for one am all for stealing Glenn Beck internal organ by internal organ. I wonder how long it would take for him to go off the air after they got his brain.That happened several years ago and he's still going strong.

ETA, oh, I loved the OP skit too. I even posted it to my Facebook page and tried to explain it to my overseas friends with not much success. Glen Beck is an unknown entity for the most part outside the US, thank goodness. I told them Stewart was being kind, considering that Beck is WAY crazier than that.

shantih

11-07-2009, 05:53 AM

singular1

11-07-2009, 07:02 AM

Linked in Post #9 - the 10/31 Project.

BigT

11-07-2009, 07:12 AM

ETA: Didn't refresh. singular1 beat me by wide margin.

amanset

11-07-2009, 07:17 AM

Are you living in an "Axis of Evil" country, because I can watch it all here in Australia.

I can watch it in SOCIALIST SWEDEN.

Uosdwis R. Dewoh

11-07-2009, 08:53 AM

And I can watch it in TINY-BIT-LESS SOCIALIST-THAN-SWEDEN FINLAND.

Sampiro

11-07-2009, 09:01 AM

Glen Beck is an unknown entity for the most part outside the US

Good... he's been successfully contained. Now if we just work on that one country.

I'll never in my life understand his success. He's crazy, he's mean, he's Mormon (which I mention because many of his core fans are people who consider Mormonism a heresy at best), he's proudly ignorant and uneducated, he's not witty, he whines, he's been caught in several lies, and he's unattractive to boot. What the hell is his appeal?

Biggirl

11-07-2009, 09:16 AM

Good... he's been successfully contained. Now if we just work on that one country.

I'll never in my life understand his success. He's crazy, he's mean, he's Mormon (which I mention because many of his core fans are people who consider Mormonism a heresy at best), he's proudly ignorant and uneducated, he's not witty, he whines, he's been caught in several lies, and he's unattractive to boot. What the hell is his appeal?

If I understand my conservative leaning friends correctly, it's because he scares the lieberals to death. Which is why us Demorats try to tear him down whenever he speaks truth to power.

Yes, I do have crazy friends. Why do you ask?

joebuck20

11-07-2009, 11:08 AM

My profuse apologies.

I watch Fox New pretty much never, but my FIL could be a parrot for them.

Where in the heck did Glen Beck come from? He just seems to have catapulted into the national awareness, what, in the last year or so. First time I saw him I thought he was a TVpreacher that decided to try politics. He's a crackpot.

He's basically a morning shock jock that found his niche spouting right wing talking points. Salon ran a pretty interesting series of articles about him a couple of months ago:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/21/glenn_beck/index2.html

Even if you detest the man (like I do), the articles still offer a fascinating portrait of the world from which he came.

mobo85

11-07-2009, 11:30 AM

I saw this comment over at the freep today, thought you might like to giggle along with me.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2380040/posts

"As you watch the clip it becomes increasingly obvious Stewart is actually doing a parody on Beck's show though I don't think it is all that obvious in the very beginning."

This does seem unusual, but then again, keep in mind these are the same unable-to-understand-parody sort of people who think Oscar the Grouch hates Fox News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20091105/pl_ynews/ynews_pl968).

Sampiro

11-07-2009, 12:54 PM

More alarming than his shock-jock career- if only to me- is that he came to Fox from CNN.

Again- this is a man with NO journalistic training who makes no pretenses of being a journalist, in fact vehemently denies it, and in fact never completed a college class, and yet he had a show on CNN. Between him, Nancy Grace, Lou Dobbs, and Jane Velez Mitchell I think I know why they go by the acronym: no announcer could say "We're Cable News Network" without laughing.

fubbleskag

11-07-2009, 06:40 PM

Glenn Beck's pupose is to make the rest of the right-wing pundits seem believable.

Guinastasia

11-07-2009, 08:24 PM

PlainJain

11-07-2009, 09:08 PM

Good... he's been successfully contained. Now if we just work on that one country.
Hilarious! But I will take a slight issue with you regarding his looks.

Claptree

11-07-2009, 09:11 PM

It's quoted in the 10/31 Colbert clip.

ETA: Was meant to follow Guinastasia's post.

Revtim

11-07-2009, 09:13 PM

Bolding mine.

Whoa, when did Beck say THAT?!?! (He says so many idiotic and offensive bullshit that it's hard to keep up)http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200509090003

WarmNPrickly

11-07-2009, 10:38 PM

SNL just did an impression of Glenn beck. It wasn't as good as John.

Nametag

11-07-2009, 11:34 PM

Stewart's bit is actually the same kind of parody, just without all the shock value. It's making fun of the way Glenn Beck and his friends at FOX love to make shit up and then cover their asses with "I'm not saying it's so that Obama hates white people, I just think these kinds of questions should be asked." The 1990 meme and Stewart's bit are intended to satirize the kind of surreality FOX engages in regularly.It started here:

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4608536&IDComment=54042337#c54042337

Actually, it started here (http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=179741&title=gilbert-gottfried-pt.-1).

Kobal2

11-08-2009, 05:27 AM

See:

Asking somebody to prove a negative: Obama + Kenyan birth

The most outrageous Beck bit I saw was him inviting a Democrat... senator, I think ? Who also happened to be a Muslim on his show. His first question to him was : "I know you're not a terrorist, I know you're a representative of our people and you got elected fairly, and I know just being a Muslim doesn't mean you're from Al Quaeda but I'm still concerned and what I want you to do is... convince me that you're not working for our enemy."

Wait, what ?

MyFootsZZZ

11-08-2009, 09:04 AM

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200509090003

Why do so many people, here, watch/listen to this guy? I'm not saying I haven't ever seen/heard him, but it's mostly because someone who's activly watching him points out something he says... which is why I would rather watch The Daily Show than a three-way 24 hour news marathon. I just wonder if ignoring him wouldn't be a better idea. :/

shantih

11-08-2009, 10:33 AM

Linked in Post #9 - the 10/31 Project.

:smack:

Thank you!

I'm hyperventilating over here -- NOBODY rocks the gas mask/adult diaper look like Stephen Colbert.

Justin_Bailey

11-08-2009, 10:48 AM

The most outrageous Beck bit I saw was him inviting a Democrat... senator, I think ? Who also happened to be a Muslim on his show. His first question to him was : "I know you're not a terrorist, I know you're a representative of our people and you got elected fairly, and I know just being a Muslim doesn't mean you're from Al Quaeda but I'm still concerned and what I want you to do is... convince me that you're not working for our enemy."

For real? What did the senator do?

Diogenes the Cynic

11-08-2009, 11:31 AM

For real? What did the senator do?
It was Rep. (not Sen) Keith Ellison from Minnesota (the guy who was sworn in on Thomas Jefferson's Koran). He handled it (http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200611150004) pretty well:
BECK: Thank you. I will tell you, may I -- may we have five minutes here where we're just politically incorrect and I play the cards face up on the table?

ELLISON: Go there.

BECK: OK. No offense, and I know Muslims. I like Muslims. I've been to mosques. I really don't believe that Islam is a religion of evil. I -- you know, I think it's being hijacked, quite frankly.

With that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying, "Let's cut and run." And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, "Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies."

And I know you're not. I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.

ELLISON: Well, let me tell you, the people of the Fifth Congressional District know that I have a deep love and affection for my country. There's no one who is more patriotic than I am. And so, you know, I don't need to -- need to prove my patriotic stripes.

BECK: I understand that. And I'm not asking you to.
This is also another example of Beck throwing himself into reverse and denying he said something he said just seconds before.

Bosstone

11-08-2009, 12:44 PM

So has nobody else needed brain bleach on reading the title?

Discipline

11-08-2009, 01:02 PM

So has nobody else needed brain bleach on reading the title?

Nope. Just you.

DanBlather

11-08-2009, 01:10 PM

HPL

11-08-2009, 02:20 PM

Beck really doesn't need to come back. Stewart can fill in for him from now on.

I've seen Glenn Beck a couple times and I can't keep a straight face when he goes on one of his conspiracy rants. He's like the Jack Chick of TV.

And really, it gives hope to us all, because now we know that even if you have a debilitating mental illness, you can still have a successful talk show.

Bosstone

11-08-2009, 02:40 PM

And really, it gives hope to us all, because now we know that even if you have a debilitating mental illness, you can still have a successful talk show.Heck, it might even help your chances.

Gala Matrix Fire

11-08-2009, 02:58 PM

It was Rep. (not Sen) Keith Ellison from Minnesota (the guy who was sworn in on Thomas Jefferson's Koran). He handled it (http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200611150004) pretty well:

He wasn't sworn in on Jefferson's Koran. He was sworn in empty-handed, like every other congressperson. He posed with the Koran later for a photo op.

MeanOldLady

11-08-2009, 03:01 PM

The glasses were key, the clusterfuck blackboard was hysterical.

I was watching the Ellison/Beck exchange on TV when it happened. This was when he was still on the phony CNN channel that Nancy Grace is on. I turned to my old man, swearing I'd heard wrong. "What? Did you hear that? Did he just say...? What the fuck?!" That's was around when I first heard of him. Unfortunately, that's not the worst thing he has ever said.

HPL

11-08-2009, 03:59 PM

Heck, it might even help your chances.

Exactly.

MyFootsZZZ

11-08-2009, 05:10 PM

It's not Beck who is scary, it's the people that watch him and make his show one of the most popular on cable. The world is full of crazy people, I just don't understand when the American population lost the ability to see when people are lunatics.

It's not just American's, but I know what you mean. How could some of the most ruthless people have such a large following? This isn't Howard Stern, this is a man who's employed by a "News Network". He's almost a real-life Howard Beale, but I would argue even more irrational.

Bill O'Reilly, and even Limbaugh always seemed to know exactly what they are doing, which is to say controversial things for the sake of their political agenda, but often for shock value for ratings; (haven't heard either in a while, so maybe they're just as crazy). I just get the feeling that this guy, (Beck), is a little... crazy. For real.