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 - can you get that?
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.) "
If it walks like a Stewart and quacks like a Stewart…
Nope, for the same reason. US only for copyright reasons.
Le Ministre - thanks.
There is so very, very much hate and contempt oozing out of his every pore during this spot.
I love it.
You know who else would have made that comment?
Hitler.
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.
‘The communists who want to socialize your Nazism!’ is just a brilliant line.
I was a bit surprised when he raped and killed that girl though.
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.)
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.
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.
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?
See:
Asking somebody to prove a negative: Obama + Kenyan birth
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.
Got it. Thanks.
“Woooo…I’m a kukubird!”
He completely NAILED it.
It started here:
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.
Mere written words couldn’t do it justice.