NAACP spokesman: “The confederate flag is a symbol of oppression”
Cobert: “The kids LOVE symbols of oppression”
Did you see the guy’s eyes when Cobert said that. Oh man, how does he keep a straight face?
Anyway, I agree the thread shouldn’t have been closed. The mods should have just told Liberal to fuck off and let the CS crowd have their fun.
Bernie Goldberg? I think that’s who it was. The great thing about Stewart is that even when he slaughters someone, they usually manage to maintain a friendly note-which is the case with Goldberg.
Exactly. What do you do in real life when someone is always making off-topic comments? Just ignore them until they have something germane to say. I know you guys like to get really worked up about partisan politics, but give it a rest. Quit playing Lib’s game.
I agree with this advice, and have given it myself; however, I’ve also on many occasions ignored my own advice on this matter, so I can’t chastize others for being weak.
Nonetheless, folks, be strong, and quit playing a game you don’t like–it’s good advice, if difficult to follow.
Daniel
I confess the temptation to throw a political shit-bomb into this thread, but I realize that would be wrong–and I did, after all, say it was a bad idea to play that game.
Daniel
Your right not to do it, but it would be funny. Looks a little political to me.
Not only should no one do it because it’s not even funny when one poster plays that type of game, but because, at this point, it’d be retributory. Or, in other words, trolling. So, let’s put a kibosh on the idea in case anyone reading this thread tries to pick it up and run with it. (None of this is to be read as if either Left Hand of Dorkness or jrfranchi were encouraging such activities. I’m just cutting the idea off at the pass.)
Looking Sheepish, your right, not funny at all. Sorry.
No worries. No one was being admonished for doing anything wrong; I just wanted to make sure everyone understood Left Hand of Dorkness’ idea was just him musing and not suggesting. Just a pre-emptive strike on my part.
I was thinking that this thread would be incredibly funny if it started as a Liberal centered pissing match and then got converted into a light hearted discussion about the Daily Show. Interestingly enough, for a bunch of posts about 5-6 before this one, it happened. Then the wheels came off.
Oh well, you had your fleeting moment.
Okay: {I hope doing this isn’t wrong, no one gets hurt}
What determines when the Back in Black segments will appear? They are infrequent and my favorite regular feature.
Did anyone actually like the old Pre-Jon version of the show. I remember occasionally watching it and not finding it funny.
Craig Kilborn’s got nothing on Jon Stewart.
Craig Kilborn used to host that show?
Possibly the unfunniest, least-talented man ever to be given his own television show?
Yeesh.
Wow, I never made the connection, that the amazingly unfunny host of the “The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn” was the Old Daily Show stiff. I have to agree with you mhendo. No wonder I always turned it off back then.
Some of the remote segments were still funny under Kilborn, and his 5 questions bit was sometimes amusing, but the show was less political and less serious back then. I also don’t remeber Kilborn ever really challenging political guests, and I don’t think he went out of his way to find interesting writers with something to say the way Jon Stewart does. I’ve added more than one book to my reading list from watching TDS. I think that Kilborn’s era had more of the standard vacuous actors plugging sitcoms and movies. Stewart does a lot less of that.
Well, to be fair, i don’t think Jon Stewart’s exactly a very challenging interviewer, either. He does get some very interesting people, but often i feel that he doesn’t make the most of the opportunity. He can’t seem to decide whether he wants to ask serious, penetrating questions, or do a Jay Leno-style content-free comedy riff with the guest. It gets on my nerves at times.
The fact that he ever challenges anyone at all is unsual for a talk show host (not counting pundit shows, of course).
I think he actually challenges journalists more than he challenges politicians. The lack of spine by the US political press seems to bother him more than conservative politicians do.
Jon Stewart is at his best when the Pols/pundits do the work of creating the comedy themselves. Is interviews with stars pushing lame movies are usually lame.
Interviews are usually the slowest part of the show. Some have good, some have been informative but most are not funny.
Has he ever had Barak Obama on the show? Obama was on an NPR comedy show this morning (“Wait Wait”), and while the show itself is only mildly amusing, Obama was freakin’ hilarious. I’d love to see him and Jon playing off each other.
Daniel
That’s weird, I just heard the NPR show for the first time today. I thought Obama was great. I think you’re telling me not to listen normally.