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I've seen bits and episodes, before, here and there, but I watched the last week's worth of episodes and wish it were on a TV channel in the UK, that I have

it's quite funny

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

ricky gervais is the guest tonight

― the happy smile patrol (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

I think it loses a lot if Kurt isn't reading it to you.

Yeah, that was kind of lame. Jon basically forced him to cut it short and let them put it on the website. They should have filmed a little segment after the show with him reading it out.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 22 September 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

The Colbert Report starts tonight.

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Stephen is woven into the fabric of modern American life... if this were Venezuala, they'd nationalize him.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

So is this going to be two tv shows of the exact same thing?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

If it were that would be fine by me but I think the Colbert Report is more of a fake Bill O'Riley style commentary show rather than a fake news show. So it's a slight variation on the theme.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm excited for this, as I can't take Stewart's constant mugging anymore.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

here ya go: vid of Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

O'Reilly won that one.

(Paraphrasing)
O'REILLY: "France is our enemy!"
STEWART: "Well, be that as it may..."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

He didn't mention cindy at all did he?

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Jon did. OReilly was just being a surly dickhead and posturing most of the time.

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Stewart actually is a 'fake newsman' only when he's playing straight for the correspondents (ie, the part of his job a trained monkey can do). It's japing at the prevarications and idiocies of the guvmint and media -- in something approximating HIS VOICE -- that is the meat of the show.

Colbert can be funny and I'll give his show a try, but mocking the O'Reillys and Scarboroughs 2 hours a week? That's overkill: pomposity, knee-jerk xenophobia, ignorance -- WE GET IT after 3 minutes. (and apparently a 40ish white guy sayin "bitch" is a guaranteed laugh for some older than 13)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

yeah, but he's like a cross between o'reilly, ron burgundy and his correspondent gig on the daily show!

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

I agree Colbert might be better off being on weekly or a couple days a week like them news magazine shows.

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Jon could've ripped into O'Reilly, but he was too polite/civil.
God, O'Reilly really looked uncomfortable. What a cockhead!
Jeers & boos justifiablly classic.

All in all, I was expecting a classic TV showdown, but it was somewhat a letdown.

The least Jon should have done was bitchslap Billy Boy hard. Fuck the straightman shit. He had Bill O'REALLY on the show. Pwn him!!!

― Star Hustler, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Jesus fucking Christ, what exactly do you people want from this show?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I mean really, is Bill O'Reilly that intimidating?
Phil Donahue stood up to his punkass.
Colbert would have done better.

Oh, Dan, it was still funny enough.

― Star Hustler, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Jesus fucking Christ, what exactly do you people want from this show?

Water turned into wine, etc.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

I get the feeling some of you won't be happy until The DAily Show starts holding public executions.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

No, then the quality of the executions will be critiqued.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

"Condi's got a really skinny neck! Why the hell did it take six chops to get her head off? Stewart is so weak, dude; he should have lopped her nugget off with one righteous swing."

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

It's not just Jon Stewart, but liberals in general. Someone says "France is our enemy!" and the liberal response is usually, "Yeah, well, be that as it may..."

I'd like to see someone say 'FRANCE IS NOT OUR ENEMY! OUR ENEMY ARE THE PEOPLE WHO HIJACKED THOSE PLANES!' But that never happens.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

BECAUSE THIS IS A COMEDY SHOW AND THAT IS NOT FUNNY

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

PP OTM

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

And also THAT'S PRETTY MUCH EXACTLY WHAT STEWART SAID WITH HIS WHOLE PEANUTS ANALOGY.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

By allowing people like O'Reilly to call France our enemy is to allow anyone who criticizes the war or the current U.S. policy to be labeled "our enemy". And it's wrong for someone to make that connection and it's wrong for someone to let it just slide by.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

So, is the deal that you guys just need something to whine about, therefore you'll grasp at any random straw you can get?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

I really didn't follow the Peanuts analogy. Marcie=France:Lucy=al-Queda?

If I'm grabbing at straws, Stewart's got a whole haystack.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Since the current administration got into power largely through very careful use of language I don't think it's unimportant for liberals to analyze and criticize their own use of language.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I really didn't follow the Peanuts analogy.

Wow, really? I wouldn't have guessed at all, especially considering that it addressed exactly what you're complaining about in exactly the manner you're complaining Stewart let O'Reilly slide.

If I'm grabbing at straws, Stewart's got a whole haystack.

Actually, it's more like you are at best precisely as intelligent and reasonable as Bill O'Reilly.

(xpost: Walter, parroting my words back at me is not going to make me think that you are any smarter.)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I turn to FOX and see neocons ripping off the necks of liberals and shitting down the hole.

I turn on the so-called liberal channels and see people making convoluted cartoon analogies and Wolf Blitzer walking around in front of a giant screen like Morgan Freeman in the opening credits of "The Electric Company."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

"convoluted"

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

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IN YOUR FACE, O'REILLY!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Stewart led off by making fun of France, then saying 'I never said they were our friend' - he never actually takes on O'Reilly's argument. Rather than attacking the argument that France is an enemy, he argues they're not our 'real' enemy.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

Colbert Report was as great as I could have wished. Stone Phillips as the guest was genuinely surprising - they were actually kinda mean to each other.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

>I get the feeling some of you won't be happy until The DAily Show starts holding public executions.<

If the p.o.v. of your Peabody Award-winning satire is that Bill O'Reilly, Zell Miller and Ari Fleischer are assclowns, you shouldn't have them on for any reason than to shit on them. Preferably a steamy, wet, post-chicken vindaloo shit.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 October 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

why chicken, instead of lamb?

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

The Daily Show isn't Frontline or 60 Minutes, people. It's a FUNNY TALK SHOW.

― elmo (allocryptic), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Daily Show > the last 20 years of 60 Mins on journalistic content

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Daily Show > the last 20 years of 60 Mins on journalistic content

bullshit.

― elmo (allocryptic), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

yeah c'mon IT IS IMPERVIOUS TO CRITICISM PPL, you're all being very silly, and upright, and not whimsical enough, i mean you just need to lighten up guys really. it's just a talk show.

― barthelme's foot, Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

You're right, 60 Minutes is bullshit.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Repeat to yourself: I AM NOT ARGUING ABOUT THE DAILY SHOW ON THE INTERNET

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

it should be remembered that the Daily Show didn't achieve its current bent on media criticism or talking to politicos until sometime in 1999, when Stewart took the reigns. Also, John McCain's bemusement with the show during the 2000 election helped a great deal; Colbert & Carrell asking him questions from Trivial Pursuit cards at press events & McCain making sincere attempts to answer them, McCain complimenting the two of them on their coats, etc.

"He liked our coats! He liked out coats!"

Still, one's gotta wonder what Stewart & Ben Karlin think of all the folks coming to them with the expectations of a harder-hitting(i.e. more pointed questions & follow-ups) show.

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

>Colbert & Carrell asking him questions from Trivial Pursuit cards at press events & McCain making sincere attempts to answer them<

Mo Rocca (sorely missed) was in there I believe...

The politico-guests really got ramped up in the last year. I vastly preferred JS humiliating Jennifer Love-Hewitt.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Stewart's own comments during his appearance on Crossfire, I think, are to the point: "You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls."

― elmo (allocryptic), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

I saw Moe Rocca talk at my school and it sucked. :(

― jw (ex machina), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Stewart on Crossfire vs his friendly interviews w/ wingnuts = hypocrisy?

I saw Mo Rocca on the F train once and it ruled.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

The Daily Show isn't Frontline or 60 Minutes, people. It's a FUNNY TALK SHOW.

You know who isn't funny? Bill O'Reilly. You know what's even less funnier than that? Having Bill O'Reilly on and playing pattycake with him.

If The Daily Show is just a funny lil' basic cable comedy show, then why have all the politicians and inky wretches come on to debate the serious issues? I know that Thomas Frank interview was a real freakin' knee-slapper. Or the smug way that Jon Stewart looks at the camera after a ridiculous presidential soundbite and says "We'll be right back" in a tone that says to the viewer "This shit is funny, but it's also REAL."

I guarantee you that if Bill O'Reilly appeared on "Crank Yankers", they would've ripped him nine more holes than TDS did.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

bill oreilly is pretty funny

― _, Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

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