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The Official Daily Show Thread with Jon Stewart
- Thread starter Firestorm
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My most recent favorite moment of the Daily Show is Jon choking on a pancake and sausage on a stick dipped in Baconnaise Lite.
"It's like my tongue just took a shit!"
Somehow they tied this in with Bobby Jindal's response to Obama's speech back in February. :lol
"It's like my tongue just took a shit!"
Somehow they tied this in with Bobby Jindal's response to Obama's speech back in February. :lol
The Lamonster
Member
Quality post.Gruco said:
speculawyer
Member
Great idea for a regular thread.
blame space
Banned
bad timing, I guess.Updated first post informing everyone that they can access TDS on the official site. I wish I could see the stuff at the links you guys use =/
Yeah I found your thread when searching but it was a while ago so I thought it was time to try again.blame space said:
I'd like to add that they recently blocked a large part of Europe, which led to a rather large uprising on their forums. I don't know if they have unblocked some countries since then but you still can't watch it from Sweden. Of course, it's very easy to fool their blocking system so I still watch it the same way as before.Firestorm said:
Note that at no point do I say that list is comprehensive. I only use the word "favorite." Would have no problem discussing further but not really interested in derailing the thead. If you think Oblivion is getting bad advice in his search for intelligent commentary you could have felt free to offer your own suggestions.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
I don't think Peggy Noonan, Frum, and Limbaugh will educate anyone.Gruco said:
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I remember watching this when Kilborn was the host.
Kinda weird how he took that 5 questions bit with him to CBS. I wonder how he pulled that off.
Kinda weird how he took that 5 questions bit with him to CBS. I wonder how he pulled that off.
Stewart used to be an awful interviewer, but he's gotten a lot better over the years, and now he's definitely the better of the two. When Colbert runs into a roadblock in his interviews you can see the gears churning and he falls back onto his persona to keep things moving, which is awkward because at the same time, he's dialing back that persona both in interviews and in general.God's Beard said:
Stoney Mason
Banned
APF said:
Colbert interviews are awkward at times because they are essentially mock interviews which doesn't work so well when it's a fairly serious person. It's a liberal person pretending to be a conservative person in some cases trying to hold a fairly straightforward interview. It works on the more breezy guests but not so much when there isn't a lot of territory for mocking the person.
It's generally at it's best when he is interviewing a conservative you can tell he doesn't much like or at least like their ideology.
By playing a character the difficulty of his interviews is of a much higher degree.
Stoney Mason
Banned
APF said:
I don't think it's insulting at all. They know what the show is before they go on so in my view it isn't insulting in the least. They go there to plug themselves or whatever they want to plug and because it is a popular and hip show to a certain demo. This isn't the newshour and they know that going in.
That being said I think Colbert realizes it is difficult for them in certain cases which is why he tries to carry the interview which can be funny but makes it more like a comedy bit than a real interview.
Just because you know something going into something, does not.... you know, this is a boring discussion, so forget it. My point is, it's awkward when he dials back the character, but weakly runs to it when he's trying to get an interview rolling again. Overall, he's been dialing back the BO'R aspect of his persona; now it's not so much a conservative parody as it is a parody of a narcissistic character who happens to be "conservative." I think TDS has done a lot better transitioning from a Republican Administration to a Democrat one, in terms of finding their thematic footing.
Stoney Mason
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APF said:
I think TDS has done a gradual transition over the years from being a celebrity centric show to a politics lite centric show. Even if the correspondents aren't of the quality of the Bush years, the theme of the show in general is more consistent. That's the more noticeable trend to me rather than a switchover from a Democratic to a Republican administration.
The show is less about Cameron Diaz interviews than whoever inhabits the pop culture world surrounding politics.
Longer version of Cramer's follow-up spinerview.
http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time...hing-about-jon-stewart-and-other-revelations/
http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time...hing-about-jon-stewart-and-other-revelations/
Sure, over the course of its entire run, but it's absurd not to acknowledge the degree to which retaliation against the Bush Administration and Republican political dominance played into that transition, or to TDS' subsequent rise in status and popularity as the preeminent political satire of its time (and likely in this generation)--or, not to notice the stumbling both it and its sister show have gone through trying to find targets to lash out at with the same degree of venom they previously reserved for Bush & co.Stoney Mason said:
DeathbyVolcano
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APF said:
That's because nobody has been as fucking dumb as them yet. Give it time.
Stoney Mason
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APF said:
The false idea implicit here imo is that the show requires them to dish out the same level of venom and pretend every circumstance is of the exact same level of importance. They'll continue to criticize Obama and the national Republicans and they'll especially criticize Obama if he makes either the same mistakes Bush made or ones of the same calibur of incompetence.
Things like the Jim Crammer incident show they don't necessarily need George Bush to be relevant post George Bush.
phalestine
aka iby.h
Awesome, I actually had this idea a while ago but I for some reason have like a phobia of making threads, so good job on the thread firestorm.
The real idea here is that they have based the show on that level of venom for the last four years or so, and are trying to find their way into a format that's not based on it. The CNBC incident demonstrates the fallacy of your implicit assertion, that they have not tried searching for other targets in that vein.Stoney Mason said:
Honestly though, I'm tired of you jumping on everything I say, so whatever.
DeathbyVolcano
Banned
You're trying and have BEEN trying to somehow "figure out" the Comedy Central hosts and what their methods truly reveal about their inner motives and goals, when both Stewart and Colbert have both stated very many times that they are simply are comedy shows that point out the ineptitude of politicians and mainstream media whilst making dick and fart jokes. Clearly they both have a preference, but for them the bullshit effect lies on both sides.
You're trying to pin them as something way more than they are.
You're trying to pin them as something way more than they are.
DeathbyVolcano
Banned
Alright then, if you say so.
Stoney Mason
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APF said:
I was perfectly polite and having what I thought was a perfectly reasonable discussion with you. You had your opinion and I had mine. I wasn't overly attacking you at all. Just carrying on discourse with a differing opinion. Your problem is that you think when I legitimately disagree with you and am having a polite discussion you think I have some sort of vendetta against you and yet when you actually piss me off you don't recognize the difference. The difference is that when I'm legit pissed off a stream of curse words will fly from my keyboard.
See No curse words. So I'm in a perfectly fine mood and you haven't pissed me off. Can't we all just get along.
DeathbyVolcano
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What's the difference other than syntax?
Stoney Mason
Banned
APF said:
I always get in this weird mix of this viewpoint you have that either I'm stalking you or actually trying to engage you in conservation on a message board which is what I view it as. I find it nearly impossible to distinguish the difference to suit you so its probably better off I just stop responding to your posts at all for awhile so that you see I treat you roughly no different than I treat anybody else on this board. I'm equally a mean cynical ass to everybody. Look at my tag.
I just like to be able to post on-topic musings without the entire thread turning into the "jump on APF" show. If I'm cagey it's because I always get the sense people are constantly searching for reasons to disagree with me.
I know though, it's because I'm constantly so horribly wrong! And you can't stand for someone being Wrong On The Internet. But still.
I know though, it's because I'm constantly so horribly wrong! And you can't stand for someone being Wrong On The Internet. But still.
Feral Youth
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Firestorm said:
Can in the UK. Can't watch Colbert however.