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[The Daily Show, The Colbert Report & Last Week Tonight]: Bring me my smellin' turds!
Forar
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#432Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
I don't think these shows need any real introduction, given what they are and especially this community. Because of that, I'm not gonna go through all that nonsense of introducing the correspondents or hosts. What I AM gonna do, though, is point out that the shows are back on Hulu! If you're that excited to hear the news for the first time, the above logos are links to the relevant Hulu pages. No longer do you have to endure the horrible Comedy Central web player.
We kinda had a problem in the last thread that I wanna take the chance to clarify now; anything discussed on the shows the night of their airing and up to the next episode is up for discussion here, no problem. When the next episode airs, people who still want to talk about those things should take those topics to their own thread (and often times threads exist for those topics already). Obviously Thursdays have an advantage. Aside from that, any gimmicks, past or present, run on the shows, or correspondents new and old, are free to be discussed here.
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Unco-ordinated wrote: »EXCLUSIVE: Jon Stewart will take a 12-week hiatus from hosting Comedy Central‘s The Daily Show to make his feature directing debut this summer. Stewart has written the script, and will direct Rosewater, an adaptation of the book Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity And Survival. Published in 2011 by Random House, the book is Maziar Bahari’s harrowing ordeal of leaving London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential elections. With a pregnant fiance left behind, the BBC journalist expected to be away for a week. Instead, he spent the next 118 days in Iran’s most notorious prison being brutally interrogated by a man he knew only by one thing: he smelled of Rosewater. Bahari wrote the book with Aimee Molloy. Scott Rudin will produce with Stewart and Gigi Pritzker. Pritzker’s OddLot Entertainment is financing the film.
OP shamelessly stolen from @Henroid, to be updated going forward.
First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
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Which basically sums up elite Washington. I don't think that was the intention, but there it is.
No worries man. Sorry to hear you don't have easy access, but if you can fight through it, this past week has been *incredible* and I won't even see tonight's episodes until tomorrow (when they go up on CTV and the Comedy Network's sites).
That Samantha Bee segment was everything people had said it was, and Jon & John yelling at each other was pretty glorious, and biting. It's like they and The Onion are beginning to settle on the same wavelength, and dark as it may be, it's some incredible shit.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
It is amazing.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/01/in-a-friday-night-special-jon-stewart-celebrates-clint-eastwoods-fistful-of-awesome/
I mean, TDS was on fire, but that really just knocked it out of the park.
Fucking great.
And dead accurate.
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That was my exact thought when I saw it. The media people do it on tv for $$$$ and the politicians do it to keep us divided and them elected. Behind close doors it's all buddy buddy IMO
It never ceases to blow my mind, the illusion of grandeur people have about their state and how it's the "best place on earth." At least in Michigan, right or left, we know we live in a piece of shit.
Thursday and Friday night TDS were some of the best I have seen in recent memory. Did everyone catch the extended interview with Michael Steele? Worth the trip to the website.
The resigned disgust in his voice is worth it. I still don't understand the Michael Steele who was the RNC chair as opposed to the post-RNC chair Michael Steele.
Everyone was spot on
Hibble bibble. Got to agree, bumblebee. The Steele muppet was lean and mean, jelly bean.
*looks tiredly around* "Look, it's just a gig, man"
Yeah, I kinda felt bad for the guy.
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that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
I believe that brings his record against furniture to 0-3.
Mick Foley only emerges from the mists when children who stand up for righteous causes get bullied because of it. Then he vanishes back into the mists after some heads are cracked.
https://gofund.me/fa5990a5
For good reason, obviously - that guy was a power tool.
Yeah, that was pretty stupid.
Here's a question, which one of these statements is worthy of discussion?
A. Tomorrow, the dead will rise and we will be ushered into 1000 years of darkness. (Unironically, this is something that GOP representatives believe.)
B. Nuclear armed North Korea threatens our allies in South Korea and Japan and an increase in hostilities could destabilize the region.
Only one of those has basis in fact and that man should feel ashamed of wanting to discuss nonsense. Before you discuss, get the facts. Otherwise, you are leading a college of fools.
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I went ahead and made that true for you.
Jon, however, has been on my nerves this week. Aside from his false equivalency theatre, he got dangerously close to insulting Tammy Duckworth tonight. That, my friends, would have sent me into a nation destroying rage.
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I actually loved his reactions to the interview. I have the feeling she was almost trolling him, by talking about men the same way Republican politicians tend to speak about women in politics. "Of course men's voices are important..."
That's giving a member of Congress way more credit than they deserve. But I really would like to think there are one or two that would be capable of consciously doing such a thing.
Fair enough, I'll concede that the game he played tonight was not as equal as last weeks.
But he still got very close to insulting Tammy Duckworth, which is what set me off to the rest of his show.
Do not make a joke at her expense Jon, that is beneath you and you know it.
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What was the joke he almost made?
It's not like anyone is above being made fun of. Obviously if it was something asshtarded about her injuries or service he's a moron, but details!