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The Dailyshow/Colbert Report: "Where Roe V Wade is two ways to get across a river."

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    theSquidtheSquid Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Man I just don't find any of the correspondents on TDS funny, and I usually just cringe whenever they interview someone. That being said, I laugh like a maniac during the standard news segment and Jon's interview at the end is generally hit or miss, depending on how into it the interviewee is.

    I really only watch TCR when I come in this thread and I see two pages dedicated to how awesome the latest TCR is, since Colbert really has the one running gag when you get right down to it. Also Doom Bunker was cool, but I didn't really lol at it, so I dunno, maybe it's not for me either.

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    AJAlkaline40AJAlkaline40 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    I have to admit, I don't really find the correspondents all that funny, I generally much more appreciate the Jon segments.

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    mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    theSquid wrote: »
    Man I just don't find any of the correspondents on TDS funny, and I usually just cringe whenever they interview someone. That being said, I laugh like a maniac during the standard news segment and Jon's interview at the end is generally hit or miss, depending on how into it the interviewee is.

    Or how funny the interviewee is.

    Is it just me, or was last week pretty damn good for interviews? I especially loved Brian Williams...I hadn't seen him on the show before, is he always this hilarious?

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    Corp.ShephardCorp.Shephard Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    mcdermott wrote: »
    theSquid wrote: »
    Man I just don't find any of the correspondents on TDS funny, and I usually just cringe whenever they interview someone. That being said, I laugh like a maniac during the standard news segment and Jon's interview at the end is generally hit or miss, depending on how into it the interviewee is.

    Or how funny the interviewee is.

    Is it just me, or was last week pretty damn good for interviews? I especially loved Brian Williams...I hadn't seen him on the show before, is he always this hilarious?

    Jon and him have sort of running grudge gag thing going on.

    He's probably been on the show half a dozen or more times. They're all good laughs.

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    jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Colbert completely jumped out of character for the Hannity wag of the finger. I mean the line he delivered right into Rush's throat under the guise of Hannity saying it to piss Rush off.

    You could see the serious anger in the guys eyes and hear it in his voice. I don't think I've ever seen him break character that bad before, and his way of stringing Hannity into Rush to call him a "lardass talk radio mind corpse" was confusing at best and was simply thrown together so he could deliver that entire line.

    That being said, I agree with him. I love Colbert's satircal style, and he's a smart motherfucker to boot.

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    OmeksOmeks Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    mcdermott wrote: »
    theSquid wrote: »
    Man I just don't find any of the correspondents on TDS funny, and I usually just cringe whenever they interview someone. That being said, I laugh like a maniac during the standard news segment and Jon's interview at the end is generally hit or miss, depending on how into it the interviewee is.

    Or how funny the interviewee is.

    Is it just me, or was last week pretty damn good for interviews? I especially loved Brian Williams...I hadn't seen him on the show before, is he always this hilarious?

    Jon and him have sort of running grudge gag thing going on.

    He's probably been on the show half a dozen or more times. They're all good laughs.

    We also can't forget the running gag where Brian Williams' giant omnipotent head shows up on the screen behind Jon to tell his worldly wisdom.

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    VeritasVRVeritasVR Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Omeks wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    theSquid wrote: »
    Man I just don't find any of the correspondents on TDS funny, and I usually just cringe whenever they interview someone. That being said, I laugh like a maniac during the standard news segment and Jon's interview at the end is generally hit or miss, depending on how into it the interviewee is.

    Or how funny the interviewee is.

    Is it just me, or was last week pretty damn good for interviews? I especially loved Brian Williams...I hadn't seen him on the show before, is he always this hilarious?

    Jon and him have sort of running grudge gag thing going on.

    He's probably been on the show half a dozen or more times. They're all good laughs.

    We also can't forget the running gag where Brian Williams' giant omnipotent head shows up on the screen behind Jon to tell his worldly wisdom.

    "I can't believe the giant head of Brian Williams was such a dick to me!"

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    VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I don't watch the correspondent segments almost ever anymore

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    jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Variable wrote: »
    I don't watch the correspondent segments almost ever anymore

    My favorite TDS's go from news segments to interviews. The correspondent segments I'll check out online if there's sufficient buzz that they're worth it... but they usually aren't.

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    RaynagaRaynaga Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Sadly, the heyday for correspondent pieces was when Colbert, Carrell, DeGeneres, et al were there. These days, its pretty spotty.

    As was mentioned, the Usual Suspects/Obama-Hitler one was pretty good though,

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited March 2009
    Raynaga wrote: »
    Sadly, the heyday for correspondent pieces was when Colbert, Carrell, DeGeneres, et al were there. These days, its pretty spotty.

    As was mentioned, the Usual Suspects/Obama-Hitler one was pretty good though,

    I would watch John Oliver do correspondent pieces all day long.

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    enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I watch maybe half of Oliver's field pieces and turn the rest of them off, especially Bee and Jones who I've never found particularly funny.

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    DrakeonDrakeon Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Bogart wrote: »
    Raynaga wrote: »
    Sadly, the heyday for correspondent pieces was when Colbert, Carrell, DeGeneres, et al were there. These days, its pretty spotty.

    As was mentioned, the Usual Suspects/Obama-Hitler one was pretty good though,

    I would watch John Oliver do correspondent pieces all day long.

    Yea, definitely, Oliver always knocks it out of the park (especially when hes trolling people at a convention or some other sort of event). Wyatt Cinac is also usually pretty great.

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    LibrarianThorneLibrarianThorne Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I agree, the heyday of TDS was like 03-05, when you had Jon and then the fantastic correspondents to back him up. Now, the non-Jon segments tend to drag if Wyatt Cinac, Larry Wilmore, John Hodgeman, or John Oliver aren't doing it.

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited March 2009
    I agree, the heyday of TDS was like 03-05, when you had Jon and then the fantastic correspondents to back him up. Now, the non-Jon segments tend to drag if Wyatt Cinac, Larry Wilmore, John Hodgeman, or John Oliver aren't doing it.

    To be fair, those four guys do an awfully large proportion of the non-Jon segments.

    I don't like Wyatt Cenac as much as most people do. His delivery just feels a little unnatural to me.

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    enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Well, I think there were two really solid groups: Colbert, Rocca, Littleford, and DeGeneres and then Colbert, Carrell, Helms, Corddry, and Walls

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    RaynagaRaynaga Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    God, Rocca used to annoy the living hell out of me.

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    enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    By the end, yeah. And his post Daily Show career has been incredibly annoying, but when Jon started hosting he was pretty consistently funny.

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    VeritasVRVeritasVR Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    You know guys, I always smile when they have Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream ice cream at the market. It's not often that they have it... but when they do, it never fails to cheer me up.

    And I always buy one because it really brings the deliciousness/truthiness.
    By the way, the Firefox spellcheck on "truthiness" defaults to "mouthiness". :P

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    OmeksOmeks Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    By the end, yeah. And his post Daily Show career has been incredibly annoying, but when Jon started hosting he was pretty consistently funny.

    I don't remember his TDS tenure at all, I guess because I didn't consistently start watching TDS until Indecision 2004.

    The most that I know Rocca from are his appearances on Iron Chef America on Food Network. Sometimes he can say something genuinely funny, but it's obvious that he tries too hard and makes terrible jokes that just fall to the ground with a loud thud. It seems like he comes on as the celebrity non-food judge and for that reason, everyone expects him to make the funny so he tries too hard to make jokes.

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    KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Man if you weren't watching TDS during the 2000 elections you missed some quality shit.

    Especially the night after the election.

    "We were JOKING about the Indecision part people!"

    Or some such thing, it was long ago.

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    AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Wow

    I'm speechless. Jon's (new) segment on Kramer and Bear Stearns was brilliant.

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    VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I don't really like Jon Oliver all the time.

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    DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Variable wrote: »
    I don't really like Jon Oliver all the time.

    he's good in small doses, anything longer then a few minutes is painful.

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    PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Cougar Chew Toy:lol:

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    AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Colbert really changed fast. His opening sequence was what, 20 seconds?

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    TomantaTomanta Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Aegis wrote: »
    Colbert really changed fast. His opening sequence was what, 20 seconds?

    His show is also pre-taped, so he can really take however long he likes...

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    KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Aegis wrote: »
    Colbert really changed fast. His opening sequence was what, 20 seconds?

    Er, they can pre-record that you know...

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    ScalfinScalfin __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Kagera wrote: »
    Aegis wrote: »
    Colbert really changed fast. His opening sequence was what, 20 seconds?

    Er, they can pre-record that you know...

    Beat'd by an hour.


    Although he does do the show in one sitting, so it's not hard to imagine him running off to change so the audience doesn't get bored. When I was there for the taping, everything was in realtime.

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    NocturneNocturne Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Do they not put Friday episodes on Hulu ever?

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    KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Nocturne wrote: »
    Do they not put Friday episodes on Hulu ever?
    o_O
    There are no Friday shows.

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    enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    No, because there are no Friday episodes.

    EDIT: Dammit.

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    NocturneNocturne Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Oh well that makes sense.

    Man I never watch shows on the actual television anymore. I don't know this shit.

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    ANTVGM64ANTVGM64 Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
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    KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Seriously though, I'm kinda glad that the biggest problem so far is the administration's inability to give worthwhile gifts to foreign dignitaries.

    But seriously, I did facepalm when Obama got that amazingly historic gift from Brown and we gave him...some DVDs.

    I mean, at LEAST give him Blu-Ray, sheesh.

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    Vincent GraysonVincent Grayson Frederick, MDRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Was there no new episode tonight?

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    AroducAroduc regular
    edited March 2009
    ...does all the people talking about tonight's episodes confuse you?

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited March 2009
    Kagera wrote: »
    Seriously though, I'm kinda glad that the biggest problem so far is the administration's inability to give worthwhile gifts to foreign dignitaries.

    But seriously, I did facepalm when Obama got that amazingly historic gift from Brown and we gave him...some DVDs.

    I mean, at LEAST give him Blu-Ray, sheesh.

    It was like they didn't buy anything, saw what Brown had brought, and then just started opening deks draws in the West Wing to grab whatever was to hand. Do better next time, guys. Maybe you could give us Hawaii.

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    Vincent GraysonVincent Grayson Frederick, MDRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Aroduc wrote: »
    ...does all the people talking about tonight's episodes confuse you?

    No, my DVR's lack of recording the show confuses me. Hmm, I'll have to look into whatever caused that.

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    HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    "Yeah, y'know, like if I became president, I would like, have all my favorite bands play in the livingroom, right, and for breakfast every day, I hope you like icecreeeeaaaam!" XD

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