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The Dailyshow/Colbert Report: "Where Roe V Wade is two ways to get across a river."
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In this thread we will participate in the discussion of the two "Soft News" Comedy programs:
The Dailyshow.
and
The Colbert Report.
What are these programs?
Wikipedia tells us...
So let us talk about our two favorouite comedy tv news presenters, and post clips like
Guitmo
Stewart on Crossfire.
Is this enough content for you all?
The Dailyshow.
and
The Colbert Report.
What are these programs?
Wikipedia tells us...
The Daily Show (known in its current incarnation as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) is an American satirical television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central in the United States. The half-hour long show premiered on Monday, July 22, 1996, and was hosted by Craig Kilborn, who acted as its anchorman until his departure in December 1998. Jon Stewart took over as host in January 1999, bringing a number of changes to the show's content. Under Stewart The Daily Show has become more strongly focused around politics and the national media, in contrast with the more character-driven focus during Kilborn's tenure.
Describing itself as a fake news program, The Daily Show draws its comedy from recent news stories, satirizing political figures, media organizations, and often, aspects of the show itself. The show typically opens with a monologue from the host relating to recent headlines and frequently features exchanges with one or more of several correspondents, who adopt absurd or humorously exaggerated takes on current events against Stewart's straight man persona. The final act is reserved for a celebrity interview, with guests ranging from actors and musicians to nonfiction authors and political figures.
So let us talk about our two favorouite comedy tv news presenters, and post clips like
Guitmo
Stewart on Crossfire.
Is this enough content for you all?
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I really enjoyed the Plaxico song.
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The song was okay, but the look on Stewart's face for the Children's segment was priceless.
"It's.... we're still working on it."
I trust the Daily Show more than I trust the BBC.
He means soft news in that it doesn't perform any journalism.
I think a good amount of men as well
Well, in the general viewership, sure.
I suspect the man-crushes are pretty open 'round these parts.
*swoon*
I don't know, you know, I've read interviews with him and such, and he pretty much flat out says: "My goal is not to get people informed about the news. It's to get laughs." I think for him the extent to which he reveals the "real story" by being funny is in some ways just a nice side effect.
That is, once he starts to become people's main source for news, then the show is being used in a way that wasn't intended.
I always feel like Stewart's being a bit dishonest when he cops out and says it's just a comedy show. He gets political with fair frequency, especially when he has people like Doughy Pantload (Jonah Goldberg) on, but when somebody acosts the issue, he just throws his hands up.
Regardless, I agree, it is a comedy show, but it's not just a comedy show.
It can get a bit false equivalence-y at times though. They don't want to be too obviously anti-GOP so they through something out there like when they were painting MSNBC as the new FoxNews (but couldn't quite convince themselves). "Bush sucks" isn't that funny anymore but the other way is less truthy.
They shouldn't be used as a primary source of news, but more of a MST3k-esque voice from the peanut gallery pointing out things from a non-traditional angle.
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But they're not as entertaining
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So he'll be back in a couple months, then. Not like Conan will have anything to do once the actors strike.
Look for lots of musicians and people with animals.
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That's not true, I'm almost certain I saw some food stuck in Ray Suarez's beard one time and now I always check.
Anne Hathaway would totally let him stick it in her pooper.
You need 3 guests a show, and they already have musicians.
Stewart/Colbert can get away with having politicians and authors and professors on all the time. Conan can't. Plus his skits use a lot more actors than the other 2.
Actually, I'm pretty sure Stewart and Colbert are SAG too. I know they've been in movies, and Colbert probably qualifies as "acting" on his normal show. So they'd have to cross the line just to do their shows.
Otherwise, the bit was pretty good. I loved the Colmes line.
FAG's.
"I wish I'd known about this recession earlier, before I bought a scale model replica of the Millenium Falcon".
That was good.
"It can do the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs."
I nearly fell off the couch.
I don't know why little references (like identifying the species that Solo blew away in the Cantina during one of their shows two weeks ago) still surprise me; clearly Stewart, Colbert and their writing staff obviously include some geeky tendancies amongst them, but it's still unexpected and awesome.
You get your musician to set on the couch and talk about their new album, or tour, or whatever. Then, like I said, you get someone to come talk about animals and bring them on the show, or that wolf couple that was on awhile back, or the pumpkin carving guy, or the turkey lady. Or comedians that aren't members of SAG, people that just do stand up. Heck, have a stand up performance and a musical performance. They'll figure something out.
Conan would be hosed on skits though. Although weren't most of the skits done during the writer strike just him doing goofy stuff? They could go back to that. You don't need actors to walk around and annoy the other workers at the show. Tour Pierre's apartment just so we can see how geeky the dude really is. That right there might be enough for a week's worth of material before guests.
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Solo shot a Greedo, a Rodian (first!), in the cantina. Colbert referenced the aqualish, which is who Ben Kenobi cut the arm off of with his lightsaber, not Han, in his Christmas special.
:P
<--- stands corrected. Point being, the two men and/or their staff wield great power, responsibility and geekery.
Star Wars reference in general are not that geeky.
Facts like knowing who Borsk Fey'lya is or how they explained the "Kessel run in under 12 parsecs." given parsecs are a measure of distance are.
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My mom can identify episodes of ST:TOG just by hearing the stardate/location intro sequence.
Bothan leader in the Rebel Alliance who was, sadly, not killed getting any information as a spy; and the gravitational pull of blackholes distort time and space thus allowing a ship traveling nearer to them than is safe to cut the distance down.
...er, um, *cough* yeah Daily Show. Whooo!
That's actually pretty awesome.
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Didn't he say that right before the guest came out though? Or was that Stewart? One of them mentioned it previously at any rate and I'm sure they at least do some working together so that they don't excessively overlap jokes. *shrug*