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The Official Daily Show Thread with Jon Stewart

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Tamanon

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http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0907&article=the-truth-smirks

Jim Wallis: The Hebrew prophets often use humor, satire, and truth-telling to get their message across, and I feel you do a combination of all three. How conscious are you of this, and are you trying to make social change happen?

Jon Stewart: It may be true that the Hebrew prophets used humor in that regard, to create social change, but it was also used by Borscht Belt social directors. We’ve got a lot more in common with them than the prophets. Everyone here has a lot of respect for activists and an appreciation for what it takes to be an activist. For most of us, writing jokes, playing a little Guitar Hero in the afternoon, and calling it a day seems to be the way to go. Because we’re in the public eye, maybe people project onto us their desires for that type of activism coming from us, but just knowing the process here as I do, our show is maybe the antithesis of activism, and that is a relatively selfish pursuit. The targets we choose, the way we go about it—it’s got more of a personal venting aspect than a socially conscious aspect.

But you do provide a perspective.

It’s definitely a perspective in the way that an editorial cartoonist might provide a perspective. We provide a different way of framing things, but it is [different from] the framing devices used by politicians. Their aim isn't the framing device; that’s merely a method to get to a goal. For us, that is the goal. Some nights we get the recipe right, some nights we don’t, some nights it’s too strident, some nights too silly, some nights it’s juvenile, but our goal is to make ourselves proud of the product in terms of how we crafted it, the jokes we came up with, that sort of thing.
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Pretty interesting interview. Great cover.:lol

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T

Tamanon

Banned
I honestly didn't see the speech itself, my god, she's insane.

"Maybe in mainstream, Harvard basketball!"
"Not in maverick basketball!":lol
 
T

Tamanon

Banned
Jon just randomly threw a hammer into Barney Frank's face over the housing bubble. That was out of left field and awesome.:lol

Dude is constantly trying to avoid any actual guilt over what happened.
 
B

BorkBork

The Legend of BorkBork: BorkBorkity Borking
:lol Half Baked Alaska.

I'm so glad they're not letting it go just because it was last week.
 
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Milabrega

Member
Holy Shit that whole story. Spoiler tagging for west coasters

Oh Shit Stewart V Cramer : the Resurrection!!

DrForester spoiler tag that for the west coast people. The reveal was amazing.
 
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Danthrax

Batteries the CRISIS!
motherfucking Jim Cramer!

someone please tell me his ratings have fallen through the basement. Jon Stewart has discredited him so hard.



[edit] just checked. he has the worst ratings BY FAR in his timeslot — at least, he did yesterday:

6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX News: Special Report with Bret Baier– 1,707,000 viewers (328,000) (718,000)
CNN: Situation Room—669,000 viewers (170,000) (262,000)
MSNBC: Ed Show—557,000 viewers (170,,000) (314,,000)
CNN HN: Prime News–363,000 viewers (130,000) (194,000)
CNBC: Mad Money—170,000 viewers (73,000) (123,000)
 
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Oblivion

Fetishing muscular manly men in skintight hosery
Danthrax said:
[edit] just checked. he has the worst ratings BY FAR in his timeslot — at least, he did yesterday:

6PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
FOX News: Special Report with Bret Baier– 1,707,000 viewers (328,000) (718,000)
CNN: Situation Room—669,000 viewers (170,000) (262,000)
MSNBC: Ed Show—557,000 viewers (170,,000) (314,,000)
CNN HN: Prime News–363,000 viewers (130,000) (194,000)
CNBC: Mad Money—170,000 viewers (73,000) (123,000)
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Holy shit @ the gap between Fox and CNN. :/
 
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Shining Sunshine

Banned
Does anyone know how I can view Daily Show eps on Comedy Central? I'm in Canada, so they force me to use Comedy Network where the episodes I want to watch are not there.

I tried using a proxy, but the flash plugin doesn't work with the proxy server.

I'm trying to watch the classic fruit juice video. Maybe someone has a download of it?

Here are the links to the only online videos of it that I can find.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-june-11-2001/fruit-juice
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-june-11-2001/fruit-juice-pt--2
 
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B.K.

Member
This Acorn interview on Colbert is pretty good. It's always great when people aren't in on the joke. :lol
 
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AniHawk

Member
You can see my mom and aunt during Jason Jones's report on the media reporting on Sarah Palin.

:lol at Jason running from the CBS truck.
 
G

Gruco

Banned
I'm still kind of in shock Kristol flat out admitted VA health care is top quality. Unreal.

Great show tonight all around. May have to check out the full interview.
 
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