1) Don't try to beat the combined typing speed of a couple dozen Slate-reading grad students singlehandedly. You couldn't even do it quadruplehandedly.
2) The Daily Show isn't a news show. Did you think that The Daily Show was a news show? Well it's not. Also, The Daily Show isn't a news show. In addition, if you were thinking about saying that The Daily Show is a show that shows news, don't even try it because The Daily Show isn't a news show. Even if you're making a point that's a little more complicated than whether The Daily Show is or isn't a news show, please be aware that a news show is something The Daily Show is not. "TDS = News" is an invalid equation. I've got good news and bad news, but The Daily Show is neither. News is history shot on the wing, but The Daily Show is unarmed. Ad infinitum.
3) E.W. Munson knows who he is. Do you know who you are?
And a note to Catrina: As I think I said, it's true that Jon Stewart can be both candy and broccoli. I enjoy one and understand the purpose of the other. Sometimes I'll even have them both during the very same meal. It's just that I'm getting a little tired of Stewart's particular recipe for Choco-Broccoli Casserole.
(By the way, another thing that stinks is that while all this is going on, Tough Crowd is getting cancelled in a couple of weeks. Shut up, I like Tough Crowd.)
Posted by Jim Treacher at October 18, 2004 11:59 PMWell at least your honest about you want to eat Jew Stewart.
Posted by: Capt. Americrunch at October 18, 2004 08:18 PMJimbo,
really enjoying your "dono morrono" puppet over there at the Gutters. just a simple point, for future reference: never having actually read any Toth, you might want to use a different puppet when you do your extended critique of TCJ. oh yeah, as a huge Crumb fan, that sort of ruined the charade too. I don't know if it's you or Queenie posing as Dono Morrono, but you are two peas in a pod, so to speak.
sorry for the interruption, I'll let you get back to your antisemitic rants now.
Posted by: John F. Ronan, U. of Florida, 4008 Turlington Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, (352) 392-6650 at October 19, 2004 07:11 AMYou, these alter-ego trips of yours are getting positively byzantine. First Parrot, then Puce, then Americrunch and now this Ronan guy. What's up with that?
I'm starting to worry that I'm actually you as well.
Posted by: Russell Wardlow at October 19, 2004 09:43 AMI also like Tough Crowd, love (not like *that*, you pervs) Colin Quinn, pissed that it's getting cancelled. How much can that show cost? You know the comedians aren't getting paid TuckerCarlson (dick) and the sets/furniture look like they were hauled in off the street before the garbagemen picked them up. In some cases after having been rained on overnight.
Stewart is a dildo, and I am amazed that people are wild for his show. If he were just a concerned citizen, he wouldn't have been on Xfire. If he were just a comedien(ne), e.g. Garafolo, he would be transparently ludicrous asserting that obscure media are "hurting America", compared to damage done by, say, Dan Rather and Jim Lehrer et al.
He wants it both ways? Okay, I think he's both not funny and not concerned about the news, or the state of America, except insofar as it fails to completely mirror his truncated liberal holier-than-thou-ness.
Posted by: beachrat at October 19, 2004 10:05 AMI feel like I have stumbled into a multiple personality locker room.
Posted by: Rightwingsparkle at October 19, 2004 11:12 AMI agree his "I'm just a comedian" defense is a little week. However, his "we take aim at the media" defense is not. If he sticks to that line, he has a valid point. While he does take shots at Bush, the overwhelming majority of Daily Show jokes are aimed at the way the media covers these candidates, hence his "I asked him if he was ever in Cambodia, but I didn't care" line works. The point is he isn't trying to skewer Kerry or let Kerry off easy. He thinks the media is being let off easy for dwelling on the non-issues of Cambodia and Mary Cheney.
Posted by: ed at October 19, 2004 01:07 PM