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Post by shmeep on Aug 20, 2005 21:25:09 GMT -5
I saw this on another thread... What are we talkin' about here? Positive influences? I would have to go with Jon Stewart. While I do like and agree with what Bill Maher has to say, Jon seems to be able to make his points more succinctly and more eloquently while backing up his facts with a roll of the videotape. John McCain makes a lot of sense, but he's still foiled by guilt to remain somewhat party loyal. Jon Stewart's beholden to no one as long as he can hold a modicum of an audience. It's only Comedy Central, for cryin' out loud, not ABC. Jon even went after guest author Bernard Goldberg a couple of weeks ago. Now that's guts -- going after your guest and debating whether his book has any merit. The book is, "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37)." Really, that's the title. Jon argued that Hollywood's "kooks" really have no legal or lasting impact, it's the policies set forth in D.C. that are the real obscenities and impact everyone through laws. Really interesting to see him go after someone who you would expect to be a neutral guest. ...and realized this needs its own thread! Consistantly some of the best and funniest stuff on TV! And my comment about the above quote: Anyone who writes a book called "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37)" is not someone I would assume to be neutral for some reason. But that interview was beautiful! I don't think the poor guy had any clue what was coming and that threw him. I love how disarmingly smart Jon Stewart is. And read "America the Book"! |
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Post by jillaw on Aug 23, 2005 21:03:06 GMT -5
I love Jon Stewart.
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Post by shmeep on Aug 26, 2005 18:06:20 GMT -5
I was just watching last night's episode and it was so so so very fun!
I must share my favorite joke of the night:
Jon Stewart told of a sickness that has been spreading from pigs to people and how health officials "discovered this after receiving an anonymous tip." Then, shown, was a picture of a spider web with the words "Infectious Pig" woven into it.
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Post by jillaw on Aug 28, 2005 1:11:17 GMT -5
I saw that, too, and I laughed SO hard! And then I felt bad for the poor pig.
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Post by shmeep on Aug 28, 2005 9:58:13 GMT -5
I saw that, too, and I laughed SO hard! And then I felt bad for the poor pig. How insensitive of me! I forgot that pigs are a touchy subject for you. "I got you BABE!" |
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Post by shmeep on Sept 10, 2005 7:58:49 GMT -5
Okay, Thursday's Daily Show was too good for me not to include a couple of quotes. Sorry if they offend anyone. That's not my intent.
At one point they showed a clip of the president saying, "There are now two vacancies on the Supreme Court." Cut to Jon Stewart, who shivers and says, "Whoa! You know, coming from this president, that's right up there with 'Dick Cheney is on his way to comfort you.'"
But my favorite quote of the evening was from fake news correspondent, Samantha Bee, who was pretending to be live from New Orleans. Jon Stewart was "interviewing" her, asking about the Vice President being used as the point man for the relief effort. Here is her explanation about why he was chosen:
"The government was eager to put a compassiona--well--a--a--human--a face on its relief effort. Now, you know I traveled with the vice president earlier as he met with storm victims and I can tell you, beneath that seemingly crusty exterior lies an emotional black hole from which no glimmer of empathy can escape and into which the shattered remnants of the human experience are sucked to implode on themselves into a microscopic singularity of universal indifference. Of course, that's just what I can see from behind the police tape, so..."
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Post by maggiethecat on Sept 10, 2005 9:01:39 GMT -5
Offended? Laughed like crazy.
I think Jon Stewart is brilliant.
Even Letterman got off a few good ones this week, like the other night when he was (supposedly) talking about the new HBO miniseries, Rome:
"Rome's burning like crazy, and Nero refuses to cut short his vacation."
And my favorite,"Can't wait for next week's exciting episode, when FEMA takes a week to show up at Pompeii."
Not in the same class with Jon & Samantha, but still worth a chuckle.
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Post by housemouse on Sept 10, 2005 12:31:50 GMT -5
I can't imagine a world without Jon Stewart and his commentary. Things would only go from bad to worse. Thank you JON!
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Post by shmeep on Feb 15, 2006 8:51:20 GMT -5
This is from Monday night's show--sent to me by that brother I'm always talking about (please don't tell him I post things he sends me over here!):
Jon Stewart: I'm joined now by our own vice-presidential firearms mishap analyst, Rob Corddry. Rob, obviously a very unfortunate situation. How is the vice president handling it?
Rob Corddry: Jon, tonight the vice president is standing by his decision to shoot Harry Wittington. According to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush. Everyone believed at the time there were quail in the brush. And while the quail turned out to be a 78-year-old man, even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists he still would have shot Mr. Whittington in the face. He believes the world is a better place for his spreading buckshot throughout the entire region of Mr. Whittington's face.
Jon Stewart: But why, Rob? If he had known Mr. Whittington was not a bird, why would he still have shot him?
Rob Corddry: Jon, in a post-9-11 world, the American people expect their leaders to be decisive. To not have shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak.
Jon Stewart: That's horrible.
Rob Corddry: Look, the mere fact that we're even talking about how the vice president drives up with his rich friends in cars to shoot farm-raised wingless quail-tards is letting the quail know 'how' we're hunting them. I'm sure right now those birds are laughing at us in that little 'covey' of theirs.
Jon Stewart: I'm not sure birds can laugh, Rob.
Rob Corddry: Well, whatever it is they do ... coo .. they're cooing a t us right now, Jon, because here we are talking openly about our plans to hunt them. Jig is up. Quails one, America zero.
Jon Stewart: Okay, well, on a purely human level, is the vice president at least sorry?
Rob Corddry: Jon, what difference does it make? The bullets are already in this man's face. Let's move forward across party lines as a people ... to get him some sort of mask.
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