Anthony

Have any Daily Show fans recently turned on the show like i have? I used to watch that ruckus every single night, without fail, but now I couldn't care less. It irritates me. Isn't Stewart just kind of a douchebag now?

I mean, to be fair, I don't think it's possible to be a cable news pundit and not become a total douche, sooner rather than later. Rachel Maddow, for example, is a person I really dug when she was paired up with Pops Buchannan on MSNBC. But now she's got her own show and she's become almost as bad as Olbermann. Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Chris Matthews, the list goes on.

Jon Stewart, a pretty funny guy, has not been immune to this douchetastic phenomenon, even though he puts on the fake cable news. The Daily Show, i think, worked it's way up and at some point over the past couple of years, became the sort of voice and outlet for a very particular demographic. Realizing the newfound reach and cache of his show, Stewart's been getting more and more self-important and it's horrible. The Daily Show's always been overly mean-spirited but, at this point, it's become something else entirely. Stewart throws some misinformed nugget out there, makes it sound like a punchline, puts on silly face and the audience laughs. It's not even funny anymore. Stewart hides behind the hypocritical notion that he's simply pointing out the absurdities, yet whether he likes it or not, he's lumped himself in with all those ridiculous caricatures of real newsmen/women. They cherry pick out of context clips, laugh at them and then defend themselves by saying: hey, it's just a comedy show. That'd be all well and good if it were just some regular ol' comedy show, but it ain't

How say you?

khfreek

Watch the Colbert Report.

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gunnels

What do you mean by this?
Besides the show doesn't seem to be getter any worse.

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The Colbert Report is, will, and will always be better, in my opinion.

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khfreek

present, future, future

as opposed to the ever-cliche

past, present, future...

I like it.

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boo boo

Oh for Christ's sake not again.

Poking fun of the news media while having an opinion of his own. Subjective political humor on a POLITICAL COMEDY SHOW? What f*cking blasphemy.

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Janszoon

Honestly, I think Obama is making Stewart's job hard. I mean, Bush, now there was a comedy gold mine, but Obama just doesn't deliver that kind of hilarious material that the Daily Show needs to thrive.

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boo boo

Stewart and Colbert has done the best they can however to point out all the lies and contradictions Obama has made so far, he's no Bush that's for sure, but rest assured Jon and Steve are keeping an eye on him and everytime he f*cks up, they're on it.

They're the only (intentional) comedians going after Obama right now and for that they deserve credit.

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TheBig3

would one of you ****ing pussys actually tell me what your ****ing problem is with Matthews?

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