The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

So tell me why we did not have this thread?

I don't have much to say at the time, but I've heard that if you want to watch it streamed, Hulu has less commercials than the Daily Show's site.

Who watched his glorious Glenn Beck parody last night? It was hysterical.

• goes to watch the glorious Glenn Beck parody from last night*

edited 8th Apr '11 7:09:12 AM by 0Emmanuel

It makes perfect sense! All the pieces fit!

I wanted him to say the Beck could lift the Hulk.

The American news media is a joke, back home they are much better deceiving and indoctrinating the populace. I like that Jon Stewart made a career out of mocking the news and "liberals" though. I may buy Colbert's book sometime.

edited 10th Apr '11 10:29:46 PM by Cider

News Corp doesn't own Comedy Central (right?) so for now I'll keep not streaming the Daily Show on Hulu.

I don't know. What does that have to do with anything?

YMMV

Took me a while to figure why I dislike this show. To me it feels smug. The vibe tend to degrade into, "We're so cool, young and college educated. We criticize and make fun of these idiot politicians, celebs and powerful people. Look at how stupid they are."

But I just think, "So? OK, these people should be laughed at and criticized, but that's not *really* doing anything. What are you *really* gonna do about this world? Obviously you care about the world so much. Stop hiding behind the smug arrogance."

News Corp owns Hulu. Hulu sells my eyes and ears to advertisers for money that is spent supporting racist, classist, sexist, and homophobic agendas. So I don't watch Hulu.

That an interesting perspective. I just see it as satire. It's not their job to do anything about it, it's mine. They're already doing their job. What I love about the Daily Show is that it takes news that would normally make me foaming-at-the-mouth angry, and instead makes me laugh out loud.

edited 11th Apr '11 8:17:10 PM by invisigoth

I hope that means you also don't buy any products that are advertised on Hulu...

Since you wouldn't know what they would be, here's a hint: All of them... And I hope you enjoy never giving to charities after disasters...

Because otherwise you'd be a hypocrite, wouldn't you?

That last bit is a very amusing statement on this website.

I try to be informed and take my consumption seriously. It's seriously hard. But News Corp (thanks to Citizens United) literally puts money in the hands of people I actively oppose. Or in the hands of organizations created to anonymously put those people in power. Yeah, it probably involves some uniformed hypocrisy—but I try to do what is right.

edited 11th Apr '11 8:26:22 PM by invisigoth

Hypocrisy aside(and off-topic for the last time), you do realize that Hulu isn't "owned" by News Corp, right?

It's a joint-venture between News Corp, GE, and Disney each holding ~29%(Specifics: GE 32%, News 31%, Disney 27%) with some private equity firm holding 10%... And the specific shows you watch gets 60-80% of the advertising money that was paid by the advertisers....

edited 11th Apr '11 8:47:15 PM by Swish

That's interesting (I didn't know that). Does GE still own its interest in Hulu, since Comcast bought NBC? (And Hulu was originally announced as a joint-venture between NBC and News Corp.)

Anywho. That Jon Stewart sure is funny.

GE owns NBC. Comcast merged with GE(or the reverse... I forget the legaleze).... But yeah.

I personally watch the Daily Show on Hulu... unless it's one of Hukabee's interviews. Then I go to the Daily Show's web-site (which streams every episode too, weird). The "extended interviews" are only available on the Daily Show's web-site, but it's more convenient for me to watch the episodes in general on Hulu, since that's where all the other shows I watch are...

edited 11th Apr '11 8:56:16 PM by Swish

Here's hoping Not Intended To Be A Factual Statement becomes a glorious meme

Also, why no Colbert Report thread? Also, a Colbert Report and Daily Show combo thread seems best.

edited 13th Apr '11 3:49:32 AM by ViralLamb

We can have Colbert on this thread for the first few pages and then when the topic starts to get more populat on its own we can spin it off into its own thread.

I remember when the daily show was two hours and Colbert was one of his "reporters".

Two hours? That was a thing?

That sounds amazing.

Well maybe? It either dropped to one hour from two or half an hour from a full hour. I'm not sure as I haven't watched it in a while, since my channel numbers have changed.

They used to show the previous day's back to back with new episodes, but two hours of new content a day?

Only if they had some special.

Tracy Morgan interview.

The nail polish controversy. The very definition of a wall banger.

edited 13th Apr '11 10:39:49 PM by ViralLamb