"The Daily Show Has To Maintain Their 'Fair & Balanced' View Of Comedy"

[matcom]

"or they won't be credible"

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:rofl: so says the Right Winger on Scarborough talking about the Fox News "bias"

[Bluebear]

1. Yes, they should copy Dennis Miller's style to be successful!

:rofl:

[Generic Brad]

6. I'm laughing so hard I'm crying!

Thanks, Bluebear!!
:rofl: :cry: :rofl: :spray: :applause: :applause:

[Mz Pip]

2. Since when does

a fake news show have to be fair or balanced? Jon should have a terrific time with this one.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Maat]

3. Somebody didn't really say that, did they?

That's the stupidest thing I've EVER heard. It's a fake news show (comedy), Scarborough, and, moreover, it is OUR fake news show. Get your own, Scarborough! Oh, that's right ...

:hippie:

[lonestarnot]

7. I told you guys to watch! ROMFFL!

[Maat]

8. I will!

I'm on the West Coast. Unfortunately (fortunately?), I think it will be on later, so I'll be able to watch.

[lonestarnot]

10. I am too. I think you might have missed it unless you TIVOed or

whateva... :shrug: (I don't have one of those lol)

[Maat]

13. Oh, dang!

We do have one, but I didn't set it to Scarborough.

HeeHee - we have better things to TIVO.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

12. I had to back it up when my wife came in the room and show that comment..

..to her. Where can we get our credible...comedy from???

That guy is an idiot, Joe should stop hawking his stupid book.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

23. They have fake news shows all over AM radio

Rush, Savage, asshole de jour . . .

[zanne]

35. They don't understand satire.

I think it's a congenital defect. They have no satire genes.

[Codeblue]

52. Agreed

However, they have quite the taste for sarcasm. As satire is meant to advance CHANGES in society, there's no way RW'ers could possibly know what satire is.

[Mojambo]

4. ROTFLMAO. n/t

[eleny]

5. That guy again?

Dark hair, kinda dweeby and slightly tense-edgy about TDS? I saw a guy hawking that same schtick on a FoxNews show several weeks ago. Definiately a WTF moment. Stewart should do a bit on him.

[Eric J in MN]

19. Bob Kohn, right-wing author. NT

NT

[Iris]

9. My, God. They can't possibly be THIS stupid, can they?

[BlueIris]

11. Of course they can.

Pure evil is always just that stupid.

BTW: Hee. You have the little eye ball icon I used to use.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

38. you heard about the Right-Wing comedy show Fox is doing right?

"This Just In"

[wryter2000]

39. The way Momma described it

"Just like the Daily Show, except not...what's that word...funny."

[SlavesandBulldozers]

41. is it on now?

i don't have tv. anybody catch it?

[wryter2000]

42. I don't think it's been produced yet. n/t

n/t

[SlavesandBulldozers]

47. gotcha. thanks n/t

[FVZA_Colonel]

48. Wasn't that a cartoon that TBS or TNT or someone did a while back?

And didn't it flop?

[SlavesandBulldozers]

49. yes

its ALSO the running name (which may change) of a Fox News comedy show currently in production. a conservative comedy show, it's gonna be EFFING HILARIOUS!!

[Guaranteed]

The Daily Show hurts them- badly. They'll find a way to attack

it one way or another, stupid or not.

[Tansy_Gold]

15. I do not usually scream at the tv. I SCREAMED AT IT

TONIGHT!

"IT'S A COMEDY SHOW, YOU ASSHOLE!"

words fail me.

words


fail


me



Tansy. . . . . . . Gold

[Bobbie Jo]

21. Was a simultaneous scream....I did it too...n/t

[wndycty]

14. Here is the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEWjSpV1Gps

[Sydnie]

16. Bless you for that video

that's one of the most fucked up things I have ever heard on MSNBC ... and I have been watching them for years! :rofl: Just what the hell is "comedy credibility" and where can Michael Richards buy some? ;)

[Eric J in MN]

18. The right-wing punidt is Bob Kohn...

...author of "Journalistic Fraud: How The New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted."

[tavalon]

30. That was laugh out loud funny

Thanks. Even the pundit seemed to realize he was walking down a blind alley and almost stumbled over the "comedy" part. That was almost funnier than the segment as a whole, that moment when he looked slightly lost.

[qanda]

36. Thanks for sharing

I'm cracking up.

[flying rabbit]

45. wow..?..

I don't know whether to shit or wind my wristwatch after that fantastic bit of cognitive dissonance

[Deb]

17. Imagine that -

bush supporters feeling threatened by a comedy show. Amazing how John can make two different political parties pee their pants, one in fear, the other in laughter. Stewart is *THE* Great Uniter. :rofl:

[Sabriel]

20. I had the same thought about The Onion

It's way too satirical. IMO, The Onion needs some more serious, truthful stories.

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. He actually said "they have to *become* fair and balanced"

which is what makes his remark stupid. If he was acknowledging that currently they just take the piss out of any stupidity, but most of the stupidity comes from the right, and that if something does come up from the Democratic majorities in Congress, they shouldn't ignore it, then he'd have a point; but he was implying that TDS already ignore chances to laugh at Democrats - despite the amount of jokes they've made over the years about Clinton, Gore, Kerry and any other prominent Democrat.

[Cocoa]

24. "zero credibility" is part of their motto

"One anchor, five correspondents, zero credibility."

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/about_the_show.jhtml

[Kolesar]

34. "The only network with no credibility to lose" -- from one of their voice-overs -- eom

[maine_raptor]

25. I saw that too

It has to rank as one of the top ten most stupid things ever said on the tube. And to top it off, by having two right-wing commentators in that segment, Joe showed just how un-fair and un-balanced HE is.

Joe has been going after TDS for quite awhile now. Funny though, I can't recall Jon ever doing a "Look there's a dead intern in my office*" bit, so I'm puzzled as to why he's so upset with TDS.


*"Not dead, just resting."

[wndycty]

26. Here is the clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEWjSpV1Gps

[maine_raptor]

27. Thanks, but

with my rural Moose and Squirrel powered dial up, vid downloads are a no-no for me.

Besides, my doctors only allow my to view one incident of rank stupidity per day....blood pressure, ya know.

[tavalon]

31. Sadly, this one would be good for your blood pressure

This is laugh out loud funny. Just funny. There is nothing to be angry at here - it's just too absurd. Jon's writers couldn't have scripted it better. If Jon does a segment on this, he won't have to doctor it, just do one of his patented "Whaaa?" looks.

[dapper]

28. I watched that and was wondering what the !@#$%

Who was that guy, what an ass..

[dapper]

29. Bob Kohn... never mind

[tavalon]

32. It's kind of like shooting fish in a barrel these days, isn't it?

I love the smell of burning repukes in the morning!

[spooky3]

33. as JS said, if Dems do things that are equally absurd

they'll get their share...but, he said, it's hard to imagine anything more absurd than the present admin.

Truth does have a liberal bias.

[shifting_sands]

37. PLAY FAIR (MY RULES)

I thought the guy was going to cry. Someone needs to tell him that
1) Comedy Central does not present themselves as "fair and balanced" they don't advertise that way
2) The Daily Show specifically and repeatedly says they are "faux news"
3) the only credibility a comedian, Jon Stewart or any comedian" is "do they make you laugh?" Stewart will make fun of Pelosi if he thinks Pelosi is going to get him a laugh. I don't see how she can be as funny as Trent Lott, but maybe.

When I saw that poor guy, I thought "OMG the folks on the right thinks everyone must play by their rules, no matter what the rules." While they are the school yard bully, the Stewarts of the world is the kid standing just out of reach going "nah, nah, nah, you can't touch me." If the rest of the right wing is anything like this guy on Scarborough they are just plain angry/sad over the Stewarts of the world.

[rman]

40. Have you seen Stewart on Crossfire?

It's about more than comedy.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=889968848656043401&q=Stewart+on+Crossfire

[cynatnite]

43. They're looking to a comedy show for credibility??

:rofl: That's freakin' hilarious. :rofl:

[TroglodyteScholar]

44. I guess someone missed that amazing episode of Crossfire...

[praeclarus]

46. "if they want to maintain their credibilty...

... as a reliable source of comedy"

Giggle.

I'm adding Bob Kohn, whoever the fark he may be,
to my personal list of "reliable sources of comedy"
even if he is Faux pundit.

edit for typo in subject.

[Cass]

50. Oh. So Faux News is credible because they are "fair & balanced"

:rofl:

I want what these fruitloops are smoking.

[hamletsophelia]

51. huh?!! it'a comedy...

[Uncle Joe]

53. I feel the same way you do, matcom, it's enough to give you emotional whiplash. n/t