WSJ editorial doesn't find Colbert, Lewis Black, Stewart, Sasha Cohen, Bill Maher Funny

[Ichingcarpenter]

''Comedy seems to have acquired the polemical nature of politics, too. Nowadays, when the comedians are not solemnly commenting on political matters or vying for public office, their most satisfying routines are antagonistic. But they're not funny.''

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122791765064865625.html




Lee Siegel 7/28/06, writing in the pro-Lieberman anti-Democrat New Republic:

On my own New Republic blog, I called the entire political blogosphere fascistic and coined the term “blogofascism.”

TNR 9/1/06
After an investigation, The New Republic has determined that the comments in our Talkback section defending Lee Siegel’s articles and blog under the username “sprezzatura” were produced with Siegel’s participation. He wrote his own defense. We deeply regret misleading our readers. Lee Siegel’s blog will no longer be published by TNR, and he has been suspended from writing for the magazine

[Starry Messenger]

1. And he just wrote a book, it seems.

Guess we know which shows he won't be appearing on to promote it. What a dumbass.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. I just e-mailed Colbert and Stewart.....

this guy just took on the wrong people.

He was fired for lying at New Republic
but then Mordor's WSJ hired him.

[Starry Messenger]

6. How do people like this keep getting jobs?

Good on you for the email. It sounds like the sort of thing that will make for a brilliant spot on both shows!

[gratuitous]

2. Sure they're not funny

Not compared with those masters of comedic repartee like P.J. O'Rourke, Bruce Tinsley and the genius writers of the Fox 1/2 Hour News Hour.

:rofl:

I knew I couldn't type that with a straight face.

:rofl:

[blondeatlast]

3. And yet, Mr. Siegal tries to one-up the pros. What an asshole. Of course the best comedy in the last

8 years has turned more serious, the inspiration was truly frightening. We could laugh or despair and I think we generally made the right choice (to laugh).

[Orsino]

5. The powerful are not typically amused by satire...

...nor are their toadies.

[drmeow]

10. Its hard for the powerful to laugh

when they are the butt of the jokes and the jokes undermine their power. Funny how that works.

You are exactly right.

[truedelphi]

7. The M$m's official game plan backfired.

For the last three decades they have tried to turn the nightly news report into sound bytes that offer more coverge of Britney and her missing panties than of serious issues.

So millions of viewers gave up. If the TV news isn't news, then why bother watching it? Younger Americans, and more educated older Americans, get their news from blogs on the internet, and also from comedians, who have been very happy to oblige in the fun fest.

[scarletwoman]

8. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Sock Puppit Siegel as media critic! Whooaa!

Yeah. Your opinion really matters, Lee. :rofl:

[drmeow]

9. The idiot knows nothing about the history of comedy

If he thinks that satirical political comedy has not been around since LONG before Lenny Bruce, he must be from Mars. I think it would be more accurate to paraphrase his pedantic column thus, "They're making fun of me when I'm being serious - it must not be funny."

I guess all fans of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report didn't get the memo that those shows just aren't funny!

"Comics like Mr. Stewart and Mr. Colbert are also returning the comedian to the role once played by the court jester, who was allowed to speak truth to power with impunity."

The court jester was also funny.

What a humorless bonehead. Thank God Comedy Central isn't about to listen to anything he says. I need my belly laughs from Jon and Stephen!

[20score]

11. Compared to those Kings of comedy, Coulter, Limbaugh and Dennis Miller?

Why, the right has always been great at comedy; look at how well comedy works when the powerful throw in sadism to their routine.

[ColbertWatcher]

12. Dr. Colbert is not a comedian. Why would the WSJ say such a slanderous thing!? n/t

[MasonJar]

13. And I do not find the WSJ credible. I have at least as much sense as the editorial staff of that

rag.

[BrklynLiberal]

14. They should include the information you provided at the bottom of the

editorial along with the name of the book he wrote. Lying POS.

And this article just goes to prove what we have really known all along....repukes have no sense of humor whatsoever.

[Norrin Radd]

15. He's hiding behind the cowardly WSJ, which only accepts comments from subscribers.

[spanone]

16. rupert murdoch rag