"It is clearly a humor show, first and foremost," Fox said of Stewart's program. "But there is some substance on there, and in some cases, like John Edwards announcing his candidacy, the news is made on the show. You have real newsmakers coming on, and yes, sometimes the banter and questions get a little silly, but there is also substantive dialogue going on … It's a legitimate source of news."

Indiana University:
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/4159.html

Local News Site:
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5496392

Too bad there wasn't more of Jon and less of people like Hodgman and Bakkedahl. Less sophomoric humour as well. While I am not offended by it, it in my opinion does not hold to the standard of comic truth which shines through when Jon simply tackles the lying liars of BushCo and the MSM head on. Anyway...the IU study is on the mark.

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Nothing wrong with your opinion...or mine.

and skewers rw hypocrisy with wit and insight. (And of course his fabulous demeanour)

You can have the last word. I don't care. It's just an opinion about a comedy show.

Sheesh.

I love his off the wall humor. The show has always had "sophomoric humor," but to be honest the current "correspondent" lineup is rather weak these days. They seem to do a lot more really lame/unfunny reports than they used to.

...knocking the high and mighty off their pedestal...and they mostly miss the mark in my opinion when they try to emulate one of the Porky's movies. Again, it doesn't offend me...it's just seems to waste time in an already too short show which is only on four days a week.

Stewart should do the same. Jon Stewart is a genius at unmasking the hypocrisy of his right-wing guests. He manages to show them up with a good-natured humour that doesn't offend them and has them coming back for more. There are certainly enough right-wing assholes available for him to fill a half-hour nightly show! The other performers on his show, except for Lewis Black, who fits into the show perfectly, are just time wasters, IMO.

Anyone who comes to the Daily Show without a good grasp of politics and current events is sure to find little humor in the show.

But for the rest of us, it's funny as hell....

as their primary news source, Jon said, "That can't be true, because if it were, they wouldn't get the jokes."

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That's a no brainer, but I think today you could probably argue it my be better than even the average nightly news.

I hope I am not morphing two surveys together but I think there was a rather tough 8 question survey and people who watched Dave Leno and Jon did much better than anyone who only watched network news.

There was another survey (U or Maryland I think) that asked 3 very easy NO questions (WMD found? World support for the war in Iraq? Links to alQaeda) and the more you watched Fox the more uninformed you were.

"Buffalo Bill" (1983) {TV-Series 1983-1984}


Plot Summary for "Buffalo Bill" (1983)

Bill Bittinger is the egotistical host of a local daytime talk show on WBFL in Buffalo, NY., unhappy at being a big fish in a small pond (but unable to break into the big leagues). Bill makes life miserable for his crew, guests, and especially his station manager, Karl Shub, who is constantly dodging lawsuits resulting from Bill's behavior. The one person Bill is unable to bully is his director and on again/off again lover, Jo Jo White.

More:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084992/


Or maybe:

Plot Summary for "Monty" (1994)

Monty Richardson is a Conservative talk-show host, a la Rush Limbaugh. His family, however, are rather liberal, including his son's radically left-wing girlfriend. The comedy starts as they try to resolve their differences...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108863/plotsummary

Katie Couric, Leslie Blitzer, Whazzisname Gibson, Brit Hume... it's a slam dunk!

more interesting, more honest, more clearly presented, and better researched than pox, or any of the other news networks.

and the fact this his audience, and Colbert's audience, are often a bit young is an added plus, since they are educating them. I can't see them getting THAT education anywhere else, without really searching for it.

...and now this!

I'm not alone in the world anymore! People are finally understanding what I've been saying for years!

I think I"m going to cry now.

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As I told my mother, if it's happening out there, someone drags it in here. I usually see the story 24 to 48 hours before it hits the local paper!

news channels. I want to hear it right.

...for sexually harassing one of the show's co-founders...

Someday, Kilborn's tombstone will read, simply... "...then catch Craig!" in very small print.

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he told some magazine...Vanity Fair? PLayboy? that if he wanted to he could have her, ahem, performing oral sex on him, only in crude terms....this appeared in print. he was suspended, she got an undisclosed bundle of cash...

However, I did see him on the "Late Late Show" a few times and he was the definition of unfunny.

the show with Pervez Musharraf as a guest. The fact that a comedy show was airing an erudite, substantive debate on the War On Terror* as it relates to Pakistan. Between a Jew and a Muslim, no less. Very impressive.


* Pronounced "warron terr!"

The Daily Show is real.

In the case of the so-called "real news," all TDS does is point out how fake it is. They're not bound to use words like "insurgency" and "sectarian violence." They can tell it like it is: "Mess-O-Potamia" and "civil war." The contrast between their realness and the national media's fakeness is what makes you laugh--and learn.

Now, here's Newt Gingrich spinning the Foley crisis by telling the press that sex scandal-wise, "Democrats have done far worse...We don't have to...allow...the left to lecture us on morality. There's a certain stench of hypocrisy." Gingrich served divorce papers on his terminally ill first wife, and had to leave government service because he carried on a 10-year affair while persecuting Bill Clinton over Monica Lewinsky. But for some reason, the stench of THAT hypocrisy never reaches the reporters' noses. What you end up with is REAL fake news!

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