STEWART v COLBERT (which is your favorite?)

What he did at the correspondents dinner I won't forget, it took balls of galactic proportions.

Even the right wingers in the audience seemed to be clueless, because the humor went right over their heads.

THAT is why it was such a brave piece of work.

I watched it live and there was a moment you could tell Bush was not happy.

in the logic and humor departments... always last to get it, if ever.

I like them both though. Great pictures!

"Archie Bunker" from the 70s SitCom "All in the Family."

Yes, right wingers are not known for their insightful nature. :P

But they loved the bigotry, racism, intolerance, cluelessness and close-mindedness of Archie.

Whoa! :smoke:

It requires intelligence to recognize and understand the subtleties of life, or humor. But right wingers seem unable to sort out even the simplest concepts if they are anywhere between the two poles. Either their intellects are defective, or they are profoundly lazy. Maybe both...

:sarcasm:

Steven Colbert is just as brilliant but lately he seems to be getting into his right-wing character too much. Or perhaps I'm finding very little that is charming with the bat shit crazies on the right.

When it comes to some of the right wing freaks, satire has died. ;)

Real right wing rhetoric is moving towards his fake right wing rhetoric to a point where it is sometimes hard to tell them apart.

i love and enjoy that. but infatile.

stewart, as much as he would hate it, is more mature. i appreciate it a bet more.

i think colbert is quicker though with wit and that truly fascinates me.

i enjoy the differences.

I'm kidding!

love stewart, but colbert is one of the few people that can make me truly laugh out loud.

:rofl: :patriot:

Stewart is "merely" a great host. I don't mean to denigrate him in any way, but Colbert has created something new in television.

I love the daily show but find Stewart distinctly unfunny when a bit relies on Stewart himself. On the other hand, he's a surprisingly good interviewer.

The Colbert Report is carried entirely by Colbert and is a more impressive individual work. It's a bizarre intellectual thing.

Look at it this way... the Daily Show without Stewart wouldn't be the same. The Colbert Report without Colbert wouldn't exist.

Was Kilborn the first or was it before that?

The problem with Colbert is that to enjoy his satire, you have to go through his fake persona, which is intentionally irritating. Stewart, on the other hand, just is able to be himself (and often times in a self-depricating manner), so he's much easier to enjoy.

But Stephen Colbert as Mr. Noblet on Strangers with Candy was a thing of genius.

I find Colbert damn sexy. I enjoy him very much.:loveya:

Both of 'em, I'd hit it.

"Reality has a liberal bias". Truer words were never spoken.

Because I want to have both of their babies. But I'd have Jons first;-)

Both of 'em are just too cool.

I'm too old to have their babies, but..... whatever!!!

They seem to think he's on their side.

It's hilarious! I believe it takes intelligence to be able to understand a lot of forms of humor. Right wingers seem to lack the intelligence to 'get it'. I've never seen a tea gagger smile or laugh. And I have two right wing, conservative extremist, tea bagging 'Christians' in my family and neither of them have the capacity to have joy-filled laughter from their hearts. Probably because they have defective or missing hearts and minds. And they are my older brother and older sister. I wonder how I managed to avoid succumbing to the evil forces they fell victim to. I even wondered if I was adopted because of the extreme differences between us. But now that my parents are both gone I no longer have to hear about them or see them. Being around them was like living on top of a toxic waste dump.

I think partly it's a cultural divide thing - I'm British, and I'm used to a rather different style of comedy. Both Stewart and Colbert come across as very scripted and phoney; I much prefer e.g. Al Franken, who gave the impression that he was delivering a political monologue with lots of jokes rather than reciting a series of jokes about politics.

I occasionally will go through a stretch where I watch Colbert more.

But they're both great :patriot:

I won't even vote, because they are both about as excellent at what they do as is possible, and they both have my eyes, my respect, and my thanks for their work. Stewart is a comic by nature and his humor is in the telling, Colbert is an actor first, and the humor is in the playing.
I'll add that Stephen is an ongoing revelation to me in his ability to keep peeling the comic onion of that character layer after unexpected layer. I thought the persona might become tiresome or constrictive after a time, but he had more chops than one has any right to expect.
The two shows are satirical salt and pepper, they compliment each other perfectly.

How many of the Daily Show's fake correspondents went on to great careers? I miss all the ones who moved on. Being a member of the Daily Show has boosted so many great talents. BTW, I find their fake correspondents to be more credible that the real correspondents sometimes. And they get to the truth in some of the most clever and hilarious ways.

The Daily Show was the first program I saw where old video footage was used extensively to show how hypocritical people are. I always wondered why 'real news' programs didn't have the same research capacity as the Daily Show. All those Sunday morning shows let people get away with saying any lie they want and are left completely unchallenged. If Jon Stewart hosted Meet the Press he would skewer people when they lied to him. Gregory just lets them lie, either because he is clueless, or because he isn't smart enough. He is so damned inept. He was inept as a White House Press Corp member and he is inept as the host of Meet the Press. It's sad when Comedy Central is a better source for the truth than a lot of news programs.

Both can make me laugh out loud and both can fall flat. Daily Show humor seems to be a little more juvenile to me (interesting that another poster said Stewart is more mature) and there can sometimes be a bit of a mysogynistic streak and a little too much tacky bathroom humor in the show. Colbert can be a little to right wingish (he often drives my Dad NUTS for that reason).

About Colbert at the WH correspondents dinner: They thought "They wouldn't have brought us in if they didn't know what jokes we did."

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2009/12/colbert-dishes-on-bush-glenn-beck-and-msnbc/32503/

at a used book store - $5!! It's funny but his humor comes across better on the telly.

don't conflict.

I don't know if you're familiar with that movie, but it is one of the most gut wrenching movies I've seen. I won't spoil it for you by telling you what happens, but my comment above was a lame attempt at humor because picking between two comics is different than in the movie. All the best...

Go Stephen!!!
Go Jon!!!

Love them both very much.

they are good seperately but better together.

I agree though... they are both unique and we are fortunate to have them...

He knows what I'm talking about!

A segment that just doesn't scale up,

So I will say Both!

Or maybe I just like Colbert's shtick better. Sometimes, when Jon goes "boom" and pumps his fist, I think, "that joke would have been better without that." And you know, all the little high-pitched voices, the Jersey teamster bit, etc., gets a bit repetitive.

But of course I watch them both every night.

every night of Colbert brings jokes and jokes within jokes

Colbert favors the brain and its functions. Stewart favors the genitalia and their function. I find Colbert more consistently funny. I love John Oliver, Aasif Mandvi, and most of Stewart's crew. (I have kinda soured on Sam Bee, though. Is she pregnant again?) Hodgman and Black are to die for but we don't get to see them very much.

Colbert is nearly always right on target and there is quite a variety of topics.

All my opinion, of course.

I'm going with Stewart, especially after his last musical tribute to that butthead on Fox, but I still nearly bust a gut remembering Colbert at the Bush press dinner where he made a film with Helen Thomas where she was pursuing him all over trying to find out the source of his "conservative" ideas. He literally could not get away from her as the film went and he was driven to the edge of "terror." It was his tribute to Helen Thomas at the height of the Bush era and they stood very strongly together.

Overall though it is Stewart.

They are both the best!

Colbert won me over once and for all! <3

Love 'em both!