I hate to say it, but I don't think the Daily Show is as good as it used to be. The host is better, and the jokes are better, but there is not enough news.

It used to be 5 or 6 headlines with a joke or two each. Now one headline with 12 jokes. I like the in depth feeling of the headlines, but I also feel I am getting gyped with one story with Stewart, one correspondent story, and then the interview. Change the format, cut out the interview or something, because I used to watch it everyday, now I am down to 2-3 times a week.

He was probably talking about Sacagawea not Pocahontas.

"Ah, TDS rocks! Best segement ever was during the time just before the U.S. invaded Iraq. Stephen Colbert did one of those blue-screen "field" reports."

Or what about the faked satellite broadcasts from in Iraq? Like Rob Cordrry's bit with the weather in Iraq. "Today's been declared a Sand Day for the following schools", or "Tomorrow we should be back to the more seasonal 115 degree high. If it keeps sanding then, we should have four to six inches of glass by afternoon."

No one did it as good as Ali G

To anyone who says "our vote doesn't count" or any similar crap, I hate you.

http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/2000presgeresults.htm

Several states electoral votes where decided by less than 1000 popular votes. Just because you're to lazy or ignorant to take part in our political system dosen't mean everyone else should just give up on it.

mitchkumstein: Have you ever seen the Star Trek movie with the whales? It's the same thing: You must compensate for the intended environment of the message. The ship's signal made no sense until they listened to it from a whales point of view/hearing, submerged in an ocean. I simply get drunk, take my head and ram it up my ass, and it's all clear.

Then you can't be helped, SherKhan.

S'true dat.

"Throughout the day at work: FARK and email alerts from CNN. Both lean a little left."

Sure, if you're looking at them from the front.

/eyes up here!

oh.. i bet you are right, the daily show peeps probably ARE reading this!

Hey guys! Keep up the good work! More boobies

I love the Daily Show... but it definitely leans left. You should take that into consideration, especially if it's your only news source. I'd say they lean left about as much as Fox leans right. It's tough to quantify that sort of thing though. The Daily Show won't hesitate to blast Kerry, or the (D)'s when they're blatently in the wrong, but Fox tends to downplay the (R)'s when they're in the wrong. Of course, one is going for laughs, and one is just trying to report the news. There are times though, when I think the Daily Show goes out of its way to make Bush look bad. Of course, there are times when it seems that Bush goes out of his way to make Bush look bad.

"Don't you think blacks should be given more than one vote to make up for that whole slavery thing?" Cordrry asked LaVine. "P. Diddy's got to be worth two votes, and Justin Timberlake, he's worth two votes, even though he's not black or anything."

I just peed myself.

Rain Shadow

I like Stewart better as a host and think he's funnier, but you are right about Craig Kilborn. VERY easy on the eyes.

wayward2: Only if you staunchly refuse to vote for a 3rd party.

2004-06-17 03:24:13 PM lubertdas

While parts of the Daily Show remain amusing, the show itself has ground itself into an anti-Bush rut of gargantuan proportions.

Well you know what they say: if you can't stand the heat, stop setting fire to your own house. Or at least have two exit plans prepared.

How many times can you watch Jon Stewert make a bad joke and then follow up with that shtfaced grin?

Comedy is way better when it is intented to make you laugh, not push some lame ass political agenda.

The Daily Show was played out back in the 90's

I've watched the Daily Show since it first began. Kilborn was great, but I like Stewart better.

What some of you Republican whiners have to realize is that Bush is the president now, so of course they make fun of him a lot. They used to make fun of Clinton all the time. Stop being babies... They make fun of both sides.

Here you go, Walt Jizzney

A two-for: Beth Littleford and a Wil sighting!

While I wouldn't expect a Senator to have seen every episode of Buffy, not even turning on a TV in 15 years could only leave someone completely out of touch with today's society.

I only say that because most people who have ignored television for that long, also don't bother to surf the web or listen to the radio oher than NPR, and the only Newspapers they read are the Times and The Wall Street Journal. That is all well and good if you are not trying to represent some portion of the country in the government.

Now I understand better why our elected officials have no idea what sort of impact the media bills they pass will have on the average person.

-the Hun

If all the "my vote means nothing" people got together and voted, say Reform, or somesuch, it would send a clear message to the Big two, and in that way, your vote WOULD mean something.

/quit your whining and vote anyway.

Separated jewish brothers?

Of course, if mitchkumstien needs directions to the "clitoris", he can always ask me. I hear he likes to dress up as a fireman.

he.. he.. he.. Fire.. he.. he.. he

williamzabka
It's not News, It's . . . The Daily Show

No, that's not right.

-the Hun

Stacy Grenrock-Woods is a very, very naughty little correspondent and she needs to strip down to her day-of-the-week underpants and get a spanking.

And so do Tina Fey and Sarah Silverman.

...at the same time.

...spank each other, that is.

...and then the oral sex.

Being liberal, I don't see anything wrong with the Daily Show. But then, I've always been liberal and always been a politics junkie. I grew up in Washington DC, still read the Washington Post, and have a general distain for anyone in authority.

It's amazing to see the type of people who come on the Daily Show. Some know what they are getting into and have a ball with it - such as Howard Dean who did a great voice thought-monologue that ended up with him being transformed into the Sun from the Telly Tubbies. Rev Al Sharpton did a great bit too - "how much is the war chest worth? I mean the actual chest - I've got some expensive pieces of luggage but all they contain is boring cheap shirts."

But then you get the people who didn't take the 5 minutes to find out what the Daily Show is all about. And THEY are hilarious. They get all outraged and pissy, when it's really their own damn fault they chose to go on. It's a choice to be interviewed for the Daily Show. They can choose not to do it.

Recently I've been loving the new Rob Courdry on the campaign trail. After they won their Emmies, they got the rights to get a press pass so that Courdry could go to some of the democratic nominations - and supposedly he'll be at some of the bush vs kerry debates when those happen. And it's hilarious - him showing off his lunchbox his manager packed for him, dissing the other reporters, trying to give a blow job so he can go backstage to get an exclusive interview.... and finally scoring an exclusive quote with I think it was Liberman who said something like "it's going to rock" in response to Courdry pestering him with "will it rock? will it rock!!!!???"

Yeah, they pick on Bush.

They also ripped Clinton a new one when Clinton was president. That was also funny.

They rip the pope a new one, and Arnold Shwartzenegger, and Kerry, and Dean, and basically anyone who gets in their way. Left, Right, if you're being stupid and they catch you on film, you will be humiliated. Equal opportunity bashing.

Oh yeah, and the "fired" special they did where Courdry and Ed Helms were competing not to get fired and ended up being married together was absolutely hilarious.

I'm sick of people saying that the Daily Show is anti -Bush. It has nothing to do with political affiliation or personal views. Bush is an ass, and he does asinine things. He gives them enough material to last for years.

Case in point: the other night's show featured him giving a speech welcoming Clinton's return to the White House..and he says something to the effect of "everyone is glad to see you here, and so is the President". Um hello? YOU'RE the president (as Jon Stewart pointed out in his commentary). What kind of ass refers to themselves in third person?

If you know you're going to speak in public, here's a hint...how about reading your prefabricated speech before hand.

Republican or Democrat...Bush is an ass.

TDS not funny to some of you? The barbs must hit a bit too close to home, no?

wayward2: Only if you staunchly refuse to vote for a 3rd party.

Go ahead, throw your vote away.

Good eye, star_topology!

That's ESPN's Mike "Greenie" Greenberg from Sportcenter and AM Radio's Mike & Mike in the Morning.

You love the Daily Show, if you have the balls.

WELL, DO YOU? DO YOU HAVE THE BALLS?!



/It's French, biatch.

Durang -

"Comedy is way better when it is intented to make you laugh, not push some lame ass political agenda."

I agree that sometimes they try too hard. For example, I think they're running the Abu Ghirab thing into the ground. I can't remember the last episode that didn't have at least one prison abuse photo in it. But if you think that they've gone so anti-Bush that they're totally unfunny, then I would have to ask, how pro-Bush you are, and how do you think that affects your viewpoint?

I'd also add that the humor just doesn't seem to work the other way around, in our current political climate. I mean, Kerry & Kennedy are pretty easy targets, but other than that... what do you have to poke fun at without sounding pompous to the average viewer? (See Dennis Miller) The conservatives are the ones making all the news right now.

The Daily Show is awesome. It's my only news source.

hmm, yes. gotta love self-imposed ignorance AND the balls to brag about it.

also, damn that california elections official needs to fire her press handler. asap.

I still miss their claim of, "The most important news program ever!" which was immediately dropped from the open after some date in 2001, somewhere between August and October.

Small, but beautiful head shot of Beth Littleford.

"Several states electoral votes where decided by less than 1000 popular votes"

Call me when it gets down to ONE vote. Name me ONE major election that came down to ONE vote, whether ONE person made a choice. Then I'll get up and do it.

Not to mention that the popular vote dosen't matter in the slightest, that's how Gore won in 2000 but still lost. There's a few hundred thousand people that could have stayed home, and the outcome wouldn't have changed in the slightest.

Soldiers don't just fight for our right to vote, kids, they also fight for our right NOT to vote. I don't care who wins, because they BOTH are horrible representives of our country, plus I don't trust either of their motives. And I'm not going to take 1 more minute than I have to to appease the fact that you want someone with that magical "R" or "D" in charge.

It doesn't matter whether we go red republican or blue democrat in the elections, it's going to turn into brown shiat in the end.

/Hates Jellomonkey right back.

The Daily Show is about the news we want to hear.
Sure, it's a comedy show. Sure, it's a left-wing show.
But, I'm a liberal and I think I do a good enough job of
picking out the real news in-between the jokes.
We're not all sheep who'll believe anything you tell us.
They're watching Fox News.

-Hyatus
"da da da"

impaler -

"Which one is trying to do what?"

Fox news is always going for laughs. They're just going for the coveted Karl Rove "MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!" kind of laugh, whereas, the Daily Show... well, they're just trying to report the real news with a straight face.

The Daily Show rocks.

Jon Stewart to have my babies!

Did anyone see the episode were Jon interviewed Kermitt the frog and was getting burned by kermitt.


\\I though it was funny.

2004-06-17 04:58:36 PM Critch

Name me ONE major election that came down to ONE vote, whether ONE person made a choice. Then I'll get up and do it.

John Quincy Adams defeated front runner Andrew Jackson for President of the United States by one vote

In a weird way Fark is like the daily show. Real news, really important news, gets discussed and there are always good points and references thrown in amongst the flames. And occasionally it's really really funny.

wayward2

Only if you staunchly refuse to vote for a 3rd party.

Go ahead, throw your vote away.

You know, whiny biatches like you make me ALMOST wish that they could take that privelege away from you.

So now only the winning parties votes count? Has nothing to do with having a say, with being part of a democratic process. All about the winner hey?

/America is MUCH bigger trouble than anyone realizes yet.

Tina Fey of "SNL," a brilliant writer and funny performer ... but how the hell did she break into Maxim's 100? I was flabbergasted by that one. She isn't a three-bagger or anything, but the Maxim 100? Has a tousled hairdo and quirky glasses ever carried anyone further?

I guess not.

Call me when it gets down to ONE vote. Name me ONE major election that came down to ONE vote, whether ONE person made a choice. Then I'll get up and do it.


Terrible attitude. If you don't like the D or the R, vote for someone else. If you and the hundreds of millions of other (lazy) non-voters had voted for the GREEN party in 2000, your president would today have a G next to his name instead of an R or a D.

Considering the fact that the R has put your nation into a terrible, expensive and poorly-thought-out war that the D would not have put you into, I think your statement that "it doesn't matter" is more than a bit naive.

Creep Vassilage: Stephen Colbert is the best, they really ought to give him a show called The Colbert Report so he can just work his reductio ad absurdum for 30 minutes straight.

"The Colbert Rport...It's French, biatch!"

Wayward2 -

"Go ahead, throw your vote away."

I voted for Nader on '00 because I didn't like the other guys. When it came down to the wire, it turns out that all those people who voted for Nader, could have voted for Gore, and changed the outcome of the election. But they weren't throwing their votes away, because now you hear of people "going for the independant voters" or "trying to win the Nader vote" or something like that. The Nader voters affected the outcome of the election, even if it was to thier general disliking, and for that reason, now the campaigns are paying more attention to them, even if it is just lip service.

By the way, I thought the episode of the Daily Show that made fun of the poor college kids who voted for Nader was hilarious.

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The Daily show is severely left-leaning. Its creator left to join the liberal radio network. I can't believe people claim The Daily Show is fair and balanced!

HAAa! OH THE IRONY of you people claiming to get your only news info from this leftist regime! No wonder you're all so anti-america!

Yes because Race From the Whitehouse when referring to the dems election campaign is sooooo leftist.

idiot.

On 18 January 1961, in Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania), the Afro-Shirazi Party won the general elections by a single seat, after the seat of Chake-Chake on Pemba Island was won by a single vote.

Andrew Johnson retained his office by one vote. The final tally against him was 35 to 19, but a two-thirds majority of the votes cast was needed to oust him from office, thus a 36-to-18 result was required.

In 1839, Marcus "Landslide" Morton was indeed elected governor of Massachusetts by one vote. Of the 102,066 votes cast by the good people of that state, he received exactly 51,034. Had his count been 51,033, the election would have been thrown into the Legislature, where he probably would not have won.

"Landslide" also made the record books in 1842 when he won the same office again by one vote, this time in the Legislature. (In those days, Massachusetts governors were elected for terms of one year.)

Right on lubertdas. I am starting to watch the Daily Show less and less these days. Not just for the Bush bashing, but the declining use of those funny news segments and more emphasis on unfunny guests. The other gripe I have is Jon's continued position that he is a balance between the left and right. Just looking at the guests he has and the way he treats them differently depending upon their political persuasion, is enough to turn me away completely. I don't mind poking fun at Bush or other political figures once in a while, but his one-sidedness it is getting out of hand.

I hate rich, over-privileged white people so I don't vote. It is that simple. I just don't believe, in my heart, that any of these politicians have our nations best interests, and not theirs, as their priorities.