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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
TV Parody As It Should Be
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YjIfaMwIFxU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=w3DA5lN1iwI
The best since Rush Limbaugh on TV?
Posted by Jonathan Goldfarb on February 14, 2007 | Permalink
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Oh boy. But then, I don't find The Daily Show funny either.
Posted by: Joan Tintor | 2007-02-14 7:59:31 PM
I agree with Joan. I don’t like Jon Stuart's shtick either. The only guy I ever liked doing that kind of stuff was Johnny Carson. I hope Joel Surnow isn’t actually wasting his brilliance on this stuff.
Posted by: nomdenet | 2007-02-14 8:37:57 PM
While the show looks fantastic... did they really need to steal the name from "This Hour Has 22 Minutes"? To a Canadian, it's pretty much the same joke... or am I being too cynical?
Posted by: Natedawg | 2007-02-14 8:46:02 PM
JT,nomdenet,
Count me in too.It's not funny,it's infantile.
Posted by: Canadian Observer | 2007-02-14 11:51:52 PM
Please, you must tell the leftist shotgun bloggers, where can they get a subscription to BO?
As for the Daily Show, I like Jon Stewart, and feel sorry that his humour has been failing recently. It appears to me he is trying to hard. I prefer the humour of his buddy, Stephen. And, I bet he does too!
Posted by: Lady | 2007-02-15 11:26:01 AM
As Yosemite Sam might say, "Oh, I HATES laugh tracks!"
Posted by: Cory Schreyer | 2007-02-15 11:31:56 AM
This show is flat and resolutely unfunny, at least from the clips made available to the media thus far. "The Daily Show," while it has an obvious liberal slant, is hardly a mere sounding board for Al Franken & friends to call Karl Rove a stupidhead to an awful laugh track. The show's quality has eroded somewhat since the 2004 election, but they still manage to take shots at EVERYthing remotely absurd, and in a thoughtful, irreverent fashion. The skits on "The 1/2 Hour News Hour" wouldn't aren't even SNL-during-a-horrible-spell calibre, and even the rapport between the "anchors" is stilted and without personality. Granted, the show is only in its infancy (and may not even get past episode #2 if the demos don't turn up), but I think that beyond sore presentation something like this has to do more than call partisan names in order to find an audience.
Posted by: Prokosch | 2007-02-15 4:58:46 PM
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