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The Daily Show

Not a big fan of the interviews, but the news chunk is great. I watched the crossfire bit a few a few years ago - it is awesome. Stuart is a very sharp guy.
 
DexterTCN said:
The one on More4 tonight, I assume last night's in the US, was the best one I have ever seen.

The argument against the pro-life Newt Gingrich and the Palin woman was brilliant. The 'gay' convention had me in tears.
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http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/i...951&title=intro-hurricane-katrina&byDate=true

From the 6th of Sept 2005, the first post katrina show, personal favourite, comparing the American news media to "a fat drunk with a tire iron beating up two punks trying to steal his car".
 
AnnO'Neemus said:
P.S. As far as British politics being beyond satire, I think that a lot of people over here view politicians with a 'give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves' kind of attitude.

The feeling that I get about the American population is that:

[sweeping generalisation]If George W Bush publicly mounted a platform, wrapped a noose round his neck, yanked it taught, flipped the trap door and swung till his neck broke/he was asphyxiated, the vast majority of the American public *still* wouldn't realise he'd hung himself, even if they saw it with their own eyes.[/sweeping generalisation]

A very scary proportion of them believe in Adam and Eve, a scary proportion believe Saddam had WMD and was responsible for 9/11, etc. A lot of the American public hold beliefs that fly in the face of all logic and evidence.

I think that for the most part, Brits have a better inbuilt bullshit detector.
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I completely agree, and it's always hilarious how wound up Americans get about criticism of their government.

I mean, if foreigners stand around randomly bashing Britain, we probably get irritated too. But none of us give a shit about foreigners criticising the UK government...
 
kyser_soze said:
I think this fucking rocks.

Why isn't there an equally funny nightly satire show on British TV?

Or is UK politics beyond satire?
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I watch it, but I don't respect it. Smarmy American smugness, they take the piss out of the likes of Bush et al but then betray the fact that tyheir no better. Wotsisname who presents the show's alwasy coming out with the kind of world view they're programmed to have in the states "Russia chose the olympic games to invade Georgia" said with a straight face for example.

Then they have that black presenter who they roll out to talk about black things, and the female one to talk about lady-stuff, Asif Manvi to talk about brown-people, and that big fat white psycopath to represent the avergae American joe... it irritates me to be honest. That unfunny English tosser could only find success in the states, this much is obvious.

Sorry for the lazy post, really can't be arsed tbh.
 
You're wrong on so many levels we have to create new levels for you.

Down the stairs to the right, please. :)
 
Don't get me wrong, Stewart is funny, and some of the skits they doare funny, like pointing out the hypocracy of those rightwing commentators yesterday, but I don't really rate the shows opinions all that much. It's easy to point out the hypocracy and foolishness of rightwing politicians and commentators but the basic understanding is still in the neibourhood of for instance "America set out to liberate the Iraqis, they just did it wrong". For that, I don't consider the show all that clever.

Funny clownery though.

Would also be interesting if the American right had something similar. Again, just for shits'n'giggles.
 
foreigner said:
Would also be interesting if the American right had something similar. Again, just for shits'n'giggles.
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Fox News had a similar show, but IIRC it tanked badly. Apparently the writers were terrible, and let's be honest, to bash "liberal anti-american heathen baby-killers" they already had the remaining 23:30 a day, so most people probably couldn't tell the fake news from the real ones :D

E2A: This
 
Is the show in America an hour long? I think it is, I used to watch loads of videos of this online and the special reports are so funny, they don't show enough of those on the more 4 show.
 
Did anyone see Karl Rove and that Dick Morris piece of shit getting owned HARD on the show last night?

Trying to find a link!
 
I'm not a fan. Mediocre jokes, always at the expense of republicans, pandering to its audiences expectations, never really doing anything particularly challenging or subversive.

At least the Brit satire efforts seem to take the piss out of everyone that deserves it, rather than singling out a single side to pick on.
 
Fruitloop said:
Doesn't most US TV look like that?
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All entertainment shows seem to look like that - HBO dramas always look great though.
The graphics are the worst ever but they're like that on news channels too.
I don't get it - why are they so bad?
 
I always thought the slightly garish quality was something to do with the broadcast format, but it's weird that it seems just as bad when you see it over here. As for the graphics I guess there are a lot more channels so maybe it's unfair to compare them to the big three in the UK. Some of the stuff on the freeview channels here is pretty appalling to be fair...
 
Brainaddict said:
This? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo_tY7sXM20

It's good, though he didn't really have to work hard for the comedy - he just had to sit there and play the clips :D
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Thanks for finding it :)

Its just so frickin embarrassing how easily and smoothly pundits lie!

But then I think why am *I* cringing, when after having seen themselves get owned on TV tonight, they'll wake up tomorrow and go traduce some more reputations. None of it matters a damn to partisan rent-a-gobs.


Ugh-Bill O'Reilly. I forgot he was on the 'owned' montage too.

Every time I see him pontificating I remember this: which is just beautiful :D
 
Did anyone see Tony Blair on the show this week?

Interesting lack of a sense of a humour and still talking bollocks about the war in Iraq.
 
Did anyone see Tony Blair on the show this week?

Interesting lack of a sense of a humour and still talking bollocks about the war in Iraq.
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Yeah, that was good wasn't it? Glad to see Stewart give him a pretty tough ride which i don't think Blair was really prepared for.

Did you see Clinton last night? that guy is still the slickest. I miss Clinton.
 
Bonfirelight said:
Yeah, that was good wasn't it? Glad to see Stewart give him a pretty tough ride which i don't think Blair was really prepared for.

Did you see Clinton last night? that guy is still the slickest. I miss Clinton.
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He was really funny, loved the crack about not knowing that buying everyone 2,000 apple pies was an option for government spending!

However while he was accepting the praise and general accolades (seriously Bill, if you ran how much do you think you'd win by?) he was a tad slow to mention Obama, like!

Slightly awkward moment when he remembered he should be talking up Obama. Not quite a ringing endorsement!
 
November said:
I watch it, but I don't respect it. Smarmy American smugness, they take the piss out of the likes of Bush et al but then betray the fact that tyheir no better. Wotsisname who presents the show's alwasy coming out with the kind of world view they're programmed to have in the states "Russia chose the olympic games to invade Georgia" said with a straight face for example.

Then they have that black presenter who they roll out to talk about black things, and the female one to talk about lady-stuff, Asif Manvi to talk about brown-people, and that big fat white psycopath to represent the avergae American joe... it irritates me to be honest. That unfunny English tosser could only find success in the states, this much is obvious.

Sorry for the lazy post, really can't be arsed tbh.
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omg....



you <-------------------------------------------------------------> the point of thd daily show, colbert report etc etc

:D
 
Did anyone see the Blair interview? A bit of a let-down unfortunately. Blair knew just how to handle Stewart and deflected most of the criticism without getting properly challenged. The guardian even had a little column about how Blair had come out on top.
 
I disagree with that actually. Blair got lost in the debate about 2 democracies going to war, and had to be led back to the point.

I thought Stewart nailed him over and over on the Road to Iraq stuff.

The only problem I saw - Tony Blair would have been skewered in the UK if when asked about Iraq he repeatedly mentioned 9/11.
 
Brainaddict said:
Did anyone see the Blair interview? A bit of a let-down unfortunately. Blair knew just how to handle Stewart and deflected most of the criticism without getting properly challenged. The guardian even had a little column about how Blair had come out on top.
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Look Stewart isn't Paxman. Thats not his job. Thats why he'll get Blair and Clinton, because they'll get a nice coasty interview.
 
But even the debate about two democracies not fighting - Stewart was trying to say it was bollocks (which it is) but didn't know enough to challenge it properly. Probably the best counter-example is the US fighting proxy/clandestine wars against socialist democracies in South America. Instead Stewart came out with the Falklands, which was rubbish.
 
Look Stewart isn't Paxman. Thats not his job. Thats why he'll get Blair and Clinton, because they'll get a nice coasty interview.
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exactly, Stewart is more chat show host than political inquisitor, but he put Blair on the spot and made him look distincly uneasy.
In fact i think after a while and having made a small but pertinant point Stewart gave him an 'out' to get the chat back on track.

I'm not suprised the guardian looked on it like they did though.
 
Bonfirelight said:
exactly, Stewart is more chat show host than political inquisitor, but he put Blair on the spot and made him look distincly uneasy.
In fact i think after a while and having made a small but pertinant point Stewart gave him an 'out' to get the chat back on track.
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I agree with this.
 
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