I thought FOX *was* satire...Follow

They proved that two weeks ago on Colbert Report when one of his guests on "Know Your District" won because they beat the incumbent because the incumbent wouldn't do the show.

I watch TDS and Colbert every night and am VERY educated, both politically and otherwise. I like Jon Stewart's style of humor. He can pull political humor off without looking smarmy and I like that. And Colbert is so out there and switches affiliations midshow to suit the guest or theme. Granted he is more or less siding with democrats by landblasting republicans over and over, but the show will have to change as the dems come into power and become embroiled in their own scandals.

I personally would love to see Fox try to parody news, they have been doing it so long they should be able to make pure comedic gold.

Yeah, because it wouldn't be like Stephan Colbert at all to make it look as though his show was the pivotal point in the election.

Oh no! Bill O'Reilly found our thread and rated it down! Rate-Ups 4 j00 all!



Even Gbaji

Doesn't he have a large pair of brass balls on his shelves on the set?

Why hasn't gbaji been complaining that PBS often has Mark Russell on after The News Hour.

Political Humor knows no boundary's. I was raised on watching the Smothers Brothers until CBS pulled the plug on them, twice. Nixon even appeard on Laugh In, as at least he could take a joke, unlike some Pubbies.

i thought it was supposed to be a NEWS network.

hm

Nixon stepped down before they had a chance to vote on the Impeachment. I had to retire my Impeach Nixon pin. Made me cry too.

I may some days walk like I'm in my 80's, but I'm still far from old, kiddo

Maybe I can get kid, to take pic of how they want to pop out of my new bodice.

As Long as their friends still think of me as a hot looking babe, I refuse to be old.

You just wish you were able to have sex with a mature Babe, who knows alot of tricks you wife is still years from knowing about. Plus, I no longer am too tire because the baby had me up alll night.

Empty Nest Sex is something every parent looks forward too, after a few years of running after toddlers and then waiting up all night, when they are teens.

Thread bump as the show soon descends upon us.

Gaze upon this segment and... umm.. laugh, I guess. I chuckled at the 99.9% joke (which might have been funny with decent delivery) but... well, you can watch it.

And the laugh track is beyond obnoxious.

Meh, the Daily Show points out hypocrisy and gaffs and makes fun of them. The very first joke tries to connect Dems and Obama to hard core drugs and then goes on and tries to connect him to terrorism. The 18 month bit was relevant but the rest just seemed a little mean spirited.

Since when has politics not been mean spirited satire? It's one thing to make jokes. It's entirely another to promote violence as the central tenet of the liberal left-wing philosophy. Liberalism makes the Satanic Verses look like a kiddie cartoon. These people enact violent evil daily. These leftist criminals have Nazified the political vocabulary. "Universal Health Care" is cleansed of the entailed slavery of doctors, the restriction of peaceful adults to voluntarily trade services, the hidden rationed care in socialist countries the world over, the politically enforced preferential treatment of favored classes to the detriment of others (don't see politicians on wait lists do you?). Leftists are blatant evil criminals. And so too are the conservatives far too embrasive of evil criminal behavior.

And leftists are so stupid and blind to their criminal behavior that it's hilarious when they cry about loss of freedom and privacy when the Patriot Act authorizes checking personal library records yet these leftists force the turning over of far more invasive information every time you apply for a job. And they rob you every pay check. (Haven't heard jack **** about that on this site since I pointed it out have yas?) And they advocate the teaching and mob rallying activity of robbing your neighbor. There's so much hypocricy all around it's no surprise to me that satire of politics is on the upswing. What's to discuss "seriously" about the actions and philosophies of the political classes? They're crooks. They're liars. They're megalomaniacs.

We should take leftwing crooks seriously? We should take right wing war mongerers seriously?

All the networks show clips of the daily show. All the networks show clips of Jay Leno, David Letterman, and Jimmy Kimmel. All the networks showed Bill Clinton on ******* Hall. All the networks showed Joe Biden on the Daily Show. As "venerable" a show as This Week with George Stephanopolous has a segment devoted to the best of political comedy. The McGlaughlin Group guests are always scoring wit. Presidential Candidates make the rounds to these comedy shows. They're roasted at banquets.

I don't see what the hoopla is about. But ever since the advent of FoxNews, gone are the old days of 3 biased networks showcasing Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, and uh whoever. Competition is good. It's a free market in news and a free market in comedy. With the advent of free information on the internet it's much easier to expose all actions, whether good or bad, whether initiated from the "right" or initiated from the "left".

John Stewart is talented. He pwns Dennis Miller. Fox has a long hard journey to beat the Daily Show. Who cares if for one hour Fox News puts on some comedy while during that same hour CNN has some leftist shrill and the BBC has some pretend unbiased reporter? The only reason it's a big deal is because both the traditional left and the traditional right want to control what you watch, want to slant truth and fact. At least Fox News is upfront with their slants. When leftists are up front with their slants on say Air America, nobody listens.

TDS has/does make fun of democrats/liberals. This 'comedy show' however seems to only be about poking fun at democrats.



Ive seen fox news 'debates' as you call them, and they are biased. It doesnt matter how knowledgeable the speakers are, when you reduce the level of discourse to name calling, finger pointing and sound bytes, it turns to sh*t.



Personally, I think putting a biased slant on a comedy show that is advertised as a comedy show is much better than putting a biased slant on a news network, then labeling such network as 'fair and balanced'.

Additionally,for the regular cable viewer, TDS only airs 2x a day (3x max). Even people that watch TDS religiously cannot feed off its slant all day. On the other hand, the fox news channel is on 24/7.



I agree. But, Fox news and every network news channel is guilty of this. Even on these 24/7 news channels, you see little in-depth coverage, and barely any mention of the history of any given subject.



Both democrats and Republicans use one-liners to further their campaigns/goals. They both opt for the best sound bites. How the *** can that or any style of presentation be 'liberally biased'. Because liberals make better sound bytes? If you dont like this style of presentation, say so, don't just blame the d's because they are 'winning'.




Sarcastic humor escapes an amazing number of people. amazing.




No, they aren't. The few FN watchers I spoke to did not see any 'conservative' bias in FN. This show is; but until FN's slogan is 'your conservative news channel', they are not. I watch TDS and i see a 'liberal slant' to it.

As far as the '1/2 hour news hour', i really dont care. Its just another slanted show giving the public more jokes and less substance.

Edited, Feb 18th 2007 6:04pm by TWA

That's too bad. It's been pretty amusing.

Unlike what I've seen so far from the Half Hour News Hour.