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saintinsanity 07-Aug-15, 12:46 |
 Jon Stewart retired from the Daily ShowThen i just read what somebody wrote about the show over the years. It's a good read: "Moderates don't hold rallies, they don't leave their jobs and take to the streets yelling 'Be Reasonable!'" Heh. If you follow the link at the bottom to the original post there are additional links to some of the clips spoken about in the post. I started watching The Daily Show in 1998. At the time, it was a small Cable News show on Comedy Central, which was a small cable channel known for reruns of standup specials and South Park. It was fluff; they were formatted to imitate and mock local news and their stories were about things like NYC toll booth operators being told to say "Thank you," or gum being banned from airports, or a lunatic who believed Disney was a Satanist, or movie reviews. They were about as "real news" as Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update. Craig Kilborn hosted the show, but he was more interested in vapid snark and celebrity interviews. A few Clinton and Monica jokes, him yelling "Linda Trip is a man, babyy," or taking clips of foreign world leaders and using their own "interpreter" to say weird comical expressions. The show was light humor but never edgy. Craig got picked up by CBS to run The Late Show and announced he was leaving. I was upset at the time, this nobody called Jon Stewart was taking over. And worse, they changed "The Daily Show" into "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" which turned me off because they were over-selling him. I told myself nobody would ever replace Craig, he was slick and funny. Fortunately, Comedy Central aired all of Jon Stewart's standup specials before the first episode, and it was then I realized this man was actually funny, and while he was a different style, he was far more politically funny than Craig. He might actually be good. He took over, and joked that he was like a new stepfather trying to get along with the new stepkids. The show kept the same tone and format, and still covered celebrity gossip and titillating news stories. Celebrities used to tell Jon that this was the last stop of their movie promo tour, and that they couldn't wait to be done (unwittingly insulting Jon the host). The show only broke out of this mold during the InDecision 2000 coverage, when the months of news coverage uncertain who was the winner and debates over hanging chads took over the media. That marked the beginning of the shift, and Stewart handled it different than Kilborn. Mocking the system, pointing out how ridiculous the professional media was, and pointing out hypocrisy on both sides when the recount shifted the odds of the election and both parties scrambled to take back their previous statements. It still stayed light and non-edgy until 9/11. People don't remember this, but it happened on a Tuesday morning and his show was cancelled as Comedy Central switched to CBS live news coverage. They didn't resume normal programming until Thursday, when Jon had to go do the show again. He famously broke down in tears and said what we were all thinking, we were scared and would life ever be normal again? Fortunately, he slowly brought the humor back. But then he kept it up, changing the format of the show to focus more on absurdities in the media and politics, as we as a nation were glued to the televisions for all the latest news. He became famous for his Bush Vs Bush segment, a viral video before YouTube existed, where he showed Bush contradicting his earlier campaign promises. I got hooked on him, and he became someone I watched nightly. His new tone for the show was calling out obvious hypocrisy. He once told a reporter that his show is like the man in the corner of the bar yelling at politicians on the TV "Bull****, you said the exact opposite last week!" Which is what many of us were doing at the time, yelling at the TV for obvious lies Bush and others were telling us in the runup to the Iraq war, and as it slowly fell apart in front of our eyes. When Dick Cheney was asked about his claim that it was "pretty well confirmed that Iraq met with Al Qaeda members" and he boldly said "I never said that," The Daily Show was the ONLY TV media to play both the original clip and his denial and call him a liar. Everyone else brainlessly reported "Dick Cheney denies saying Iraq had connections to Al Qaeda" as the headline without explaining the lie to the public. TDS was the only source to pull up the tape archive and show the clips side-by-side. CNN Wolf Blitzer would blather about "President Bush just made a convincing-sounding speech" but Jon Stewart was the only one yelling at the TV, "I don't care if it sounded convincing, was it RIGHT?" Was it accurate? When Bush got re-elected, much of the country was glum. Only Stewart could cheer us up, and he managed to turn tragedies into something we could chuckle about. He got me through the toughest times. In college, I was able to go see him live, both at standup shows and in the audience at The Daily Show. It was amazing. He was always a smart guy, he turned a TV show of empty non-offensive jokes and celebrities plugging their movies into one of the best sources for satire. I remember watching him on Crossfire, he made a joke about how the Right and Left hosts' bickering was hurting America, and rather than laugh and move on, they challenged him on it, and he spent the rest of the show demolishing their garbage. (He later spoke about it in his AMA.) Again, this was pre-YouTube, so people actually had to download the clip and watch it. It was another viral video, and CNN's President admitted he was right and cancelled the show. As he started to become a household name, he always tried pushing for Moderation. He was not that liberal, nor was he conservative. He ignored partisanship and called both sides foolish when they deserved it and didn't accept their excuses. He hosted the famous Rally to Restore Sanity. I was out of the country at the time, but I watched the live webcast the entire day. Jon gave an inspiring speech about how we should not be partisan or accept bad ideas just for the sake of a party, but be reasonable and moderate. "Moderates don't hold rallies, they don't leave their jobs and take to the streets yelling 'Be Reasonable!'" That message always stayed with me, and made me a better person. Jon always spoke truth to power. He told people they were engaging in bull**** and didn't cover for them. He criticized Obama to his face, he called Fox News out on bold lies, and he always managed to win the argument with patience and reason, and make us laugh in the process. Jon was always someone I knew I could trust, his show covered a lot of issues I didn't know or care about, and he always made me think. An honest man with principles who actually stuck to them; none of the politicians on TV tonight could match that. He is the closest thing America had to a Jeremy Paxman, and that always made me sad. It's so strange to know that on Monday, I can't turn on the show and hear him diss the circus of the election, or the drek that Fox News belched out. Colbert ended his show, but at least he is starting a new one. As strange as it is to say, I want Jon to pull a Leno and stay with us. His format made SNL step up their game, spawned The Colbert Report, and Last Week Tonight. I saw so many correspondents move on to other TV series and movies, and remember their start. Watching this week's montages of Jon's quotes was amazing, because 15 years later I still remember the specific episodes, the nuttiness of the country, and the spirit of the times. I never saw every episode, but somehow I saw every one of those clips when they first aired. Jon's imitations of Bush, Cheney, Schumer, Lieberman, Kerry, McConnell, and all the rest. The mentally-ill-sounding-but-respected people interviewed in field pieces by the show's correspondents. Hope I never forget them. And like 16 years ago, I'm sorry to see him go, but optimistic the new guy will be even better if I give him a chance. np.reddit.com |
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tat3225 07-Aug-15, 17:06 |
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saintinsanity 07-Aug-15, 17:17 |
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Nobody cares about Jon Stewart nypost.com |
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saintinsanity 07-Aug-15, 17:29 |
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American Voters getting their news from a |
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saintinsanity 07-Aug-15, 17:38 |
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His show was crap. 24 million people tuned into the GOP debate. |
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Jon Stewart, Obama held secret meetings at White House According to the official White House log, the president called Stewart to the Oval Office in 2011 and 2014. Former aides told Politico, in a report published Tuesday, that Obama wanted to sell his platform to the longtime Daily Show host in an effort to galvanize support for his reelection. âThe White House itself was quite interested in at least explaining its side of the story to Jon Stewart,â Austan Goolsbee, Obamaâs former economic policy adviser, told the site. David Axelrod, the presidentâs former senior adviser, said Obama and Stewart acted as a âusefulâ challenge to White House policy. Former White House aide Daz Vega told The New York Times that the president also wanted to reach out to younger voters who relied on Stewart for news. âJon Stewart was a key influencer for millennials,â Vega said. âThey relied on him for an honest take on the news, and the president and senior staff know that.â Vega also said that it was âoften remarked in senior staff meetings that he was the Walter Cronkite for the millennial generation. Thatâs why it was important to meet up with him and engage with him.â www.breitbart.com |
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saintinsanity 07-Aug-15, 18:00 |
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What's cable? |
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saintinsanity 07-Aug-15, 18:03 |
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I love the NFL |
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I loved the Daily Show... |
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hennybogan1953 07-Aug-15, 19:14 |
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@ henny www.cinemablend.com |
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hennybogan1953 07-Aug-15, 19:46 |
So you know three languages, guess what! There is only 2 languages AMERICAN ENGLISH and gibberish! Mexican, Russian, Japanese, ect... is all the same thing blah blah blah. ENGLISH ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Americans do not waste time learning superfluous languages. |
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Every post you make |
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hennybogan1953 07-Aug-15, 20:28 |
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Sounds good! |
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hennybogan1953 07-Aug-15, 21:06 |
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saintinsanity 08-Aug-15, 00:49 |
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LOL |
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The joke's on you, Jon Stewart! by Sarah Rumpf on 7 Aug 2015 Itâs only August. The crowded field of seventeen Republican presidential candidates has been compared, by multiple commentators, to a clown car. Thursdayâs early debate was derisively referred to as the âkiddie table,â and the prime time one was expected to be the Donald Trump Show. Still, Thursday nightâs GOP debate was a ratings juggernaut for the Fox News Channel, leaving liberal darling Jon Stewartâs last Daily Show appearance in the dust. Stewartâs final night as the Daily Show host had âapproximately 3.5 million viewers,â according to Variety. The showâs official Twitter account posted a plea for viewers shortly before airing that ended up being humorously prophetic: In comparison, 24 million viewers tuned in to the 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time GOP debate, including 7.9 million in the 25- to 54-year-old age bracket. âThis is now the highest non-sports cable program of all time, the highest-rated cable news program of all time, and Fox Newsâs most-watched program ever,â wrote AdWeek. The 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time GOP debate drew solid numbers as well: 6.1 million viewers and 1.2 million in the 25- to 54-year-old demo. Let that sink in: Jon Stewart got skunked by a political debate that aired at 2:00 p.m. on the West Coast. American television viewers decided to watch seven candidates, who fell below 3 percent in the polls, debate immigration and health care policies instead of Comedy Centralâs crown prince. Thereâs hope for this country after all. Follow Sarah Rumpf on Twitter @rumpfshaker. |
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How does it feel to get curb-stomped by Roger Ailes? Bye, Felicia! You have no heir! |
