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In conclusion, America created Huckabee, the one that created Huckabee is who he calls his running mate, a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain, which makes his running mate McCain, which means America is McCain. Congratulations everyone! You're ALL the front runners of the Republican party!
I am looking forward to Obama vs Osama
I actually stayed up later than usual Monday night to see the conclusion of that late night fight. It was definitely worth it. I'm a fan of all three of them and seeing them all together on each others shows was fun.
Yeah, last night was definitely very interesting... I was definitely watching. :)
Are you talking about the O'Brien/Colbert/Stewart fight or the primaries? They were both pretty interesting. The Democratic race is shaping up to go down to the wire. I haven't been alive for a campaign that when to the convention (unless I have my history wrong) so it should be fun.
The primaries, of course. I almost never watch late-night comedian shows, and that includes Stewart and Colbert. I'd rather watch actual news...
And no, you aren't wrong. The convention hasn't mattered since Carter. But it does look likely that it will this time... the two are just split too evenly.
Sure there's fake stuff and a lot of jokes, but a lot of the humor on those shows comes from just flat out SHOWING clips of politicians and, um, other news shows.
The fact is a lot of news shows are getting pretty ridiculous. I mean, are they seriously reduced to a news anchor holding a targetting ball so a computer animated graph can be digitally added to an image in "real time" matching where the guy's hand is (for NO GOOD REASON AT ALL)?
I don't watch normal news shows because the vast majority of the time it's reduced to "entertainment" with very little quality journalism. While that's also true in my own news source (the internet at large), there's less of it.
What show are you talking about?
Whichever one had some guy walking around with a board and a hovering CG pie chart "above" said board for him to point at. What was that? Why? You clowns! Behold! Our pie chart can take to the air as though by computationalized magics!
That was CNN. I believe Anderson Cooper was the one with the pie chart. I watch the real news channels during events like the primaries, but for daily news shows I go to the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. It is "fake" news, but it is interesting how often those shows have a much more realistic insight about what is actually going on in the world. CNN, Fox News, etc. are either too worried about being political correct or pissing someone off or they are trying to push a specific agenda.
I just don't get that about the Daily Show, etc, having "real" news. They don't... they have stupid segments which do nothing except try stupid humor, they always had those really dumb "let's pretend to be serious and get someone to say something stupid" things, etc... they say things to be funny, not to be serious. I don't like every real news show either, for sure, but I'd certainly rather watch those than the Daily Show.
Anderson Cooper is okay... I don't usually watch it, but it's okay. What I watch most often are the news shows from about 12-8... not all of them, and CNN more than MSNBC, but that's when I'm most often watching the news. I don't like the shows that have a lot of celebrity news content...
Well obviously they say things to be funny on those shows. They are on Comedy Central. I'm just so sick of the regular news shows that the fake shows are a nice change.
I think Jon Stewart is hilarious and I watch his show often, but I don't feel the same way about Stephen Colbert. I've grown a bit tired of his act and I just don't get the whole "Colbert Nation" thing. I also got his book for Christmas and it reads exactly as if you were watching an actual episode of the show. Colbert's good only in small doses. Very small doses.
The joke is he believes exactly the opposite of what he talks about. The thing is, he tears down the poor logic by plainly stating the poor logic as though it's a good argument. I love every bit of it, and it's yet to get old to me.
ABF, there's the straight made up scenes but do you watch their interviews? I think it's hilarious to find some poor guy who they interview (who for whatever reason hasn't heard of these shows) and argues "for" them using their own logic in such a way as to get them to pause for a few seconds, almost like they temporarilly realized how stupid they are being (but it is a passing thing). That sort of comedy-as-argument thing is both hilarious and insightful, and more than I often get from those other news shows. Don't get me wrong. I'm not putting them up higher than they should be. Sometimes they argue against some idiocy using a badly formed argument (that's still funny), but admittedly they are in the comedy business above all else.
At any rate I still get most of my info from the internet.
The problem is that he sounds too much like the people who he's supposedly making fun of... sometimes if you didn't know it was a joke he would be very easy to take seriously. People like that (character)... gah, those shows are awful. There's a reason I never get near Fox News.
So for you the problem is his jokes are TOO close to Bill O'Reily, uncanny even, truly the master of mimicry. Funny thing is that biologist Richard Dawkins didn't get that it was parody at first either.
I guess someone could be fooled, but that's because when it comes to these nuts a rule seems to be that it's impossible to form parody of it that isn't a view held seriously by someone with net access. I still find it hilarious, and really since he so very well dissects the terrible logic by USING it against them, you really can't be too sickened by it.
Quote:I think it's hilarious to find some poor guy who they interview (who for whatever reason hasn't heard of these shows) and argues "for" them using their own logic in such a way as to get them to pause for a few seconds, almost like they temporarilly realized how stupid they are being (but it is a passing thing).
Ahahaha, I need to watch these shows more often.