7th February 2008, 5:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 7th February 2008, 8:52 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
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.
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.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)