Gareth Keenan wrote:Why the fuck do they need to worry about a writers strike? Are there people actually writing out those douchey Jon Stewart voices? If so, I'd love to get my hands on one of those scripts.

yeah really. i loved john stewart once but then i started to notice that fucking tim allen/scooby voice he gets every, oh, 3 minutes and it was all over us.

kenoki wrote:

Gareth Keenan wrote:Why the fuck do they need to worry about a writers strike? Are there people actually writing out those douchey Jon Stewart voices? If so, I'd love to get my hands on one of those scripts.

yeah really. i loved john stewart once but then i started to notice that fucking tim allen/scooby voice he gets every, oh, 3 minutes and it was all over us.

I interviewed Scott Jacobson, a TDSw/JS writer, a couple weeks ago for WXYC. We talked about the strike and the obnoxious faces and voices Jon makes, so I'll post it here (18.3MB, 96k mp3).

So this show has resorted to Photoshopped photos of bush with big muscles (for some reason saying that he takes steroids) and Jon Stewart cackling at his guest for 5 minutes.

This show has turned to pure shit.

not crap.

if only for being the closest thing to unbiased and actual news we got.

i miss all of the old reporters though. colbert, correll, vance degeneres, etc.

"slimmin' down with steve" has to be one of the funniest things ever. as well as "even steven."

found this

John Oliver's appearance tonight just restored my faith in the show.

That was the funniest shit I've seen in quite some time.

Like many I guess I fell away from regularly watching this, which has amplified difficulty as I am on the wrong end of an ocean to be able to see it easily. Tonight I watched the Monday 23rd June episode, though.

They have a new correspondent, called Wyatt Cenac, who distinguished himself over most other recent recruits by seeming to be incredibly comfortable in front of a television camera. It was about the most natural performance I've seen on the Daily Show in a long time. His bit with Jon Stewart was natural and funny.

The segment about media coverage of the First Ladies ("then they're fucking different!") was funny.

The interview was with a film actor I haven't encountered before and was entertaining and made me like the film actor I haven't seen before.

In short, it was a good episode. I wonder if, in an election year, the Daily Show is finally raising it's game somewhere near to previous standards?

Hope so.

daniel robert chapman wrote:In short, it was a good episode. I wonder if, in an election year, the Daily Show is finally raising it's game somewhere near to previous standards?

Hope so.

agreed.

this show, not crap, but it gets close when the quality of reporters wavers.

Not Crap, but it gets really fucking annoying when Stewart doesn't let someone he disagrees with talk for one minute without being interrupted.

Still the best news show on TV, sadly enough.

It is way better than The Colbert Report, mainly because Stewart doesn't have to fit in the persona that Colbert has to every night.

"Even Steven" was comedy gold. I laughed until I cried when Steve and Stephen went to the bar and Steve got totally and genuinely shitfaced on camera. Carell said afterwards in an interview that Colbert had to drive him home and that he puked out the window of Colbert's car.

daniel robert chapman wrote:
The segment about media coverage of the First Ladies ("then they're fucking different!") was funny.

See, I thought this was emblematic of what I don't like about this show. The "then they're fucking different" stuff was just taking something completely obvious about the media and bringing basically nothing to the table beyond that -- yes, the media is focused on stupid, shallow shit. We know that. Simply pointing that out and making some noises or faces or swearing about it won't keep me coming back every night, and nor should it.

Just judging from the content of the two shows, I'd guess that the proportion of Daily Show writers to Colbert Report writers is something like 1:7. Colbert actually has interesting, thoughtful, witty content every night. The Daily Show just seems to have dudes that sift through the news.

I wonder if Jon Stewart still thinks his show doesn't matter.

http://journalism.org/node/10953

When Americans last year were asked to name the journalist they most admired, a comedian showed up at No. 4 on the list. Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central and former master of ceremonies at Academy Award shows, tied in the rankings with anchormen Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather and cable host Anderson Cooper.

Using the cloak of 'comedy' to excuse yourself from criticism: CRAP.

Daily Show correspondents are still fun to watch though.