The Daily Show

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put a Mets cap on that illus and you have Morbs

that guy up there with the duct tape wallet seems pretty cool. wearing the iPod with no headphones and the broken watch is an effective statement. the camera should also have no battery, and he should also carry a prepaid cellphone that has no minutes on it.

I should start secretly working out myself

when is the ideal time for secret workouts

I wouldn't know. I prefer loud, flamboyant workouts. Out and proud, baby.

Friday late-night workouts, everybody's doin' it

calisthenics after happy hour is a threat to ligaments everywhere

i would imagine 3 am is the most secretive hour to have secret workouts.

yeah, but then you just feel dirty and ashamed

kenan you always feel like that

no, but i really ought to

wait... is "secret workout" a metaphor for something here?

why are we debating with morbius about political efficacy and civic engagement?

because it is the month of halloween, and we need to get back in shape

funny we haven't mentioned colbert's apparently real actual PRESIDENTIAL RUN. i give it a big thumbs down, seems really really lame and pointless to me. those movies where a regular dude/comedian runs for president are always bad, for a reason

Satire is always as sterile as it is shameful and is impotent as it is insolent. - Wilde

Satire is always virtue's friend. - Charles Churchill (neva hoid of him)

i'm wearing cords.

My family back home got cable recently and every time I talk to 14yr-old brother on the phone, we talk about Daily Show/Colbert. It's actually got him following/interested in politics, which is more than I can say of myself at that age...ie it requires a little more political savvy for a young person than the 'political hummor' I watched at that age, which requires understanding of things like "Janet Reno isn't pretty, and that's why she is played by Will Ferrell." Well, I think that's good for the little brother, esp. since he is in Hicksville, population: Mormon-thousand.

He will surely learn the art of rubbing his eyes in mock surprise.

I like the idea that TDS/TCR are turning all these potential political activists into defeatist couch potatoes but not the other way around.

I mean obv. it's not converting South Park fans to liberal activism by the thousands but I doubt it's making them LESS interested in politics

Good work, guys. For serious, this is thought-provoking.

ok just now when Colbert was corpsing and getting himself bleeped while trying to blend the berenstein bears book into a smoothie was genuinely enjoyable and funny. The filling out the applications to get on the primary ballots in SC, not really funny at all. The pure comedy is so much better.

gff i don't think those two quotes are contradictory

mentioned this on the Lost thread but the entertainment industry's been gearing up for a writer's guild strike for a while now. they're saying it could happen as early as the first of next month or as late as july next year.

personally, i don't think it's going to happen, i'm pretty sure they'll work out their contracts with AMPTP soon but if it does, a lot of tv programs are going to be affected. Dunno about you guys, but as bad as TDS/TCR have been lately, an election year without them would suck balls.

yeah the application filing was a nowhere bit. Eh, what ya gonna do.

And let's not forget: he's not running for president, he's running in the SC primaries, and BOTH of them. That's kinda funny. He told Terry Gross the other day, "South Carolina will allow you to run as both a Democrat and a Republican. Of course, they'll also let you marry a 13-year-old girl."

I feel the opposite way as Tombot! the bit where he's haphazardly filling out the presidential application had me cracking up; while alot of the straight comedy bits (and things like Tek Jansen) don't hit the mark for me.

I think the main reason Colbert has cooled off is that people know who he is now. His interviews and Better Know a district bits were awesome, when he'd sit with these people who clearly had no idea what they'd gotten themselves into.

The correspondents dinner seemed to have ruined that.

but it was worth it.

xpost :(

is he even still doing BKAD?

tracer i don't think their contradictory either

they're

OTTM, the way Letterman's lack of anonymity killed his super "Mr Curious" bit (and others)

is he even still doing BKAD?

He's planning to start it up again soon, but he was busy with writing a book for the last few months.

that's good to hear, BKAD was always one of my favorite bits and the lack of it lately has been more disappointing to me than all the ironic-or-not cult of personality stuff.

the fightin' (x)!!

The cult of personality stuff is clearly what makes SC's biggest fans cream themselves. Stewart, not so much.

ironic-or-not cult of personality stuff

how is it not ironic?

that WHOOOOOO his studio audience gives does not sound ironic.

Or else it does, and they're playing along like they're supposed to. I'm sure there's a few idiots and genuine fanboys/girls in the crowd, but I wouldn't assume that they all are, or even that they are as a collective.

i highly doubt there's much of an archie bunker response to colbert

i guarantee you that SC audience is cheering 100% ironically, i just dont know that theres a difference between irony and authenticity for most people under 30

ironic-or-not cult of personality stuff

how is it not ironic?

-- kenan, Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:30 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

UGH i'm not getting roped into this idiotic debate. using the phrase "ironic-or-not" was my way of skirting the issue of who thinks it is and who thinks it isn't. forget i said it.

yeah, it's not going to take us anywhere... I was mostly reacting to Morb's "But you don't understand, everybody in the world is a complete idiot" thing. But that's pointless, too.

Colbert could be breaking FEC laws.

"We wanted "Update" to be good, but we didn't think that we had to pander. If the rest of the show was pandering, then we thought we wouldn't have to. So then i started getting the sense that they were unhappy. Ohlmeyer and his crew thought that every joke in "Update" should kill, and the audience should be clapping and cheering and stuff. They thought Jay Leno did that every night with his monologues, so why couldn't we do it one night a week for five minutes, where it should just be wall-to-wall laughter and applause? My response was, I hate applause. I don't like an audience applauding you because that's like a cheap kind of high. They kind of control you. They're like, "Yeah, we agree." That's all they're doing, saying they agree with your viewpoint. And while you can applaud voluntarily, you can't laugh voluntarily - you have to laugh involuntarily. I don't want to say things that an audience will agree with, I don't want to say anything that the audience already thinks." - Norm Macdonald

it's SNL, the audience wants to be pandered to.

musical guest, Feist!

SNL's problem was that beginning with (i think) Dennis Miller, Weekend Update changed from the audience laughing AT the hapless anchorpeople to laughing WITH them, from on high down AT the subjects of the jokes

which is a trap the Daily Show's correspondents, for all of Stewart's own pandering, have never succumbed to