Sorry, but I don't find Jon Stewart one bit funny, and this guy has explained exactly why. What he doesn't exxplain so well is why HE finds Stewart funny in the face of Stewart's continuous left-wing bias and unabashed distortions and lies.
I like watching the Daily Show every so often. This guy is right, Stewart pretty much relies on misunderstanding reality in order to make his points, but Steven Cobert, Samantha Bee, and that bald guy are pretty funny.
I sometimes like Stewart, but the writer (to use one of his metaphors) hits the nail on the head when he says that, afterwards, you are left irritated at Stewart's wholly unconvincing "I'm a moderate -- no, really, I AM" garbage.
What I wish is that he'd drop the "I'm so neutral" act. It's like how the LA Times pretends it's not liberal. Please.
Very few comedians who do hundreds of hours of shtick a year can successfully fake being politically "equal opportunity" (neutral) jesters. Jay Leno comes to mind: he's actually a huge liberal on most issues, but I only know that from some interviews he gave in '04 to an advertiser paper here called the LA Weekly.
Stewart is not funny, running a little piece of video then laughing about it isnt funny or creative.
This is nothing but a string of contradictions.
I don't think I have ever watched a full episode of Daily Show. Glad I haven't wasted my time, huh?
Liberals are so afraid of dying that they'd rather live in chains, squirming under a rock and put down brave men that are willing to go to a foreign soil and do battle with our enemies in order to prevent further attacks.
He's got the same little "know it all" smirk that all liberals have when talking about honor, sacrifice for country and dedication to a cause bigger than yourself. They think it's a joke. He's the same "good German" that wouldn't fight to stay alive but appeased Hitler all the way to the gas chambers or jogged willingly to stand in front of a ditch so the soldiers could gun them down.
Isn't it ironic that the party most libs support advocate gun control, governmental control of population through abortion and euthanasia of "useless eaters" (Shiavo, brain damaged others), government control of private property, control over the media through regulation of content and the "Fairness Doctrine".