Posted on 03/05/2006 9:41:25 AM PST by flixxx
He can be funny when he is not Bush-Bashing. Unfortunately my 65 year old mother watches the daily show for "news".
I haven't watched his show for a long time, but I know that I thought he was pretty funny when I did watch. Maybe he's changed. ;)
Years ago a degree from an Ivy League school wouldn've meant something. But they gave us staffs of Timothy Leary, the Unabomber, and the Taliban's minister of propaganda.
Odd that they don't blame Screamin Deanin'
Jon who? My friends and I fall into the 20 to 30-something age range and his name has NEVER been brought up as someone worth watching. When I see him on television he looks and sounds like a pud. He's definitely a leftie over-promoted no-talent.
But we definitely talk about the old-school comics cuz they are worth knowing and remembering.
His father is Patrick Stewart:
"Mumber one, Make it so!"
"Now the left is BLAMING the liberal media for its woes. Unfreakingbelievable!!!"
Now THAT is ironic. The left has spent the last 30 years becoming progressively more sarcastic, insulting, disrespectful and degrading to authority figures, and now they suddenly realize that, hey, THE DOOR SWINGS BOTH WAYS. In teaching the young to despise Nixon, laugh at Reagan and hate Bush, they were teaching them to despise and distrust all politicians.
It's healthy to be able to laugh at youself/politics etc. but (and this is aimed at no comedian in particular) when they take up a barking moonbat lie like "selected not elected", "Al Gore won", "Bush's ghestapo", etc. they turn me right off.
When the joke is based on a political lie, I find nothing funny about it. Good satire has a basis in reality.
And the comedians (big and small) I've seen "go there" in attacks on Bush never turn any of that criticism/mocking on the voters who claimed to have voted for the wrong guy, the voters who voted multiple times in the same day, the voters who voted commie instead of Rat (if you combined all of the socialist-workers parties in Florida, Gore would have won even without the watermelon Greens who are red on the inside). Same goes for those who tear into Bush about New Orleans but spare Blanco and Nagin any jokes.
When obvious targets are spared, I don't find that the comedian is acting like an "edgey" jester.
Hell, most of our modern "comedians" aren't that funny. Jack Black, Will Farrell, Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Adam Sandler, Seinfeld, Ray Romano, to name a few, bore me to death. Chris Rock is still occasionally funny. The Blue Collar Comedy boys are pretty good, particularly Jeff Foxworthy, but even Larry the Cable guy mostly relies on t#rd jokes, and Ron White tells the same pretty good stories over and over. Bill Engval I can take or leave.
"Infuse Stewart with just a touch more 'credibility'..."
And don't forget the "gravitas"
Unfortunately, they are bound to the confines of their own shows... for to venture into the world of the open forum, they would be hammered to smithereens by the truth.
You need a dosage of Dave Chapelle, stat.
Dave Chappelle is funny.
That was the goal among the left. You make the mistake that the far left supports our constitutional form of government, they do not. They believe the public is too stupid to be trusted to vote properly, the public is too stupid to spend their money the right way, the legislative branch too stupid to eradicate laws that suppress homosexuals and other groups, and the president too stupid to be granted the powers he has.
Anarchists, socialists, and communists all want to see a new form of government altogether.
Disrepect for the office of President is good in their eyes. The left didn't believe it when Republicans said "I despise Clinton but still respect the office of the President" (which is a lot different than "I oppose the war but support the troops", the left has shown that they are rabidly anti-military in all situations, witness the fight to keep a battleship out of a park in SF because it has "guns", and the block against the Pappy Boyington in Washington because "he killed people").
" the author simply made up who he imagines to be a stereotypical TDS viewer in order to "prove" his preconceived point."
Yes, it does seem a little fortuitous that the "typical" TDS view is someone who was intelligent and ambitious enough to get a scholarship to an Ivy League college. I see their typical viewer much more as a state college C student living on beer and deliveries from Domino's.
That said, I do think JS is a witty fellow; Robin Williams is funnier though. I guess he was just too manic to have as the Oscar host.
The Entire piece can be summed up below:
Do you really think they're that mature??
He is a liberal jerk and he is extremely funny.
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