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This makes me laugh.
2007-02-15, 5:53 PM #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WCNc7JZ24k

:D

"Easy Ann..." :P Wow.


EDIT: I think that did it.
2007-02-15, 5:55 PM #2
Originally posted by YouTube:
The url contained a malformed video id.


:psyduck:
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2007-02-15, 6:40 PM #3
Haha. I knew the conservative take on The Daily Show was going to suck. That was painfully lame. They even had to resort to canned laughter. Even on a bad night, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert easily trump that, assuming that's going to be the caliber of the rest of the show.

Fox News should stick to the fake news programs that it already has in its line-up.
2007-02-15, 6:47 PM #4
I like the comments...

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NewsFlash-Liberal Hollywood always uses the canned laughter so it is not like this show is doing any thing different.
You liberals are grasping at straws to criticize this new show.
Go Rush Go Ann.. The Dynamic Duo


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Good for them!!!! This show will have ratings thru the roof!!!


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Finally! The video equivelent to "Mallard Fillmore!"


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All you liberal make me sick, you know what's wrong with this country, it is all you supporting this Ann Coulter person on TV. She should be at home in the kitchen raising a family. Unless she is really a man just putting on some Hollywood show. You liberals encouraging the breakdown of the family, how dare they have jobs.
2007-02-15, 7:53 PM #5
...what the hell was that?
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2007-02-15, 8:08 PM #6
Sounded quite scripted. I can't see this show lasting too long. The Limbaugh-Coulter video was actually a video response linked to another clip about Obama, which was a little better but still quite stale. This is not about politics. Conservative or not, this show just doesn't seem funny.
2007-02-15, 8:21 PM #7
A whole show of that would get old, but as a 2 min. video clip it was pretty good.
2007-02-15, 8:24 PM #8
what? I was waiting for the jokes, or the wit or anything to happen. Instead it just seemed like two self-important people smugly grinning at a camera.
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2007-02-15, 8:44 PM #9
Anne Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are the two least funny people alive. They could do it if they picked the right people. Though, really, the description on youtube is the funniest part.

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"The 1/2 Hour News Hour" does not comment on what is happening; it simply takes swipes at people.
Actually, that's all Stewart does.

And the Colbert Report is nothing but a parody of the O'rielly Factor. Except less people watch it.
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2007-02-15, 8:48 PM #10
I laughed once, when Ann Coulter said the bit about invading and killing and converting.

Not because it's funny, but because it's what she actually believes.
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2007-02-15, 9:16 PM #11
Wasn't that just a promo for the show?
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2007-02-16, 1:11 AM #12
Originally posted by Isuwen:
Actually, that's all Stewart does.

And the Colbert Report is nothing but a parody of the O'rielly Factor. Except less people watch it.


Stewart does far more than just take swipes at people. And when he does take swipes at people, it usually ends up funny. For instance, the Daily Show making fun of Howard Dean made me laugh even though I have no problem with Dean, whereas this show's joke was one of the lamest I've heard on any subject in some time.

The Colbert Report is certainly an O'rielly factor parody (though there is a considerable amount of it that doesn't fit this description), but is there anything wrong with that? O'rielly is the exactly the kind of over-the-top person who needs to be parodied.
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2007-02-16, 5:58 AM #13
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The Colbert Report is certainly an O'rielly factor parody (though there is a considerable amount of it that doesn't fit this description), but is there anything wrong with that? O'rielly is the exactly the kind of over-the-top person who needs to be parodied.
Except that O'rielly is awesome, and Colbert is just... Stewart light.
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2007-02-16, 6:07 AM #14
Originally posted by Detty:
what? I was waiting for the jokes, or the wit or anything to happen. Instead it just seemed like two self-important people smugly grinning at a camera.


I'm with this bloke.
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2007-02-16, 6:50 AM #15
Originally posted by Isuwen:
Except that O'rielly is awesome, and Colbert is just... Stewart light.


Colbert's style of comedy is quite different from Stewart's. Colbert does over-the-top conservatism, and Stewart just...makes fun of people in general.

Personally, I don't have anything against O'Reilly, as long as he doesn't try to portray his show as a news broadcast. But Colbert has me in stitches, as does the Daily Show (it needs to be mentioned that, while John Stewart is an anchor for the show, it's nothing without the correspondents and the writers).
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2007-02-16, 7:34 AM #16
You Americans are goddamn nuts.

But so is the human race in general so you're not even special. Hoo boy! :eek:
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2007-02-16, 7:36 AM #17
Originally posted by Isuwen:
Except that O'rielly is awesome, and Colbert is just... Stewart light.

O'Reilly is a ****ing idiot. He's one of the biggest idiots I've ever seen, whether he's trying or not trying to be funny.
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2007-02-16, 7:40 AM #18
I like both Stewart/Colbert for comedy and O'Reilly for news-talk.

In order for the show to be funny, it must aim for humor first as a priority. This FOX News satire focuses on a political agenda, then adds humor. Thus, it becomes a political show that features some humor. Oppositely, Comedy Central's productions Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are comedians who happen to present it in a political frame. Big difference. People will watch the FOX show for politics. People (both conservatives and liberals) watch the Stewart and Colbert for humor.
2007-02-16, 8:09 AM #19
Originally posted by JDKNITE188:
I like both Stewart/Colbert for comedy and O'Reilly for news-talk.

In order for the show to be funny, it must aim for humor first as a priority. This FOX News satire focuses on a political agenda, then adds humor. Thus, it becomes a political show that features some humor. Oppositely, Comedy Central's productions Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are comedians who happen to present it in a political frame. Big difference. People will watch the FOX show for politics. People (both conservatives and liberals) watch the Stewart and Colbert for humor.



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2007-02-16, 8:10 AM #20
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O'Reilly is a ****ing idiot. He's one of the biggest idiots I've ever seen, whether he's trying or not trying to be funny.
Your ignorance is showing. Whether or not you agree with someone is not a measure of their intelligence.

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Oppositely, Comedy Central's productions Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are comedians who happen to present it in a political frame.
It is just as naive to think that Stewart and Colbert don't have a political agenda as it is to think Rush and Anne consider all sides of the issue.

The real shame here is how many people get their news from comedy central instead of, you know, the news.
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2007-02-16, 10:59 AM #21
While I would never advocate getting news from the Daily Show, I thinking its interesting that studies have shown that young people who watch Jon Stewart are consistently more informed on political issues than those that do not (link, it's a pdf).

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“In recent years,” Young said, “traditional journalists have been voicing increasing concern that if young people are receiving political information from late-night comedy shows like The Daily Show, they may not be adequately informed on the issues of the day. This data suggests that these fears may be unsubstantiated. We find no differences in campaign knowledge between young people who watch Leno and Letterman – programs with a lot of political humor in their opening monologues -- and those who do not watch late-night. But when looking at young people who watch The Daily Show, we find they score higher on campaign knowledge than young people who do not watch the show, even when education, following politics, party identification, gender, viewing network news, reading the newspaper, watching cable news and getting campaign information on-line are taken into account.”


In fact, people who watch The Daily Show know more about politics and have more education than people who watch the O'Reilly (link).

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Leno and Letterman viewers scored 49 percent on the quiz. But "Daily Show" viewers scored 60 percent on average.

Scores were even lower for those who read a newspaper or watch network news four days a week.

Comedy Central was waiting for news like this. On September 17, Stewart appeared on Bill O'Reilly's "The O'Reilly Factor" only to be told his viewers are "stoned slackers" and "dopey kids."

"You know what's really frightening?" O'Reilly asked Stewart. " You actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it's true."

Comedy Central used its viewers' test scores Tuesday to strike back at Fox News Channel and O'Reilly's viewers.

It also trotted out stats from Nielsen Media Research to show that Stewart's viewers are not only smart, but more educated than O'Reilly's.

"Daily Show" viewers are 78 percent more likely than the average adult to have four or more years of college education, while O'Reilly's audience is only 24 percent more likely to have that much schooling.

I don't think there is a causal relationship, it's only that the Daily Show assumes its viewers already have political knowledege--or else you wouldn't get the jokes.
2007-02-16, 11:07 AM #22
Woah, wait. People take The O'Rieilly Factor seriously? I did not know this.
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2007-02-16, 11:33 AM #23
If you only get one side of the issue, you aren't informed. Besides which, you should never trust a source that comes at an issue with the conclusion already in mind - and that's exactly what CNN did. They don't want to compare the audiences, they just want to bash O'rielly.

Here's the problem : Comedy Central, CNN, hell, everyone but Fox News : They are on the left. Fox News is in the center, so, by comparison, they are conservative. And yet, they are smashing their competition. Naturally, the other networks hate Fox News and take every opportunity to attack it.
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2007-02-16, 11:43 AM #24
Originally posted by Isuwen:
Besides which, you should never trust a source that comes at an issue with the conclusion already in mind - and that's exactly what CNN did.

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Naturally, the other networks hate Fox News and take every opportunity to attack it.


The study wasn't published by CNN, the study was published by Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. And besides, it doesn't bash Fox News. Viewers of the Daily Show are more informed than viewers of any news network.
2007-02-16, 11:46 AM #25
Uh, Fox News is NOT in the center.
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2007-02-16, 11:51 AM #26
Prying open my Third Eye.
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2007-02-16, 11:57 AM #27
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Uh, Fox News is NOT in the center.
Are you? No, you aren't. When you call Fox News conservative, what you are actually saying is "Fox News is more conservative than me." Well, I consider Fox News the least liberal of a bunch of liberal networks.

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Viewers of the Daily Show are more informed than viewers of any news network.
Yet, that's not what the article says. Instead, it takes something O'rielly said out of context, doesn't even give the actual quote, and then attacks him with meaningless stats.
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2007-02-16, 12:13 PM #28
Originally posted by Isuwen:
Yet, that's not what the article says. Instead, it takes something O'rielly said out of context, doesn't even give the actual quote, and then attacks him with meaningless stats.


If you have a problem with CNN, just read the first link, it connects directly to the study. The study clearly states that viewers of the Daily Show were found to have more knowledgeable about campaign issues than nonviewers. I'll point out the important passage for you:

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"...when looking at young people who watch The Daily Show, we find they score higher on campaign knowledge than young people who do not watch the show, even when education, following politics, party identification, gender, viewing network news, reading the newspaper, watching cable news and getting campaign information on-line are taken into account.”



Here is the complete transcript of the episode in which O'Reilly attacks Stewart. His comments are definately in context. He even claims that 87% of the Daily Show's viewers are intoxicated when they watch it--a statistic that I think he may have just made up since I can't find a source to confirm it online.

Furthermore, the stats are very meaningful. O'Reilly repeatedly referred to Daily Show fans as "stoned slackers." But the stats point out that the Daily Show fans obviously aren't slackers if they have more knowledge and more education. It totally refutes O'Reilly's claim.
2007-02-16, 1:22 PM #29
What! What's going on? Why do people have no sense of humor? Why are we arguing about stupid crap again? Ugh.

It was just two pundits laughing at themselves. Lighten up. If you don't like it, stop whining.
2007-02-16, 2:53 PM #30
Originally posted by Dj Yoshi:
O'Reilly is a ****ing idiot. He's one of the biggest idiots I've ever seen, whether he's trying or not trying to be funny.


SHUT UP

SHUT UP I AM TALKING OVER YOU

Turn off his mic

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