Apparently, all that stands between you and public acclaim is the f-bomb.
A real “hero” would have dressed the back-up singers in burkas.
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Jon Stewart was never my cup of tea. Guess his comedic style reminds me too much of Bob Rae casting bon mots to his adoring fans.
I enjoy the Democratic Party’s egomaniacal buffoons/supporters who get on O’Reilly or Hannity to defend Obamugabe’s many quirks about muslims and terrorists. They were trying to box in one of these goofs the other night but all they could get from him was “all fundamentalists from all religions should be denounced”. Keeping the equivalence dream alive.
Did you read the comments thread following Larry O’Connor’s article. The first few make a really good point. In essence, they are saying it took 7 F-in’ years for folks like Jon Stewart to understand the threat of radical Islam.
I’ve never seen a clip of “The Daily Show” before,and hope to never see one again!
THAT is what passes for comedy these days?!
Pathetic and LAME.
Not bad, but not great. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are much, much funnier and braver.
I’m no fan of Stewart, but at least he said something. Unlike our brave columnists. Not one, not bloody one has even mentioned this attack on our free speech or the danger of creeping Sharia.
A real hero would have resigned from the network.
Jon Stewart: speaking Truth to Power (but still cashing Power’s check)
Stewart is a pathetic little urban latte style dink . . . so impressed with himself, a legend in his own mind.
Not the kind of man you want to share a slit trench, a patrol car or a crew served weapon . . . . you could never trust him to do the right thing, just what is right for him.
It’s just a bit early in the day for Mr. O’Connor to begin writing A Testicle for Leibowitz.
Jon Stewart is a puppet. If he had any principles, he wouldn’t pull half the crap he does now.
Jon Stewart= 0
There was a time when when that was called LMF. Lacking in Moral Fibre. I wouldn’t trust him if he had my back.
Bill Maher hosts the ‘fundamentalist fashion show’. This is good. My apologies if it has been put up elsewhere. —http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah8uJwL0sWc
Oh so edgy, and yet still half a mile behind the curve.
Turn off the tv. You won’t miss anything.
he’s a knob
What Phantom and Louise said. A day late and a few dollars short.
Now I know for sure, why I’ve never watched the Comedy channel, hell, I don’t even know if I get it. The same reason I never listened to comedy channels on my satellite radio. Blues, bluegrass, a little country and 50’s, 60’s maybe 70’s pop, and a smidgen of folk and musicals.
If only he had drawn a cartoon as well.
I can’t stand the guy or the show either. It’s great to ignore the unpleasant.
ain’t freedom grand!?!
However…he makes an excellent point:
Comedians have shown disrespect to ALL religions.
I used to kind of like the DS, but John got kind of smarmy and started sacrificing comedy for partisanship in 2008. I find his ‘correspondents’ pretty funny though.
wallyj: “Bill Maher hosts the ‘fundamentalist fashion show’. This is good.”
That was hilarious! Maher’s writers were really on form.
Poor damage control attempt – it just doesn’t sell when the hypocrisy is blatant. He ended the segment with the much more accetable Christian bashing. Does he bash Obama? I am wondering, I have only watched a handful of full Southpark episodes, do they mock Obama the same way they mock Britney Speers, Tiger Woods, or Christians – for that matter? I mean really mock – to the same degree, or do they stick to one-liners of no consequence? If there has been any, what was the message? I’m curious. I know they have done a good job of mocking some of those unscrupulous TV Evangelists-they make me mad too.
Well, that was probably the best & most effective defense of freedom of expression I’ve seen in a very long time.
So why are so many here unhappy about it?
And tomorrow he’ll go back to being a schmuck.
That was a waste of 10 minutes of my time and a confirmation of why I don’t ever watch the “Comedy” Channel. We’re on the same page here, larben.
BTW, Mr. Stewart, Santa Claus is not part of the “elf community” but the Christian community. You know? “Santa” comes from Saint and “Claus” from Nicholas = ‘cholas = clas = claus.
Get it?
Long gone are the days when you could tune into “An Evening at the Improv” and watch Norm McDonald giving his “Backseat Middle” routine that left me rolling on the floor with laughter. Now the only thing that rolls are my eyes as I flip past a channel that’s been made rotten by an ever worsening loop of debased shock humour.
Most of what’s perceived as comedy nowadays is just plain meanness. Only the threat of targetted violence keeps Islam from getting the same or worse treatment given to Christianity.
Islam definitely is showing its lack of tolerance and violent nature with the Southpark saga. However, given how the show eviscerates religion in general and Christianity in particular I’m not surprised that the show’s creators now have the attention of Islamic extremists. There’s always a “Reap what you sow” episode or two in everyone’s life.
Martin B. – I sense a sneaking admiration.
“Sneaking admiration”? Nope. I have absolutely no respect for a violent ideology that makes everyone but the leaders into either slaves or victims. Having said that, I also have no use for the 24/7 poisonous crap attack that is wearing away at the pillars of Western society. The media has done a great job at making religion, values and morals into laughing stock fodder. If we make our own belief system a joke, what do we replace it with that’s better? AGW science?
I’ve no desire to listen to “comedy” that’s of the same compostion of the bottom of an outhouse hole. I’m just saying that it’s no surprise that this material has gained the focus of Islam’s latest attack on Western Freedom of Speech. Like greedy guilt inducing televanglists, South Park has become an easy target.
Well, berating people for not being pop culture afficianados is more Indiana Homez’ bag than mine, Martin B., but you’re not familiar with South Park. Which is perfectly reasonable, because it’s very vulgar, but it’s also brilliant and fearless (Stone and Parker didn’t blunder into this “fatwa” mess; they knew what they were doing, and I’m certain it was more a matter of principle than ratings). The show is mean enough to Christians, but it’s done worse to Scientologists, aggressive Atheists, Politicians, Hollywood, all kinds of Liberals, silly fads, transsexuals, Barbara Streisand, Canadians… oh, you name it. “South Park Conservative” is a very current expression, which might tell you something.
But of course it wouldn’t really matter if the show were as empty and smirking as, say, Family Guy (don’t look it up); we can all agree that nice people just don’t issue death threats.
Islam is the great friend of the left – well until it affects them up close and personally of course.
Didn’t CTV once carry South Park in the late night slot, now held by Jon Stewart’s Comedy Central? That was until South Park began making fun of Canada, I believe. So Stewart was much better, mocking President George W. Bush. And then Sara Palin. Savaged them. Now he slags Fox News in his desperate crusade to defend Comrade Obama and play to the extreme left urban elitist audiences that sit in on his New York City show. CTV (Globe&Mail) and the Ontario Lieberals totally control national information (propaganda) pushing the lunatic left and Icky Handkerchief (or more recently again, Boob Raze)on the whole country, ad nauseum. Enough, already!
John Stewart…man what an ego…I can’t wait for his downfall….
yup…perfectly expressed…he’s seven years late and a mile behind the curve…
Jon Stewart was never my cup of tea. Guess his comedic style reminds me too much of Bob Rae casting bon mots to his adoring fans.
I enjoy the Democratic Party’s egomaniacal buffoons/supporters who get on O’Reilly or Hannity to defend Obamugabe’s many quirks about muslims and terrorists. They were trying to box in one of these goofs the other night but all they could get from him was “all fundamentalists from all religions should be denounced”. Keeping the equivalence dream alive.
Did you read the comments thread following Larry O’Connor’s article. The first few make a really good point. In essence, they are saying it took 7 F-in’ years for folks like Jon Stewart to understand the threat of radical Islam.
I’ve never seen a clip of “The Daily Show” before,and hope to never see one again!
THAT is what passes for comedy these days?!
Pathetic and LAME.
Not bad, but not great. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are much, much funnier and braver.
I’m no fan of Stewart, but at least he said something. Unlike our brave columnists. Not one, not bloody one has even mentioned this attack on our free speech or the danger of creeping Sharia.
A real hero would have resigned from the network.
Jon Stewart: speaking Truth to Power (but still cashing Power’s check)
Stewart is a pathetic little urban latte style dink . . . so impressed with himself, a legend in his own mind.
Not the kind of man you want to share a slit trench, a patrol car or a crew served weapon . . . . you could never trust him to do the right thing, just what is right for him.
It’s just a bit early in the day for Mr. O’Connor to begin writing A Testicle for Leibowitz.
Jon Stewart is a puppet. If he had any principles, he wouldn’t pull half the crap he does now.
Jon Stewart= 0
There was a time when when that was called LMF. Lacking in Moral Fibre. I wouldn’t trust him if he had my back.
Bill Maher hosts the ‘fundamentalist fashion show’. This is good. My apologies if it has been put up elsewhere. —http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah8uJwL0sWc
Oh so edgy, and yet still half a mile behind the curve.
Turn off the tv. You won’t miss anything.
he’s a knob
What Phantom and Louise said. A day late and a few dollars short.
Now I know for sure, why I’ve never watched the Comedy channel, hell, I don’t even know if I get it. The same reason I never listened to comedy channels on my satellite radio. Blues, bluegrass, a little country and 50’s, 60’s maybe 70’s pop, and a smidgen of folk and musicals.
If only he had drawn a cartoon as well.
I can’t stand the guy or the show either. It’s great to ignore the unpleasant.
ain’t freedom grand!?!
However…he makes an excellent point:
Comedians have shown disrespect to ALL religions.
I used to kind of like the DS, but John got kind of smarmy and started sacrificing comedy for partisanship in 2008. I find his ‘correspondents’ pretty funny though.
wallyj: “Bill Maher hosts the ‘fundamentalist fashion show’. This is good.”
That was hilarious! Maher’s writers were really on form.
Poor damage control attempt – it just doesn’t sell when the hypocrisy is blatant. He ended the segment with the much more accetable Christian bashing. Does he bash Obama? I am wondering, I have only watched a handful of full Southpark episodes, do they mock Obama the same way they mock Britney Speers, Tiger Woods, or Christians – for that matter? I mean really mock – to the same degree, or do they stick to one-liners of no consequence? If there has been any, what was the message? I’m curious. I know they have done a good job of mocking some of those unscrupulous TV Evangelists-they make me mad too.
Well, that was probably the best & most effective defense of freedom of expression I’ve seen in a very long time.
So why are so many here unhappy about it?
And tomorrow he’ll go back to being a schmuck.
That was a waste of 10 minutes of my time and a confirmation of why I don’t ever watch the “Comedy” Channel. We’re on the same page here, larben.
BTW, Mr. Stewart, Santa Claus is not part of the “elf community” but the Christian community. You know? “Santa” comes from Saint and “Claus” from Nicholas = ‘cholas = clas = claus.
Get it?
Long gone are the days when you could tune into “An Evening at the Improv” and watch Norm McDonald giving his “Backseat Middle” routine that left me rolling on the floor with laughter. Now the only thing that rolls are my eyes as I flip past a channel that’s been made rotten by an ever worsening loop of debased shock humour.
Most of what’s perceived as comedy nowadays is just plain meanness. Only the threat of targetted violence keeps Islam from getting the same or worse treatment given to Christianity.
Islam definitely is showing its lack of tolerance and violent nature with the Southpark saga. However, given how the show eviscerates religion in general and Christianity in particular I’m not surprised that the show’s creators now have the attention of Islamic extremists. There’s always a “Reap what you sow” episode or two in everyone’s life.
Martin B. – I sense a sneaking admiration.
“Sneaking admiration”? Nope. I have absolutely no respect for a violent ideology that makes everyone but the leaders into either slaves or victims. Having said that, I also have no use for the 24/7 poisonous crap attack that is wearing away at the pillars of Western society. The media has done a great job at making religion, values and morals into laughing stock fodder. If we make our own belief system a joke, what do we replace it with that’s better? AGW science?
I’ve no desire to listen to “comedy” that’s of the same compostion of the bottom of an outhouse hole. I’m just saying that it’s no surprise that this material has gained the focus of Islam’s latest attack on Western Freedom of Speech. Like greedy guilt inducing televanglists, South Park has become an easy target.
Well, berating people for not being pop culture afficianados is more Indiana Homez’ bag than mine, Martin B., but you’re not familiar with South Park. Which is perfectly reasonable, because it’s very vulgar, but it’s also brilliant and fearless (Stone and Parker didn’t blunder into this “fatwa” mess; they knew what they were doing, and I’m certain it was more a matter of principle than ratings). The show is mean enough to Christians, but it’s done worse to Scientologists, aggressive Atheists, Politicians, Hollywood, all kinds of Liberals, silly fads, transsexuals, Barbara Streisand, Canadians… oh, you name it. “South Park Conservative” is a very current expression, which might tell you something.
But of course it wouldn’t really matter if the show were as empty and smirking as, say, Family Guy (don’t look it up); we can all agree that nice people just don’t issue death threats.
Islam is the great friend of the left – well until it affects them up close and personally of course.
Didn’t CTV once carry South Park in the late night slot, now held by Jon Stewart’s Comedy Central? That was until South Park began making fun of Canada, I believe. So Stewart was much better, mocking President George W. Bush. And then Sara Palin. Savaged them. Now he slags Fox News in his desperate crusade to defend Comrade Obama and play to the extreme left urban elitist audiences that sit in on his New York City show. CTV (Globe&Mail) and the Ontario Lieberals totally control national information (propaganda) pushing the lunatic left and Icky Handkerchief (or more recently again, Boob Raze)on the whole country, ad nauseum. Enough, already!
John Stewart…man what an ego…I can’t wait for his downfall….
yup…perfectly expressed…he’s seven years late and a mile behind the curve…