Comedy news

[MikeCh]

Originally Posted by noonereal

Colbert and Stewart I highly recommend.

For comic relief, I agree. Colbert is one funny dude. I was rolling on the floor when he was being interviewed during the olympics with Bob Costas.

I watch some of the Fox people sometimes. O'Reilly, Greta, Brett (when I can catch him) and Shepard. Face it, Fox has some nice looking women too To balance things out I listen daily to the wack job editor for a liberal blog and his morning show when I'm driving to work. I also enjoy NPR in the same way d-ray mentioned that they have depth and followup to older stories/people. The one thing I don't like on NPR is that Robert Siegel's voice, though his coverage is often times very interesting.

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by noonereal

In the morning I watch Imus on Fox business.

Anybody that watches Imus can't be all bad!

[MikeCh]

http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-c...#axzz0ijCgQ2Zu


To me, this vid clip (second one) is a good example of the comedy-news and it's shortcomings. Yes, the Colbert piece is funny, witty and the narration is like always...hilarious. However, if you read the text of the news story below to understand why the gal is "really" being evicted, you see that the property management company is stating she is/was evicted because of failure to pay rent and not over the Peeps. Colbert's "news" simply targets the rediculous and funny/stupid and in some cases never mentions the reality of many stories. This has the potential to leave his viewing audience with their jaws dropped open in amazement (or should anyway) that something like this is newsworthy and court-worthy.

All I'm saying is that people like a gal I work with, my sister, a buddy of mine from Denver, et. al. that "only" watch the comedy channel for their news, have got to be lost and amazed at todays news....and they don't seem to wonder if there might be more to the story....and Colbert and Stewart don't do much to fill the reality gap, they leave that to the audience to be smarter than that. Many aren't.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by MikeCh

http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-c...#axzz0ijCgQ2Zu


To me, this vid clip (second one) is a good example of the comedy-news and it's shortcomings. Yes, the Colbert piece is funny, witty and the narration is like always...hilarious. However, if you read the text of the news story below to understand why the gal is "really" being evicted, you see that the property management company is stating she is/was evicted because of failure to pay rent and not over the Peeps. Colbert's "news" simply targets the rediculous and funny/stupid and in some cases never mentions the reality of many stories. This has the potential to leave his viewing audience with their jaws dropped open in amazement (or should anyway) that something like this is newsworthy and court-worthy.

All I'm saying is that people like a gal I work with, my sister, a buddy of mine from Denver, et. al. that "only" watch the comedy channel for their news, have got to be lost and amazed at todays news....and they don't seem to wonder if there might be more to the story....and Colbert and Stewart don't do much to fill the reality gap, they leave that to the audience to be smarter than that. Many aren't.

so you are saying it's no better than regular news. I agree.

[finnbow]

I don't know if any of you saw Jon Stewart's spoof of Beck. It is absolutely priceless. This is one of the best pieces I've ever seen on The Daily Show. You'll have to have watched Beck a time or two to fully appreciate the humor, but IMHO this is political parody at its finest.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I don't know if any of you saw Jon Stewart's spoof of Beck. It is absolutely priceless. This is one of the best pieces I've ever seen on The Daily Show. You'll have to have watched Beck a time or two to fully appreciate the humor, but IMHO this is political parody at its finest.

I saw it last night. Indeed it was a wonderful parody.