I am starting to think I am enjoy the colbert show more than the daily show. The daily show opening 10 or so minutes are good 2/3 of the time but then they have the short part inbetween commercials which is hit or miss and usually the interview sucks (it should either be serious or not not mixed sort of). The colbert report on the other hand is good the whole way throughout and the interview is usually very funny.
Anyone else agree that the colbert report is now superior
colbert>stewert
Indeed - Colbert has taken over -funny, funny, funny.
yes it has
You guys are trying to compare a real news show with a comedy show. It's apples to oranges. But I do enjoy both shows and Colbert's opening 5 minutes are usually hysterical.
UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:
You guys are trying to compare a real news show with a comedy show. It's apples to oranges.
I sure hope that this was just a poor attempt at humor.
The Daily Show is a real news show?
wow.
Mtn Dew wrote:
The Daily Show is a real news show?
wow.
more real than fox news anyway
keystone light knight wrote:
more real than fox news anyway
Once again: wow.
Colbert's got deadpan subtlety and generic looks. He doesn't mug and hit you over the head with snide obviousness and meanspirited bias the way Stewart does. Instead of inviting your hostility, Colbert invites you in to join the joke. And then has that wacky blandness going on, that middle-class all-American suburban-Irish-Catholic thing.
You know what it reminds me of? National Lampoon in its heyday (c. 1973) vs. Mad magazine.
Part of the recent problems at the Daily Show have been the loss of all the great comedians that were on the show a year or two ago. Colbert, Corddry, Helms were all hilarious.
I also feel that Stewart has become a little too biased. I mean, we all knew he was biased, but he didn't used to show it in his interviews as much. Ron Paul was on the other night giving, what I thought, a reasonable interview. And it seemed like Stewart was just kind of going through the motions.
It's still a hilarious show, but it's not what it was a couple years ago.
And, no, it's not a real news show. That was a lame attempt at a joke. But because of the subject of the humor, you probably do get a pretty good amount of information on current affairs just by tuning in. If you're smart enough to filter out the jokes they put on the subject matter.
I thought the Daily Show hit the skids when Mo Rocco bailed.
UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:
I also feel that Stewart has become a little too biased.
I agree. He's no longer satirizing the administration, he's inciting anger.
On a comedy show you're supposed to laugh when the host makes a joke. Now when he rips on Cheyney they all cheer like it's some kind of Nazi propaganda party
Yes, but has Cheney ever done anything defensible? He is literally the embodiment of evil. Complete sociopath.
Jon Stewart = too many "uh's....". Once you key onto it, it's totally annoying.
Colbert's interviews are absolutely incredible--especially with people who take themselves too seriously like, uh, uh, congressfolks.
Good post. I used to love the Daily Show but the it is not as clever nor as funny as it used to be. Its lost some quality people.
I've switched to Olberman. Its much better.
I think that the Daily Show is still great. Of course Stewart has his views, but he'll have guys like John Bolton and Ron Paul on and, I think, gives them a fair untreatment. I really liked the Ron Paul interview.
I personally prefer the Daily show because I am just not a fan of Colbert's humor. I used to like the show, but something changed at some point and although I'm watching it now, I find him annoying.
It seems that Jon Stewart has become lazy--the blunders of this administration are so obvious that they need very little comedic setup. This shouldn't give him or the Daily Show writers carte blanche to be mean-spirited, either. I'm not saying that he's wrong on the issues, but there are more subtle, clever (and let's face it: funnier) ways to present newsworthy (or unworthy) topics.
Enter Stephen Colbert. His program is more polished overall, and is the epitome of biting satire. Where the Daily Show was basically a longer form of Weekend Update, the Colbert Report takes fake news to another level by establishing elaborate jokes that make the punch lines all the more savory. His format has even allowed guests such as Tom DeLay and Bill O'Reilly to be exposed in ways that the Daily Show wouldn't have allowed.
For example, with the Imus gaffe, Stewart basically laughed at the guy and called him an idiot. Colbert didn't even use his name. He established a week-long piece that began with him making racist comments on his staged radio show. It somehow ended with the Hungarian Ambassador rocking out with a guitar on his program. Genius.
nah the colbert report is the real news show, not the daily show.