On last night’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the country’s most trusted newscaster borrowed a page from Glen Beck’s faulty Fox playbook and once again took to the chalkboard to give us exactly one million reasons why Fox News may not be as “fair and balanced” as they claim to be. Shocker.
On The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night, Lewis Black took Glen Beck to task on his segment Back in Black after the completely rational (sarcasm) Fox News commentator took offense to Arizona’s immigration laws being compared to Nazi-ism even though anything remotely liberal he’s determined to be Nazi related. According to Dr. Black, it turns out that Beck has a severe case of Nazi Tourette’s Syndrome with symptoms that include playing “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except there’s just one degree and Kevin Bacon is Hitler”. By golly, I believe the good doctor is 100% correct.
It seems as though the always crass, clever and comedic South Park has never been better as creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone lead Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman to tonight’s 200th show. From the episode “Medicinal Fried Chicken” two weeks ago (the town’s KFC is replaced by a medical marijuana dispensary leading to Stan’s dad giving himself testicular cancer and Cartman to a Scarface-like fried chicken habit) to last week’s episode “You Have 0 Friends” (Stan gets sucked into the Tron-centric world of Facebook, literally), the timely and scathing satire of South Park has far surpassed the likes of other adult oriented animated shows like Family Guy (random acts of unsophisticated comedy) and my beloved The Simpsons (sometimes solid but best days are behind them).
Tonight the gang get their just due as every celebrity the show has ever (hilariously) offended, from Tom Cruise to Kanye West to Mickey Mouse, exact their revenge on the town of South Park. Wednesday, April 14th at 10pm on Comedy Central.
It’s not uncommon for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to bash Glenn Beck unabashedly, but last week Jon Stewart gave, quite possibly, the greatest performance in the history of The Daily Show by opening with 15 minutes of full on Glenn Beck insanity. Brilliance, comedy and common sense ensues.
You never know what you’re gonna get from the Seattle based rapper/comedian/weirdo/performance artist Reggie Watts. In this case you get a whole lot of “Fuck Shit Stack”, and that’s a good thing. The music video directed by Duncan Skiles and Ben Dickinson promotes Reggie’s upcoming Comedy Central special produced by Looseworld coinciding with the release of his CD/DVD Why Shit So Crazy, in stores May 18th. (special thanks to Mr. Matthies for the fuck shit stacking!)
These days it seems like the only “news” anchors you can rely on are the ones on a comedy channel. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart once again takes Fox “News” to task and calls it like it is, this time finding inconsistencies in what Fox likes to call “Fair and Balanced” reporting.
At this point it’s like shooting fish in a barrel made of fish with a bowling ball gun. Seriously Fox News, who are you kidding? Just drop the whole “Fair and Balanced” act already, rename yourselves the Republican News Network and call it a day. I promise you, you’ll feel much feel much better about yourself knowing that you have at least a shred dignity.
Just released yesterday on CD, iTunes, DVD (which contains an extra 30 minutes not seen on TV), and for free to listen to here at Spinner.com (sorry Aziz, but it’s for the people).
See crazy azz Aziz discuss more on Conan (thread counts), Letterman (Kanye) and Jimmy Kimmel (R. Kelly).
It seems as though Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show are feeling quite generous this holiday season as they neatly wrapped our nation’s health care woes in a four minute gift of comedy filled with irrational protesters, appropriate film clips and of course our favorite senator who doesn’t like the idea of helping people in need, Joe Lieberman.
Holiday bonus: The last tea party protest of the decade stocking stuffer complete with typical crazy Fox News person!
I’ll leave this week’s posts where I started them, in the trusty hands of Jon Stewart and his Daily Show taking on those mother foxers at Fox News. With Glen Beck on leave to take care of some internal organ issues, Jon does his best to step in and supply America with the classic Beckisms we so richly deserve: nonsensical associations; irrational thoughts; wild emotions paired with wild gesticulations; and of course, Beck’s bread and butter-the abundant use of fear mongering. Get well soon Glen!
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