The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, is really the only TV show that I watch on a regular basis because a. it's funny b. it keeps me informed (sort of). Sure a lot of the stuff is repetitive and sometimes they use out of context material to make their point, which by the way when others do, they mock; however, it still is an excellent show as the rest of the news media a truly exposed for the unbelievable level of stupidity and frivolity that is at the core of what the news has become. Of course the Bush administration is a common and deserved target as well.
Anyway, the reason I mention it is that there’s a decent article in the NY Times about the show and I think it’s worth a read. I wish it would pick on him a bit for some of the laziness that has crept in, but I guess that would be asking too much for a piece that was intended to jerk off the subject or maybe that's just the hater inside of me talking and it's actually a flawless program.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/arts/television/17kaku.html?em
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The Daily Show is basically a snarky political blog bankrolled by Comedy Central.
I remember a while ago they were talking about doing something similar with the focus on sports - that would be a potentially awesome show. Now THAT is something I think Craig Kilborn could handle. But maybe I'm just being nostalgic and want to hear "Jumanji!" one more time.
I really didn't like Kilborn, because that was the transition from my all time favorite of Dan Patrick and his tag team partner Keith Olbermann. The Kilborn era ushered in the era of "catch phrases", sure Dan Patrick already had a couple, but it just became different. They were now doing shtick instead of quality writing. Remember the Plays of the Week, they always had an awesome intro. I wish I could find a youtube clip to show people how awesome sports center used to be.
Kenny Mayne is the only one after that who was genuinely funny.
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