Friday, March 03, 2006

The truth hurts

Why Jon Stewart isn't funny
The tragedy [is] that the students who abandon politics out of a naive self-consciousness often represent our country's most idealistic minds. Stewart's daily dose of political parody characterized by asinine alliteration leads to a ''holier than art thou" attitude toward our national leaders. People who possess the wit, intelligence, and self-awareness of viewers of ''The Daily Show" would never choose to enter the political fray full of ''buffoons and idiots." Content to remain perched atop their Olympian ivory towers, these bright leaders head straight for the private sector.
The author make an interesting point and this article is worth reading. Although I would argue that if we in our ivory towers are drawn to "The Daily Show", it is because we are already disillusioned by politics, not the other way around.

1 comment:

Patterson said...

Yeah, but we're not the demographic they're talking about - they're talking about students. Any student that gets their news from the Daily Show, no matter where they go to school - if its Wharton, Harvard Law, Columbia Med - is an idiot.

I am probably the only person on the planet that liked the Daily Show better when Craig Kilborn hosted. To me, he was just so much better-suited to pull the "fake news" schtick because he was better at sarcasm.

Stephen Colbert gets it. His show is funnier than the Daily Show. That's the show "our generation" should be watching...

I still like the Daily Show, but it feels a bit watered down to me, much like SNL.