Jon Stewart leaving The Daily Show - Intelligent World Mourns

Texxx would be a perfect fit to replace Colbert. However, it would be odd because he would be serious.

 

Ex-Yahoo CEO: I would pay Jon Stewart $100 million per year to relaunch his show

http://www.businessinsider.com/jon-stewart-100-million-2015-2

 

because playing a cable news clip and mugging for the camera is so high brow

Stewart and his audience (declining and aging) realized his schtick was played out

 

Did you like the "Duller Image Catalog" bit or "Funny Headlines"?

Some of those Funny Headlines were great! (according to bigtexxx...)

 

your posts only validate the perception of self-superiority Stewart's audience has

 

You are such a touchy libertarian. Whaaaaaaaa.

 

That sounds exactly like something an ex-Yahoo CEO would do.

 

It is sad but it was going to happen sooner or later. I'm surprised that Stewart could keep the show going for so long and keep it funny. It might be better that Stewart leave now while he's close to the top of his game.

 

bwaaaahaha it's a comedy show brah!

low information voters....sigh

 

Sigh indeed.

 

flawed survey -- Daily show viewers likely getting news from other sources as well.

fail

 

I replied about this in the other thread. I'm not even disputing the numbers. It is just obvious that the Daily Show isn't a source of news. The point of the show is to make fun of other news shows so people who watch a bunch of news shows will be attracted to it. I watch PBS and the amount of information isn't even close. First off it is an hour and second they have actual reporters. Also how old is that poll? Lehrer hasn't hosted PBS for several years.

I think you could have included Conan and had a similar result.

 

So how does that prove bigtexxx' ridiculous post (redundant, I know)?

 

it's too bad he couldn't have morphed it into something that kept him/us interested while maintaining the political satire.....he was a generation's Johnny Carson/SNL must watch. He'll be very tough to replace. His balance between serious and goofy was usually spot on.

 

Daily Show's ratings have been declining and the avg audience age is 40. It was time, but Stewart had a helluva run.

I remember the UPN show Stewart ran way back with their segments of toy figures that predated Robot Chicken. Never knew he would be what he is now....

The newshour should be the standard for network news. They even try to be fair in their analysis portion by inviting people like Grover Norquist or industry paid lobbyists.

 

the best is when they have two Obama supporters (Shields and Brooks) discuss issues of the day with the Obama supporting moderator Gwen Ifill

hard to tell if PBS actually thinks they are representing the spectrum of public opinion, or if they just don't care

 

Yes, you sure are.

 

That was the replacement after Arsenio Hall evaporated overnight in the early '90s, after he in turn salvaged Joan Rivers' and Ross Shafer's old time slot on Fox. I remember when he had Sheryl Crow on, she might have mentioned she was single and he sarcastically started trying to flirt with her. Then another time he was doing a bit about upcoming fall shows and one of them was called "Pssst...I'm Gay!"

 

I try to pay attention even when it's not convenient with my comfortable views.

There used to be a day when Conservatives respected the office of the President no matter what party they came from and used that ethical consistency against Liberals who didn't pay similar respect when the President disagreed with their views.

Brooks has been consistent with that respect when he defended Bush. Shields is unabashedly Liberal.

So there's a difference between understanding bias and just flat out reacting to views that doesn't cater to you. Otherwise "news analysis" is just talking heads telling you what to think (something Fox and MSNBC does successfully) rather than providing insight towards an independent conclusion by the viewer.

P.S. This is why I feel conservatism as it is practiced now has gone down the ****ter and is easily led by the nose by smart money.