The Daily Show 01 29 08 (DSRip-DIMENSION)

01.29.08 - incorrect date

so we have learned that jon stewart is not so funny without writers.

what a surprise...

yeah, he's not as good. but, colbert is still great, imo. i just like colbert
more, and find myself laughing a lot.

since he was (a) always in favour of the strike, and (b) never a guy of (too
much ;-) vanity, i wouldn't be too surprised if that's exactely the point he's
trying to make.

i tried to stay up to date with the 'presidental race' over here in europe
using the 'proper channels' (cnn, ...) -- forget it. finding some kind of
picture amid all the crap is impossible. i'm very happy that he's back -- even
with his engine running only on one or two cylinders... ;-)

i have to agree with you. i've never watched this show for uncontrollable
laughter fits, but more for an entertaining and alternative view of politics and
world events. as you pointed, jon seems to consciously make a point about not
being funny without writers. nevertheless this show manages to entertain and
amuse me, no matter how akward and writerless the action may at times be.

i also have to agree with the point made about colbert report. to me, the show
has seemed to be at least as funny, if not even more entertaining than in the
good old pre-strike times.

thanks once again for the upload and keep these two wonderful shows coming.

colbert has a lot less "news"-content than the daily show though, interviews
take up most of the time in his show now without the writers. it's easier for
him to still be funny than stewart because of that.

[btw. i think both of them are strike breakers]

a daily show is funny enough, but i'll be really glad to get back to normal when
the strike is over.

jon's plenty funny in his own right, but comedians are each an acquired taste.

as others have pointed out, colbert's doing more interviews because they allow
for improvisation which allows him to stay in character and produce content
without it being written.

as for them being strike breakers ... there's a certain degree of writing
happening on the shows, i'll agree. but the writing seems to be of the nature
"make a funny graphic of x y and z doing a b and c and i'll say something funny
to go with it". it's not necessarily *writing* per se, but *planning*. it's a
fine line, i think stewart and colbert are both walking the line but not
crossing it.

as i understand, the "decision" for the shows to come back was more of a
direction from viacom, in the face of the other late night chat shows coming
back a week earlier. they could have said no, but then they'd have either been
out of a job, or would have watched guest hosts destroy the shows.

it's clear that they both appreciate their writers and want them back on the job.

so where's today's colbert report, dammit 🙂

the presidential election is more important than the writers strike, and stewart
and colbert are pretty much the only ones pointing out a lot of the bullshit in
the campaign that the news channels eat up without question. while they say
they are fake news shows, even their level of analysis is often far superior to
that of "real" news, and therefore it should be perfectly acceptable for them to
have a journalistic exemption from the strike.

"i suck at many kinds of comedy" jon stewart on this very show.

the best thing about a daily show is the fact that not only you know it's not as
good as the daily show, they know it too. and hopefully so does the
ampatampabay. if you compare before and after, it's clearly not as good. but, it
is a good substitute while we don't have it.

both links go to nothing and i can't find this anywhere else, so if someone
could post the actual link it would be appreciated

so this is show from the 28th and was just labeled incorrectly?

the eztv link works, but if you have an ad blocker active you will have to
fiddle with it to get it to download. the mininova link was dead most of the
day. personally i think eztv is trying to get us to go through it's ad links
so they can make more money, fine and dandy i can understand that, but the more
annoying the forced ads are, the less i will use eztv. my computer got
seriously bogged down blocking thier ads, so i went to other sources to get my
fix. how many times do i really need to see that stupid poker ad, i don't play
poker online or anywhere else and will not no matter how often i see that thing.

i might ad, i usually download colbert and daily show here rather than watching
it on tv. but after yesterday's fiasco i decided last night to record it
instead, i only get two tv stations here, thankfully those shows happen to be
on one.

all i use is the google toolbar to block pop ups, which i disabled and neither
of the links worked. if it is some kind of "look at the ads" thing then it's
the first problem i've had. a few sites have just randomly not loaded ads for
me. oh well, i'll just do without mondays (bizarre it wasn't anywhere else...)