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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
October 13, 2007
The Greatest Media Critic In American History
The people who own the networks may be conservative, but they don't run the news coverage (although they can influence it indirectly through budgets and the like).
I also hear the people who own General Motors don't run the car factories, although they can influence them indirectly.
Posted at October 13, 2007 07:18 PM | TrackBackI don't usually watch the interviews on the Daily Show, but I'm glad I kept the sound on for Howie's. His shallowness and obtuseness was on full display, more and more as Stewart made to-the-point objections to his vapid, unfunny one-liners.
Although some commenters concluded he was so stupid he didn't even know what was happening to him, at the very end I thought I could see in his eyes the awareness that he'd lost the audience, which was stonily silent. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.
Posted by: Nell at October 13, 2007 10:28 PMJon Stewart's a damn good interviewer. He seems to have actually read the books whose authors he grills. I avoid his hollywood-hype crap, cuz it's just so fucking banal to begin with. But on the topical books/authors he does a very good job, imho...
Posted by: konopelli/wgg at October 14, 2007 11:55 AM
