Not impressed with Jon Stewart

[HelenWheels]

I can't believe he has this stupid woman on with a bunch of penis jokes. I can't believe he is still talking about Anthony Weiner. I thought he had better timing and should know when to move on.

[JVS]

1. I can't believe this is how he would treat an old friend.

[Bake]

9. Perhaps he's perturbed his old friend LIED TO HIM!

But go on defending the indefensible.

Bake

[JVS]

16. Yes, when an old friend lies to me about a personal matter, I always channel it into dick jokes.

[JI7]

20. when the old friend is a public political figure and your job is to make fun of politicians

others would call him out for not doing this to weiner when he would have to anyone else.

[JVS]

25. In such a situation one can recuse himself from the job, either by calling a sub or explicitly....

addressing the issue at hand and saying that you are not inclined to savage a friend for the satisfaction of viewers. Of course John Stewart is so obsessed with being seen as unbiased (something the right will never do, by the way) that he instead chose to deliver kicks to a friend who was down. He's truly shown us what mettle he is made of.

[trumad]

2. He's a fucking comedian

ugg!

[DevonRex]

3. The story is comic gold. Nobody will pass that up. Nt

[aquart]

4. No, no. Pay attention to the woman. She speaks true.

[EFerrari]

5. Comedians can't reisist dick jokes. It's just not possible. nt

[DevonRex]

11. Yay!!! We agree on something today!!!

I knew it would happen.

[blogslut]

6. I loved the press conference bit.

The man drew blood to bring the dick jokes, fer cryin' out loud! And Kristen Schaal was awesome. I dig her, a lot!

[KT2000]

7. He is in a difficult spot

He did not go after Weiner, his friend after it was revealed that he lied. For that Stewart must have taken some flak. He had to address that and he did a good job.

As far as the woman comedian - I thought she had some terrific points. Most woman do not want to receive pictures like that. period!

[sudopod]

8. My face when you're surprised about a comedian making dick jokes.

[Skittles]

23. or this

[sudopod]

27. XD lol nt

[JustAmused]

10. Shrug

I quit watching Jon when he said Bush was ok and not so bad as pres.

[ejpoeta]

12. i thought it was funny. because women don't want to see pictures of men's dick's.

men are the only one who seem to want to show people their dicks.

[Fleshdancer]

13. Would Weiner expect anything less from Stewart?

Somehow I don't think Stewart is saying anything about Weiner on TV that he wouldn't say to his face privately. He's a comedian. Making fun of scandals like this should be expected.

[Dollface]

14. Rep Weiner and his liberated lady friends are victims of the USA's Puritan attitudes toward sex.

[PeaceNikki]

17. Weiner is a victim of his own poor judgement.

[elfin]

15. I thought it was a great take

Both on the political and his personal situation as a friend..

I think the woman following (what is her name? I don't care) was lame as she usually is. Sam Bee is my favorite for the token woman on the show.

[theophilus]

18. I believe Jon is beating up on himself with Weiner's member. Jon

is afraid he'll be accused of going easy on his friend. So he goes on and on and on and on and on with the dick schtick. The Daily Show has always been, pretty much, one long cock joke. I find it much less amusing than Colbert. Colbert makes good points but doesn't seem to beat the meat jokes. Different types of humor appeal to different folks. Some are more genital oriented and some are more cerebrally oriented. Takes all kinds to balance a comedy network, I guess. I prefer Colbert. Jon should let up but tonight will be an even bigger Weiner jerk probably.

[abelenkpe]

19. Wait, is this last nites show? nt

[Retrograde]

21. She annoys me no end

All of the writers and special correspondents can be annoying at times, but she's the only one that makes me dive for the remote. It's the little-girl voice; for all I know she might be a brilliant writer and parodist, and it's all an act, but I find her screamingly unfunny.

[theophilus]

22. She's really good as Louise on Bob's Burgers, though. n/t

[Dreamer Tatum]

24. Um..he's a comedian. A penis is involved, and the owner's name is Weiner.

You should maybe get used to it for a couple of days. His writers are probably taking the next couple of days off, as the material writes itself.

[BOG PERSON]

26. kristen schaal isn't stupid!

she's funny.

[Initech]

28. You really expect a comedian to not make dick jokes?

[UTUSN]

29. K&R #1 (supposedly) since apparently DUers have UnReKKKed.

I was loyal to Jon from his beginning and there's nobody but also Tweety better at skewering Wingnuts when the two of them are a mind to.

But Jon is a Third-Way a-hole and Tweety is a RAYGUN-lover.



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