Does anyone try to watch "The Daily Show" online?

[muriel_volestrangler]

I used to be able to do it via Firefox's "Modify Headers" add-on - which changed the internet headers so that it didn't look like I was in the UK (where they refuse to show the videos, even though no British channel, not even the obscure Fx on satellite, carries the show daily now). But about a week ago, it stopped working - I get the "you are in the UK, sod off" message you get without modifying the headers.

Does anyone do it?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

1. I wouldn't mind knowing this as well

[non sociopath skin]

2. It really pisses me off ....

... that since More4 dropped it, it STILL can't be accessed online from the UK. As if we poor bloody infantry have any choice in the matter.

Same goes for the Colbert Report.

The Skin

[SwissTony]

3. I watch both online in Holland (and have also done so in Oz).

Just google "daily show" and "colbertnation". Can't see that being in the UK should make any difference.

For some reason, some of the Colbert clips terminate a bit early. No idea why.

Edited to add: they are also here on one of the Comedy Central channels. And again, because "add" has two "d"s not one, and I'm a bit of a grammar Nazi.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. They specifically block them for the UK

They have a message along the lines of "we're sorry, but we don't let people in Britain watch this show. Please don't send the Redcoats!". It gets a bit annoying when you've seen it several times. Presumably there's some kind of copyright agreement with someone in the UK (it could be Channel 4, who show the weekly highlights - but (a) that's up to a week out of date (b) it's whatever they feel are the best couple of segments for a world audience).

I'm sure there are various ways of getting round these copyright restrictions, but I always feel uneasy using them - the sneakier they are, the more chance, it seems to me, that someone will have built viruses into whatever mechanism you try to use.

[SwissTony]

5. That's a bummer.

The digest version used to be on in Oz and was about as funny and informative as an enema. Every subtlety was reduced to the level of a Seinfeld joke (sorry, Seinfeld lovers).

I'm not strong on this, but I get the impressions that VPNs might work. I believe there's an OpenVPN which, hopefully, should be safe. Warning: I may be talking (and quite probably am) talking out my bum. Don't know how savvy you are, but this might be worth investigating.

[dipsydoodle]

6. I gave up years ago when I ceased to find him particularly funny

That's mainly in relation to our own talent here with whom I consider he pales into insignificance.

[non sociopath skin]

7. What I like about Jon is that he has the balls to say what needs to be said ....

... a rarity with American media people outside MSNBC.

There may be funnier comics but few braver IMHO.

The Skin

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Porblem solved - they've set up a UK site

http://www.comedycentral.co.uk/shows/featured/the-daily-show/

Though, when the videos refuse to play for you on the US site, they don't do anything intelligent like say "unavailable here - please go to comedycentral.co.uk". And since the UK site doesn't show up on the first page of Google hits (unlike the American and Canadian ones - you have to go through to page 7 before the British one turns up), it may have been there for ages - who knows?

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Torrents...if you can get torrents, they are on those.