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Jon Stewart’s Comic Relief 2010

By George Neumayr on 10.28.10 @ 6:08AM

Celebrity jesters hold a benefit for their failing king.

Once upon a time jesters courted kings. Now enfeebled kings court jesters. Panting after the approval of the smug comedian Jon “Stewart,” Barack Obama taped an interview for The Daily Show on Wednesday.

The smirking jester is also scheduled to hold a kind of charity benefit for his sickly king this weekend, a Comic Relief 2010 called The Rally to Restore Sanity. Obama and the Dems are suffering from a debilitating political disease, but Jon, Whoopi, Robin and Joy, among other celebrity jesters, stand ready to help them in their affliction.

No cure appears likely, though. Comic Relief 2010 may raise a little money and get some college students to the polls, but it is surely too little too late. As many dismayed Democratic strategists even suspect, Obama’s ill-advised Daily Show appearance is a harbinger of defeat.

It is reminiscent of John McCain’s odd decision to host Saturday Night Live shortly before election day in 2008. McCain’s campaign started as a joke and ended as one, with McCain fishing for laughs off SNL parodies that were predicated upon his imminent defeat.

At a time of high unemployment, Obama is content to play the empty celebrity, appearing on shows as shallow as his policies and delivering trendy messages about the latest anxiety of the coastal elite — the “gay teen suicide epidemic.”

“Can The Comedian Save The Vote?” asks Matt Drudge of Stewart. No, this jester can’t save his king. Still, Stewart is feeling his oats, basking in near-universal approval from the liberal elite. They can’t get enough of him and live in dread fear of losing his approval. A desperately contrite Rick Sanchez, so grateful to Stewart for taking a reconciliation phone call from him after his firing, pronounced the comedian the “classiest” guy in the world.

While Stewart engages in a lot of cutesy mugging and seemingly self-deprecating humor about such accolades, he takes himself very seriously indeed. His own liberal assumptions are exempt from mocking, and he claims to be deeply pained by “phoniness” at the highest levels of society. Yet somehow this concern about phoniness doesn’t extend to something as basic as his own name, which is not Jon Stewart but Jon Leibowitz, or his own role in high society. The self-proclaimed puncturer of all things phony has a phony name, and the jester has no intention of dropping his mask or reforming his juvenile ways.

The most respected liberal in America, according to one recent poll, throws his spit balls, then makes sure to hide in the bushes. On Crossfire several years back, he made it clear that he thinks others — but not he — are “hurting” society.

A cocky celebrity wanting it both ways is hardly news, but it is notable that the Democratic Party is now led in large part by comics. Stephen Colbert testified before Pelosi’s Congress as an honored guest; SNL alumnus Al Franken sits in the Senate; comedienne Joy Behar vets presidential candidates on The View; and Bill Maher is treated like Mark Twain.

Had Joy Behar lived a century ago, she would have been a lewd barmaid somewhere. Now she is an important Democratic “opinionmaker,” browbeating this or that public figure. She stomped off the set in an elephantine huff the other week after Bill O’Reilly failed to pay sufficient homage to Islam. But this week the defender of religions of peace cast Sharron Angle into the fires of “hell” and called her a “bitch.”

One wonders how long Behar would avoid a stoning if she ever talked like that in Saudi Arabia. The ladies of The View are lucky the show is not shot in Riyadh.

Liberalism, perhaps under the influence of its foul-mouthed jesters, has suspended some of its old sensitivities, as its practitioners call Meg Whitman a “whore” (an honorable if insufficiently regulated line of work from liberalism’s point of view), Angle a “bitch,” and everyone from Juan Williams to Christine O’Donnell “crazy.” Is that any way for liberals to talk about the mentally ill? And who knew that New Age NPR executives used “feelings” and “psychiatrist” so easily in punchlines?

Obama himself, trying hard to impress Jay Leno early in his term, used the “Special Olympics” as a punchline during that late-night appearance. But it is his administration and party which look increasingly lame and laughable as they court comics.

About the Author

George Neumayr, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is co-author, with Phyllis Schlafly, of the new book, No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom.

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drudge ette obama| 10.28.10 @ 6:16AM

Joy Behar would not have been a lewd barmaid 100 years ago, she would have been something more akin to what Jerry Brown's crew called Meg Whitman.

I have watched Jon Leibowitz Stewart to try to understand the appeal and have come away with a couple of impressions. Jon is pretty full of himself - it shows in his face, but I also think he is scared. Fear shows, too.

I also found the humor limited and a little stale. But maybe I am just too serious about other things at this time.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 10.28.10 @ 6:37AM

There is no Joy in Behar
The mighty vagina has struck out . . .

MARK Devenow| 10.28.10 @ 5:47PM

Ah! Now that's a polite way of describing Joy Behar: alluding to a part of her anatomy by its dictionary name. Where it comes to Joy Behar, I kind of prefer the vulgarism equivalent.

m1shu| 10.28.10 @ 9:51PM

Joy Behar got her break making d#ck jokes. So it's actually an apt description.

JerseyJeff| 10.28.10 @ 8:15PM

Love the couplet. The Mighty Coozee, perhaps?

Flit Andersen| 11.2.10 @ 4:17AM

The Big Breezer?

Appleby| 10.28.10 @ 7:21AM

Jon Stewart and Joy Behar are a little boy and girl running nekkid into a cocktail party shouting POO POO HEAD!

Obama is one of those in the group who pretend to think this is *cute*.

Rocky| 10.28.10 @ 12:53PM

if it weren't so true that would actually be funny

Marty| 10.29.10 @ 11:52AM

Obama isn't pretending, that's really his level but he won't show it.

Timothy L. Pennell| 10.28.10 @ 8:32AM

What am I missing, here? Jon Stewart. Whoopi Goldberg. Robin Williams. Joy Behar. I thought you said this was gonna be a COMEDY thing? Aren't you supposed to have people that are actually FUNNY, when you put on a Comedy thing?
At least we had Hussein and Leibowitz. The USEFUL IDIOT and the USELESS IDIOT.

coal carrier| 10.28.10 @ 12:04PM

Now that is funny, LOL

Flagstaff| 10.28.10 @ 12:47PM

Don't you have the order reversed?

TheBigHenry | 10.28.10 @ 1:25PM

Both adjectives are superfluous.

Roy| 10.28.10 @ 8:15PM

He's a comedian all right - his best laugh line is calling himself a "moderate".

Dai Alanye | 10.28.10 @ 12:42PM

For some type I've had a nagging feeling that Joy Behar reminded me of someone. Finally figured it out. It's Don Rickles minus the wit and good looks.

girltogo| 10.28.10 @ 1:22PM

Now that's Funny!

JJ| 10.28.10 @ 3:47PM

Ditto. :)

Victor Erimita| 10.28.10 @ 7:51PM

It's Obama who reminds me of Rickles. His speech schtick now routinely plays like an insult comic.

But this prominence of comedians in the leftist pantheon reveals a deep truth. Leftism has become nothing but a posture among most leftists. Sure, Obama is a movement Marxist, and many of the politicians are either ideologues or graft seekers. But the average self-identified leftist citizen has few core beliefs aside from the conviction he is smarter, more perceptive and more virtuous than Katie Couric's "Great Unwashed." They are the Cool Kids of 7th grade whose coolness consists entirely of who they are not. Their coolness comes into being only by excluding, bullying, vilifying and dehumanizing those they choose as the Uncool.

This is the Left. Their entire worldview is nothing but smugness. Their heroes are the Mahers, Stewarts and Lettermans. Tina Fey, SNL, Maureen Dowd, Michael Moore and on and on. They all have that knowing smirk. And that smirk is the secret handshake that constitutes the mutual affirmation that "we are the enlightened ones," the Cool Kids. Because We Know. What do we know? That we're Not Them. Not Palin, not Angle, not O'Donnell, not whoever is the Uncool Kid of the day. And they need a constant supply of new ones to mock. The Entire Tea Party is characterized by Palin. No, by Angle. No, by O'Donnell. After O'Donnell, there will soon have to be another for them to mock and smirk and affirm their own superiority over.

This is the Left. Trivial, silly, shallow and unserious. It is perfectly fitting that Obama went to Stewart for his blessing. And also perfectly appropriate that it made him look as small and pathetic as he really is.

Citizen Bob| 10.29.10 @ 8:39AM

Unable to defend their positions, the left always
resorts to mockery and personal attacks.

o.d.| 10.29.10 @ 3:04PM

True. Just this morning an acquaintance said he hated Sara Palin because all she did was stir up trouble. He said he wanted people who could get along! End of discussion for me!

JerseyJeff| 10.28.10 @ 8:18PM

More yuks here than on The Daily Show. Whenever I hear Joy speak I get a visual of her wobbling in the doorway of a single-wide with a lit Virginia Slims in one hand and a bottle of Four Roses in the other.

Richard| 10.28.10 @ 2:14PM

For the humor to be stale, there would have to be some humor to start with. All I see is Stewart goofing off like the dork he truly is, with his "ain't I just too cute and funny" routine. Hey, Steward, or Lebowitz or whatever you name is, you aren't funny. You're pathetic. Now, go to your room.

Linda| 10.28.10 @ 3:11PM

I don't watch the guy, but I did look him up. He was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, November 28, 1962. He graduated from the College of William & Mary in Virginia. He majored in psychology. This is probably not interesting to anyone (especially to me) but it does set the record straight.

Vern Crisler| 10.28.10 @ 3:12PM

Yeah, I tuned in to listen to him once because everyone said he was funny. That was the last time I tuned in to listen to him. I guess people have different ideas about what is funny.

Codger Bob| 10.28.10 @ 7:36PM

I have never seen "Stewart's" show and don't intend to view it. I have more important things to do with my time.

AZ | 10.28.10 @ 7:48PM

I have tried watching this moron a few times but found out it was an excersize in futility. The whole show is pathetic and not one bit funny.

Brian Richard Allen | 10.28.10 @ 3:40PM

.... Joy Behar, 100 years ago, would have been something more akin to what Jerry Brown and his crew called Meg Whitman ....

Reckon, less she 'worked' outside a flop for insane, blind, drunks, the gross cow would have starved. No-one in command of his faculties would pay for that!

(My apologies to cows)

Rosie haas| 10.28.10 @ 4:36PM

It's like you read my mind George. Who could forget that crossfire appearance? Hiding behind the label of "entertainer" may have worked then, but NOW--no way! Stewart and Colbert are going above and beyond the call of I'm just an entertainer to boot!

Flit Andersen| 11.2.10 @ 4:22AM

I was presented with a YT video clip of a Jon Steward routine as some sort of alleged evidence of something or other. My antagonist INSISTED he had found "Truth" here. Just to show him the difference between a debate and a lounge act I deconstructed the whole nine minutes and when you took it sentence by sentence the man actually said nothing. It was an exercise in getting yuks with eyebrows; voice inflections; hand gesture & shrugs for emphasis. The man is as completely vapid and empty as his hero, B. Hussein Obama.

Flit Andersen| 11.2.10 @ 4:25AM

PS..I think his hairdresser is screwing him, too. I don't know what he pays for that "shearing" but whenever he decides to look like an adult my gal could fix him up.

Baloney Guy| 10.28.10 @ 6:17AM

It's obvious the Jon Stewart audience is part of the moocher class, applauding and cheering as Obama reeled off his dubious accomplishments.

The accomplishments were nothing but generalizations for the most part, and the audiences cheers should have told any advertiser that perhaps they should not support the show, since the audience was made up of nothing but uneducated moochers who believe in the art of the government hand out.

The reason most king's courts need court jesters is to insulate themselves from the great unwashed middle, the smelly tourists and the Tea Baggers, all derogatory terms coined by liberals.

matthau| 10.28.10 @ 11:58PM

You idiots called yourselves teabaggers LONG before intellectual liberals did.
Own it, reagan lover.

Pat| 10.29.10 @ 6:58AM

I've noticed that liberals make a big deal out of demanding the right to dictate what other people call them, whether it's the latest P.C. ethnic term or insisting that they be called "Progressives," even though they believe in a set of economic priniciples that have been tried repeatedly for over a century and failed miserably every time.

Yet, when the Tea Party movement appeared, the "call-me-Progressives" all took endless delight in calling the members not "Tea Partiers" but "teabaggers," a vulgar epithet that not only insulted Tea Party members but also took a typically passive-aggressive swipe at gay people.

Since "Progressives" refuse to show the respect to Tea Party members of calling them by their correct name, I have decided that I will no longer call them "Progressives," but something much more appropriate. Every time I see someone use the word "teabagger," I immediately say, "Douchebagger," discount everything else they might have written, and skip on the next post in hopes of finding a comment that's not a waste of time and pixels.

o.d.| 10.29.10 @ 3:10PM

People, especially crude liberals, tend to forget that there is no national Tea Party. It is organized in some places, but it is more a state of mind and descriptive of a conservative mentality. Therefore, call me what you will. Doesn't bother me!

skip| 10.30.10 @ 1:31PM

"intellectual liberals"! Now that is a funny joke.

Chef Brian | 10.30.10 @ 5:55PM

absolutely, they have educated themselves to the point of being idiots! Over educated liberals are natures way of showing the rest of us what insanity looks like!

Johnson Johnson| 10.28.10 @ 6:30AM

Stewart will be trying to find his sanity this weekend.

ggoblue| 10.28.10 @ 6:42AM

thank god for little johnny lebovitz and his rally to stroke his ego....it will be the wellstone rally of 2010!

cars will burn in the streets and another 20 democrat congressmen will go down in the flames....

i remember starting my count at 225....now it is 5 days to go america!

Tim*| 10.28.10 @ 6:58AM

Obama walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder.
The bartender looks up and says, " Hey Cool ! Where'd Ya Get Him? "
"Africa ", says the parrot.

Johnson Johnson| 10.28.10 @ 7:42AM

An optometrist, a zebra, and a ballerina walk into a bar.

The bartender say, "What is this? Some kind of joke?"

wodiej| 10.28.10 @ 7:48AM

LMAO!! good one!

Thunderbottom| 10.28.10 @ 9:36AM

President Obama walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder. The bartender looks up and says, "Nice! Does he talk?"
"Not without a teleprompter," says the parrot.

Shamus| 10.28.10 @ 9:57AM

I love this. It's a great twist on the original joke.

skip| 10.28.10 @ 11:00AM

Obama walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder.
The bartender looks up and says, "I didn't know a parrot could take that big of a shit."

publius| 10.28.10 @ 11:56AM

Obama walks into the doctors office with a monkey sitting on his head. The doctor says "can I help you." The monkey replies, "can you cut this tumor off my ass."

NC77| 10.28.10 @ 2:28PM

Too funny.

AvengingAngel| 10.29.10 @ 12:44AM

ALAN BROOK'S QUOTE:

"But am so glad McCain isn't president, I wish Obama would get both the Peace Prize and his likeness on Mt. Rushmore. I mean it."

"I hate how everyone is demonizing Obama."

Kathi| 10.28.10 @ 2:50PM

Nice. Throw in a racist joke to prove how credible you are.

skip| 10.28.10 @ 2:56PM

Please refer to the joke you believe is racist. Thank you.

Bilwick| 10.28.10 @ 4:26PM

"Skip," you are forgetting the new definition of "racism." In Hivespeak, it now means "that which opposes the Annointed One." Or for that matter, by extension, "that which opposes the Hive."

Warrior | 10.28.10 @ 4:04PM

Kathi, no your place and begone with your no sense of humor self before I take care you in accordance with Sharia law.

oh boy| 10.28.10 @ 4:56PM

Yes, Kathi, "no your place".

Stourley Kracklite| 10.28.10 @ 5:36PM

Watch out, oh boy, Warrior is a head stomper.
In all seriousness, it's refreshing to read a post from a sane person on an American Expectorator thread. George 'What's that on your chest, mister?' Neumayr condemns himself for all eternity with this dismissal of the tragic results of homophobia as 'trendy messages about the latest anxiety of the coastal elite -- the "gay teen suicide epidemic.' As for the sophistication of the right, 'Eating good in the Neighborhood' Appleby reaches its pinnacle with "POO POO HEAD!"

Warrior | 10.28.10 @ 5:57PM

Real snappy response pointing out a typo. By the way smart ass, the period belongs inside the quotation mark.

Stourley Kracklite| 10.28.10 @ 7:59PM

Thanks for noting I placed it correctly.

Brian Richard Allen | 10.28.10 @ 3:46PM

Then he walked up the road to another bar and took off his hat to reveal a great big muurrafurra toad growing out of his head. "Geez," said the bartender, where'd you get THAT!?" "Dunno," said the toad, "started out as a wart on my arse."

casey| 10.28.10 @ 7:02AM

George Neumayr , Jon "Stewart" (yeah thats his fucking name) graduated from Harvard. Fuck what you think.You put so much emphasis on how its just a comedy bit , but this man would speak circles around you. And Bologna* Guy , it's clear that Jon "Stewart"s audience is not a bunch of ignorant christians being spoon fed everything Rupert Murdoch dictates via News Corp. Look it up bitches.

Heres where you all go
Ha! just goes to show liberals can't get there point across without being civil.

Well maybe instead of being a pussy , you can try and understand my point , and THEN try and understand why Jon "Stewart" ( if that's his real name) would make comedy out of a horrible media monopoly situation.

Nancy in NC| 10.28.10 @ 7:11AM

And liberals can't get their point across with resorting to profanity and name calling.

Nancy in NC| 10.28.10 @ 7:13AM

WITHOUT resorting to...too early in the morning for me, obviously.

Occam's Tool| 10.28.10 @ 12:03PM

Yes we can get our point across in polite fashion.

Obama had marxists and other leftists as his mentors in college. His direction of governing was obvious by observing his actions.

If Obama had had his first political meeting to launch his career in the home of Bill Ayers, DAIYENU.

If Obama had had his first political meeting to launch his career in the home of Bill Ayers, but if he had sat in a racist antisemite's congregation for 20 years, DAIYENU.

If Obama had had his first political meeting to launch his career in the home of Bill Ayers, if he had sat in a racist antisemite's congregation for 20 years, but if Obama had bowed to terrorists and leaders of other countries with questionable histories while snubbing Israel, DAIYENU.

I can go on and discuss his horrific domestic policies, but this is tedious.

Occam's Tool| 10.28.10 @ 12:05PM

Sorry, Nancy, I thought you were referring to Conservatives, and Tim*. Forgive me. But the points hold for Obama.

mavigozler | 10.28.10 @ 11:56PM

It's always too early in the morning for a right winger, if you really want to be truthful.

And I note your hypocrisy by deploring name calling and basically doing that--calling someone a "liberal"---in the very same sentence.

But there is a Yin and Yang to everything: because we need morons if only to allow distinction, we thus have right wingers.

Don L| 10.28.10 @ 7:38AM

You're much too generous -liberals are profanity -and the dirty little secret is that they love it! If it's immoral, deceptive, or evil, it is a badge of honor. They loathe the good and seek to do evil while calling it a good, as in: "Abortion - it's for the children!"

Maddox| 10.28.10 @ 11:41AM

Well said!

RustyG| 10.28.10 @ 7:39AM

Hurry and get dressed Casey...you're going to miss the school bus.

gypsy| 10.28.10 @ 9:20AM

oh puh-leeeeaze, he's suspended...indefinitely

Warrior | 10.28.10 @ 10:42AM

I'll bet it's not one of those long ones either.

Deborah D | 10.28.10 @ 7:42AM

He graduated from Harvard? Oh, that's his problem!:)

I actually like Jon Stewart. I don't agree with him much of the time, but I do think he's funny. He tends to occasionally inflict some humor on his own liberals, which I think is much needed. I keep thinking he will awaken to the fact that liberals are insane, but he's not there, unfortunately.

Tom| 10.28.10 @ 7:50AM

Casey,
Stewart graduated from William and Mary, not Harvard . But you know who really graduated from Harvard? George Bush.
Tom

wodiej| 10.28.10 @ 7:50AM

LOL....another home run for the Tea Party and conservatives nationwide. Keep it up-your hateful, insulting, vulgar behavior is helping our side win!

NavyBrat | 10.28.10 @ 8:43AM

Awwww, poor Casey. Doesn't know how to speak him/herself, so he/she resorts to the f-bomb. Now, I'm not above using that word myself, but when you're trying to portray yourself as erudite & intelligent, its use is a little counter-productive.

As for the rediculous notion that "Stewart" is his real name, here we have the classic example of someone who's been slapped in the face with the truth ("Stewart" IS, in fact Leibowitz) & refuses to acknowledge it. Typical of a liberal twit without the sense G*d gave a goose. And as for little Casey's assertion that LEIBOWITZ would talk circles around Mr. Neumayr because he went to Hah-vard, well, that & $6 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

But please, Casey, continue your fellating of Mr. Leibowitz. Its quite amusing.

Kathi| 10.28.10 @ 2:56PM

Actually, Stuart is his middle name. Why you're all making such a big deal over his name is beyond me. Is your name really "Navybrat"?

Robert| 10.28.10 @ 4:37PM

I'm assuming it's because they want us to know he is Jewish, as if that is a detriment.

But hey, at least he's not a Muslim Kenyan, right? Right?

Your attacks are all so....boring.

DRed| 10.28.10 @ 3:40PM

His legal name is Jon Stewart. That's the truth.

William5| 10.28.10 @ 12:57PM

Yale, the Bushies went to Yale

Rob Dharana| 10.28.10 @ 1:18PM

Dubya went to Yale for undergrad, but Harvard for his MBA.

Brian Richard Allen | 10.28.10 @ 3:54PM

Not, in fact, "to Harvard" -- but to the Harvard Business School. But near enough.

And then became a US Airforce fighter pilot, a successful businessman, a capable governor and, for a term, an excellent and headed for great president and then ....

Pity about loyalty -- and about the ratbag RINO, Rove.

Purple Lips| 10.28.10 @ 8:59AM

"George Neumayr , Jon "Stewart" (yeah thats his fucking name) graduated from Harvard..."

And that's suppose to mean what? Where have you been? A Harvard degree is meaningless these days. Heck, our Kenyan President has a Harvard JD.

It is ironic that when you Moonbats cannot defend someone you fall back on thier credentials. If someone earned a Masters Degree in Comedy, well they must be funny, right? "Well maybe instead of being a pussy , you can try and understand my point , and THEN try and understand why Jon "Stewart" ( if that's his real name) would make comedy out of a horrible media monopoly situation."

Casey,
That last paragraph of yours is nonsense. It makes no sense. I bet you have a MLA from Harvard.

SonOfSam| 10.28.10 @ 9:23AM

wow, looks like someone overdosed on the hate pills this morning, huh casey? wassa matta...did mommy take away yr favorite porno mag? Really cleaning out the basement, ain't she?

keep ranting, we're re-loading

Kathi| 10.28.10 @ 2:59PM

"We're re-loading"

What exactly is that supposed to mean, SonofSam? That you're going to shoot people who disagree with you?

Gipper| 10.28.10 @ 4:57PM

Don't forget to duck like I did.

RCV| 10.28.10 @ 5:12PM

No, the childish little rightists on this site just like to pretend they're William Wallace. Walter Mittys of the right.

skip| 10.28.10 @ 6:21PM

R(ighteous)
C(ondemnation of)
V(irtuous nonliberals)

jayde| 10.30.10 @ 11:29AM

"That you're going to shoot people who disagree with you?"

actually, that's what liberals do.

David W| 10.28.10 @ 10:09AM

Wow, like a baby who just learned new words. Good grief man, grow up, quit acting like a teenager whose mommy would knock him into next week if she heard him talking like this. If this is the best argument you can make you need to go back to Sesame street and learn the proper way to speak.

loulou| 10.28.10 @ 10:21AM

Uh, moron--Jon Leibowitz graduated from The College of William and Mary. Get your facts straight and watch your potty mouth.

MDiggity| 10.28.10 @ 10:39AM

"this man would speak circles around you". . .unless his writers are on strike. . .remember all those great Daily Show Episodes with John Stewart's witty political insights during the writer's strike? Hmm.

Will| 10.28.10 @ 7:04AM

@Tim*

Gawd, I spit coffee all over the monitor, dude!

Tim*| 10.28.10 @ 7:07AM

casey walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder.
The bartender looks up and says, " Hey Cool! Where'd Ya Get him?"

"Huffpo", says the parrot.

Sandy| 10.28.10 @ 11:20AM

I think that's spelled "HUFFPOO," actually.

randall T. Bhagger| 10.28.10 @ 9:05PM

Tim walks into a bar, the bartender says "your jokes aren't funny, and we don't serve mongoloids".

Tim*| 10.28.10 @ 9:38PM

Randall walks into a bar with a steering wheel hanging from his belt. The bartender asks, "What's that for?" Randall says, " its driving me nuts"

Margie| 10.28.10 @ 9:52PM

Thaaat's it Timmy*/Toddard~ Keep working on keeping the punctuation in order. Very good!

Tim*| 10.28.10 @ 11:12PM

Get Bent Apocalyptic Crank Lady Margie.

Margie| 10.28.10 @ 11:45PM

L . O . L .

Or is it L . O . L . ? ? ?

L . O . S . E . R . !

Keep working on it Timmy* Toddard Boy . . . !

Tim*| 10.29.10 @ 12:49AM

Get Bent Apocalyptic Crank Lady Margie.

victor| 10.29.10 @ 2:47AM

Tim*| 10.29.10 @ 12:49AM

Get Bent Apocalyptic Crank Lady Margie.

Tim*| 10.28.10 @ 11:12PM

Get Bent Apocalyptic Crank Lady Margie.

Tim*| 10.28.10 @ 10:55PM

Good.
Now Get Bent Apocalyptic Crank Lady Margie.

Tim*| 10.29.10 @ 1:38AM

Get Bent Paranoid Apocalyptic Crank Lady Margie.

Hey Tim*, were you vaccinated with a phonograph needle?

Spook| 10.29.10 @ 11:54PM

Can’t believe it took this many liberal (Beehive) post to get vulgar. You guys are slipping.

idalily| 10.28.10 @ 7:10PM

Do lefties always have to resort to insults, sneering, and playground-style bullying like this? Honestly, WTH is wrong with these people?

Boston12GS| 10.28.10 @ 5:49PM

For Pete's sake, and it's the Left that's supposed to consist of the "intellectual elites"?

Hey Casey:

(1) "_that's_ his [profanity] name" NOT "thats"
(2) "on how _it's_ just a comedy bit" NOT "its"
(3) "Christians" NOT "christians"
(4) "_here's_ where you all go" NOT "heres"
(5) "Liberals can't get _their_ point across" NOT "there"--and in any case, whose fault is it that Liberals can't get their point across (of course, it's Bush's fault :-) ).

And that's not even all the errors you managed to pack into three short paragraphs. Heck, my 6th grader has higher expectations of performance than that!

Oh . . . my bad . . . still working up to 6th grade? :-)

Rosebud| 10.28.10 @ 2:36PM

casey........
Why are you such an angry, misserable soul?

Cpm| 10.28.10 @ 2:24PM

George W. Bush graduated from Yale, and got his Masters degree from Harvard, yet liberals never gave him the credit you demand for Jon "Stewart" for graduating from Harvard. Except Jon "Stewart" didn't graduate from Harvard, he went to College of William & Mary.

skip| 10.28.10 @ 3:07PM

Didn't dumb stupid retarded rotten evil George W who is so dumb stupid retarded rotten evil that he is preventing the poor misunderstood unappreciated anointed one from saving our country to this very day have a higher grade point average at the exalted ivy league school than both Gore and Kerry?

victor| 10.29.10 @ 2:50AM

Yes, Algore got and "F" in Divinity School so God flunked him and John Francoise Kerry was a "D" student.

skip| 10.30.10 @ 1:35PM

Since Obama the tranparent one will not release his college transcripts it is logical to presume his grades were worse than Gore and Kerry.

Mark| 10.28.10 @ 2:07PM

Stewart may have gone to Harvard. Big deal, so did my son, and he would be the first to tell you that there are plenty of people with Harvard degrees who don't have a speck of wisdom.

Mike W| 10.28.10 @ 1:52PM

Casey, you must be a true intellectual. I am assuming you graduated from an Ivy League institution considering your writing skills. Outstanding job.

Don't forget that George Bush graduated from Yale.

Regarding Stewart - he is simply not clever. Regardless of political views, I require originality and wit hence I don't find Steward or the Red Eye person very funny either.

DustBowl| 10.28.10 @ 1:41PM

casey... you just struck out. Another no-class liberal. 'Guess you know you the tidal wave is coming down...HARD. Tough to lose, eh?

Anthony| 10.28.10 @ 11:36AM

Well casey, it is certainly clear that your feeble pea brain never made it through the hallowed halls of Harvard.
Well, on second thought, perhaps it did, given the eloquence, coherence, and masterful writing style you have deomonstrated in your post. Perhaps you, "Stewart", and Obama were roomies and shared many happy drug filled moments together. It sure seems that your pea brain has a few dead brain cells floating around up there, just like your roomies.
Gee I'd like to see the diploma in Jon "Stewart's" name. I bet the one on mommy's wall in her Miami beach condo says, Jon Leibowitz.
Come to think of it, I'd like to see the Harvard diploma and transcript in the name of Barack Obama.
Yes, I know it exists and that Obozo actually attended Harvard, but I'm just a bit curious about the invisible man who became president, that nobody seems to remember, even at the Law Review.

bob alou| 10.28.10 @ 11:18AM

incisive

JamesJ| 10.28.10 @ 7:14AM

Thanks casey for proving the author's point

Mohamed| 10.28.10 @ 7:19AM

I guess you all love watch Jon Stewart.. Keep watching bitches.. Joh Steward is the man..

@ liberal American Muslim

wodiej| 10.28.10 @ 7:52AM

LOL....keep up the vulgar, nasty, hateful comments. Every time liberals do that it moves more voters to our side!!

SonOfSam| 10.28.10 @ 8:41AM

When your 72 virgins tell you to go fuck yourself, real Americans will be looking down at you in hell and laughing our asses off. Until then, keep laughing, we're re-loading

Brian Richard Allen | 10.28.10 @ 4:07PM

The seventy-two virgins will be selected and recycled from among the sisters, goats and little boys abused during what passes for the "lives" of the psychopathologically hesperophobic shirt-lifting, pillow-biting, mattress-munching, turd burgling, predatory sisters, goats and little boy-buggering followers of the false fuhrer, Muhummud.

CAPTAIN OBVIOUS| 10.28.10 @ 4:36PM

What did the nine year old girl the great prophet muhammed married say when the great prophet consummated their marriage? "I didn't feel a thing!"

Lord British| 10.28.10 @ 4:59PM

She did it for God and Country!

NavyBrat | 10.28.10 @ 8:46AM

Look, everyone, Casey figured out that you can change your handle & is still spouting his/her lame 3rd grade insults. Aren't little kids on the computer so CUTE!

Anthony| 10.28.10 @ 11:49AM

Limbaugh was right, if we keep exporting liberalism, we'll have the rest of the world as stupid and vapid as they are, just as our friend Mohamed has so eloquently demonstrated.
Hey Mohamad, did you see the cartoon with the Islamic suicide bomb instructor? " Now pay attention, I'm only going to demonstrate this once"!!!
Am I as funny as Jon Stewart or what?

Mohamed| 10.28.10 @ 7:22AM

I guess you all love to watch Jon Stewart.. Keep watching bitches.. Joh Steward is the man..

JimH| 10.28.10 @ 8:01AM

So they allow access to the internet in your prison Mo? BTW you can liberal, you can be Muslim. You can't be both.

Brian Richard allen | 10.28.10 @ 4:12PM

.... you may be liberal, you can be Muslim. You may not be both ....

Actually, you may. Given that "liberal" is the preferred euphemism employed by way-too-kind-for-our-own-good Americans when "totalitarian" and/or for "fascist" would be the more appropriate word choice.

Oscar Wilde| 10.28.10 @ 5:01PM

You may be Muslim. You may be gay. You may be executed.

Phoenix| 10.28.10 @ 7:23AM

The left is unrestrained in it's debauchery, it's contempt for humanity, and it's hatred of diverse political opinion. They have no lower threshold for bad behavior. Just like in the 60's, anything goes, including SEIU stopping on teapartier Kenneth Gladney and calling him the N-word, Democrat party leaders in NV egging the t-party bus, and a democrat protester biting off the finger of a t-Partier. Progressives behave like trash.

Tim*| 10.28.10 @ 7:24AM

Mohamed walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder.
The Bartender looks up and says,"Hey Cool! Where'd ya get him?"
" Iraq" , says the parrot.

Alert1201| 10.28.10 @ 7:33AM

Mohamed walks into a bar with a dog on a leash. The bartender looks up and says, "Hey Cool! Where did ya get him?"
"Riyadh", replies the dog.

gypsy| 10.28.10 @ 8:46AM

Mohamed walks into a bar with a crazy man in a strait jacket. The bartender asks "Yo? where did you get HIM?"
The crazy man says "the lowest part of the gutter; the asylum got sick of his ranting and kicked him out"

Tim the Enchanter| 10.28.10 @ 12:11PM

It's Obama's inauguration day. 100,000 of his supporters attend.
Only 14 missed work.

RCV| 10.28.10 @ 12:00PM

Tim walks into a bar with a gold chip on his shoulder. The Bartender looks up and says, "Where'd you get that?"
Tim replies, "DeMint, of course."

Tim the Enchanter| 10.28.10 @ 12:13PM

RCV- well the pun was funny, but in Telling Jokes 101, there does have to be some truth in it. Sorry. Try again.

RCV| 10.28.10 @ 1:46PM

Tim is a paid spokesboy for the DeMint for President campaign.

Steve A| 10.28.10 @ 2:48PM

Good for him. He has maintained employment in spite of the economic illiteracy of Obama & co.

I swear though, I feel like the older I get it just seems like an endless political campaign. I am tempted to just tune out of all media for a couple years & see what happens. I think I am addicted though....

RCV| 10.28.10 @ 4:50PM

We could start a 12-step program, Political Junkies Anonymous.

skip| 10.28.10 @ 7:08PM

Whereas RCV is a 63 years dumb commentator whose brilliance has yet to be appreciated, but will just as soon as he convinces the ignorant masses that a society too far right is socialist, communist, fascist, and/or naziist, well, one of them anyway.

R(epulsive)
C(oncepts are)
V(enal)

Tim*| 10.28.10 @ 9:42PM

RCV walks into a bar, with a gerbil stickin' out of his butt. The bartender asks, "What's gotten into you?"

RCV| 11.1.10 @ 4:39PM

Tim you really need this anal obssession of yours looked at by a shrink.

skip| 11.2.10 @ 8:42PM

Said the poster whose relentless obsession compels him/her/it to continually bring up homosexuality.

R(epressed anal)
C(ompulsion to continually)
V(oice opinions on anal orifices)

Alert1201| 10.28.10 @ 7:31AM

Can a liberal make a post without resorting to profanity.

P. Aaron| 10.28.10 @ 7:35AM

Another reason to not watch any of these sanctimonious posers.

DRed| 10.28.10 @ 7:41AM

His legal name is Jon Stewart.

SonOfSam| 10.28.10 @ 8:50AM

and the TelePrompter in Chiefs legal birthplace is Hawaii

keep laughing, we're re-loading

DRed| 10.28.10 @ 9:38AM

Laughing? I wasn't joking. His name is Jon Stewart. Not Jon "Stewart". It's not phony-that's his actual name. In this country, when a person changes their name we respect that decision. That's why we don't have "Geraldo Rivera" or Chad "Ochocinco" or Bob "Dylan". Don't shoot the messenger.

Rob Dharana| 10.28.10 @ 1:29PM

Geraldo Rivera IS his real name. When he started out in broadcasting he called himself Jerry Rivers, but when it became cool to be Hispanic he reverted to Rivera. Why Jon Stewart finds it more preferable to be pseudo-Scottish than Jewish is another issue.

DRed| 10.28.10 @ 1:53PM

Jon Stewart is Jewish?

Warrior | 10.28.10 @ 4:11PM

More so than Whoopi Goldberg.

Tim the Enchanter| 10.28.10 @ 12:17PM

DRed... what part of "was" didn't you understand?

DRed| 10.28.10 @ 1:08PM

I'm afraid you've lost me.

KS| 10.28.10 @ 12:50PM

"His legal name is Jon Stewart."

Because he filed for a name change. He was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz.

Don L| 10.28.10 @ 7:44AM

Obama walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder and the bartender says, "Hey cool. Where did you get him."

ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, The NEW YORK TIMES etc.

He used to do news, but now he just parrots whatever I say....

wodiej| 10.28.10 @ 7:54AM

Obama fits right in on the show-he and his policies are a joke.

Ret. Marine| 10.28.10 @ 8:08AM

The picture of these two clowns is quite fitting. It matters not to me the two of them can take a long walk off a short dock as far as I am concerned. But this is the reality of the supposed liberal mindset. Heaven forbid these two take a break and come back to America's reality. It is precisely because of the smug, arrogant attitudes of clowns such as these two my beloved country is suffering like no other time in this veterans memory.
Methinks a little humility is in order, if ever this was an option for these types, but my guess is that they know so much that its simply not true, hey where have I heard that before?

Tim the Enchanter| 10.28.10 @ 12:19PM

(psst... Ronald Reagan)

RCV| 10.28.10 @ 4:52PM

Must be Alzheimers if you've forgotten about the Bush years already....

skip| 10.28.10 @ 6:32PM

In 8 years of W the deficit increased 2 trillion.
That was too much.
The 8th year was one quarter of that deficit, and it was Pelosi's 1st year controlling the purse.
The anointed one achieved the Bush total deficit in 15 months.
The last republican controlled house was Bush's 7th year.
Year 7 of Bush had a deficit of 161 billion.
That was too much.
The anointed one is running deficits of about 161 billion a month.

Why do you post such stupid things over and over?

R(otton)
C(orrupt)
V(oter)

idalily| 10.28.10 @ 7:17PM

I haven't forgotten the Bush Years. 4.5% unemployment, a 13,000 Dow, a much lower (though still bad) pile of debt, a president who put his country first and kept it safe, and a robust economy. I haven't forgotten the Bush Years at all. I look back on them with fondness. I LIKED low unemployment.

Margie| 10.28.10 @ 7:28PM

GW: "Miss me yet?" Yep.

Old Navy Chief| 10.28.10 @ 8:11AM

Liberals are too clever by half. They also apparently appeal to half wits. Personally I am glad that Jon Leibowitz is having his little get together right before the election. Some of the supporting cast are SEIU, ACORN, Code Pink, and every other far left liberal screaming ranting but job organization. Let the people in America see who is behind this disasterous adventure into looney land. Maybe that will be the final tipping point that will forever condemn them to the fringes. By the way, they had to rent a 28 person bus for the three largest counties in central PA. Imagine that.

Stephanie| 10.28.10 @ 8:15AM

It was embarrassing to watch. I never thought I would live to see the day when a sitting president would go on a comedy show and whore himself for party votes. It was degrading to the office.
HE is degrading to the office.

JimH| 10.28.10 @ 8:34AM

I guess Nixon set the precedent, though he was not yet president. Remember 'Sock it to me'.

Cpm| 10.28.10 @ 2:37PM

That was all of 3 seconds.

Heatpacker| 10.28.10 @ 4:45PM

Every day, in some fashion, Obama diminishes the office of POTUS a little more. Our next President will need four years just to restore the office to a reasonable semblance of respectability.

Louis Jenkins| 10.28.10 @ 8:31AM

Ugly is as Ugly does. Obama has stooped low on this one, and from the short time frames didn't really make a point to the audience, or us for that matter. I see it as a drowning fool grasping at whatever trying to stay afloat. He and his party are in trouble, and they know it. Can't wait til Tuesday.

gypsy| 10.28.10 @ 8:47AM

yes, but what the TelePrompter in Chief forgot is that not all shit floats

Doctor Right| 10.28.10 @ 8:42AM

Stewart and Obama.

One is an angry, unfunny guy posing as a comedian; the other is an angry comedian posing as a President.

Both are clowns.

gypsy| 10.28.10 @ 8:49AM

and both were interviewed by O'Reilly and got bitch slapped on national TV by a patriot

Maria Theresa| 10.28.10 @ 11:53AM

How true. Then there's Buffoon Franken, serving illegitimately as a US senator. Ain't we got fun.

skip| 10.28.10 @ 6:34PM

The delicious irony is that Franken is no more unintelligent and no more dishonest than any other liberal.

Back in the Day| 10.28.10 @ 8:57AM

Jon who? Joy who? I miss Hope, Benny, Berl, Youngman, Skelton, Dangerfield, Carson, Ball, you know, the real TV comedians!

Dixie Pixie| 10.28.10 @ 9:17AM

Did anyone else notice that both Obama and John Stewart were both Media generated simulations of what the MSM thinks a good Liberal should look like.

Unfortunately MSM simulations can only operate in the Media fantasy world. When forced to operate in the real world a Media construct will quickly disintegrate. Both Obama and John Stewart would be well advised to never leave the Media Bubble as their Image can not withstand contact with reality.

gearjammer| 10.28.10 @ 9:21AM

These people are STARS I tell you ! You can't talk like this about STARS ! Honor them ! Love them! Bestow them with great wealth ! And most of all-OBEY THEM ! THEY ARE STARS I TELL YOU !

Humphrey Dumfries| 10.28.10 @ 9:23AM

Video here:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/fu.....rack-obama

Mike| 10.28.10 @ 9:40AM

The so-called "comics" you named are all part of the liberal clique stuck within the confines of Manhattan, DC or LA. They, like Katie Couric, see the "great unwashed" outside of their sophisticated ilk.

I laugh every time fawns over one of these liberal sycophants and talks about their "edginess" or their "courage" in speaking the "truth". Please. It's an echo chamber over there in lefty land. Throw in the drama queen Olbermann and Andy Dick (or is it Rachel Maddow, I can never tell...) and you have one viewpoint repeated by a dozen people. If Liebowitz had any courage he'd use his real name AND challenge the liberal orthodoxy of the democrat/entertainment/newsmedia anti-miltary, anti-industrial complex.

Alas, he has none. Which explains why he looked so cowered yesterday in the company of the Great Pretender, the wise and wonderful Wizard of Smog.

skip| 10.28.10 @ 10:46PM

When Matthews, Schultz, Maddow, and Olberman at MSNBC found out sane people refer to them as "three dicks and a dyke", why was Maddow so pissed? Olberman is the dyke.

dw| 10.28.10 @ 11:35AM

Obama walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder. The bartender asks "what are you going to do about the high unemployment problem?"

The parrot says, "I haven't decided yet".

c| 10.28.10 @ 11:49AM

"Joy Behar would not have been a lewd barmaid 100 years ago, she would have been something more akin to what Jerry Brown's crew called Meg Whitman"
who would pay? basic economic principles of supply and demand. there is no demand.

Nose Hit| 10.28.10 @ 12:16PM

Barrack Obama "walks up to" the American electorate, and asks---"Do you want a quickie?"

It says, “Will it hurt?”

He says, “Did it?”

DID IT EVER!!!

Joe| 10.28.10 @ 12:17PM

Don't be so gullible, people. "Casey" is likely a plant to stoke this discussion, or some egotistical provocateur whose job as foreclosure robo signer software admin has afforded him far too much spare time.

Don't bite at every piece of bait that floats by you. You'll eventually chomp into one with a hook.

I really like this article. It is the one I have been meaning to write for my own blog. Only thing I don't care for is this bit of repressed anger:

"One wonders how long Behar would avoid a stoning if she ever talked like that in Saudi Arabia. The ladies of The View are lucky the show is not shot in Riyadh."

Borderline misogynistic. Due to that borderline misogynistic paragraph, I won't be sharing this article with anyone. Too bad because it was a slam dunk up to that point :\

Gotta keep your emotions out of your prose.

Barbara| 10.28.10 @ 4:50PM

You must of missed her snit fit when she and Whoopi stomped off the set when O'Reilly claimed that 70% of Americans opposed a mosque at Ground Zero. The guy building it has ties to the Saudis.
Gutter mouth Behar would be allowed in Saudi only if she'd provide proof of baptism and a husband she married in a church. Probably pre The View, she's gotten her fishwifey snarling mug all over the Net.
Having lived in Saudi and endured the religious police, the veiling, etc. I say the article was a slam dunk!

Thomas| 10.28.10 @ 12:55PM

I used to love watching Jon Stewart during the Bush years. He was a useful critic of government excess. But as soon as Obama got elected, he turned into a big government shill. We already pay for enough of them IN government and don't need another in the media. The media is supposed to be a check upon government power, not an enabler.

William 5| 10.28.10 @ 12:58PM

One party courts John Stewart, the other courts Bob Jones University. That's an easy choice to make.

Roy| 10.28.10 @ 8:25PM

Agreed - Bob Jones University does not support the arbitrary vivisection of unborn infants.

Jeremiah| 10.28.10 @ 1:00PM

Casey, show me that birth certificate!

Joe Jack Merryweather| 10.28.10 @ 1:03PM

I'd venture to say these comments are funnier than the tripe that'll be coming out of the Comic Relief thing. Some of em had me rollin'...

Nose Hit| 10.28.10 @ 1:05PM

President Obama, right after taking office, is in the White House proceeding to screw, with his radical agenda, the American people.

The rightwing opposition asks him what he’s doing. He says, “Never mind”. They keep pestering him, getting more and more worried, as time passes.

At last, he gives them a trillion dollars, and tells them to go buy some “What’s what?”

Intrigued, the righties spread across the country, to find this weird product.

They try shovel-ready projects, and they can’t find it.

When asking public unions and state governments, they are told to shove it---“We don’t know what you’re talking about”.

After almost two years of seeking, they finally go to the red light district, Washington D.C.

They go up to the door of one of the myriad whore houses, and knock.

A “lady of the night” answers, in a flimsy dress, barely above the knees.

They quickly pull it up, and ask, “What’s that?”

She answers, “What’s what?”

And they say, I’ll have a trillion dollars worth!

Cuffs| 10.28.10 @ 1:09PM

Thank you, JimH
Let's hope the final chapter for Obama
is a repeat of Nixon's.

old hippie| 10.28.10 @ 1:49PM

Lets NOT!!
He has turned out to be a somewhat popular Adulterer and she is becomming "America's sweet-heart! Yet, how many time do you see then together (certainly not in the same bed, sexual or otherwise)

Brian Richard Allen | 10.28.10 @ 4:30PM

Nixon to a "T."

(Although without the RINOs pushing)

My money, New York City to a single brick, is on September 2011.

By which time 0'Zero's own clinical narcissism coupled with the overt loathing and derision of his fearsome and loathsome "spouse," Michelle-Antoinette, will have created the perfect post-mid-terms' storm -- and have forced his "resignation."

Faker| 10.28.10 @ 1:13PM

Conservative champion and former president of the NRA Charlton Heston was born John Charles Carter. He must've been a phony too.

Barbara| 10.28.10 @ 4:53PM

Huh? Taking a stage name because there are tons of Carters is a bit different than changing you last name to hide your ethnic/religious identity? Jon Lebovitz, formerly of SNL, didn't have a probably with his last name, did he?

Heatpacker| 10.28.10 @ 4:58PM

John Carter doesn't have much pizzazz if you have aspirations to Hollywood greatness. I think that Mr. Heston made the correct choice. Jon Stewart, on the other hand, would certainly not have been hindered in his comedy career by the last name Leibowitz (you can ask Jerry Seinfeld). Is he ashamed of being Jewish, or was he just jumping to the typical lefty, stereotypical conclusion that America is filled with anti-Semites who would only watch someone with a WASPish last name? Either way, his thinking is muddled.

comatus| 10.29.10 @ 1:07AM

Heston was his stepfather. Stuie Lebenfritz ("That's his real name!") does not speak to his father. And you are not allowed to mention Charlton Heston, little person. Be careful.

tp| 10.28.10 @ 1:18PM

'The Emperor's New Clothes'

S.L.Toddard| 10.28.10 @ 1:21PM

Obama walks in a bar with a skunk. The bartender looks up and says "Get out of here, it's gonna stink up the joint!" Obama says "Don't worry, it's clean!"
The bartender says "I was not talking to you !"

Hey Faker, Heston was an actor, for chrissake!

Faker| 10.28.10 @ 1:30PM

And Stewart is an comedian. What's your point? Both are or were political activists and entertainers and both changed their names. I'm just applying the same standard espoused in the article.

Joe| 10.28.10 @ 2:16PM

That's just it: Stewart is NOT a comedian. He is a prankster like Johnny Knoxville, but without the props.

Faker| 10.28.10 @ 2:32PM

You've strayed from the point.

Martin Treptow| 10.28.10 @ 3:37PM

Faker,
Charlton Heston most likely changed his name because there was already a "John Carter" or some close variation thereof registered with the Screen Actors Guild. It was a very common practice, especially back then. Jon Stewart, however, changed his name from Leibowitz to "de-Jew" himself and ostensibly make him less "ethnic". (Personally, I think Jon's funny, and I wouldn't care what his surname is)
There is a difference.

Cheers!

Faker| 10.28.10 @ 4:20PM

I have to disagree on there being a difference. They both changed their names. They each had their reasons (and I don't know that the reasons you describe are right or wrong). It doesn't matter to me, but clearly is an issue with the author of the article. He is quite blunt in his disapproval of Stewart's name change. It would be disingenous if he did not feel the same way about Heston. I hope he does. I think he's funny too from the snippets I've heard from him, but I don't watch him.

Cheer to you too.

skip| 10.28.10 @ 6:37PM

If Marion Morrison was here he would kick your ass.

Brian Richard Allen | 10.28.10 @ 4:37PM

Joy Behar walked into a bar with a Yellow Labrador.

"Hey! Dogs can't come in here," said the bartender.

"But ... but ... but," began Behar.

"Shut up," said the bartender, "I'm talking to the Labrador."

Margie| 10.28.10 @ 8:10PM

You slipped, Toddard/Tim*. Really gotta watch that. Especially the double spacing at sentence endings.. heh.

That you posting in my name again too at 1:32?
Scumbag.

Tim*| 10.28.10 @ 8:42PM

Paranoid Apocalyptic Crank Lady Margie sees Tim behind every bush.

Get Bent Screwball.

Margie| 10.28.10 @ 9:41PM

LOL. You're a joke you idiot. You aren't fooling God.

Hey Timmy* check it out! Israel has now started their own TEA Party! Hahaha. Love it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....Party.html

Tim*| 10.28.10 @ 9:52PM

Memo to Apocalyptic Crank Lady RINO-CINO Margie:

This Is America, Not Israel. Who Gives A Rat's Ass.

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

Rise Up In Rebellion!

Margie| 10.28.10 @ 10:36PM

Hahahahaha!!!!! Love it.

Tim*| 10.28.10 @ 10:55PM

Good.
Now Get Bent Apocalyptic Crank Lady Margie.

Margie| 10.29.10 @ 12:38AM

GOD LOVES ISRAEL .
Got it Timmy* Toddard Boy ?

Tim*| 10.29.10 @ 1:38AM

Get Bent Paranoid Apocalyptic Crank Lady Margie.

Margie| 10.29.10 @ 2:04PM

GOD LOVES ME TOO.
Got it Timmy* Toddard Boy?

vtwin| 10.28.10 @ 1:26PM

Hey all you rightwing Nazi morons, Casey is the only one here who makes any sense, you barbaric boobs. No wonder you trash him.

Steve A| 10.28.10 @ 1:32PM

Hey V, The Nazis were SOCIALISTS. That's Left Wing, there genius...I did also notice you did not include yourself in the category of those who make any sense here. On this account, you were very perceptive. (although I really think you were just too dumb to realize it)

RCV| 10.28.10 @ 1:51PM

Hitler's party adopted the name "National Socialists" to try to appeal to working people in Germany who were attracted to the Communist Party during the Weimar Republic's crumbling days. There was, however, nothing socialist about the Nazi's economic policies. They were strongly anti-Marxist, xenophobic, nationalistic and militaristic, in strong contrast to Germany's leftist parties.

Steve A| 10.28.10 @ 2:15PM

I think we are splitting hairs here. Their economic formula was surely anti-capitalist. It clearly was a managed economy with a guaranteed wage, social welfare programs & a nationalist, anti-individual structure.

As for the other elements concerning race superiority etc, if you want to tag the right with that, you can try but you may want to look at the roots of progressivism before you proceed.

skip| 10.28.10 @ 4:27PM

The nazis would never have stooped to a socialist agenda like confiscation of the weath of the citizens against their will. The nazis confiscation would never include land, homes, or family heirlooms. RCV is much too intelligent and honest to pretend to believe naziism is a problem where a society moves too far right.

Naziism, like its close relatives fascism, communism, and socialism, is what society gets when it moves too far left.

Anarchy is what society gets when it moves too far right.

RCV, don't you ever get weary of being an unintelligent dishonest idiot?

R(eally stupid moron who)
C(ontinues to spout utter nonsense and)
V(ile drivel)

RCV| 10.28.10 @ 4:57PM

Gee, skipee, I guess those anarchists who ran Barcelona and fought against Franco were rightists, as were the IWW Wobblies.

Fascism is what results when people get xenophobic, and nationalistic and scared.

skip| 10.28.10 @ 6:42PM

We are experiencing fascism in this country right now.

R(epugnant)
C(omments speak)
V(olumes)

skip| 10.28.10 @ 7:23PM

The fascism we are experiencing is being forced down our throats by oikophobic globalistic pseudosophisticates

R(eally really really really)
C(hildish beliefs even for a)
V(ictim of pseudointelligence)

Brian Richard Allen | 10.28.10 @ 4:43PM

Nazism was/is (witness the modern "Democratic" National Socialist Party) "modified" Marxism.

Nazism was Hitler's version of the Marxist, Mussolini's, modified" Marxism.

IE Nazism is socialism -- by any other name.

RCV| 10.28.10 @ 4:58PM

That's what you far-righters keep trying to convince people, but it's not flying.

skip| 10.28.10 @ 6:44PM

R(reprehensible)
C(ommentary is)
V(ile)

Margie| 10.28.10 @ 9:46PM

LOL Tell that to the voters, RCV.
Your Man, the One (barf), has caused one of the the biggest upset in American political history~~ to be seen in a few days...and counting!

RCV| 10.29.10 @ 12:43AM

It's not an "upset" at all, Margie. Indeed, it's the usual political pattern for the President's party to lose seats, and often control, in the midterm elections after the President is first elected. Happened to Reagan, happened to Clinton. Both were reelected two years later, as will Obama.

skip| 10.29.10 @ 4:44PM

Yep. Just like Reagan. Except for the fact Obama does not have the experience or qualifications to run a convenience store.

R(equires no a shred of)
C(onscience to spout this)
V(ile venal virulent vacuousness)

Barbara| 10.28.10 @ 4:58PM

Which one of Hitler's pals kept running around voicing admiration for Communism? Hitler coopted businessmen such as Krups and put them to work for the state. He had the smarts to realize that he and his henchmen knew nothing about running businesses. Wish Obama were that smart.

RCV| 10.29.10 @ 12:44AM

That's what fascists usually do. Not surprised you admire them so.

skip| 10.29.10 @ 4:36PM

Said the idiot who defends and supports the current sponsor of fascism today in our country: the anointed one.

R(ubbish and)
C(luelessness expressed in)
V(olumes of blather)

Crow| 10.28.10 @ 1:52PM

vtwin, YOU would make a great nazi, brimming with hate (Where's the love, man? Where's the famous liberal tolerance? There are no funny liberals any more. Al Franken is a joke, but not because he is funny).

Anthony| 10.28.10 @ 2:53PM

Hey guys, vtwin's back, and he told a poster in today's story on San Fran that he and his "biker" pals hang around a bar called the Bronze Rod.
Well, why am I not surprised? Sounds like your kinda place vt.
I bet vtwin and the boys have a jolly ole time under the big bronze rod in the center of the bar.
I bet vtwin and the boys wish they had one too!!
So vtwin, when does casey get his club membership card and his pink bike streamers?

RCV| 10.28.10 @ 5:00PM

One has to wonder why you TAS posters are so fascinated with gay sexuality...

skip| 10.28.10 @ 6:47PM

The Lord God Almighty has deemed it sinful and the American public is being forced to give it acceptance and legitimacy.

One has to wonder how in 63 years you've managed to be so unintelligent and dishonest.

R(epugnant reprehensible)
C(ommentary which defies Christianity is)
V(ile even for RCV)

RCV| 10.29.10 @ 12:47AM

Te Lord God Almighty declared a whole lot of things sinful in the OT, but you and your kind, Skipee Boy, seemed obsessed with the details of one "sin" - homosexual sex. Wish you were as obsessed with the things Jesus focused on - indifference to the poor, healing the sick, condemning those who judge others.

skip| 10.29.10 @ 4:40PM

brought to you by:

R(real Christian love requires)
C(onfiscation of anything you have of)
V(alue for intentionally lazy stupid dishonest
people)

skip| 10.29.10 @ 4:50PM

No one is arguing the sins you listed, and many many more, aren't really sins, except for homosexuality. If you had any intelligence or honesty you would know that.

R(epressed homosexual tendency)
C(ontrary to real Christian love and)
V(ile venal virulent opinions to boot)

idalily| 10.28.10 @ 7:22PM

Another leftie who can't do anything but insult people. Seriously, what is wrong with these people that they act like such silly children?

couchroach| 10.28.10 @ 1:27PM

A little window into the depth of his intellect...(I think it was) last February one of those evil right wing websites that we all like to read noted an article making the rounds, that one of the administration's accomplishments had been to strengthen our regulatory agencies. The right wing website appropriately asked the question "Huh? Where did that come from?" and highlighted the absurdity of the puff piece. That day, or maybe the next (2/4/2010 ? ) Stewart appeared on O'Reilly and was asked what the administration had accomplished so far and Stewart's earnest answer was short and to the point...that he had strengthened our regulatory agencies.

Margie| 10.28.10 @ 1:32PM

Well, he surely can find things to do to keep him out of the Oval Office. He just doesn't know HOW to be the president of anything, much less of the United States of America. He really should go back to HIS people, mainly because he cares about them and Hates the USA!

old hippie| 10.28.10 @ 1:38PM

It is truly a sad day in The United States of America!
Take your money out of your pocket (if you have any) and look at it. Hopefully it still states "In God We Trust"!
Do you think it was left off of some of the new one dollar coins "by accident"?

Jonathon| 10.28.10 @ 1:41PM

Yeah, Jon Stewart is an actor as well.

Other Casey| 10.28.10 @ 1:44PM

Wow, what's it like living in a world of constant fear and conspiracy where no one's allowed to be funny or idealistic?

Joe| 10.28.10 @ 2:21PM

Oh we're fine with "funny" as in "ha ha" funny. But Stewart is not funny. He has a serious ax to grind and he does it under the PRETEXT of comedy. He is all smoke and mirrors. Insincerity and ulterior agenda at its ugliest.

Why don't we laugh at Stewart's jokes? That would be like cops laughing at a felon's jokes as they lead him to the squad car in handcuffs. It's not that Stewart's material is not funny, it's that STEWART is not funny because he is a FRAUD. His bleepin' NAME is even fraudulent!

Ken Roberts| 10.28.10 @ 1:50PM

I never heard of Stewart not colbear until I was involved in the politics of 2008 and when I found out about them and decided to listen to them for a few programs I also found out that one program was enough and I quit watching them . The view has always been out of my sight and a one time viewing with them trashing the only conservative voice on their panel was also enough, one time and I am done . Can you really make money presenting non facts and being that stupid ?

DRed| 10.28.10 @ 1:57PM

I take it you've never watched Glennbeck either.

Joe| 10.28.10 @ 2:23PM

Can't stand Beck either. Another fraud

Brian Richard Allen | 10.28.10 @ 4:52PM

Beck is at least, though (small comfort) an aimiable fraud.

A buffoon.

But his Lefty leprechaun mate is a mean barsteward. Envy-driven, hate-filled and angry.

Barbara| 10.28.10 @ 5:08PM

You don't have to like watching to appreciate his attempt at getting his audience engaged in learning and thinking about ideas, history. Any Dems recommending The Federalist Papers? Heck, Obama's dropped the word Creator!
He's had some pretty interesting people on - Burton Folsom, Thomas. E. Woods, Jr.
That said, I wouldn't read everything he reads but I believe him to be sincere. Too bad he's sooo irritating and repetitive.

DRed| 10.28.10 @ 5:49PM

He also repeatedly brings David Barton on. So I don't think Glenn is learning too much about history.

Joe| 10.28.10 @ 2:22PM

Right. Same with me. Because I have OUTGROWN COLLEGE DORM ROOM HUMOR!! Stewart is nothing but a pandering fraud.

Ken Roberts | 10.28.10 @ 1:51PM

Or was that Steware ?

Richard| 10.28.10 @ 2:05PM

This article says exactly what I have been saying about Steward for years to my liberal friends, who cannot stop lavishing praise on a childish personality who stars as the left's class clown. As for Obama, now that the thrill is gone for a significant block of voters, we'll have to spend the next two years watching him hump our leg. I can hardly wait.

tippy| 10.28.10 @ 2:05PM

I think the claim that he's a phony because he changed his name is a bit of a stretch. Stage names are fairly common, and Jon Stewart simply sounds better.

Also, I'm trying to figure out why we can't credit where it's due. I think Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are both enormously clever and extremely funny. Sure, politically, I don't agree with them. But you have to be able to laugh at yourself, right?

It's America. Celebrate their success and move on. Also, watch his appearance on Oprah. He seems pretty aware of, and comfortable with, his place in society - a guy who makes a living criticizing others without stepping into the game himself. That's paraphrasing his words. I appreciated the honesty.

Joe| 10.28.10 @ 2:24PM

Have you ever read Freud's book on jokes and humor? You should. You might learn something

tippy| 10.28.10 @ 2:32PM

I've never read it, so I'm sure I'd learn something. Can you sum it up so I can understand your point?

If it's in reference to me thinking they're clever, I stand by it - particularly with Colbert. I find his skewering of right-wing conspiracy theories to be quite funny. But I enjoy literal humor based on word-play... what can I say.

PolishKnight| 10.28.10 @ 2:06PM

I always wondered if Jon Stewart's smirk was intentional or funny at a sublime level. Is he making fun of the smug, self-important leftist with the overwhelming admiration of other smug, self-important leftists? Or is he just being himself and them being themselves?

Jon Stewart comes out and smirks and says something like: "Global warming is because the globe is getting warm. If only those right wingers knew what a globe was!" Audience then laughs it's head off! Yeah, those right wingers don't get how "smart" we are! hahahaha! They're stupid because they're not us! Hahaha!

That BS neatly sums up liberalism and leftism in the modern era. They don't really even care about marxism anymore or the other elements of leftist dogma. It's like belonging to a cool club.

Jor| 10.28.10 @ 2:26PM

What that is : COLLEGE DORM ROOM humor. Stewart is a highly immature IDIOT who acts like a teenager whose balls haven't dropped yet. I have more respect for Johnny Knoxville and Bam. Way more

Julieann| 10.28.10 @ 2:11PM

I find it no surprise , that the office of the presidency of the United States of America, the most powerful country on earth, has been lowered to this point. Look who occupies that position. This man is not qualified to be the president. Never was. I do not care where he went to school, Indonesia, Kenya, Harvard, or any other institution of lower learning. He can have his degrees "plastered on his forehead" for all I care. He is not my president. I did not accept his election in November, 2008, and I do not accept him now. Why do I hear pundits saying, "even though his polls are rock bottom, people still like him as a person?" Why would we like someone who has lived his entire life learning how to dismantle our capitalist, freedom loving country and destroy our way of life? He came seriously close to achieving his life-long goal. He almost succeeded. Now, he is going on nasty television comedy shows trying to "make funny" about what he has done to us? This country, I believe, made the worst choice it could have ever made in November, 2008. Now we need a president, a leader, and someone who can fix this mess...we don't need a washed-up community organizer making the rounds on liberal comedy shows, making radical hate speeches about getting even, or giving out interviews to the radical left-wing media outlets telling us how great he is. He is finished, it is over, the least he could do is keep his mouth shut, and go sit in the back somewhere in the dark, while we try to fix his Marxist mess. God willing, people will go vote for conservatives next Tuesday. The majority of people in this country are good, and don't deserve this travesty. Whatever happens, Hillary Clinton is no option in 2012. She is, what I refer to as an "EPD" = "Evil Progressive Democrat" . . They have nothing good to offer unless you want to live in a Communist country. The traditional Democratic Party no longer exists as we knew it.

Nancy in NC| 10.28.10 @ 3:33PM

Now here's a post I can agree with. This president is a JOKE and he's turning our country into a JOKE.

I think we need to forget about the government or a politician "fixing" our country. If we want it fixed, we better start fixing. We need to stay informed, stay inspired and stay united. It's also imperative that we educate as many folks as possible as to how our country is being destroyed from within. Get your kids our of public school if at all possible. If not, keep abreast of their education and teach them about the Constitution and what the American dream is. Quit pandering their sweet little rears, and teach them to be real men and women, AND how to work for a living and be an individual with morals and character. Start being the man or woman you want your children to emulate.

At the end of the day, we as citizens have failed our country when we allow it to sink to this condition. We should have raised hell over 100 years ago, but we are where we are, and we need to get our act together...NOW.

Barbara| 10.28.10 @ 5:01PM

Amen sisters! If Obama accomplished one thing it was to get through to those goofy American women who vote Dem because Dem's "cafre". Bleah!

Barbara| 10.28.10 @ 5:02PM

Sorry, care!

Joe| 10.28.10 @ 2:13PM

The Daily Show = Jackass for Intellectuals

Joe| 10.28.10 @ 2:29PM

The Daily Show = Dorm room humor for boys whose balls haven't dropped yet.

Joe| 10.28.10 @ 2:32PM

The Daily Show = The liberal propaganda machine for young people, cleverly disguised as a comedy talk show.

It's just funny right? Ha ha. Let them laugh! Jon's harmless and just having fun! Ha ha. Don't hate on Jon just because he's successful and funny! Ha ha. Life is a big flipping joke. Ease up and have a drink and laugh a little! Ha ha .. .said the IDIOT

tippy| 10.28.10 @ 3:04PM

Um... judging from you replying to your own post with attempts at clever or humor, I'm thinking you're not the foremost authority on comedy.

My question is, what would you suggest? Should he not be allowed to have a show? What about other comedians? How many conservative comedians do you know out there, anyway? Do you only listen to music made by conservatives, too?

It doesn't seem like you're giving people credit to come up with the same conclusion you have about what his show is - which smacks of a bit of elitism, to me.

Joe| 10.28.10 @ 4:02PM

Should he not be allowed to have a show?

I don't care if he has a show. Fine by me. All I'm saying is that the show is NOT just a "comedy show," and he is NOT just a "comedian." He is a rich elitist prick who calls people out for being phony, yet he is the king of phony. You see the problem is that people keep saying he's just a comedian, so therefore he is innocuous. He is NOT innocuous. His repressed anger cloaked as humor shtick is having a HUGE impact on public opinion because people are under the false impression that he is authentic and honest so therefore must be right. He is none of the above. He is not credible because he is--under the slick hair and gadlfy smirk--an elitist liberal worth millions of dollars to Comedy Central and essentially a corporate shill for the left. Nothing more nothing less. So I would :"suggest" people take what the phony says with a grain of salt because he is ultimately nothing more than a well paid liberal megaphone with a very personal and specific agenda

JeffT| 10.28.10 @ 2:37PM

In all fairness to the One, it was Bill Clinton who dragged the presidency into the gutter. Between talking about his underwear and getting "serviced" while discussing foreign policy, no one besmirched the Oval Office like Clinton. Ronald Reagan would not take off his suit jacket in that hollowed building. Clinton couldn't wait to take off his pants.

Nancy in NC| 10.28.10 @ 3:36PM

And the American people reelected this piece of crap. They selfishlessly voted their pocketbook. We need to start voting our PRINCIPLES! Unfortunately, too many have the same principles as Clinton and Obama.

Brian Richard Allen | 10.28.10 @ 5:13PM

In fairness to the recidivist, treasonous, lying, looting, thieving, mass-murdering, impeached, disbarred co-serial-rapist Billy-Bubbah Blythe, the socialist traitors W Wilson and F Roosevelt, the drugged-up, mobbed-up, goat-like, war-profiteering election-thief, Kennedy, the war-profiteering habitual drunkard, Johnson and the traitor, Carter, had all pretty much besquatted and bemanured our once somewhat hallowed house before either he and his criminal gang or the present pretender to what presently passes as a "presidency" -- and his -- oozed in.

GaHomeboy| 10.28.10 @ 3:49PM

This 'conversation' doesn't resolve the argument:
"Why are all the quick witted people liberal?"
There must be someone as smart as Obama or Jon Stewart that comes from the right-c'mon now...anyone???

Roy| 10.28.10 @ 8:32PM

My pet parrot?

Luke| 10.28.10 @ 3:57PM

You are all a bunch of sad angry middle aged losers that are just angry because life didn't pan out the way you had envisioned it in your 1950's, Leave it to Beaver inspired imaginations.

Luke| 10.28.10 @ 4:05PM

Sorry gang, I lost my liberal mind there for a minute. I will go back in the closet now. I was happier in the dark with the rest of the trolls. :\

Margie| 10.31.10 @ 12:41AM

Now those 2 posts were the funniest on this thread.

Bilwick| 10.28.10 @ 4:31PM

For the sake of truth-in-advertising, shouldn't the Court Jester's rally be called "Return to State-worship"? The slogan could be "Because not everyone with the Stockholm Syndrome is Swedish." Placards carried by the State-cultists who attend (and you Obama fans who post here should feel free to "exproporiate" these ideas) could say: "Tax us, Dear Leader--tax us hard!" and "Because liberty is SO 1776!"

WAKE UP| 10.28.10 @ 4:51PM

Stewart is not a comedian. Maher is not a comedian. Letterman is not a comedian. Behar is not a comedian. Colbert is not a comedian. I could go on.

People like these are merelypolitical polemicists in disguise. Politicians in disguise. They are "reactivists" (my word) who cannot do ANYTHING except react to what is going on already; react to what others have already created. Without others out there actually doing REAL things, these people would be adrift, because they are incapable of actually creating anything themselves. Thus, their weapons are the weapons of envy: the sardonic attitude, the satirical send-up, the sly put-down.

Worst of all, they are not naturally funny* people. It says much about the state of society that their formula works as well as it does. It's not Stewart, Letterman et al we should be looking at, it's ourselves (as we are now doing, as we examine why in the hell we ever elected Obama) . Why do we even give these parasites the time of day?

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(* I write this as someone who has spent a lifetime working with some of the greatest comedians of at least two generations, some of whom were so funny they could make you laugh simply by the way they walked onstage, without even their uttering a word.)

Barbara| 10.28.10 @ 5:09PM

Hear! Hear!

oh boy| 10.28.10 @ 5:16PM

Pray do tell who these great comedians are for whom you spent a lifetime working? Did none of them use stage names? Who cares if Jon Stewart changed his name 25 years ago when he was starting out? He doesn't claim that his stage name is his birth name or anything. Nor does he deny his Jewish heritage. Is he supposed to change it back now that he has attained great success with his stage name.? How many people (outside of John Cougar Mellencamp) have ever done that? Name one. I don't really see that as making him a phony. Also, to the lone liberal above, he did not go to Harvard but he did go to William & Mary, for whatever that's worth. Again, who cares where he went to college or what he majored in? The vast majority of people who go to college end up with careers unrelated to their majors. And going on and on about how he is not funny is profoundly silly. Lots of people find him funny and many others don't - exactly like EVERY comedian out there. It's as absurd as arguing what food is delicious, people simply have different tastes. Now aside from my differing opinion I hope I've not offended anyone here as it seems your delicate ears are sensitive to profanity (unless uttered by a conservative, must be some kind of filter or something) and I agree that name calling is completely unproductive.

Brian Richard Allen | 10.28.10 @ 5:27PM

Forgive me, oh boy, for noting it so -- but the seriously unfunny locksteppingly Goebbelsesque propagandist polemicist,Mr Stewart, is not really the point, here. Nor are any of the every-bit-as seriously unfunny and as locksteppingly Goebbelsesque propagandist polemicists,Behar, Mahr and Colbert.

Nope, none of those matters.

But 0'Zero, the seriously unfunny locksteppingly Goebbelsesque propagandist polemicist, pretetender to what presently passes as a "presidency,"does.

DRed| 10.28.10 @ 5:41PM

Goebbels? Aren't you an alliterative asshole.

skip| 10.28.10 @ 10:52PM

Dreading DRed's dredged droning dreck.

skip| 10.28.10 @ 10:56PM

alliterative apology acceptable?

DRed| 10.28.10 @ 11:37PM

If you're apologizing to me, sure, apology accepted. If you're asking me to apologize to the boor who thinks it's cute to compare people to Goebbels, than no.

skip| 11.2.10 @ 8:45PM

"alliterative asshole"? That wasn't very 'polite'.
And stop arousing RCV.

oh boy| 10.28.10 @ 6:28PM

Brian, Name calling, unfunny, Nazi comparisons, insulting and not answering any of the points made the comment you addressed… Are you SURE you're not a liberal. Ah, but no profanity. OK, you can have your conservative card back.

WAKE UP| 10.28.10 @ 6:32PM

oh boy, I'll do you the honour of an answer, even though you've missed my point. I've worked in entertainment for over 50 years, which means that I've worked comedians from the pre-war era to the present day, and I know what is naturally, organically, creatively sui generis FUNNY. I've been there.

The debate here is about POLITICS which is my point: Stewart, Behar, Letterman et al are in POLITICS, and could be forgiven - perhaps - if they were funny as well. But they're not, they're sardonic, which is a very different thing, and appeals to something else entirely; bascially, the appeal is to that unworthy sentiment, envy - which explains their appeal to the Entitlement Generation who have never had to fight a Real battle in their lives. As Joachim Fest said: "Such people can only have their chance in a society that is already deranged".

And that's the difference between creative humour and reactive "humour". The latter needs people to feed off, as opposed to being able to create a comic world that you enter to escape from the world's travails.

oh boy| 10.28.10 @ 10:15PM

WAKE UP-Firstly, with a bit of an olive branch, I'll give you Behar. She ain't funny. Then again, that's just my opinion. At least I know the difference. Furthermore, none of the people you name started out doing political humor. The first time I remember Letterman getting at all political was during W.s presidency. And most of his humor still, is not very political. Stupid Pet Tricks? Throwing stuff out of a window? Not any more so than Johnny Carson. Was he funny? The first time I saw Jon Stewart and thought he was very funny was on an HBO special he did in the mid 90's and there was almost no political humor in it. Nor was there on his MTV shows. Behar I can't speak to. Maher also made it to a big audience before going with topical humor. How about George Carlin, was he funny? Richard Pryor? Lenny Bruce? With your 50+ years in the business I am surprised you don't realize there are different kinds of humor and while you may prefer one and I may prefer another neither can claim a stamp of validity over the other. I also work in the entertainment business. I currently work for one of the most successful comedians in the world. By money alone, he's probably more successful than any you ever worked for and maybe all of these nameless great put together. He is personally politically conservative but he doesn't do topical humor at all. I don't find him very funny personally. I find his humor obvious and hackneyed. But that doesn't stop his movies from making $100s of millions of dollars EVERY time out and I will not patronize those who find him funny by smugly claiming that he is certifiably unfunny. I know it's just my opinion.

WAKE UP| 10.29.10 @ 12:59AM

Carson was never funny; and money is not the criterion. Some of the biggest arseholes in thwe world are breathtakingly rich.

I repeat: there is comedy (which creates a new world that invites you in), and there is political comment, which is rooted firmly in the woes of the present day. And just as we have confused Liberty with licence, we have lost the art of knowing the difference.

oh boy| 10.29.10 @ 1:25AM

You need to learn to write/say "to me". "Carson was never funny…" to me. Lots of people not only thought he was funny, he was something of a kingmaker of stand up comic for decades. When you make your money off of comedy and the masses like it then it means something. It doesn't mean it's funny to everyone but it means it's funny to a lot of people. NO comedian is funny to everyone. Laughter is involuntary, btw. Audiences don't have to be taught what is supposedly, verifiably funny. So I don't believe you analogy of Liberty/license confusion is accurate. That's a whole different ball game and the two should not be conflated. You apparently believe the only valid form of comedy, and perhaps any artform, is escapism and that which has nothing to say about the real world or any issues of significance. I agree there is a difference between the two but I do not agree that only one can be comedy. I also firmly support your right to own that personal opinion I am just sorry for you that you do not have an appreciation for both, I assure you variety is more enjoyable. Nice chatting with you. It was fairly civil for an American Spectator thread.

Brian Richard Allen | 10.28.10 @ 5:18PM

I did not know that!

billysol| 10.28.10 @ 5:23PM

Mikka B walks into a bar(4th time that morning) with a parrot on her shoulder. She tells the bartender, "this is Joe. He parrots what I say."

David| 10.28.10 @ 5:35PM

I became confused when I heard the word " Service" used with these agencies:

Internal Revenue ' Service '
U.S. Postal ' Service '
Telephone ' Service '
Cable TV ' Service '
Civil ' Service '
State, City, County & Public ' Service '
Customer ' Service '
This is not what I thought ' Service ' meant.
But today, I overheard two farmers talking, and one of them said he had hired a bull to ' Service ' all his cows.

BAM!!! It all came into focus. Now I understand what all those agencies are doing to us.

You are now as enlightened as I am.

David| 10.28.10 @ 5:37PM

How do you starve a Democrat?

Hide their food stamps
under their work boots.

Matt | 10.28.10 @ 5:38PM

"Had Joy Behar lived a century ago, she would have been a lewd barmaid somewhere." Well put. I would also add that as (some) conservative pundits, esp. lesser entities on radio, imitate this kind of lowbrow commentary we become the enemy... we lose the culture war. Let's keep the standards high, for liberals and for us!

David| 10.28.10 @ 5:44PM

The population of this country is 300 million.

160 million are retired.

That leaves 140 million to do the work.

There are 85 million in school.

Which leaves 55 million to do the work.

Of this there are 35 million employed by the federal government.
Leaving 15 million to do the work.

2.8 million are in the armed forces.

Which leaves 12.2 million to do the work.
Take from that total the 10.8 million people who work for state and city Governments.

And that
leaves 1.4 million to do the work.
At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals.

Leaving 1,212,000 to do the work.

Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons.
That leaves just two people to do the work.
You and me.

And there you are,
Sitting on your ass,

At your computer, reading jokes.
Nice. Real nice.

Drew in Mo| 10.28.10 @ 5:51PM

The Democrat party has degraded into the party of the prolonged adolescent, cheered on by children in adults clothing.

WAKE UP| 10.28.10 @ 7:23PM

drudge ette obama| said " Jon is pretty full of himself - it shows in his face, but I also think he is scared. Fear shows, too.'

You're right, drudge ette: it shows in Bill Maher's face too. You can see it in their eyes; and what it is, is reality finally colliding with their desperation.

Zelda | 10.28.10 @ 7:36PM

To borrow a relevant phrase, Stewart has jumped the shark. He's taken off the clown nose and it's going to be hard for him to put it back on. He's leapt into the fray and he can't just befuddledly hold up his palms, cock his head to the side and say he's just a comedian when people call him out on his views.

Margie| 10.28.10 @ 8:05PM

Will the slime bag who posted at 1:32 using my name please either drop dead or repent?

Thank you.

Jwoo| 10.28.10 @ 8:23PM

This seems like a bit of a useless article to me. The writer never really explained why it's a bad thing for comedians to get involved in politics. Are they somehow less intelligent or less worthy than the status quo? Now I understand that the American Spectator is heavily biased and partisan, but anyone that's telling themselves that Jon Stewart is an idiot is delusional. The guy knows what he believes and can defend it more competently than your average pundit, as he has proven in his conversations with Bill O'Reilly (a very competent apologist of his own beliefs as well) among others.

That said, there's a lot of truth to the idea that he often hides behind his comedy. When cornered regarding his actions, he often falls back on "Why are you taking my show so seriously? It's just comedy." I think he sometimes realizes that people take him seriously, but doesn't want to admit it.

And one question, what is with the conservative obsession with emphasizing names and people not using either their whole or real names? Jon's full birth name is Jon STUART Leibowitz. "Stewart" is simply a more common spelling of his middle name, while also being an easier name to pronounce and read than "Leibowitz." Sure, it's true that he doesn't use his full name, but calling him a phony for emphasizing his middle name? That's quite a stretch.

Although there appears to be some sort of issue with Stewart using his middle name, conservatives have a contradictory fetish with overemphasizing Obama's middle name, "Hussein," even though it isn't how he refers to himself. You can tell me all you want that you're just using it because it's really his middle name, but seriously, everyone knows you only use it to create a mental link with either Saddam Hussein or just Muslims/middle easterners in general.

Anyway, good luck this election day. I'm pretty interested to see the turnout, even if my picks don't win. It's an intense race.

Bill A | 10.28.10 @ 10:07PM

The point of the article is not about comedians involved in politics as much as it is about politicians involved with comedians. Here we have the President of the United States selling his ideas on a satyrical political comedy show. Mr. Stewart makes his living by making fun of politicians. So why is the President using this show to try and get across a serious message?

Saustin| 11.1.10 @ 4:49AM

Does it really have to be pointed out for you? He went on the showm to try to influence the young poeole who voted for him to go vote in the midterms. Young people of the media generation probably don't find it odd at all that he would appear on the show.

Paul| 10.28.10 @ 8:41PM

This is a pointless article. You might as well just announce that right wing pundits (and those who follow them) strongly dislike liberal presidents and media figures. Shocking!!! Believe me, the only worthwhile negative assessment of such a program could only come from the side that is already not predisposed to be offended. We all have our biases and, in this case, they preclude your ability to view this program objectively and--even more--your ability to comprehend how this program would be viewed by others who lack the same biases.

Jon b| 10.28.10 @ 9:15PM

Sadly, articles like this are all you have. Not much substance besides hatred in any of them. The more I read, the greater my need for a vomit bag. Grow up...

Ginger| 10.28.10 @ 9:31PM

The four stooges. Jon, loathesome Joy-less, Whoopi & Robin can't save the fifth stooge Barry. They don't have a brain or an ounce of humor between them. The jig is up. The wretched reign of the radical is over!

You| 10.28.10 @ 9:40PM

You are a hate-filled loser. Truly.

Joy Behar is a liberal tastemaker? Jon Stewart is a phony because he changed his name?

The liberals may lose at the polls, but you will always, always lose the war. Silly articles like these demonstrate how weak the modern conservative mind is.

Losers, through and through. Time will not be kind to your silly ideology.

You| 10.28.10 @ 9:40PM

You are a hate-filled loser. Truly.

Joy Behar is a liberal tastemaker? Jon Stewart is a phony because he changed his name?

The liberals may lose at the polls, but you will always, always lose the war. Silly articles like these demonstrate how weak the modern conservative mind is.

Losers, through and through. Time will not be kind to your silly ideology.

Spartan | 10.28.10 @ 11:29PM

And how weak your mind is also, as "You" have read them.

Freemarketer| 10.28.10 @ 9:48PM

Please help me out, I can't tell which one is the jester and which is the king?

Also, I think it's the Saudi's luck not to have the View broadcast there. We should be so lucky.

PamK| 10.28.10 @ 10:09PM

Astute observations, concisely put. What an embarassment. The 2012 election cannot come too soon.

Dobby| 10.28.10 @ 11:13PM

A Haiku.....

Obama has failed
The worst President ever
Jimmy Carter smiles!

Spartan | 10.28.10 @ 11:23PM

I am afraid amidst the revelry and playful banter we shall awake to the threats that are now looming within our borders and just beyond our shores. This country is in grave danger. We are in need of the grace of God ..... there is a sharpening of the sword, the sound of which has been hidden by much noise.

There will soon be less laughter. It shall be replaced by the cries of our children and the tears of a nation that has abandoned all sense of responsibility and bravery. There will be a calling to defend our freedom once more; no less magnificent than our parents as they defended Europe and the United States of America; no less magnificent than the Great War of 1861 and certainly on the level of the battles that gave birth to the nation in which we now reside.

As we have become complacent in the face of tyranny and dishonor .... so shall our collective prices be paid. Freedom is not free and the wake up call has been sounded. The only question left to be asked is has it been heard?

mavigozler | 10.29.10 @ 12:06AM

The George Neumayrs of the world are never happy unless Himmler is running the White House, Goering is his closest advisor, and Goebbels controls the message. The Neumayr take on Obama's guest appearance on the Stewart show is clearly different than that of many others whose shoes should be carried, and certainly shined, by Neumayr.

Obama will be a 2nd term president despite the huge handicap he has had to overcome in finding a way out of the George W. Bush-Dick Cheney-Karl Rove-GOP Congress Great Recession. And I am glad that this particularly galls you right wingers, some of whom will look for a Sharron Angle 2nd Amendment "solution" to the "problem" of majority voting.

I am actually up for a civil war, Neumayr...cultural or otherwise. Tell me: when it comes, are you going to hang out cowardly in the rear echelons, or will you meet me at the point? I mean, I had been led to believe that Brown Shirts like you, Neumayr, can't wait to get in the game. Is that so?

Nathan| 10.29.10 @ 12:13AM

It'd be great if Liberals got some beliefs and morals, and even greater if Conservatives got a sense of humour.

el polacko| 10.29.10 @ 1:08AM

i'm with the author 99 and 99/100's of the way, but i do not see why he deemed it necessary to make light of teen suicide as a "trendy" concern.
anti-gay bias too often seems to cloud the thinking of otherwise thoughtful people.

Furious Amer-I-CAN| 10.29.10 @ 2:56AM

Jokebama, aka, O'Vomit, O'Icarus is such a silly self-absorbed CVNT.

Semper Fi| 10.29.10 @ 5:57AM

I'm sorry, but I have to make one point.

Nazism is the far-extreme-right, to equate it with the left, or socialism or even communism (Its antithisis and hated enemy) is stunningly ignorant. Nazism banned unions, took all power away from the people and gave it to big business, so long as they pledged alleigance. The entire basis for Hitler's ideology was anti-Communism, anti-Socialism and power to the state and its leadership. If that wasn't enough for you, Hitler HIMSELF identifies with the ideology of the far-right wing explicitly in Mein Kampf. National Socialism, a common contraction of the National Socialist German Workers party (NSDAP) was the name of the party Hitler joined and then took over and turned into a mass movement. Claiming it was socialist because it has 'socialism' in the title is like saying North Korea is democratic just because it has the word 'democratic' in its official name. Nobody at the time would ever have considered claiming Hitler was anything except extreme right wing, as evidenced by his extreme right-wing supporters in the US and other countries in the early and mid 1930s.

If you like, I can happily recommend quite a few books on the subject...

Oh and by the way, claiming Jon Stewart adopted his middle name to hide his 'jewishness' is laughable. The man makes references to his background all the time, and is constantly making jokes about it. He dropped Leibowitz because it was his father's name, and after his father abandoned him at the age of 9, he subsequently went with his middle name. Yes, he is a flaming leftie, but frankly, he's still pretty funny a lot of time.

Don L| 10.29.10 @ 11:49AM

Hey, nice defense of Hitler. Thank God he wasn't a socialist. He just sent his purple...uh..brown shirted goons in to quell any uppity opposition and had a real quest to destroy incovenient life. Not like our left....

RCV| 10.29.10 @ 11:53AM

Kind of like a Rand Paul rally...

skip| 10.30.10 @ 1:48PM

Said the idiot who defends the party that has 'legalized' the slaughter of over 50,000,000 (over fifty fucking million you asswipe) innocent American unborn babies.

R(eal Christian love)
C(ausing the)
V(iolent murders of over fifty fucking million you
asswipe)

RCV| 11.1.10 @ 4:35PM

Gee, Skippy, maybe you haven't gotten to this in school yet, but the so-called "slaughter" you referred to was legalized by the United States Supreme Court in 1973, in a 7-2 decision. Of those seven justices, FIVE were appointed by GOP Presidents. But I wouldn't expect a guy like you to bother with facts.

Martin Treptow| 11.1.10 @ 5:28PM

That's what we undereducated Midwesterners call a "non-sequitur".

Please explain to me what you mean by your post. Does the fact that the five GOP-appointed Justices affirmed Roe v. Wade mean that Abortion is okay? Or, is it sloppy logic designed to make Conservatives feel like it's "our fault" Republican presidents didn't nominate more strict constructionists?
It seems to me that you have (at best) gotten Conservative, Pro-Life, and GOP muddled.

It must be the weed, or the Kool-Aid, or both.

Troll.

Fail.

Cheers!

RCV| 11.1.10 @ 6:53PM

No, Martin. What it means is that Skip's statement about "the party that has 'legalized' abortion" (referring to the Democrats, which was what my post was about) is just inaccurate. That's what I was referring to, and the response was therefor not a "non sequiter". Try reading for a change before you spout off.

Martin Treptow| 11.1.10 @ 8:23PM

You've got a big mouth sitting behind that computer keyboard, RCV. You'd watch your tone if you were sitting across from me in a bar. But, like most Liberals, you've got a firm grasp on the Coward Gene.
Now, back to the subject at hand. You're splitting hairs and taking Skip to task over what is basically semantics.
Are you arguing that the Democrat Party is not the party that champions Abortion on demand? If you're comfortable with boiling Skip down to his wording to try to make a point contrary to his, go ahead. It shows the shallowness of the position. I've been on this Earth for 41 years and I'm still waiting for someone to give me a reasonable defense of the Pro-Choice position.

In addition, saying that because 5 GOP appointees to the Supreme Court affirmed Roe v. Wade means that the Democrat Party is not the party of Abortion is still a non-sequitur.

Please, at least spell it right. Your public school education is showing.

Cheers!

RCV| 11.1.10 @ 8:57PM

I'd use the very same tone with you Martin, whether we were face-to-face or not. You TAS bloggers are so tough online, and so quick with the macho bravado it borders on the silly. Grow up. And I'll match my educational credentials against yours any time.

Martin Treptow| 11.2.10 @ 11:04AM

I've been reading this message board on and off for weeks. Sometimes, just for fun, I'll go over to HuffPo or Kos and just read along. If you think that it's the people at TAS that are too quick with the cyber-bravado, you're either misinformed or a classic Liberal prevaricator.
That said, as I would have predicted, you switched the subject of our posts from the Abortion debate to our respective "tones", your tough guy act, and your "educational credentials".

Why do Liberals almost never want to debate?

As an old hero of mine used to say, "it's not that our Liberal friends are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so"

Cheers!

WSK| 11.2.10 @ 3:19PM

...and I would overmatch your credentials with mine. Who cares? It doesn't make your opinion more or less valid. Being a liberal makes your opinion less valid.

skip| 11.2.10 @ 8:51PM

Said the intellectual heavyweight whose real Christian love apparantly doesn't include the over fifty million innocent American unborn babies slaughtered by the party policies he/she/it defends with the aforementioned credentials.

R(etched)
C(orrupt)
V(oice of stupidity and dishonesty but he/she/it isn't intelligent or honest enough to know he/she/it is a hypocrite)

Dave| 10.29.10 @ 7:37AM

Jon Stewart Liebowitz is a piece of #####!!! Joyless Behar is a bitch, and a piece of ####!!! There is a special place in hell for these two scumbags!!!

Area 51| 10.29.10 @ 8:33AM

Maybe POTUS should have sent TOTUS instead.

carnot| 10.29.10 @ 8:48AM

time to get to the next level:

1) do not spend any of your discretionary income in CA (i.e., no tourism dollars). bleed that state dry.

2) Let your State Congressional reps understand you will hold them accountable for any bailout efforts vis CA.

3) Boycott Unions that funnel money to Left-wing causes/candidates. Do not buy their products.

4) Keep a list of names of operatives from Moveon, Hollywood, etc., who have been aiding and abetting these destructive policies. Publish these names to public lists so a wider audience understands who is working to orchestrate/manipulate the direction of this country. no violence...just accountability and "transparency".

Countrylawyer| 10.29.10 @ 8:59AM

Back in the day, the Merovingian kings ended their tenure as kings being carted (literally) around from place to place for show, while their major domos, the Carolingians, exercised the powers and prerogatives of the throne. Have we come so far down the "celebrity" president path that our chief executives, who once were held to frankly unreasonable standards of sombreness (remember Lincoln was excoriated for . . . hold on . . . telling amusing stories on occasion to illustrate his points), now shuffle wearily from talk show to yuk-fest, fishing for laughs with the not-so-unspoken expectation that we'll vote for them because they're such a funny guy?

Abe Doctor| 10.29.10 @ 10:52AM

I am a conservative Republican and I think Jon Stewart is the most intelligent news reporter there is from either side of the political spectrum. The dialogue that he engaged Obama in made the President flustered and back on his heels at times. When Obama said, "if I ran again my slogan would be CHANGE, but...Jon Steward laughed in his face. Most pundits allow the President to ramble on and divert questions. I am sure there are many others out there who feel the same way.

ghostewriter| 10.29.10 @ 9:39PM

When I see Obama currying favor with Jon Stewart to reach young voters, I think of Bruce Springsteen's rally for Howard Dean. A reporter roaming the crowd asked one young voter what he thought of Dean's policies. They guy answered, "Hey, I'm just here for the music."

Rock the vote! Check the stats on 18 year old voter turn-out when they were first allowed to vote. check it today. You can't get them to clean their rooms and you can't get them to vote.

ghostwriter| 10.29.10 @ 10:15PM

Mr. Neumayr fails to acknowledge that the comedians he finds so painful would not have an audience - - if they didn't have an audience.

I would guess that Maher's audience are all pretty much like him. They must go to hear their own view echoed - because he certainly is humorless. But I'll bet Stewart has a lot of people watch him because he is damned funny, not because of his liberalism.

Relax. Mr. N. Look around you Those folks Jay Leno stops on the street and asks if they know the name of the vice president? And they don't? They know the face and name of Jon Stewart. We are not exactly a nation of egg-heads. Adlai Sevenson fond that out.

As for Stewart's name - he is an entertainer. He did not change his name so no one would know he was a Jew, just as Doris Kappelhoff did not choose "Day" to conceal her heritage. It worked on the marquee. That frothing-at-the- foul mouth, Mike Savage's real name is Wiener. Pretty clear why he changed it - although Wiener suits him better.. Look up Dylan Thomas's real name. Or Danny Thomas. Mark Twain's.What were their motives? Gary Hartpence? We'll never know about that one.

You seem small minded when you accuse a Jewish performer of "hiding behind a name."

farm kid| 10.30.10 @ 11:43AM

mohamed,casey,leibowitz,behar,and whoopi are sooo ugly when they walk by a toilet. the toilet FLUSHES. their mothers could have saved us from all this trouble if they had just swallowed.

DaveT| 10.31.10 @ 2:01AM

J.S. Lebowitz is probably the top intellectual on the Left these days, don't misclassify him. He is a comedian only in the sense that Patty Murray is Fun Fearless Female of the Year, or that Joran van der Sloot is a dreamy international gentleman.

Barry Jr. may do better restraining his comedic aspirations. As it stands he combines the energetic delivery of Steven Wright with the subtle barbs of Sam Kinison.

alyeska| 10.31.10 @ 1:28PM

i was at the rally yesterday. a rally put together by two university educated, religious, family 0riented satirists and attended by well dressed, well groomed, obviously successful people who just wanted to celebrate an american that is a beacon to all freedom loving people everywhere on earth. their humour was gentle, their rhetoric was moderate -- there were no anger-contorted faces decrying supposed transgressions by "people other than us." it was just positive engery.

i wish you all could have been there!

Martin Treptow| 11.1.10 @ 5:41PM

Alyeska,

I'm glad you had a good time.

Did you happen to bump into the crowd of people that were carrying signs with pictures of Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, etc. all with Hitler mustaches?
Did you hang out with the guy who carried the, "I masturbate to Christine O'Donnell" sign?

Did you talk to the V.P. of Viacom/Comedy Central who tried to ban all cameras from the Mall?

Did you enjoy Yusuf Islam's (Cat Stevens) performance of (ironically) "Peace Train"? Did you ask him to sign your copy of The Satanic Verses?

How many African-Americans were there?

But, of course, only Glenn Beck can be racist, right?

Right?

Cheers!

RCV| 11.1.10 @ 6:50PM

If you log on to the photo album of the march on HuffPost (it won't kill you to go there - promise!), you'll that alyeska is absolutely right. The crowd was good natured, in great spirits, showed wit and intelligence and tolerance, and was quite diverse. Glenn Beck isn't racist - just calculating and evil. But, heh, that's just my opinion.

Martin Treptow| 11.1.10 @ 8:38PM

You can divine the very nature of the participants at the rally simply by looking at photographs? You can sense their wit, their intelligence, and (this one was my favorite) their tolerance?

Quite diverse? Even the event organizers were caught a bit bemused by the whiteness of it all, but that's The Daily Show audience. No problem there.

And, please don't misunderstand me because I'm not really a huge fan of his, but I'm always fascinated when I hear this: Please tell me one way in which Glenn Beck is evil? I mean, without resorting to name-calling, profanity, or changing the subject, like Liberals do when it comes time to actually have a discussion on the issues.

Cheers!

RCV| 11.1.10 @ 8:51PM

I think Glenn Beck is evil because he preys on people's fears during a difficult economic time, and manipulates them for his own ends to divide people in this country.

And cheers to you, Martin!

Martin Treptow| 11.2.10 @ 11:12AM

"Your Honor, please direct the witness to answer the question..."

I'm trying to understand you RCV. That was the most non-specific answer to a direct question I have heard since President Clinton was in the White House.

When you call someone "evil", you should really have some specific reasons to say that.

Don't you agree?

Cheers!

skip| 11.2.10 @ 8:54PM

Said the idiot too dumb to know how much smarter Beck is than he is.

R(etched)
C(ontradiction of)
V(irtuous thought)

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