The two shorter stories in question followed by my analysis. Comedy Central Unspins O'Reilly Determined not to be caught up in a spin zone created by Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, Comedy Central on Monday refuted O'Reilly's assertion that the audience for the network's The Daily Show was composed of "stoned slackers." The channel extracted data from Nielsen Media Research to indicate that Daily Show host Jon Stewart's viewers are more likely to have completed college than O'Reilly...
It is time to rejoice, for the future is going to be glorious. First Craig Kilborn quits the Late Late Show, and now Jay Leno has announced his retirement date, giving Conan O'Brien the 11:30 slot. O'Brien, who was signed to a new 5-year deal, is now committed to NBC until the change over, which means that he won't be moving to CBS or ABC anytime in the near future, which means that when Letterman retires, there is going to be some new blood in Network Talk Shows. The announcement will be...
This was a rather heartwarming story to read: An old widower, who lived alone with 7 cats after his wife passed away in 1992, started taking ads in the paper to seek adoption by a family as their grandfather. It sounds kooky and depending on the circumstances, a little creepy, as I read the story, I was drawn into the narrative. I mean, the idea is a novel one, and there is something appealing about the thought that a nice but lonely old man can find himself company and a new role in life ...
Vanity Fair called Jon Stewart " the Dan Rather of infotainment "..... that is defamation of character that is! The very idea! That comparison debases everything that the Peabody and Emmy-award winning Daily Show stands for... and he shouldn't stand for that kind of slander and character assassination. I smell a lawsuit a-comin'.... Of course, he could always use such a quote to sell his book, America-The Book which could work despite the libelous overtones of that statement. But my ...
After weeks of antagonistic scrutiny, CBS and Dan Rather have both admitted culpability in the falsified National Guard memo scandal, and have revealed that it was in fact Bill Burkett who was the source of these same documents. Burkett has reputedly told CBS that he "deliberately misled" the network... and this interview will appear on tonight's(Monday) CBS Evening News. Furthermore, the president of CBS News remarked on the situation with the following: " Based on what we now know, CBS ...
Summer's almost over in the Northern Hemisphere... get out and enjoy it while you still can! And of course, never a bad time to post a picture from Homestar Runner ... Strong Mad and Strong Sad... what a combo!
VS. My question is... which is worse?
VS. My question is... which is worse?
I was at ebaum's world today and I found this old new report from the mid-90's, and I found it very interesting. It reminded me of when I first got online. The thing I first noticed when watching it was they refered to "the internet" as just "internet"... so it sounds sort of weird to my ears. And then John Allan started talking.... and said this: There is not a lot of cursing or swearing, there is not a lot of personal cuts, there is not a lot of putdowns that one would expect to ...
After watching this Quicktime video does anyone get the feeling Bush doesn't understand what 'sovereignty' in this particular case means? Honestly, I haven't seen that kind of clarity in an answer since Jean Chretien said: "A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven."
Well, in these times of equal time for candidates, it wouldn't be fair to just make jokes at Bush's expense , so here is a short list of Kerry jokes from the Nightly talk shows, culled from the files of about.com "We make jokes about it but the truth is this presidential election really offers us a choice of two well-informed, opposing positions on every issue. OK, they both belong to John Kerry, but they're still there." —Jay Leno "John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out...
There have been a lot of really good zingers against Bush in the past 4 years, and I thought it might be a good time to do a little bit of a list with the help of about.com! Here we go... "According to the recent polls, Bush has a slight lead over John Kerry. So today, Bush hung a banner over the White House saying, 'Mission Accomplished.'" —David Letterman "George W. Bush surrounds himself with smart people the way a hole surrounds itself with a donut." —Dennis Miller "Bush is sm...
I was having a discussion with someone last night, and I mentioned that Ioriginally wrote with my left hand, but as a child I was more than encouraged(rather forced) to use my right hand. The whole conversation made me think aboutthe connotations of "left", as it usually always associated withthings that were bad... like the Latin for left became ' sinister ' and aword like Right became the basis of adroit , meaning Dexterous or deft. And of course, you never say someone is out in right...
Cartoons were once the staple of children's programming, but with thesuccess of shows like The Simpsons and South Park , along with theCartoon Network's Adult Swim , it seems that cartoons geared to adults andolder teens are now more widely accepted. That being said, the internet also hasmany sites dedicated to the production and screening of such work. In somecases, these web-toons are becoming almost as popular as some of the shows ontelevision. So without further adieu, here are t...
Well, it seems that I've had 7 articles in a row that weren't huge attention grabbers since Friday.... and seeing as there have been a few articles that have recently been written about the techniques of the point whore, I think that given this run of bad responses... I think I can now adequately say the don'ts when it comes to getting a lot of points. 1) Art is not really a fast mover : Wow... at least I got 15 user points for posting those. Generally speaking, art-related articles see...