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The Truthiness of Hasan Minhaj - Live long enough, and see yourself become the thing you parodied (goodreason.substack.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As for the defense of the show, I agree with Jon Stewart. It’s not his fault that what he was saying was so true of cable news that people had nowhere else to turn but Comedy Central.

exactly. jon always poked fun at his own show as a way to illustrate the absolute mind-numbing ridiculousness of "news media". the daily show got me through the bush era with at least some semblance of sanity intact.

anyone who has not seen jon's crossfire takedown really should watch it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Very much so. The bush-era daily show wasn’t news, it was release from the news. No actual News show would spend so much time talking about OTHER news shows…nor would they spend so much time making funny noises and photoshopping pictures. Saying, “I get my news from the daily show” doesn’t make the daily show news. It makes the state of the news and people’s choices for their sources of information a problem.

It was intentionally comic relief. People mistaking someone who knew what they were talking about while telling jokes for news isn’t a criticism of Jon Stewart, it’s a criticism of everything else.