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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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[–] mindbleach 2 points 1 year ago

The article also discusses Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” a popular source of news for many Americans that engaged in fact-checking and reporting while criticizing other shows for selling entertainment as news.

That's not... that's not the same thing at all. Comedy being correct-ish is fundamentally different from a news show being fluff. Only one of those is failing to deliver on its premise.

Stewart criticized the big cable news shows for selling entertainment as news. But, in wrapping up the news in nice comedy packaging, wasn’t “The Daily Show” also kind of doing that?

No! It was doing exactly the opposite!

Joking about headlines is not the same thing as headlines being a joke! "Most stand-up comedians don’t fact-check their routines" because they're not joking about facts.