#35 The Daily Show/Colbert Report
January 28, 2008 by clander
The Daily Show/Colbert makes up a duo that is held in such high regard by white people that to criticize it would be the equivalent of setting the pope on fire in Italy in 1822. It just isn’t done, in fact it isn’t even considered!
White people love to make fun of politics, especially right wing politics. It’s a pretty easy target and makes for some decent humor, but white people are actually starting to believe that these two shows are becoming legitimate news sources.
“Oh, I don’t watch the news,” they will say. “I watch the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. You know, studies show that viewers of those shows are more educated than people who watch Fox News or CNN.”
White women all consider John Stewart to be the most perfect man on the planet. This is not a debate, it is law.
The Daily Show also features guests like John McCain, writers, policy analysts, and actors. It is comforting for white people to see boring celebrities get interviewed in a funny fashion. It fills their need to do something productive, but also not work that hard at it.
Take note that Tuesday through Friday during the working week, you can break ALL awkward silences with white people by saying “did you see the Daily Show/Colbert Report last night?” At which point they will start talking until it’s time for you to move on to more interesting activities.
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I pooped my pants
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You know who’s white? The right-wingers who HATE the daily show.
The Daily Show itself has a fairly diverse group of fans, whose most important common trait is being well-educated. While it’s surely true that being well educated and being white have gone together historically, this is changing, and I don’t think it’s a good link to reinforce.
Right. The Daily Show is jewish and jew wannabe, not White.
Being well-educated and being intelligent don’t necessarily go hand-in-hand.
I thought the Daily Show was absolutely hilarious until I actually watched it. Then I went back to Nick at Night - so much more topical and relevant.
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The Daily Show also has a very white cast. This is initially surprising given that actual news shows tend to have a fair amount of nonwhite onscreen talent (black guys and asian women are especially popular) and that comedy is one industry with fairly high black representation. Yet this comedy version of a news show is all white people.
The reason is that the Daily Show is a certain type of humor–whitepeople humor–and, their own liberalism be damned, they don’t want nonwhites bringing in different kinds of humor and screwing things up.
Along those lines, I would bet the staff of the Onion is all white.
Since when did conservatism embrace diversity as a value?
That is the whitest thing I’ve ever read. Your quote should be on this site’s home page.
Love the defensive posts!
YES! It’s hysterical how some of the posters on here have seen themselves in this section and are soooo offended!
Stewart better hurry up and reform his show before the coming election. He’s pretty much to Bush what Rush Limbaugh was to Clinton during the 1990s in that with every administration, there are people who make a career out of mocking them. When Bush came into office, Rush mostly disappeared because no one wants to listen to him agree with the President. Hence, Colbert and Stewart found their respective niches. We Americans like to watch people make fun of our Presidents. Come 2009, when Obama or Clinton is occupying the White House, Stewart will become a relic if he doesn’t reformat. No one is going to find it funny to hear Stewart agree with Obama every night. Or, at absolute most, lightly chastise him. He’s a NY Liberal and a liberal administration will ruin him. You can better believe he’ll be voting for McCain!
My man, this show has been on for as long as Comedy Central has been a network. Like 15 years. Stewart used to make fun of Clinton, in fact the same shit was said when Bush took office. But then, Bush turned out to be a genuinely evil fucking douche. So suddenly,the show stopped mocking, and and started getting into real political commenting.
Yes, this is absolutely true. I’ve watched The Daily Show and The Colbert Report religiously with my Mom throughout high school. I’m in college now and I watch both of them online. I don’t know if I love them for reasons stated on this site or not, but I know that if I brought this page to her, she would get pissed (she’s a bit touchy about this sort of thing).
I agree with howardroark… the defensive comments are priceless and serve as great (and equally humorous) reinforcements of the original blog post.
O ya, the Daily Show and Onion are very white in both essence and staff. That being said, this particular one (ie. #35) — and the fact that it’s well known that many whites, including but not limited to angry geezers and violent hill-billy white-trash, enjoy neither Daily Show/Onion-style content nor humor — reveals the main (but not crucial) problem with this whole list: It doesn’t target white people as well as it targets liberal bourgeoisie yuppies, a group that is mostly, but not entirely, white.
On another note: While it is true that it’s futile to get defensive about this list, as the list is indeed very accurate, it’s also true that howardroark’s repeatedly used “Love the defensive posts!” comment is a hackneyed and passive-aggressive form of criticism that itself is very white.
Too make the list more white, shouldn’t we add “right wing radio talk show hosts,” “NASCAR”, “Ann (she’s a man baby!!) Coulter, hollow patriotism, and Christian self righteousness.
This is true. The list is much more about class than it is about race. In an affluent society, class is much less about financial stability (even though poverty continues to be a problem in most communities, most people’s basic needs are met) and more about the options you have in life. The class “white people” that this site refers to is comprised of people who are fortunate enough to understand that they can do nearly anything they want with regards to career and lifestyle. That said, the blog would have a much less ironic feel if it were called, “Stuff Self-Actualized-Way-Too-Young People Like”. And as we all know, white people love irony.
“You know who’s white? The right-wingers who HATE the daily show. The Daily Show itself has a fairly diverse group of fans, whose most important common trait is being well-educated.” - Anon
Thanks Anon!
For posts 70-100 you can riff on people of whiteness (and people of diverseness!) who take things too seriously. Definitely a whitepeople thing.
Oh, and have you done one on hardwood floors? We whitepeople just love those!
I love TDS and I’m pretty white (Still haven’t remodeled anything yet, but my daughter is almost old enough to remember it, so we’ll have to get on that soon… our kitchen needs a new counter, and some better lighting, maybe a pot rack… sorry, where was I?)
Oh yeah, TDS. It’s not political commentary, it’s press criticism. Politicians are rarely criticized directly, and the people who are in for the harshest treatment are generally right wing hack book authors.
“merchant”,
Snide meta-criticism of supposed passive agression is très white.
“The Daily Show itself has a fairly diverse group of fans, whose most important common trait is being well-educated.”
They are also modest, as this quote demonstrates.
y u critcize the colbert report but u steal #14 having black friends from him
y is this
u is hypocrit
u is a lolcat jeff.
Hey, has the internet been done yet, specifically lolcats?
Albion Beige, my criticism of howardroark isn’t the least bit snide. Its tone is earnest and matter-of-fact, as is that of this post. I interpreted his message to mean that there’s something ineffective/laughable about others’ attempts to deny their whiteness (according to this blog’s definition of it); the implication being that they’re embarrassingly stuck with undesirable whiteness. The problem is that his message did so in a way that really only serves to make him seem more like his targets. Your criticism wrongly assumes that I think whiteness is undesirable.
“It’s not political commentary…the people who are in for the harshest treatment are generally right wing hack book authors”
Well, obviously, that’s not political at all…and there are of course NO left wing hack book authors.
If TDS is really about “Press Criticism” it strikes me as being sort of odd that all of the criticism is focused on that small part of the press that is right-wing.
Of course, I’m only half-white, so maybe I’m missing something.
Name one left wing hack book author … better yet, name one left wing hack book author who drops the price of her books to $4.99 to get her cheapass rightwing conservative audience to buy enough books to get her on a best seller list just long enough to garner her another tiresome interview with a like-minded “pundit.” (Ann Coulter, I’m looking at you).
Funny, I can’t think of single leftwinger in this category. I must not be as much a white liberal as I thought.
Left-wing elected officials, sure, but they fall into the separate category of Z-list celebrities with ghostwritten books. Maybe the left wing hack book authors are too embarrassed to come forward with their own crap books. Just a theory.
I love wasting my time replying to stale blog posts. I am white!
“White women all consider John Stewart to be the most perfect man on the planet.”
No comment on the whiteness of TDS/TCR, but how do you misspell Jon Stewart’s name when it’s right there in the graphic?
Seriously. Right there.
Not this white woman. I like White guys.
governmentstooge shut up faggot. “seriously. right there” wow youre gay
please make a post about how white people love passive aggressiveness
stuffblackpeoplelike - eating watermelon! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike - pumping oil! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike - gang warfare! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike - eating beans! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike - shooting heroin! hahaha!!!
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stuffchinesepeoplelike - eating rice! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike - kissing goats! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike - wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike - sniffing glue! hahaha!!!
aren’t i funny and clever!!!
don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
I will call you a jackass.
stuff white people like #(whatever’s next): SPELLING (names, etc.)
I’m pretty sure it’s “JON STEWART” (notice there isn’t an ‘H’ anywhere). but that is just based on the picture POSTED ON YOUR BLOG. good thing I gave it 1/2 a seconds thought, otherwise my degree in the arts may have left me unprepared for shit as tough as this.
*note: this is only one example. you might want to look into hiring some 4th graders to proofread your future blog entries.
White people love correcting people’s spelling and grammar, and get mad when they can’t see the humor in themselves.
I’m ridiculously white but have never found TDS funny or Jon Stewart charming in any way, though all my whitey friends LOVE him. My perfect man is, and will always be, Jason Bateman.
Ahhh… Jason Bateman. So true. Jon Stewart is pretty funny and charming and irresistible though. And Jewish, which totally elevates his status in white culture.
Y’know, I went to college and everything and I think the show is pretty mindless.
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Get this shit: I’m white and don’t have a TV, but what I have seen of the Daily Show on the internet, I love. Therefore I’m not aligned with the fashion tastes of this blog in this respect.
tschafer, maybe you need to watch more than one or two episodes, because CNN, MSNBC, et al get plenty of reaming too. Lately every network’s been getting parodied mercilessly for their terrible primary coverage.
I’m pretty sure there are more White women who are attracted to Stephen Colbert than there are ones who are attracted to John Stewart.
While I do frequently enjoy The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the thing I do not like about those shows is their promotion of the idea that politics is just so gosh darn funny. While politics can make a person laugh, its not really supposed to be reduced to a snarky giggle-fest. I mean, since January of 1991 to the present day, counting all the Iraqis who’ve died in our two wars with Iraq, and our twelve years of daily air strikes & devastatingly inhumane sanctions between those two wars, we’ve killed approximately two million Iraqis (or about 7% of their total population). Hitler is generally regarded to be the worst person ever, due primarily to his having killed six million Jews. So does that mean that the U.S. is at least one third as bad as Nazi Germany, for all those Iraqis (including Arabs, Khurds, Turks, Assyrians, and assorted others) we’ve chosen to liquidate? Seriously. I’m not sure that makes for a very good joke.
Dude you are an idiot. You have no idea what goes on in Iraq. You have never been to the country. You don’t have any facts to back up your claims. We don’t have daily air strikes. Our army doesn’t go out and kill innocent people. I don’t know where you get your information from but you have to stop believing everything you read in a commie crap paper.
p.s. I know this because i have been over their and I have friends who have been their for almost 3 non consecutive years.
I feel sorry for any serviceman subjected to this neocon/zionist inspired war for Israel. Gonna get suckered again on Iran?
McCain is running around Israel right now with that jew Joe Leiberman. Pathetic.
Need to add Kieth Olbermann…Us white liberals love him.
Keith Olbermann is like Bill Maher. Love to listen to him, but would NEVER want to live with him. They are both womanizing old poops. Gee, still bachelors after all these years Keith and Bill? No wonder!
I’ve been to Daily Show taping several times - I was AMAZED at how white the audience was each time.
I mean - EVERYONE in the audience was white. Everyone. Except for the one time I brought my half-Japanese friend.
You feel like the epitome of white just being there - all liberal n shit, feeling sorry for minorities, hating Republican Whites. With all White People.
God I am so White.
You are a jew, and don’t even know it. Jon Leibowitz (stewart is his fake name) must just laugh at you idiots.
its true! i’m white and i think jon stewart is an american hero.
Viewers of these shows are more educated than CNN/Fox News viewers? Ha. Fox did a poll of Jon Stewart’s viewers and most of them were uneducated losers. Think about it. Who stays up until midnight watching some immature political humor show? Educated people with good jobs are in bed long before midnight. Only losers are watching tv that late.
PS: Jon Stewart is sooo NOT funny.
Jon Stewart, no. George Clooney.
@ Comment 32:
Midnight being late is relative. I work a (sort of) typical office day job, 10-6 everyday. I haven’t really been in bed before Midnight since I was 12 years old.
But, I didn’t go to college, so there’s no way I can be “educated”, right?
And I’d trust a Ouija Board before I’d trust a poll by *any* network. Fox News obviously wants its viewers to feel smart, the same way TDS wants it’s viewers to feel smart. It’s never about facts, just ratings.
Took you to #35 to get something that finally fits me. Although I’m a right winger I still watch it as I can’t stand any local news or CNN anymore.
Only Fox News watchers would quote one of it’s unsourced “studies” as finding the study group to be ‘uneducated “losers.”‘ Funny how that report never hit any other mainstream news source and yet the studies that reveal the true education level of Daily Show watchers is on cnn, wikipedia, and this from msnbc: Sep 28, 2004 … Bill O’Reilly’s viewers are actually less educated than Stewart’s. … ‘Daily Show’ audience not exactly ’stoned slackers’ …
Sheesh! MIDDLECLASS, get help.
This is so true! I love Colbert especially, he’s my favorite! Did you see when Stewart and Colbert fought with Conan O’ Brien, if that isn’t white people humor I don’t know what is. An awkwardly tall Irishman, a short guy of Jewish heritage, and a staunch Right-wing character duking it out, now that’s cracker laughs! Hehe! Still cracks me up thinking about it.
First of all, it’s “Jon” Stewart, not “John”. He’s Jewish, not Catholic.
Second, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are big not with white people in general, but with A. Jews (huge fan right here) and B. people under 40 who did their homework in college.
I’m not white, but I used to be a fan of “The Daily Show” since Kilborn hosted it. I thought it got better when Jon Stewart took over, but now white people have ruined it for me. They took a show that was perfectly fine as a silly fake news show that had middling celebrities as guests. Now they’ve made it to be more important than it really is. Thanks, white people!
I’m a chemical engineer…i think that makes me educated. If i was in bed by midnight…i’d be up at 5 am…that gives me 4 hours to take a shower..use the toilet and drive 15 min to work.
Anyways…as a man of color…i find this more of a guide to the white man. The white man enjoys the daily show just like me.
Only ignorant and humorless right-wingers hate The Daily Show. John McCain is a huge fan and he’s a regular target which will only increase in frequency over the next year. I’m not sure “white people” in general like the show because there are a lot of stiff older people who don’t think it’s funny to make fun of politicians and politics in general.
#32,
“Educated people with good jobs” TIVO everything. Does anyone really watch commercials anymore? If you’re so educated and have such a good job, why is your name Middle Class? Shouldn’t you be moving on up like the Jeffersons? The very fact that you quote a Fox News “poll” hints at your intelligence.
I’m not white and I love both, the Colbert Report moreso.
I know this is a satirical blog, but I feel the need to say that good humor is universal.
Oh yeah, and you can criticize them for attacking republicans/conservatives, but after 9/11 they really were one of the only news (fake or real) programs to criticize the administration. Now, it’s much more popular to criticize conservatives.
white people like this website, because white people like to laugh at themselves
“White women all consider John Stewart to be the most perfect man on the planet.”
You should really qualify that with “straight”. I’m more of a Samantha Bee woman, myself.
I am white.
I love both of these shows.
I would have voted for Colbert, and am considering it no matter how futile the effort.
I am a heterosexual male, and I still think Jon Stewart could be the man of my dreams.
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We do it for the lulz.
Re: Comment #21: “stuff white people like #(whatever’s next): SPELLING (names, etc.)”
posted by “Bryan the high school teacher”
Well, Bryan, that very profession makes you whiter-than-white!
Your comment reminds me of what Al Sharpton has said about when a black person speaks correctly he/she is considered to be “acting white” or “not black enough”. (Just knowing he said that makes you white.)
Chris Rock has also talked of guys he knows who say they don’t read books. “Just keepin’ it real, man.” (Is he on this site yet?)
Brains = sissy white stuff
Daily Show woooo!!!!
It’s awesome to see all of you honoring whites. We don’t waste our time doing this, we’re busy doing white people stuff!!
The Daily show, albeit it mostly white, is not completely white! They have a “senior black analyst”, and a Middle eastern guy. so, not completely white… lol.
“Except for the one time I brought my half-Japanese friend.”
Is your friend a girl? I really dig Asian chicks!
“You know, studies show…” is SUCH a white thing to say.
“citing ambiguous studies to validate their behavior” should be on the list.
love, Love, LOVE both of those shows…
I want a three-way with Jon and Stephen (with Paul Dinello of “Strangers With Candy” to pinch hit it).
hahahahaha