The Boys are Back in Town
In It's Not Funny, I remarked that Comedy Central was humorless in its demand that YouTube remove video clips of Daily Show and Colbert Report.
In fact, I started my own personal protest by not watching either show. Relief seems to be in sight, since it is now being reported that the parties have reached an agreement and videos are being reposted on YouTube. See Viacom, YouTube Strive for Accord.
The boys (Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert) are also featured on the new Rolling Stone -- in a piece written by Maureen Dowd. America's Anchors is a case of old meets new (I was referring to media types, not age). Although based on Rock & Roll Blog, maybe not:
So, yeah, that’s our cover. Cool, right!? Looking at Stewart giving the patented Jon Stewart Furrowed Brow reminds us that our mom and her friends all have crushes on him. Jon Stewart: Sex symbol for ex-hippie intellectual gardeners the world over. Stephen Colbert: Maybe smarter than his maker?I resent that characterization!! I was never a gardener!
The excerpt of the Dowd article is entertaining:
Other couples may disappoint. Jen and Vince. Paris and Nicole. Cheney and Rummy. But Stewart and Colbert have soared to hilarious new heights puncturing the Bush administration's faux reality, with Stewart as the droll anchor and Colbert as the puffed-up Bill O'Reilly-style bloviator. While real network news withers, Stewart's show has become the hot destination for anyone who wants to sell books or seem hip, from presidential candidates to military dictators. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf arrived at the Daily Show studio with bomb-sniffing dogs and a bulletproof facade for the anchor desk. For a Strong Man, Stewart said, he was "good people." At the Emmys, Colbert greeted the Hollywood audience as "godless Sodomites,'' and at the White House Correspondents Dinner, he proclaimed, standing beside the president, "Reality has a well-known liberal bias." He hawks his own Formula 401 sperm on his show -- "the more Stephen Colberts in the world, the better," he assured me -- including a Spanish version, "para chicas''; wants Congress to build a wall and moat with flames, fireproof crocodiles, predator drones and machine-gun nests to keep out immigrants; and has a running "Dead to Me" list that includes New York intellectuals, the cast of Friends and bow-tie pasta. "I'm not a fan of facts,'' he boasts. "Facts can change all the time, but my opinion will never change." Truthiness, a word he made up just before going on air, has been hailed by New York magazine as "the summarizing concept of our age."
And as a PS on the copyright issues with YouTube's format, this Slate article suggests that the whole YouTube/Comedy Central dustup may have been a tempest in a tube, see Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems?.
(Poster and article via No Fact Zone)
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