As Bill Carter writes, 'The Daily Show' is a linear TV unicorn—the rare show not losing younger viewers but gaining them. Could the late-night series that seemed nearly left for dead two years ago end up being the genre’s most durable?
With his fresh ideas for the format, Stewart “created a new category” in late night, Herzog says. The change in attention to politics has been seismic. “Now politics is entertainment and entertainment is politics.”
This telling seems to puts a chunk of blame for trump’s rise on Stewart…
I do feel that while satire should be able to hold those in power accountable, without a functioning news media and justice system, the jokes just numb the pain and normalise the behaviour because everyday it’s expected that the bad people will get dunked on and if they do then the other side got their jab in this fight.
This telling seems to puts a chunk of blame for trump’s rise on Stewart…
I do feel that while satire should be able to hold those in power accountable, without a functioning news media and justice system, the jokes just numb the pain and normalise the behaviour because everyday it’s expected that the bad people will get dunked on and if they do then the other side got their jab in this fight.
People will do any mental gymnastics you throw at them to not blame the people solely at fault: trump voters.
Yeah, it was Jon fucking Stewart.
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Fox News was doing political entertainment long before the daily show.