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Am I the only one who doesn't find Stephen Colbert funny?

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Originally posted by: JS80
Not funny, neither is Jon Stewart.
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I agree, half the shit Jon Stewart does is funny, but when it isn't, it falls harder than a lead brick. Perfect example was the bunch of highlanders running back and forth when Jon would yell "FREEEDOM" which itself was mildly stupid, augmented by the highlanders, it was amusing.


Then it became tired and frankly, kind of sad.
 
Neither show is as funny as they used to be. I used to watch daily, but now it barely gets a chuckle out of me. I canceled my season pass on my tivo because it kept filling up with TDS and Colbert Report eps that I just wasn't watching.

Well the daily show still has hits from time to time.. I think the hour would be better filled by an hour long daily show and colbert can go back to just being a correspondent there. That way when there's something good for colbert to make fun of, hes available, but if there is nothing in the news specifically for him to lampoon, the time can be filled with the other, TDS correspondents. I still think Colbert can be funny, but it's an issue of consistency and I don't think he's consistent enough for his own 1/2 hour, 4 times a week. Maybe like 1-2 times a week, maybe less.

More Rob Cordry, more Asif, and more of the Senior Black Correspondent, whatever his name is..

And plenty more John Hodgman.
 
I used to watch both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report... however, Colbert has pretty much jumped the shark as far as I'm concerned. TDS remains somewhat steady in hilarity.
 
John is only boring when he interviews actors, but that's where Stephen shines, because of his whole narcissistic schtick it works perfectly.:laugh:
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
Yup. A fairly brilliant one, actually... Tell me, who do you find funny, so I have a gauge of what form of humor you generally enjoy?
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what's brilliant about spending half an hour a night parodying Rush/Hannity/OReilly?
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the fact that he does it so well that if you didn't know better, you'd think he really was one of them.
 
Threads like this always expose the clueless, the humor challenged, and the right-wing ideologues.

Some poor saps are all three. Sucks to be them. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: finite automaton
I enjoy both colbert and stewart.
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This. I find Colbert funny because he's so ballsy in his call-outs, and his whole pro-conservative persona on the show is just a character. IMO during the writer's strike when he wrote the whole show, it was just as good.

ATOT is a pretty weird crowd though - most of you guys don't seem to find anything funny.
 
Originally posted by: Perknose
Threads like this always expose the clueless, the humor challenged, and the right-wing ideologues.

Some poor saps are all three. Sucks to be them. 😉
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both are mildly funny, humor in this country has gone downhill dramatically in the past 20 years. Maybe a totally different style of comedian but Richard Pryor had more funny in his pinky than both of these dudes combined. Stephen tries to hard a lot of times, and Jon doesn't seem to try hard enough most of the time. But then again what do I know, I remember I use to crack up at Jon Lovitts in the Subway commercials.

EAT FREEEESH!


 
I find him funny, but since his show is based almost completely on the US and politics, most of what he is talking about is stuff that I don't pay attention to which means I don't get the jokes.
 
Originally posted by: coldmeat
I find him funny, but since his show is based almost completely on the US and politics, most of what he is talking about is stuff that I don't pay attention to which means I don't get the jokes.
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Well we feel the same way about hockey so I guess it's even. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Perknose
Threads like this always expose the clueless, the humor challenged, and the right-wing ideologues.

Some poor saps are all three. Sucks to be them. 😉
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you don't have to be a right winger to realize that Colbert's only got one joke.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
Originally posted by: Perknose
Threads like this always expose the clueless, the humor challenged, and the right-wing ideologues.

Some poor saps are all three. Sucks to be them. 😉
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you don't have to be a right winger to realize that Colbert's only got one joke.
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But you DO have to be either clueless or humor challenged not to appreciate first class comedy writing expertly delivered on a near nightly basis. In that case, being rigidly right just helps. 😉
 
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