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Perhaps not, Glen, but you'd have to be seriously screwed up to watch your show...

The Perfessor

Yep, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart went on Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor as the pundit and comedian squared off as they talked about how each person’s show handles the news and the Obama Presidency. They are (apparently) slated to have another go-round today, (which I’m sure we’ll cover), but in the mean time, Here’s what went down yesterday.

First up was the way each of them treat the President.

Part two has O’Reilly comparing the slant of both of their shows.

What I always feel is not just funny, but friggin’ hilarious is that — for some reason — newscasters (especially from the right) seem to want to compare themselves with Stewart (note O’Reilly‘s insistence that Fox is considered trustworthy but astounded that Stewart has any sort of influence over his own audience), all the while seeming to forget that Stewart is a not a newscaster, but a comedian. (Something that Stewart always likes to remind people that he is a fake newscaster.)

Sure he is going to have influence, just as George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, and hundreds of other politically-skewed comedians have over their audience. Hey, ever see an actor or a rock star endorse their pet cause du jour or want you to get all worked up over whatever it is that has captured their ADD-fueled attention span.

Yeah, I watch Stewart (and Colbert) over “real” news, but I not only know the difference, but I prefer the slightly askew view of current events of these twin shows over the doom-and-gloom of “actual” news.

So there.

The Perfessor

OK, you all know that I’m a huge fan of both Jon Stewart, and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and by now regular readers are aware of the fact that I not only thoroughly enjoy, but marvel at the random absurdities of life. Still, when I was (much) younger, I was told by those with vision that in the future we’d have jet packs, flying cars, and space travel. Well, I believe that I am now living in the future that I was told about when I was younger, only instead of jet packs, flying cars, and space travel we have phones that we can put in our pockets and and take with us, Internet porn, and, well, this...

Somebody please shoot me.

The Perfessor

He’s been promoting this event for weeks, and well, now, he's there. That’s right, Starting this past Monday (yesterday) Stephen Colbert began a week of broadcasting from Iraq. You can view the full episode on ColbertNation.

I have to tell you that the show was a hoot-and-a-half, and not only that, but I totally want this suit:

Needless to say, while he was over there, he did his own fair share of celebrity sightings:

I can hardly wait for tonight’s episode.

The Perfessor

So, I’m trying to live my life out here in the pre-apocalyptic America, We've had bad government, we had financial meltdown, and now we have a friendly-faced government in place that is actually attempting to do stuff to pull us ut of the terrible, terrible mess we are in, and everything is going to be better.

Or is it?

Every evening after watching this guy tell the news, I wish that “regular” newscasters could be as candied as he is every night.

The Perfessor

Seriously, what could be funnier than this (sound required)...

The Perfessor

Well, no, not really, but you can’t blame us for freaking out. Yesterday, in New York, the populace apparently totally freaked out when they spotted a low-flying 747 being trailed by an F-16 Fighter jet in the sky over not only the Statue of Liberty, but Ground Zero as well.

Well, as it turns out, it was something of a misguided “photo op” by the White House (mostly because they somehow “forgot” to inform the Mayor’s office that they were barnstorming Midtown just to take some really cool pics.

Fun guys, eh?

Well, just because — over here at Cuppacafe East, we’ve been drinking heavily since just before dawn, we thought that we’d present to you this story, from a slightly more — shall we say — askew viewpoint, Take it away, Jon...

Now all I need to make this day complet is news of a pandemic virus...

Would someone please remind me not to ask for stuff any more.

The Perfessor

So, if you missed it last night on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart he took on the financial pundits of the NBC television group and was apparently bitch-slapped by Jim Cramer. Take a look.

This guy continues to impress me with his wit and wisdom.

The Perfessor

I’m serious about this folks, if you are not watching Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s faux news program, The Daily Show, then you are missing out on some truly terrific non-spin news. Last night here was Stewart’s lead for the program:

I know that McCain is getting a load of play off his nomination of Palin as his VP, but I want everyone to understand that the Republicans aren’t as progressive as they want us to believe, especially when you consider that the Democrats nominated Geraldine Ferraro for Vice President as Walter Mondale’s running mate back in 1984 (something that everyone seems to forget).

Personally, I’m having all sorts of issues with this woman being on the ticket, and I hope that the electorate will think freely enough to see past the theatrics of her nomination and focus on the reality of the situation.

The Perfessor

Yeah, yeah, I know that we are sort of running a bit behind on the reporting of this, but well, apparently the Soviet Union and the United States are at war. Yep, I saw it on TV, apparently all of the networks are reporting it, and we here have just been distracted by the Olympics to have noticed it.

No really, I’m not kidding, Russia has invaded the souther state of Georgia...Oh wait, I’m now getting an update from the newsroom, apparently Georgia has not only seceded from the Union, but is now located in Eastern Europe. No wait, that’s apparently not right either. Now I’m being told that some Eastern European country has violated copyright laws and stolen the name of the great state of Georgia.

Oh Hell, you mean that they were Georgia first? Damn. I’m going to have to go back to drinking heavy.

In the meantime, watch Jon Stewart Dances the Dance on Comedy Central’s fake news program, The Daily Show.

As an unavoidable aside, apparently there were some folk (related to some folk who run Cuppacafe) who were genuinely confused about the whole Russian invasion of Georgia thing, we won’t mention any names (Shelly), and I simply couldn’t resist making this post in regards to that.

(Apparently she kept hearing the reports on the news, and — as she really wasn’t really paying attention — and thought that it was something of a joke. She was never even aware that there was a country named Georgia. As Jon Stewart, put it in the report we posted above, “Oh, War. It’s just God’s way of teaching America geography.”

So, if there are any others out there who are confused. The country of Georgia (a former satellite nation of the USSR), was named after St. George (the dragon slayer), while the US State of Georgia, was named after England’s King George.

Hopefully, I’ve now cleared all of that up, and we can move on to, well sillier stuff.

The Perfessor