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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