RRKING reflects . This reminds me of when Army and I first met . We would fight all the time . Once I told I did not care for his choice of pashmina one day . He punched me , scratched me and even bit me . Well , I punched him back . I scratched him and bit him too . We discovered one fact . We like the same things !

I’m sorry but I find it funny. Ya great work and all that, but he and his co-workers flew in there knowing what was going on and assumed the risk. So shit went sideways a little bit. If he had been hurt it wouldn’t have been funny. He wasn’t so therefor it’s there to be mined for comedy gold. :)

me thinks Colby no likey when Stewart pokes fun at his fellow libbies.

When you’re a fake news show it must be hard to ignore a big current story, but people are dying over there. I’m a fan of the DS, but this humor is not for me.

I disagree.

I’m one of the biggest fans of The Daily Show and I’m elated they are back on Hulu because it makes the show easier to watch, but the “you don’t mess with Anderson Cooper” jokes were present in comments to this and other forums all day yesterday, plus on Twitter. I hadn’t seen the Kathy Griffin clip prior to TDS, but since it exists and is on tape, there’s no reason for it to have not been used.

Anderson Cooper is big boy. He’s been in war zones, both with and without the protections afforded to him by CNN and I’m sure that when he sees it, he’ll too find the clip funny. After all, it exists.

Colby, don’t be the comedy police.

I like Stewart (most of the time) but I have to agree with Colby on this one.

I don’t think anyone who has ever been in the middle of a volatile and potentially dangerous crowd (many of who have been taught to hate you to start with) would find this amusing, either. All you can do is hold on, hope for the best, and ride it out. There are few chuckles to be found.

Someone sitting in the safety and luxury of a New York studio isn’t going to get that.

I find it weird that the front page has a post laughing at Jon making fun of Rape-Rape but also one saying Anderson Cooper is off limits.

I would think rape would be more of a sacred cow than Coop getting punched.

Go figure..

Yeah, I saw and it wasn’t Stewart’s finest moments. I don’t think he understands whats happening in Egypt.

Pick your battles, Colby.

In all of this… did Anderson’s hair even get messed up? Was his makeup smudged?

It just wasn’t a funny bit, plus there is very little funny about Americans being attacked for the thugs of a foreign government.

I suspect Stewart understands the Egyptian situation, but has trouble mining any humor from it – mainly because people willing to die for freedom are rarely good joke fodder. War zones are rarely entertaining.

The “rape-rape” bit was hilarious, though.

Colby and Cooper sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g…

Harry Flashman said:
Someone sitting in the safety and luxury of a New York studio isn’t going to get that.

You are right about that and it should apply to all of the pundocracy on all sides, including comedy.

Oh, please. The segment wasn’t as funny as the rape one following it, but it wasn’t offensive in the slightest.

Forgive me for ranting, but when did we become so sensitive to comedy in this country? George Carlin must be pissing in his grave right now. Everyone who finds such minor jokes offensive: withdraw the stick from your ass and liven up a little bit.

Kind of like the Correspondent’s Dinner. Stephen Colbert is always funny- except when he mocks present day journalism.

Then he huwts my pouw wittle feewings.

Josh Feldman said:
Oh, please. The segment wasn’t as funny as the rape one following it, but it wasn’t offensive in the slightest.

Forgive me for ranting, but when did we become so sensitive to comedy in this country? George Carlin must be pissing in his grave right now. Everyone who finds such minor jokes offensive: withdraw the stick from your ass and liven up a little bit.

I agree. It just wasn’t funny.

I think all of the political correct nonsense probably has Carlin alternating between laughing and vomiting. Especially since 5 of the 7 words are still forbidden.

It was OK….but what was hysterical was Colbert’s line about everything being OK “until Anderson switches from a collared shirt to a tight Donna Karen black T, then the UN is obligated to send in peace keeping troops.”

Anderson showed his cool last night, and kept on going. Such a pro.

sarainitaly said:
me thinks Colby no likey when Stewart pokes fun at his fellow libbies.

Blue on blue…

Perhaps one of these days one of these pseudonewscomedians will have the b*%lls to actually do some REAL reporting, instead of reading off of a tv prompter. While I don’t like the way things turned out with him…I still remember Rather in a helmut in Vietnam giving reports…Or some of the other reporters from today – e.g., Greg Kelly, etc. Even Geraldo has been in the field…w/bullets whizzing around his head…
Stewart, Colbert, Maher and their ilk are simply a bunch of cowards…

sorry, anderson cooper’s problem is wherever he goes, he has the need to position himself as the focal point of the story. stewart has a fair cop. the heroes on this story are the journalists who’ve been there from the beginning. they’ve been on the front line from day one. anderson cooper, lara logan and the rest of ‘the stars’ would do better staying home and tweeting their ‘fans’ to tune into al jazeera international…the guttiest pack of journalists i’ve ever seen in the field. (with a sincere hat’s off to sky news stewart ramsey’s package on wednesday night)

I enjoy the daily show. They have been going after cheep laughs too much as of late. Sometimes it feels more like George Lopez than hard hitting satire…

Oh please…it wasn’t a big deal…shouldn’t one expect things to happen when you’re in a revolution??? It’s satire…it’s funny…I’m so glad stewart not politically correct. These phoney so called T V journalists go over with their appelette jackets…they don’t say anything of value just a bunch of blah blah…to make it look like they’re doing something really important.

BFD said:
Colby, don’t be the comedy police.

I just gave a thumbs up to BFD.
Excuse me, I feel queasy. I might lost my supper at any time.

It’s not me. It’s a problem with the keyboard on my computer. (Liberal’s explanation)
lost > lose

Riiiight.

So you have no problem when the Daily Show, in order to avoid dealing with the fact that the Democrats have lied for decades about ‘no federal funding for abortion’ – something 2/3rds of the country does not want, shamelessly echoes a gross misrepresentation from ‘Mother Jones’ and erroneously claim Republicans want to ‘redefine rape’, and then do a dreadfully unfunny ‘comedy sketch’ about it …

But mocking Anderson Cooper getting his albino haircut mussed, that’s off-limits.

This is why The Daily Show fans are so sad.

COMEDY. Jon is a COMEDIAN. Not a reporter. COMEDIANS serve a very important purpose in society, especially comedians like Jon. His job is to make fun at things in order to for us to see the truth, the absurdity and in the end, the humor if we find it humorous. Archie Bunker was a bigot. Carroll O’Connor and Norman Lear made fun of the bigot, made us see the absurdity of it, made us laugh sometimes, upset some people and in the long run, made society a better place.

Really? He’s ‘just a comedian’? Funny, he’s always cited as the primary source of information for college-age kids. He’s constantly mentioned in news stories as ‘influencing politics’ (such as his BS about the 9/11 victims). He holds political rallies where he tries to tell people how to speak and think.

Yet he’s such a coward, and his audience is so full of such stupid people, that he thinks he can fool everyone by putting on the clown nose?

“I’m just a comedian!”

Yeah, that’s why you were so aggressive about ridiculing the Democrats for their four years of total control of the nation, which led to financial ruin and disaster. Or why you can’t stop making Obama jokes. That’s why you repeat nonsense from Huffington Post and Mother Jones, why you chop up footage from Fox News, and on and on.

He’s not a comedian – comedians are funny. He’s not a reporter – true reporters follow the news, not ideology. He’s a cowardly political operative.

That was worth an entire Mediaite story? One failed joke? Grow a thicker skin, guys — I’m sure Cooper has.

AtheistConservative said:
Really? He’s ‘just a comedian’? Funny, he’s always cited as the primary source of information for college-age kids. He’s constantly mentioned in news stories as ‘influencing politics’ (such as his BS about the 9/11 victims). He holds political rallies where he tries to tell people how to speak and think. Yet he’s such a coward, and his audience is so full of such stupid people, that he thinks he can fool everyone by putting on the clown nose?“I’m just a comedian!”Yeah, that’s why you were so aggressive about ridiculing the Democrats for their four years of total control of the nation, which led to financial ruin and disaster. Or why you can’t stop making Obama jokes. That’s why you repeat nonsense from Huffington Post and Mother Jones, why you chop up footage from Fox News, and on and on.He’s not a comedian – comedians are funny. He’s not a reporter – true reporters follow the news, not ideology. He’s a cowardly political operative.

OK, you don’t think Stewart is funny or even a comedian. And somehow being funny or not being funny makes him a coward. And you can’t subtract 2008 from 2010 and come up with the number two. And your inability to even put a coherent sentence together somehow makes Stewart not a comedian.

They’ve got a word for your condition: brain salad. Unfortunately it’s one of those diseases that doesn’t have an expensive medical regime associated with it, so the drug companies won’t touch it. You’re going to have to suffer your estrangement from sentient beings by yourself. Remember to carry lots of Kleenex.

Yes, he is a comedian. And he IS a primary soure of information for college aged kids. That’s because Fox News is absurd without being funny. His rally was to “Restore Sanity” and he presented varying viewpoints during that rally. His audience, in fact, has a higher IQ than the audience from any other news show. They are not ‘stupid people’. He’s not trying to fool anyone. He points out the absurd. The real cowards are on Fox News. They pretend they are something they are not. Jon Stewart is what he is. He is truthful. Fox News pretends they are news when they are opinion, and they are entitled to their opinion – just don’t call it news. If you don’t find him funny – that’s fine, that’s your opinion. However – obviously – many, many people find him funny – and informative – and truthful. He’s not perfect, he’s not always hilarious, but he’s the highest rated late night show on TV. I don’t like Justin Bieber, but he’s a star, people like him, he’s got a huge following – I’m not going to call him a no talent kid because I don’t like him.

I love when non-comedians try to talk about what is and what is not funny. They always, ALWAYS, miss the point.