Jon Stewart: Just A Funny Man With A Fake News Show

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Friday March 13, 2009 · 11:49 AM PDT

2009/03/13 · 11:49

I watched the interview. I'm a fan. I couldn't be happier. My farts even smell good today.

When I saw what was happening to Cramer, I was getting calls and making calls like it was the mother lovin' Super Bowl (or, if you prefer, mother lovin' episode of Lost, Heroes, Rock Of Love Bus, etc...). I watched all of the unedited clips this morning, and thought, "Great Galloping Jesus On A Dinosaur, this is fucking brilliant!".

And then the stroke-fest began. And I get it, I do...it's just that, well, Jon Stewart's just a fuckin' funny man with a fake news show. He's the first guy to tell you that.

Bear with me...

Jon Stewart gets to say what he says because the show's a joke. Not joke in the sense of, "oh, look at this ass clown here", rather that it's a series of joke after side-splitting, I'm stealing that and updating my Facebook status joke.

Yes, he's one of the few people willing to call out anyone on their bullshit. But I don't think the guy who admits he makes with the funny for Viacom four nights a week is looking to topple media conglomerates.

He's asking the same thing that anyone without Drudge-sludge festering where their gray matter used to be would ask of CNBC (or any media outlet- Fox, for example)- that they hold themselves accountable. To not toss around the Yuppie Nuremberg defense like pocket bibles instead of fucking Halloween candy. To not act like "it's a fucking joke", to quote Mr. Stewart. To not front as a reliable source of information when they're clearly selling the same fucking snake oil as the people (read: The Daily Show)who are honest enough to admit it.

Nobody delivers like Jon Stewart. Not currently, anyway. And there's a reason for that. When he introduced George Carlin for his (Carlin's) 40th year in comedy tribute, he said referred to himself as merely an imitator/footstep-follower of comedy's trinity: Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, and George Carlin. The point to that, is that he's never gone on stage or the air and invoked Murrow (like Cramer did last night, fwiw).

Please, friends and neighbors, let's give the guy his due for being one of- if not the- best political satirists around. But to hold him in any other respect, I think, does a disservice to his genius as that satirist.

At any rate, he's still my favorite funny man with a fake news show.

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