Controversy

Ok, I know this will be controversial and may not win me many friends but seriously, The Daily Show is not that great. Or, perhaps The Daily Show is fine but John Stewart (who turns out to be too much of a pussy to use his real name, but maybe that's not entirely his fault) is not funny. And here is where Colbert actually defines himself of someone actually fit to have his own show. John Stewart can't tell a joke. He begins to speak, he laughs in the middle and then delivers a mediocre punch line. Or, he says something that's not funny, begins to smirk, people cheer and then he yells something that is also not funny but the idiot audience responds. Call me British, and I'm not, but this such low, unintelligent humor its too stupid to watch; where is the wit? Now, you might say "The Daily Show is to intelligent, John Stewart makes jokes about the news." My friends, there is a difference between a bad news program and an intellgent parody. Just because there happens to be some news in a show doesn't make everything that's said intelligent. Maybe if you stopped watching FOX you'd realize that. Colbert, on the other hand, is witty, lucid off-the-cuff, and actually looks like a reporter which is kind of what makes a show a parody and not some jerk telling lame jokes. Of course, you might argue that The Daily Show is just a talk show, like Leno. To that I would respond that John Stewart is unfunny enough so as to fail at that task and he's no where near as sharp in an interview as Colbert. Now I'll admit that every so often John Stewart does have a good joke that makes me smirk, or even laugh. My problem is, however, that John Stewart has such poor delivery and such obvious, mundane and uninspired jokes (in general) that I can't understand why he's so damn popular.