“NewsBusted” 3/20/09 — Fake News from the Right
by Eric PeterkofskyIn this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: Pakistan, California, Gitmo, Nancy Pelosi, Global Warming, New York Times, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, Barbie, E! Network, Scarlett Johansson, and Gary Busey.
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Ah, Humor that I can appreciate.
I liked it! Barbie Botox…LOL!
I saw your comment before I hit play on the video so was assuming I'd see something about Barbara Boxer.
After watching it I didn't know whether to feel relieved or disappointed, but after a couple seconds of deciding to not go insane, I'm going to have to go with relieved.
Instead of "enemy combatants" it's "guys Obama knows from the neighborhood." (Or something like that). I'm using that one.
Keep it up Jodie. In two minutes you provide more humor than Stewart and Colbert combined.
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Love NewsBusted. The comment about who wants a plane with two left wings made me spit ice cream onto my keyboard. GREAT comment!!!
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I loved the two left wings joke too. That was great.
Listen, folks. Let's get real here. These are PAINFULLY unfunny. The production is awful, the canned laughter is egregious, and the jokes are terrible. As far as jokes go, mind you. I understand and agree with many of the points of view newsbusters and bighollywood espouse. But I cant believe anyone genuinely laughs at these. Just as canned laughter corrodes the integrity of ANY exhibit of humor, the forced enthusiasm for something so objectively mediocre corrodes the dignity of the points it's trying to make, the people trying to use the medium to express them, and the viewers who exhibit a desperate need to artificially elevate such mediocrity. Stewart and Colbert make me crazy sometimes, but they also make me laugh sometimes. If you need a world-class humorist who shares your perspective, there's Dennis Miller, PJ ORourke, Steve Crowder, Mark Steyn, and Ann Coulter, who in my opinion, if she billed herself as a comedian, would provoke little of the bleating pseudo-outrage that is her stock-in-trade.
"Just as canned laughter corrodes the integrity of ANY exhibit of humor,the forced enthusiasm for something so objectively mediocre corrodes the dignity of the points it's trying to make"
I could make the same argument about the average studio audience at SNL, John Stewart's show, etc. too though. Although I also think the canned laughter on NewsBusted is an intentional dig at said audiences too, but I could be wrong.
I can't fault you on your list of comedians though, including Coulter, whom I personally think is hilarious. Especially when she's on "Red Eye."
thats right, only special olympics jokes will do for the liberal ilk.
PaleoLiberal, I know you liberals are pretty one-sided and can't do two things at one time, such as chew gum and discuss politics, but we conservatives can actually find entertainment in a number of places. There is one thing that we do not find funny however, and that is your Messiah. That, my friend, is no laughing matter.
I just finished watching all the clips and couldn't stop laughing. It was a positively refreshing experience. Kudos to Jodie & crew!
What is that? Oh ya, how mean spirited and hateful.
I call myself "PaleoLiberal" to indicate that I ally myself with classical liberalism which, if you know you're history, shares more with contemporary conservatism than contemporary liberalism. The facets of classical liberalism are exactly what contemporary conservatives are trying to "conserve." As far as "do(ing) two things at one time," who is being one-sided here? I make it pretty clear in my post that, "I understand and agree with many of the points of view newsbusters and bighollywood espouse." Your attitude is what costs much of contemporary conservatism its clout, namely its inability to countenance disagreement. The very quality you condemn is the very characteristic of contemporary liberalism that many of us regard as dangerously dogmatic. The beauty of the conservative philosophy is that it is based in doubt. It doesn't presume its tenets are unassailable. It values the efforts made to reveal truth rather than the conclusions drawn. And until new conclusions withstand the requisite scrutiny of reason and evidence, that which preceded the doubt will suffice by virtue of its longevity.
Stewart may be wrong, but he's funny. All I'm saying is that, if we have the truth on our side, we can do better than this.
So What's our point?
Point is to make better humor. I agree with PaleoLiberal… I snorted at a couple of the jokes, but the rest of it was pretty blaise. Just write better humor. Make it something that even most liberals can't not laugh at.
I haven't seen anything else by Newsbusters… so I'm only judging from this one vid. And yeah, you can say that it's a subjective call, which it is sometimes, and maybe they don't have the kind of resources they need to make as good quality stuff (if so, I appreciate the spirit behind what they do)–but it's still lacking.
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