The upcoming Comedy Central series “Key & Peele” got some viral video love earlier this month with a sketch reminding us just how cool, tough and awesome President Obama is.

Just ignore those pesky economic statistics, the flotilla of broken campaign promises and the roiling state of the world. Last night, the show’s co-hosts took to Twitter to ramp up their Obama defense during the State of the Union speech.

Caution: the language is pretty salty, although, to be fair, some of the Tweets are funny. Here’s just a short sample of what the pair fired off last night during Obama’s speech:

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There’s a HUGE left-wing agenda behind what Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert is doing, and it’s a serious agenda that has nothing to do with satire. Colbert’s goal is two-fold: he’s attacking constitutional free speech by attempting to make a mockery of a new Supreme Court ruling that finally allows private citizens and corporations to have as much say in the political process as Stephen Colbert and corporations like, say, Comedy Central. Like the corrupt media, Colbert believes he’s the only multi-millionaire who should have unlimited free speech – free speech, which, in fact, is funded by the multi-national corporation that owns Comedy Central, Viacom.

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The second thing Colbert is doing is using partisan satire to Speak! Truth! To! The! Out! Of! Power! — like Mitt Romney. In order to help the Obama campaign define the GOP frontrunner as a heartless corporatist, Colbert is running commercials like the one below. Naturally, Colbert disguises all of this as nothing more than fun and games, but anyone paying attention knows better, and you can bet Obama’s MSM Palace Guards most certainly know better, which is why left-wing news outlets like Politico and “This Week” are giving a comedian more play than they ever gave Fast and Furious, Solyndra, Jeremiah Wright, the number of people who have stopped trying to find work, or Bill Ayers.

You see, Colbert is a smart guy, and like most left-wing partisans disguised as satirists, he knows that under the conceit of “a humorous break in the news of the day,” the MSM will offer up a ton of print and broadcast time to his attacks on free speech. Colbert knows this because he knows the MSM despises the new Supreme Court ruling for the same reasons he does. The MSM believes that only MSM gajillionaires backed by multi-national corporations should enjoy the right to unlimited political speech. Of course, the MSM also loves the side-order of Republican bashing.

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Stephen Colbert isn’t content with satirizing the GOP from the comfort of his Comedy Central perch.

Now, the star of “The Colbert Report” is running a faux Super PAC ad in South Carolina slamming GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney.

The spot takes an actual quote from Romney – “Corporations are people” – and fuses it with the former governor’s days with Bain Capital. If Bain eliminated struggling companies, then Romney is a “serial killer,” according to the ad voiced by actor John Lithgow.

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Matt Groening’s sci-fi sitcom “Futurama” didn’t gain the massive mainstream acceptance that his golden goose, “The Simpsons,” was graced with, but it has managed to build a devoted following over the years.

“Futurama” has a fall-and-rise history not unlike Seth McFarlane’s “Family Guy,” albeit on a smaller scale. Like “Family Guy,” “Futurama” was cursed with chronic mismanagement by the network, airing erratically and inconsistently week-to-week during its original run from 1999 to 2003, before the show was finally given the axe.

Fortunately, the series was picked up for syndication postmortem by Comedy Central, which managed to properly find the show’s audience the way Cartoon Network did for “Family Guy” on Adult Swim. Once the show found its niche, a revival soon followed with the original voices of the cast intact.

Volume 6 of “Futurama” has now made its way to Blu-ray and DVD with 13 episodes from the sixth season packaged together on two discs, along with commentaries and a few entertaining featurettes.

I was a mild fan of “Futurama” during its initial run but have until now neglected to catch up with it since its resurrection. Bringing a dead show back to life can be a tricky business, though. When good shows die young, they are remembered fondly because they didn’t have time to become played out and stale. When “Family Guy” debuted, McFarlane’s brand of pop-humor was fresh and interesting. After its revival, it quickly became boring and predictable. It’s rare that a show can keep its steam over the years the way something like “South Park” has, but it’s also uncommon that a show like that gets such a loving, hands-on treatment from its creators throughout its entire run. (more…)

Officials at Comedy Central literally couldn’t believe their eyes when the huge ratings came in for ventriloquist Jeff Dunham’s debut special for the network.

“There’s got to be some mistake,” Dunham recalls them saying after seeing the gaudy numbers. “We’ll get back to you.”

Rodney Dangerfield swore he didn’t get any respect, but he didn’t lug around a suitcase full of ventriloquist dummies for a living.

Dunham knows the drill. East Coast elites look down on ventriloquism, while some comedy peers lump him in with other “prop comics.” Comedy Central makes hay with liberal darlings like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, not a Midwesterner who can make puppets talk without moving his lips.

Dunham licks his wounds by playing to sold-out houses around the globe.

“Jeff Dunham: Birth of a Dummy,” a 90-minute special debuting on the BIO Channel at 8 p.m. EST tonight, recalls the Texas native’s rise from a kid with a gift for throwing his voice around to the world’s top-grossing comedian. Team Dunham – the irascible Walter, Peanut and Achmed the Dead Terrorist among the ventriloquist’s homemade creations – also have generated more than a half-billion views on YouTube.

The special lets Dunham’s parents share their trepidation regarding their son’s curious career path, shows how Dunham creates each dummy by hand using old-school materials and software programs to guide his hand and how he knew he had made it when Johnny Carson waved him over to sit on the “Tonight Show” couch.

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Leave it to Cartman to give Occupy Wall Street a much needed dose of reality.

Cartman, the foul-mouthed lad from Comedy Central’s “South Park,” savaged the nascent movement during last night’s new episode.

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The story involved Cartman’s girth throwing off the school’s score in a standardized physical fitness test. The students swiftly rebel against Cartman, the one percenter who wrecked the results of the remaining 99 percent. Cartman becomes a target at school, and he rushes home to his mother for consolation.

“Don’t you get it, Mom? People voted for Obama, and now that everything sucks they have to blame me!” he wails.

In case the show’s message didn’t hit home there, the show’s writers flipped the race card on its ear moments later.

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Yes, yes, I know, Jon  Stewart had his clown nose on and is therefore allowed to lie by omission because *raise voice to near-squeak like Stewart does* it’s only comedy!

But for those of you who get your news from The New Murrow Who Doesn’t Take Himself At All Seriously Because He’s Just A Comedian, there’s…

…This, this, this, and this.

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The nation’s economy continues to struggle, and Comedy Central feels your pain.

This week, the cable network introduces ‘Comedy Central Pop-Up Stand-Up,’ a series of live comedy performances where the first 150 patrons can enjoy the show for free. But you have to be clever – and quick – to nab those tickets.

Comedian Gabriel Iglesias kicks off the new program tonight at The Addison Improv Comedy Theater in Dallas.

‘Pop-Up Stand-Up’ invites all-star comedians to perform for budget-conscious crowds. Audiences, in turn, must solve clues on the channel’s special web site, Facebook and Twitter pages as to the date and location of the next stand-up performance. Details for subsequent acts and locations will be revealed a few days before each show.

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Culture and Media Institute: 

It was contentious and dramatic. On Sunday, June 19, “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace grilled funnyman Jon Stewart on his obvious liberal bias and Stewart replied, “… there is not a designed ideological agenda on my part to affect partisan change …”

The exchange got heated when Stewart held that line, telling Wallace, “You can’t understand, because of the world you live in, that there is not a designed, ideological agenda on my part to affect partisan change, because that’s the soup you swim in.”

Well, “designed” or not, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” mocks the right far more than it does the left, and a survey of the 16 broadcasts since the Wallace-Stewart run-in proves it.

CMI found that Stewart went after Republicans and Fox News (which he labels “conservative”) almost four times as often as liberals and Democrats in just two weeks of shows. However the next eight broadcasts proved that Stewart just couldn’t help but show his true, partisan colors.

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On Thursday, Stephen Colbert won a victory when the Federal Election Commission (FEC) ruled that he was cleared to start raising money for his ColbertPAC and could use Viacom resources – the parent company of Comedy Central – to make and show his political ads on his own show under a media exemption.

Close observers of the case who have a better-than-average grasp of the intricacies of campaign finance law understand, though, that Colbert’s claim of “victory” is dubious because the media exemption he really sought has less to do with whether Colbert was allowed to start his PAC and show his mock advertisements on his own show – that was almost assuredly going to happen – and more to do with whether he would have to report the support his show’s parent company, Viacom, as an in-kind contribution.

The original intent of the Colbert’s SuperPAC was to poke fun at the 2010 Citizens United court ruling that recognized the right of corporations, unions, and other groups to independently run ads supporting or opposing candidates. Colbert, in his attempt to satirically skewer the ruling, has actually wound up educating the public on just how burdensome and convoluted campaign finance laws are, and how free speech can be stifled by these laws.

If Stephen Colbert were not granted the media exemption, Viacom’s support of the SuperPAC would be subject to FEC disclosure filings. Their time and resources would have needed to be reported as an in-kind contribution to the FEC by law. This made executives at Viacom very nervous because they saw themselves as potentially listed as a top contributor to his SuperPAC not only to audiences who see his ads on Comedy Central but also those who see his ads on, say, ESPN. (more…)

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Election Commission said Thursday that comedian Stephen Colbert can use his TV show’s resources to boost his political action committee, but he must disclose some major expenses as in-kind contributions from the show’s corporate owners.

Colbert played it straight during his appearance before the commission, letting his attorney do most of the talking while saving his trademark quips for a crowd that gathered outside the commission building after the meeting.

“I don’t accept the status quo,” he told the crowd, brandishing a portable credit card processing machine. “I do accept Visa, MasterCard or American Express.”

Many in the crowd handed Colbert their credit cards or dollar bills as contributions.

Asked what point he was trying to make about corporate America, Colbert did not miss a beat.

“None,” he quipped. “I want their money.”

Colbert, who plays a conservative TV pundit on “The Colbert Report,” is forming Colbert Super PAC, a type of political action committee that will allow him to raise unlimited amounts of money from corporations, unions and individuals. The money will be used to support or oppose candidates in the 2012 elections through independent expenditures such as TV ads. (more…)

Nothing makes me happier than watching others treat Jon Stewart as the political, left-wing partisan that he is. This is EXACTLY how our side should be responding to Stewart: fighting back and giving as good as we get. Nothing less than our country is at stake, 2012 matters more than I can even begin to express, and Stewart has pretty much had free reign for years to define who in our political world is dumb, evil, racist, or all three — and it’s no coincidence that the dumb, evil racists are almost always Republican stars.

Yes, Stewart goes after Democrats. But only when they’re caught in a scandal that can’t be ignored or not being liberal enough. And Stewart almost never goes after Democrat stars in a way that undermines or negatively defines them. 

Jon Stewart is a left-wing hatchet man disguised as a satirist and that disguise is one of his most potent weapons. Below you’ll see Steven Crowder and Herman Cain do the honorable work of starting to pull that disguise off of him.

I’m especially happy to see Fox News no longer taking Stewart’s dishonest attacks lying down.  As Glenn Reynolds might say: More, please. Marginalizing and exposing Stewart for what he is, is (hyperbole warning!) good for America. 

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Larry Elder writes:

It would be unfair to call Jon Stewart a racist but when he mocked GOP presidential contender Herman Cain as essentially an illiterate, on Thursday’s show, it has to be asked wouldn’t Stewart and his cronies at The Daily Show have satirized any sort of conservative talk show host, like a Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, as a bigot if they had joked that President Barack Obama didn’t “like to read?”

Amos and Andy voice below the fold….

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 Anyone hear a dog whistle…?

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I put a high price on loyalty and would’ve totally understood if Stewart had dropped this whole thing out of loyalty to a friend. Unfortunately for Stewart, Rep. Weiner is pretty much making it impossible even for old friends to ignore his increasingly absurd answers to pretty direct questions.

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One of the reliable joys in entertainment during the Bush years was knowing that despite the relentless, insipid hate passed off as comedy about our President, every week South Park would serve up truly independent, politically incorrect satire which skewered actual sacred cows. When virtually all players in the film and TV industry were brown nosing Al Gore as though they were born without lungs, Trey Parker and Matt Stone mercilessly mocked him. When Hurrican Katrina was the cause du’jour for leftist hatemongers, fictional 4th graders Kyle and Stan called them out for exploiting the tragedy. And, even early on in the show, the hyperventilating, totalitarian dark side of the green movement and multicultural “tolerance” received scathing send ups.

L'homme s'accroche amèrement.

Yet since Obama’s election, their aim has tilted right. While they revisited the nonpartisan issue of censorship over fear of jihadist violence in their 200th episode, the only overtly political targets of the past two seasons have been Glenn Beck in “Dances with Smurfs” and the Tea Party in last week’s episode, “TMI.” In “Smurfs,” Cartman starts to do the school’s morning announcements, quickly transforming into a conspiratorial nut who accuses the school president of murdering the titular cartoon characters. Now, Glenn Beck’s TV show is certainly ripe for parody (not a fan myself), but the episode plays as though Parker & Stone have only seen second-hand accounts of the program (which they’ve admitted regarding other episodes’ source material), and the satire, because it’s only mocking a straw man version of Beck, lacks the bite of their previous work.

In the same way, on “TMI” (spoilers ahead), South Park rips on the Tea Party– which, again, could be a source of truly funny jokes, even mean-spirited ones– with recycled second-hand stereotypes.  Cartman’s principal sends him to a counselor when he measures his and his classmates’ penis sizes. Eventually, the counselor recommends an anger management session, wherein a Tea Party member complains about “stupid-ass blind liberals” while wearing tea bags draped over a tri-corner hat. The counselor quickly surmises that all the anger management attendees act out because of insecurity over their penis sizes. (more…)

Below is a snip from an excellent article written by John Hayward of Human Events that gets to the essence of Stephen Colbert’s latest left-wing stunt to restrict the speech of those he disagrees with.

John Hayward:

This is said to spell trouble for Fox News, or more precisely for Fox News contributors who have their own PACs, like Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Karl Rove.  If the FEC decides Colbert’s PAC is really a campaign contribution from the parent company of his television network, Comedy Central, it could lead to a lot of squinting and chin-pulling over the political action committees of the Fox contributors.

Colbert is right on target with his satire.  Free speech is such a headache when everyone gets to participate!  Especially evil corporations, which spend huge amounts of money to manipulate politics for their own interests… in sharp contrast to noble left-wing organizations, which spend huge amounts of money to manipulate politics for the good of all mankind.

What chance does an innocent mind have against that ocean of corporate political cash?  How can we tolerate such distractions from the vital messages conveyed by important left-wing campaigns filled with millionaire celebrities?  The messages built directly into the popular entertainment that spills from millions of theater screens, television sets, magazine pages, and music downloads are not enough to raise public awareness to the level of true enlightenment.

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Why do Jon Stewart and MSNBC insist on keeping this settled matter of the origin of President Obama’s birth alive and in the news narrative?

This obsssion with the Birther issue, this refusal to let it go… Do you hear a dog whistle? What is that sound? Is it the sound of racial insensitivity?  The sound of “othering”?

We don’t know what jon Stewart’s up to here, but we do think it’s time to follow the President’s lead and turn our attention to serious national issues…

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****ADDED: I was thinking about this just now while I was at the DMV getting a first hand look at ObamaCare. This is FNC’s primetime line up: Shep, Greta, Baier, Hannity, O’Reilly, Beck. I have no idea how the first three vote but I do know how every anchor at CNN votes, everyone at MSNBC votes and most certainly how Jon Stewart votes. Fox separates their opinion and hard news. The others use objectivity as a weapon.

Big difference between what Comedy Central aired (standard Mediaite vapors there) and the full interview with Jon Stewart and FNC’s Bret Baier, which Comedy Central posted online.

Not sure which is my favorite part:

1. When Jon Stewart refuses to admit Charles Krauthammer is a genius.
2. When Jon Stewart has to use the KKK to defend the Caucasian-ality of his anti-Beck rally.
3. When Bret Baier calmly explains to him the necessary difference required in interview styles when one president (Bush) give you three hours and another (Obama) gives you fifteen minutes.
4. When Baier says to Stewart, “At least I didn’t call the president ‘dude.’”
5. Stewart’s playing intentionally dumb so he can pretend he, and therefore we (the great ignorant unwashed), can’t tell the difference between straight news and opinion news.
6. Baier getting Stewart to admit there is hard new on FOX.

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