11/3 Project: Jon Stewart IS Glenn Beck

8:21 am EST November 6th, 2009 | News | 25 Comments

This is AWESOME.

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25 Responses to “11/3 Project: Jon Stewart IS Glenn Beck”

  1. Indeed says:
    November 6, 2009 at 8:31 am

    J-Stew gave 110% for that one. Nice.

  2. william says:
    November 6, 2009 at 8:53 am

    I guess you have to watch Glenn Beck to get the humor.

  3. Bruno says:
    November 6, 2009 at 9:14 am

    amazing

  4. Indeed says:
    November 6, 2009 at 9:22 am

    Well, you have to watch enough to understand what Beck’s schtick is. As pervasive as Beck is nowadays as one of your team’s primary leaders (were you somehow unaware of this?), many of us on the Reality Based side have seen clips of various wacky Beck rants and proclamations. You should check it out. You know, so you get it. It’s very funny (could you hear the laughter in the Stewart segment?).

    Good luck!

  5. Wilbur says:
    November 6, 2009 at 9:23 am

    Yes, apparently one reason Fox beats the other cables in ratings is that in addition to the whackjobs who actually like Beck & co. a lot of normal people tune in just for the unintentional comedy value. Me, I get my giggles elsewhere.

  6. william says:
    November 6, 2009 at 9:35 am

    Not unaware, just don’t watch or listen. I don’t watch TV except for the occasional sporting event or movie. I prefer to get my entertainment & information in the written form.

  7. Indeed says:
    November 6, 2009 at 9:48 am

    Reminds one of the classic:

    Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn’t Own A Television

    CHAPEL HILL, NC–Area resident Jonathan Green does not own a television, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers–as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.”I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television,” Green told a random woman Monday at the Suds ‘N’ Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment’s wall-mounted TV. “I don’t even own one.”

    According to Melinda Elkins, a coworker of Green’s at The Frame Job, a Chapel Hill picture-frame shop, Green steers the conversation toward television whenever possible, just so he can mention not owning one…

    Elkins said Green always makes sure to read the copies of Entertainment Weekly and People lying around the shop’s break room, “just so he can point out all the stars and shows he’s never heard of.”

    “Last week, in one of the magazines, there was a picture of Calista Flockhart,” Elkins said, “and Jonathan announced, ‘I have absolutely no idea who this woman is. Calista who? Am I supposed to have heard of her? I’m sorry, but I haven’t.’”

    Tony Gerela, who lives in the apartment directly below Green’s and occasionally chats with the 37-year-old by the mailboxes, is well aware of his neighbor’s disdain for television.

    “About a week after I met him, we were talking, and I made some kind of Simpsons reference,” Gerela said. “He asked me what I was talking about, and when I told him it was from a TV show, he just went off, saying how the last show he watched was some episode of Cheers, and even then, he could only watch for about two minutes before having to shut it off because it insulted his intelligence so terribly.”

    Added Gerela: “Once, I made the mistake of saying I saw something on the news, and he started in with, ‘Saw the news? I don’t know about you, but I read the news.”…

    “I’m not an elitist,” Green said. “It’s just that I’d much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen.”

    “If I need a fix of passive audio-visual stimulation, I’ll go to catch a Bergman or Truffaut film down at the university,” Green said. “I certainly wouldn’t waste my time watching the so-called Learning Channel or, God forbid, any of the mind sewage the major networks pump out.”

    Spooky.

  8. I'm a Hick says:
    November 6, 2009 at 9:58 am

    Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.

    Homer Simpson

  9. SpiderJ says:
    November 6, 2009 at 10:04 am

    I’d find it funnier if I didn’t know other people viewed it with deathly seriousness. The black comedy of it all gets tempered with the knowledge that somebody, somewhere, is going to take such lunacy and use it as the basis for activism and legislation.

  10. Indeed says:
    November 6, 2009 at 10:07 am

    The modern Republican party.

  11. mrak says:
    November 6, 2009 at 10:42 am

    “Purity of Essence” for the win.

  12. durablend says:
    November 6, 2009 at 11:18 am

    At least he didn’t say if he had to watch one network it’d be Fox News.

  13. Pete says:
    November 6, 2009 at 11:26 am

    Have you ever seen Obama drink a glass of water ?

  14. Pangloss says:
    November 6, 2009 at 11:38 am

    Eleven principles and three herbs and spices. I absolutely can’t stop laughing.

  15. rat_bastard says:
    November 6, 2009 at 11:59 am

    Hey OW, Check this out:
    http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/barack_obama_names_alan
    Definitely a story for you.

  16. william says:
    November 6, 2009 at 12:04 pm

    Get over yourself dude. Get back to me when you have a few kids in the house and let me know if you’d prefer quiet entertainment or noisy bloviators, shoot-em ups, or murder and mayhem.

  17. jr says:
    November 6, 2009 at 12:07 pm

    Skousen cult member down

  18. Oliver Willis says:
    November 6, 2009 at 12:17 pm

    Ha haha @ comic book nerd in chief.

  19. icruise says:
    November 6, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    I’m more worried that it’s going to inspire acts of violence. At least you can try to combat activism and legislation with logic and counter-activism.

    And I don’t watch TV either, but I’ve seen more than enough clips of Beck to get all of the references that Jon used in this clip.

  20. Indeed says:
    November 6, 2009 at 1:41 pm

    Get over yourself dude.

    I don’t watch TV except for the occasional sporting event or movie. I prefer to get my entertainment & information in the written form.

  21. william says:
    November 6, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    Yay bread and circuses!

  22. Indeed says:
    November 6, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    “I’m not an elitist,” Green said. “It’s just that I’d much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen.”

  23. fafaroo says:
    November 6, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    You didn’t use the Latin? What a Philstine!

  24. Jaim says:
    November 7, 2009 at 4:19 am

    We’ve got Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert. They’ve got hatched-faced weasels like Greg Gutfeld. Says a lot.

  25. Duros62 says:
    November 7, 2009 at 5:27 pm

    I’ll bet William isn’t a Republican either.