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Daily Show Production Team Nets Creative Freedom
gremlins writes "Jon Stewart, who recently celebrated his sixth anniversary with "The Daily Show" and was a rumored possible replacement to Dan Rathers, has signed a deal which allows his production team, Busboy Productions, to develop televison projects on their own. The deal also allows Busboy Productions to flirt with other networks when looking for a home for the projects. Comedy Central still gets the right of first refusal for any projects created."
A comedian as a replacement for a serious news anchor?
Oh yeah... Dan Rather. Sorry. I must have mis-read that.
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
Jon Stewart has a lot of experience with fake news.
For more on this developing story, we turn to our senior Dan Rather analyst, Mr. Stephen Colbert.
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Columbian drug mule and panda killer?
dude, get off your ass and finish up your campaign website!!
Is Dan Rathers?
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where is a reliable source of Daily Show torrents?
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
And the Secret Service giving a press pass to a gay prostitute using an assumed name would be...what?
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
"And the Secret Service giving a press pass to a gay prostitute using an assumed name would be...what?"
Your Government in action?
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
"Stupidity has bipartisan support. The Daily Show can be enjoyed by both sides."
What makes you think that the Democrats are liberal? They seem pretty centrist to conservative to me most of the time, as they're frequently defending existing social/government programs against the onslaught of the reactionaries on the scary end of the Republican party...
From left to right politically:
radical
liberal
moderate/centrist
conservative
reactionary
assuming no differentiation between social and economic platforms. I myself typically am liberal socially and moderate to conservative economically. I like there being new possibilities in society, but I want to protect the economic system that keeps me well fed.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
ROFL! Hot government action!
Good one. I'll avoid the totally obvious Deep Throat references.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
First thing I thought of was maybe they could develop the next Star Trek series--as a comedy. Seriously.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
In fact, some of us geeks don't even use computers.
For example, I can whistle at 1200 baud, speak fluent TCP/IP, and have an amazing memory.
Therefore, any spelling errors in this post are not typos. They're hiccups.
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