Daily Show/Colbert 2014: The free market has spoken, and it said "Fuck you"

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Strange Quark: Oct 15, 2012; I Failed At Anime 2022

Kibayasu posted:

So I'm just watching Colbert now and... "suck the marrow from it"? Is that a phrase now because what the hell?

It's been around since at least 1854.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2014 19:34

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 10:54

Strange Quark: Oct 15, 2012; I Failed At Anime 2022

I thought someone mentioned it in one of these threads from a while back, but that just looks like any other Chinese show. Going by those clips, it looks like they only stole the opening title and logo.

e: Oh, and that Google Glass sex thing isn't in any way by Google themselves, which I guess makes it a little less weird.

Strange Quark fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Jan 24, 2014

# ¿ Jan 24, 2014 05:53

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The Tumblr-esque animosity whenever Macklemore is brought up in this thread always seems kind of excessive to me. I get that him basically playing the role of easily digestible rap artist for White America is distasteful and off-putting and he sometimes makes ill-advised changes to live performances, but it never comes off as noticeably worse than what other performers have done. He never said he hoped that a Holocaust victim would've been a fan of his or violently beat down on his girlfriend or put hashtags in any of his songs. But then I also thought Can't Hold Us was my favorite pop song last year, so I guess my opinions might just be kind of poo poo. :shrug:

Relatedly, today I learned that a lot of pop artists have their Wikipedia articles locked down.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2014 07:29

Strange Quark: Oct 15, 2012; I Failed At Anime 2022

#StayHannity _{It's not uncensored.}

# ¿ Jan 28, 2014 20:05

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Y-Hat posted:

That guy seemed massively mentally retarded so let's start with him.

It wouldn't make a difference, because he probably can live on one dollar an hour. No doubt he has millions of dollars in bank, investments, property, and whatnot.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2014 17:37

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Boris Galerkin posted:

Can I watch The Daily Show and Colbert Report legally online? I see them posted on their respective website in the full episodes section; do they reliably post episodes daily after it airs?

Just keep in mind that they only keep the last four weeks of full episodes up at a time.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2014 00:48

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Narcissus1916 posted:

And you have to be in america (or know how to fake an american IP address).

The CBC up in Canada used to have the last few episodes up, too.

You don't necessarily have to be in the US, just any nation that doesn't have broadcasting rights in some way. I used the official sites fine without a proxy while I was in Malaysia and Taiwan over the summer.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2014 02:25

Strange Quark: Oct 15, 2012; I Failed At Anime 2022

Ha, the microwave bids are already up to $4k.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2014 05:45

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Apparently, most of the bids on the microwave were fake or something, so the bids were reset. It's now up to $4,700.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2014 07:29

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Zero One posted:

Relativity is a real problem for the super accurate clocks in GPS.

There's a story about how the engineers didn't believe the physicists about the changes in time, so at first they didn't bother correcting for the effects relativity. The GPS coordinates got wildly off in a matter of hours.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2014 15:07

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raditts posted:

Is there somewhere I can read about this? It's kinda making me .

Sure is.

quote:

There is an interesting story about this frequency offset. At the time of launch of the NTS-2 satellite (23 June 1977), which contained the first Cesium atomic clock to be placed in orbit, it was recognized that orbiting clocks would require a relativistic correction, but there was uncertainty as to its magnitude as well as its sign. Indeed, there were some who doubted that relativistic effects were truths that would need to be incorporated [5]! A frequency synthesizer was built into the satellite clock system so that after launch, if in fact the rate of the clock in its final orbit was that predicted by general relativity, then the synthesizer could be turned on, bringing the clock to the coordinate rate necessary for operation. After the Cesium clock was turned on in NTS-2, it was operated for about 20 days to measure its clock rate before turning on the synthesizer [11]. The frequency measured during that interval was +442.5 parts in 1012 compared to clocks on the ground, while general relativity predicted +446.5 parts in 1012. The difference was well within the accuracy capabilities of the orbiting clock. This then gave about a 1% verification of the combined second-order Doppler and gravitational frequency shift effects for a clock at 4.2 earth radii.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2014 15:02

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raditts posted:

Wait, "millenials" are supposed to cover people born in 1980? That's pretty far removed from the millenium.

Isn't it supposed to cover people who were in their teens or twenties in the noughties? The youngest people who could vote, basically.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2014 04:26

Strange Quark: Oct 15, 2012; I Failed At Anime 2022

This would be loving hilarious if it wasn't so sad.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2014 04:18

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I feel kind of silly for mixing together the video myself, but whatever.

:siren:

J-pop warning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48xAwxtCAek

# ¿ Mar 14, 2014 21:28

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Winkie01 posted:

Am I high or this a rerun?

They're on break all week.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2014 04:05

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Drifter posted:

Well, it's better than having a small black hole devouring the entire universe.

Mary said our entire universe, not the entire universe. Maybe she was being metaphorical. A small black hole on Earth would definitely suck up all of cable news' attention. :v:

# ¿ Mar 25, 2014 21:32

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Y-Hat posted:

That's what I thought. People are getting pissed off at (probably) an intern.

Albany politicians own bones.

What the hell is wrong with Charlotte? Two of their most recent mayors are this pyramid scheme guy and the current governor of North Carolina.

Illinois's governor curse is spreading. :ohdear:

# ¿ Apr 1, 2014 04:20

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Soylentbits posted:

As a Chinese man I thought it was a stupid bit.

Though I've been called an oriental before so that probably hurt the bit for me.

Ching Chong Ding Dong by itself is unfunny and insulting because it's usually used as an imitation of spoken Chinese even though it sounds nothing like any dialect of Chinese. I found Colbert's act as the character Ching Chong Ding Dong hilarious though, because I could see as an exaggeration of something one of my uncles would do. I felt the same way about one of the SNL skits about the Republican debates in 2008 with whoever was playing Jon Huntsmen, even though it got a lot of people outraged about racism _{_{_{on livejournal.}}}

I get how insensitive these things can get, but I haven't ever heard Chinese slurs used around me before, so these barbs admittedly wouldn't be grabbing any personal hurt.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2014 22:02

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LeafyOrb posted:

Bill O'Reilly is literally just a stone's throw from being Senator Armstrong from MGR for real, holy poo poo.

Well, he did play college ball.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2014 05:08

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Drifter posted:

John Oliver is clearly the best possible option. He killed the Daily Show, and I'm sure he'd also do equally well taking Stephen's throne, although I'm not sure I've seen anyone do quite what Stephen does.

I don't think anyone could takeover the Colbert Report. If there was a replacement, it'd probably be a different show entirely.

And plus, John Oliver already has his own gig for the foreseeable future.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2014 23:37

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Bass Bottles posted:

CBS has always struck me as "old person's" network. Is there any way to stream Late Night on tv? It's not on Hulu.

CBS has their own video player which is pretty terrible unfortunately.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2014 18:14

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This is from November 2012, but was posted today. Stephen Colbert had a really interesting interview with Playboy (...I know).

quote:

Playboy: Who's your ideal guest?

Colbert: We want someone who represents something, who feels strongly about what they're talking about and will allow for a little dramatic friction. The most disappointing guest is somebody who won't be their personality.

Playboy: What does that mean? How can you not be your personality?

Colbert: Take Mr. Bill O'Reilly. He was a perfectly lovely guest, but he wouldn't be his personality. He wouldn't be the guy he is on his show. And I don't know why. I went on his show, and I was my personality. That was our deal; I'd go on his show and he'd come on mine. But he came on my show and he wasn't his personality. He wasn't an unpleasant person. He's a perfectly fine guest and I have no complaints other than the fact that I booked Bill O'Reilly and I got �William O'Reilly.

[...]

Playboy: But what about you? What are you, the real Stephen Colbert, afraid of?

Colbert: [Pauses] Accidentally driving my boat into a pillar with loved ones �onboard.

Playboy: You are going to need to elaborate on that.

Colbert: I really like boats. I was driving a boat this summer with my family and some friends. About a quarter mile away there was a chan�nel marker, and I was heading straight for it. Now there is no way on God's green earth that I would not have seen that channel marker in the 45 seconds it would have taken me to get to it. But at the second it appeared I wasn't looking up. I was looking at my instrument panel. Then I looked up and my wife said, "You see the channel marker, right?" And I said, "Of course." But I actually hadn't seen it yet. I have no doubt that everything would have been fine, but in my mind I see myself for the next 45 seconds, I don't know, somehow��closing my eyes and slamming into the channel marker with a boat full of friends. [�pauses] I don't know what that means.

[...]

Playboy: How much money did you ultimately raise for your super PAC?

Colbert: About $1.4 million. We've got somewhere between $850,000 and $900,000 left. We've spent about half a million dollars of it so far. Because running for president�or not running for president, whatever it was we did�is expensive. But I can spend it on anything I want. I could use my super PAC money to buy a private jet, and I have to justify it to no one. I wouldn't have known that unless I had my own �super PAC. That's the great thing about throwing yourself into the story. You find out things you wouldn't have known otherwise.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2014 03:41

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Boywhiz88 posted:

Keep in mind when Stephen goes to late night that we can get Godot as someone part of his skits.

Wouldn't that ruin the whole joke though?

# ¿ May 2, 2014 18:00

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twistedmentat posted:

The easiest thing I've found is just not to buy junk and have it around. If I want junk, I have to get off my rear end and buy it, so I don't. I love pop sadly, but I have gone from a bottle (the 750ml ones) a day to maybe one ever two weeks. It upsets me though when you buy something thinking it was not bad, turns out to be bad (vitamin water).

There's a whole lot of misinformation out there. Even stuff like milk isn't actually all that good for you.

# ¿ May 9, 2014 04:51

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Echo Chamber posted:

The official Facebook page just confirmed it too.

In 2014, we'll have Stewart, Wilmore, Oliver, and Colbert all with their own shows.

You might want to rethink that year there.

Larry Wilmore and Stephen Colbert will have their shows on the same timeslot right? I don't know which one to watch live. :ohdear:

# ¿ May 10, 2014 02:18

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...Did he say anime?

# ¿ May 14, 2014 04:24

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"Violins Never Solves Anything"? :geno:

# ¿ May 15, 2014 04:41

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Drifter posted:

If people just called the thing Climate Change like they should you'd have less dumb fuckers making that stupid joke about how it's snowing in Alabama so Global Warming can't be possible.

Just to say "poo poo's changing, yo, and it's because of us that it's happening so quickly and we're not equipped to handle it, so let's slow down and think this through."

Wasn't climate change a term invented by Republican spinster Frank Luntz to make global warming sound less severe though?

# ¿ May 16, 2014 03:56

Strange Quark: Oct 15, 2012; I Failed At Anime 2022

So the whole thing about him getting an HBO show wasn't a joke referencing John Oliver?

# ¿ May 16, 2014 04:25

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That article in the Millenium Post seems very poorly edited, which I can't tell is intentional or not.

quote:

In an exclusive interview with the star himself, Jones Revealed has learned that Jones will visit The National Gandhi Museum sometime this week. �Seeing Ben Kingsleyis performance in 1982�s Gandhi is second only to his work in Iron Man 3, which is a film I saw on opening night because of some important peple I know from being rich celebrity�, boasted Jones.

# ¿ May 22, 2014 14:07

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No.1 Special posted:

Yeah. This is the first I've heard of it too. I thought he was just gone to work on the movie with John Hamm.

Edit: The show is called "The Brink". Also this is loving pathetic.

It was mentioned back in the first part of Jason's series in India. _{I swear this thread has the memory of goldfish sometimes.}

# ¿ Jun 5, 2014 04:31

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twistedmentat posted:

And gently caress these smoothy culture, it makes me want to puke every time I see someone drinking one.

Strawberry smoothies are pretty good.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2014 05:07

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The one guy I know with Google Glass is an old first-generation Chinese guy my parents know. I've tried using it for all of five minutes and it just seemed really limited as a device. There aren't much apps you can use on it, and staring at a tiny screen in your right for extended amount of time sounds kind of painful. I could read short stuff like headlines fine, but anything beyond seems like it would cause a lot of eyestrain.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2014 04:31

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Cranbe posted:

I can't believe there was no love in this thread for the German ambassador. Probably my favorite recurring character.

Everyone was too captivated by their TV screens to bother with a computer. :v:

# ¿ Jun 13, 2014 17:47

Strange Quark: Oct 15, 2012; I Failed At Anime 2022

The law doesn't cover the animated or drawn stuff, so... a lot's probably not going to change.

e: Oh thanks, show.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2014 04:05

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Maxwell Lord posted:

So wait, what does the law then cover that wasn't already banned?

The production and distribution of child pornography was banned in 1999. This law just made possession illegal too. So not much, in other words?

# ¿ Jun 20, 2014 04:13

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Is that a fedora?

# ¿ Jun 20, 2014 04:34

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Raenir Salazar posted:

Did that Sloan guy actually blame Obama for talking about inversions?

Well, it's not like he's exactly wrong in saying that anything Obama supports Republicans would oppose.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 16:21

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Justin_Brett posted:

Is the movie as crap as the ads made it look?

It's a complete mystery.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2014 06:38

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 10:54

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fffff posted:

I guess if one guy who was 1/16 and another who was 1/8 had a kid?

... that seems really drat pedantic! who gives a poo poo what fraction [race] you are!

I am 1/16 Cherokee (i am still white as poo poo)

The kid would be 3/32 then, which is closer to 1/10 than 1/12.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2014 18:45

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