Posts with tag Dick Cheney
Posted Jul 2nd 2008 11:38AM by Jay Black
Filed under: OpEd, 24, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
Dennis Haysbert
recently claimed that his role as President Palmer on
24 may have helped pave the way for a viable African American presidential candidate. He went on to claim that his portrayal of Nelson Mandela in the movie
Goodbye Bafana ended apartheid and that his role as Jonas Blane in
The Unit cured polio. Haysbert was then wrestled to the ground by his handlers and is now "recuperating" at the Clay Aiken Home for Delusional Celebrities.
My first thought upon hearing this news was that Dennis Haysbert is obviously insane. Since I've been criticized in this space for not having an open mind about
insane things, I decided to take Mr. Haysbert at his word. I then went even further and went to work putting together a list of other politicians who exist mainly due to the hard work done for them by TV actors. After researching Wikipedia for almost a full fifteen minutes, this is the list I've managed to put together...
Continue reading Six other politicians who have had their ways paved by TV actors
Posted Oct 11th 2007 7:45AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews
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Clusterf@#k to the White House": Actor and former senator Fred Thompson made his debate debut and we all learned that he is not so good with the talky-talk, especially when it comes to chatting about the economy. Also, I'm a big fan of the comedian Jim Gaffigan and everything said about "Manatee Pokers" was so very Gaffigan-y. In other news: Any reference to the Upright Citizens Brigade ("Uptight Citizens Brigade") is automatic gold, as is anything about Wilford Brimley. Bonus points if an impression of the way he says "diabeetus" is included.
Continue reading The Daily Show: October 10, 2007
Posted Aug 16th 2007 12:21AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews
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Franco-American": Bush and French president Nicolas Sarkozy tried to be better BFFs by doing a casual lunch. Fun Fact: The only thing sexier than Laura Bush in a cone bra is Barbara Bush in whatever the hell she was wearing in that clip. Work it, Barbara, work it.
And why does Franco-American make canned Italian food?
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Lone Star Estate": Senior Western White House Correspondent Samantha Bee talked about Bush's continued success in taking the most presidential vacation days. It's been 423 days of dedication, folks! It feels like we haven't seen Bee in a while, no? Actually, we haven't been seeing much of her at all.
Continue reading The Daily Show: August 15, 2007
Posted Aug 2nd 2007 9:42AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews
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The Rummy Returns" (lawlz): Old Donald Rumsfeld was called in for questioning about the Pat Tillman case. It was strange... I had a fleeting thought of, "I thought Rummy was dead" when he popped up on screen. I have no idea why that happened. Maybe I subconsciously put Rumsfeld on my mental
Colbert Report-inspired "Dead to Me" list when he left. Anyway, the old man is still on his game, beautifully denying things left and right. He's got it down to a science, all right. By the way, I wonder how he feels about Comedy Central's
Lil' Bush, in which
Iggy Pop voices Lil' Rummy. I'd be pretty excited if someone like Iggy Pop played a cartoon take on me, even if it was for satirical purposes.
Continue reading The Daily Show: August 1, 2007
Posted Jun 26th 2007 2:38AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews
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Dick Move": Ah, bringing up the ol' "Remember when Cheney shot an old guy in the face?" stuff never fails to garner laughs. Well, apparently, Cheney's got more stuff to hide. He's been trying to abolish the oversight agency, which sounds extremely fishy. And then he went on to say that the Vice President is not part of the Executive branch. That's when I realized that everything I learned in Senior year Government class was a total and complete lie. I proceeded to weep for my wasted youth.
Continue reading The Daily Show: June 25, 2007
Posted May 21st 2007 11:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Family Guy, Episode Reviews
(S05E18) And so ends a short, inconsistent,
Family Guy season. I don't know if we should chalk it up to Seth MacFarlane being spread too thin with
American Dad and
The Winner to watch over, or just the show coming up on 100 episodes. Something just wasn't quite right at
Family Guy HQ this season though.
Continue reading Family Guy: Meet The Quagmires
Posted May 10th 2007 12:36AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews
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Mess O'Potamia": Islamic radicals attempted to start trouble at Fort Dix. Too bad Fort Dix has weapons... and people that know how to use those weapons. Also, Dick Cheney paid a
visit to Iraq. Before Jon even said anything, I already thought that Cheney looked absolutely evil, sitting with his hands folded in that black, leather chair. Something even more terrifying was that
Palestinian children's show, teaching Jihad. I actually felt my eyes widen. Even "Dr. Bagelman's Hour of Hate" couldn't soothe me.
Continue reading The Daily Show: May 9, 2007
Posted Feb 19th 2007 7:30AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, FOX, Family Guy, Animation
(S05E11) The title of this episode led me to expect something much different than what we ended up seeing. The reference to The
Life Aquatic made me think that this episode would find the Griffin's on some sort of adventure. No such luck there, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. I think that idea could have made for a funny episode, but this one worked out ok.
It was something of the opposite of "Peter's Two Dads." Where that one excelled with the structure of the story, this one wasn't as strong. But the collection of cutaways presented with this episode was far superior. Of course, given that I only liked one of them last week, that's a pretty low bar. We'll save those for last though, and get to the meat of the episode. As is often the case, we had a Peter story balanced with a Stewie story.
Continue reading Family Guy: The Tan Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Posted Jan 26th 2007 10:02PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
John Kerry made an
important announcement about his decision to not run in 2008... Well, actually, it wasn't a real announcement, it was just Kerry completing his concession speech.
Wolf Blitzer interviewed Vice President Cheney... Of course, Blitzer wanted answers and Cheney wanted to avoid giving answers, especially when it came to his
pregnant daughter, Mary, who is in a gay relationship. I don't think Jon even needs to do Cheney jokes anymore... All he needs to do is show a clip and then quack for, like, five minutes.
Continue reading The Daily Show: January 25, 2007
Posted Jul 27th 2006 1:08PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
Okay, so Condoleezza Rice
went to Rome for a meeting about the Lebanon situation. It didn't go so well. Jon showed a Condimeter graphic to illustrate just how bad it was (
TDS has been really graphic-happy lately). Of course, the meeting wasn't as great as "Three days alone at Camp David with the President" or "Christmas morning"... It ended up somewhere between "Kofi Annan cops a feel" and "Bin Laden determined to attack WHERE?!". I have a feeling I may have switched up a few of those details, so apologies ahead of time. I swear
TDS knows I'm scrambling to type this all down. They probably have a hidden camera on my monitor, broadcasting live right into Jon's office so that they can giggle at my panic.
Continue reading The Daily Show: July 26, 2006
Posted May 9th 2006 9:07PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
Jon started off with some coverage of weatherpeople on local news, specifically those from Terre Haute, Indiana's
WTWO. They showed a couple of funny clips of WTWO bragging about their 45 years of combined weather experience, totally
PWNing rival channel WTHI's puny 30 years. "Man! I bet they can't tell snow from dingleberries!"
Continue reading The Daily Show: May 8, 2006
Posted May 5th 2006 8:18AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
Mexico's Vincent Fox is planning for the
legalization of several drugs in small amounts for personal use. Yup, this will include cocaine, heroine, and marijuana (craziest Spring Break ever). Jon was kind enough to warn us to drink only the
bottled bong water in Mexico. He also showed us that the legalization will serve very well with our immigration issue: Mexicans will keep flocking to America for jobs, Americans will flock to Mexico to get hammered and fall into the Gulf. Excellent.
Continue reading The Daily Show: May 3, 2006
Posted Mar 25th 2006 12:59AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show
Jon Stewart went surfing on the web and stumbled across a
list of
Dick Cheney's suite demands on
The Smoking Gun. It's a lot like a rock band's performance contract but with
"fewer condoms and more... defibrillators". Such demands include the temperature stay at 68 degrees (assuming
that is the temperature at which reptiles are most comfortable), all lights have to be turned on (we will save no
electricity when the Vice President is here!), and -- get this -- all televisions have to be tuned into FOX News
("Wow! Because God forbid he walks into a hotel room and the TV is on another channel and he finds out what a
shitty job he's been doing!"). Oh, and Jon revealed that scribbled at the bottom of the typed list was
"rifle, ammo, old man's face". Hmm... That could mean anything.
Continue reading The Daily Show: March 23, 2006
Posted Mar 16th 2006 11:30AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show
When Jon mentioned that the night's guest was going to be
Natalie Portman, the audience seemed really excited. She was here to promote her new movie,
V for Vendetta, which, as Jon noted, is rarely seen in
children's books. "V is for Vendetta! Billy carried out a 'vendetta' against all those that he thought had wronged
him!"... "V is for Vagina" is also surprisingly rare.
Continue reading The Daily Show: March 15, 2006
Posted Feb 16th 2006 9:30PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show
Clearly,
The Daily Show has had an absolute field day with the fact that
Cheney shot
a 78 year-old man in the face... They loved this news enough to stretch it over another episode. Quite frankly, I was
amazed. If they talk about it again on Thursday, that'll make an entire week of
Daily Show programming about
the incident. Who can blame them for eating the news up? I mean, dude, Cheney shot a 78 year-old man in the face. I
don't think I need to repeat it again. Anyway, Cheney agreed to a no-holds-bar grilling public press conference about
the incident -- okay, not really. He opted for an
interview on FOX News (oh, whoop-de-doo), in
which he lightly touched on the inner details and also stressed the importance of accuracy because... next time, he
will kill Henry Whittington.
Continue reading The Daily Show: February 15, 2006
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