PresidentialElection-related stories
Posted May 6th 2009 12:03PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: The Daily Show, Reality-Free
When Jon Stewart announced before a studio full of deafening cheers and Stephen Colbert's deafening silence that Barack Obama would become the 44th President of the United States, the show seemed to be in an interesting pickle.
Could the show be just as funny as it had been under an administration that didn't blur the line between setups and punchlines? Could Stewart and friends find the funny in a president who inspires more love and fear in people than a teddy bear with a switchblade?
So let's grade
The Daily Show's first 100 days under
socialism President Obama report card.
Continue reading The Daily Show's first 100 days under Obama
Posted Dec 22nd 2008 5:02PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Saturday Night Live, Video, Watercooler Talk, Festivus, Celebrities, Reality-Free
...Ew, not like that, you guys. Although, I'm sure if you did just a few minutes of Googling, you could find that too, in one form or another. What I'm talking about is
Tina Fey's brilliant impression of vice-presidential candidate
Sarah Palin. How good was the impression? It was so good that the episodes featuring Fey, and the one that featured Palin herself, were some of
SNL's highest-rated episodes in years. Tina Fey's brilliant but ratings-challenged sitcom,
30 Rock received a ratings bump, she scored a
multi-million dollar book deal, and
newspapers sometimes forgot that they were actually two different people.Not bad for a funny lady who had never been known for her impressions and a governor from a small town no one had ever heard of.
Obama may have been our first celebrity candidate, but Palin was our first beauty queen. Whether you loved her or hated her, it's hard to argue that she was a captivating figure.
Continue reading Top TV Stories of 2008: Fey does Palin - VIDEOS
Posted Nov 5th 2008 12:32AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: News, OpEd, Reality-Free
Well, at 11:00p/10:00 Central, with the polls having just closed in California, Fox News Channel officially projected Barack Obama to win the presidency by taking California and jumping to 297 projected electoral votes. It was nice of them to make the projection exactly on the hour. Everyone likes a nice round number.
Then, the election panel said that no one could have predicted this even a year ago, but
24 predicted it seven years ago with President David Palmer. That's a sister station, Fox. Didn't you see it? This year they're saying they can see a woman president. Does that mean Clinton in four or eight years? Palin in four? Oprah?
Continue reading Election Night: Fox News (Part 3)
Posted Nov 4th 2008 9:56PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: News, OpEd, Reality-Free
FOX NEWS - AMERICA'S ELECTION HQ. Not dramatic enough? Maybe we could spruce it up a bit. "Fox News - For Election Coverage that's Guaranteed Right!" Even some of their analysts were reluctant to think that the country could go to the left of center.
Fox News Channel is a part of the new media, running streams of election data along the bottom, including a static corner box tracking projected electoral votes. We get two different bits of election data next to that, changing about every 7 seconds. Above that is an Alert bar with text data "Fox News Projects John McCain has won Kentucky." And, of course, they kept it scrolling through the commercials, too.
Continue reading Election Night: Fox News (Part 1)
Posted Feb 12th 2007 7:11AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Brothers and Sisters
(
S01E14) I continue to like Brothers and Sisters more and more every week. And one of my favorite things is the fact that the writers constantly give Rob Lowe lines that reference his famous past.
Continue reading Brothers and Sisters: Valentine's Day Massacre
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