RSSNew 'Daily Show' Site Launches with 13,000 Clips
By the Betanews Staff | Published October 18, 2007, 3:00 PM
Comedy Central has launched a new Web site in beta for The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, giving the program its own destination and making available 13,000 video clips. Although full-length episodes will not be viewable, users can search for and view specific segments free of charge.
The effort is a sign that media giants like Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, are finally embracing the Web as a means for distributing content. Because clips dating back to The Daily Show's debut in 1999 will be available to watch, the company expects to attract even those who religiously watch Jon Stewart on TV. Viacom has placed 5-second ads before each video to offset the site's costs.
Did Craig Kilborn never exist? Did he go back in time and kill his own father? Damn he's as clever as he is tall and white.
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|Sweet!
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|Let me know when a DVD of "best of show" comes out so I can watch it on a quarterly basis. ;)
I'm not gonna waste hours watching episodes/random clips/ads just for a few mins of really good sh-t.
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|finally? have you seen mtv.com? they've been trying to buy a social site for ages now and i think they found what they wanted with tagworld.
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|Here we go again. The people complaining about Daily Show and John Stewart are probably those far right people who prefer "Hannity's America" and "O'Reilly Factor" (where the spin does NOT stop sorry to say). Anyone who prefers Anne Coulter's vile venom over The Daily Show's comedy is ridiculous and needs to take a chill pill.
The fact is that Daily Show makes fun of the Dems as well, its just that there is more material to make fun of the republicans about right now (the whole "You Don't Know d***" series and his ridiculous man-sized safe and new secrecy classifications). Plus how can you resist Alberto Gonzalez, probably the biggest bafoon and yes-man ever to occupy the Attorney General's office (only slightly worse than Reno I imagine).
Two things, first of all Fox News is not fair and balanced always. Sometimes, but more often than not it is completely right-wing. This is fine because other news channels rarely attempt to be fair and balanced and are left-wing.
Second, before you go ballistic I should say that I watch Fox because I like the conservative commentary even though I am a democrat. We don't always agree but I don't think the democrats in congress right now are worth anything either. I also like Shepard Smith, that guy is hilarious.
Oh and I think on the popularity question, you need only to look at the fact that the piece of crap "Half Hour News Hour" is already off the air. That show could have been funny, but no one delivers like John Stewart and the rest of the crew (John Oliver, Asif Mandvi, Lewis Black).
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|I like both John Stewart and Bill O'Reilly.
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|I believe that's called schizophrenia
(grin)
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|Nice comments. Seeing as the Daily Show is a reasonably popular show (except for maybe Fox News groupies) I am sure that some people find it funny, I find it at least as funny as the talking heads on Fox News anyways, and at least The Daily Show seems to be relevant.
And the site seems to be getting hammered by users at the moment.
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|The Foxers can go watch that wonderful half-hour news hour ripoff. Oh so funny.
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|"reasonably popular" or reasonably biased to the far left?
Have a good laugh then back to the Kool Aid Stand for you.
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|Satire is about making fun of those in power. They did it to Bill, and they will do it to Hillary. I'll bet you a thousand $.
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|The video section is dead.
Nice launch...
Not.
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|Big Deal, a Non-Event. Hope they loose their a$$ on this venture.
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|13,000 mostly unfunny moments with John Stewart, hopefully he'll invite Crosby and Nash on to b**** and moan about George Bush, which actually would be entertaining.
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