Comments on: The Jon Stewart Report Card

By: All Things Beautiful

All Things Beautiful — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:21:16 +0000

Oscar Prepare To Be Blogged

Today is a Holy Day in Los Angeles. Oscar Sunday of course, and in the absence of any pressing news these days — other than Iran’s nuclear weapons development crisis, [don’t miss my groundbreaking post ‘MSM Ignores Iran’s Admission Of Guilt’ whic…

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:14:11 +0000

True, but your average mushroom has a better sense of humor than Sean Penn.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:11:26 +0000

I’ll admit he has a better sense of humor about it than Sean Penn, though…

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:10:54 +0000

We have differing opinions…Clooney took Stewart’s joke (incredibly funny, but bombed because it hit too close to home), and got all sanctimonious…that’s my view, yours is different…that’s the beauty of this thing called life…

By: Fargus

Fargus — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:01:57 +0000

Oh, please, Mark. Clooney didn’t take umbrage. He took a line, inverted it, and used it to say what he wanted to say. If you’re trying to draw a Clooney-Penn parallel here, you’re really reaching.

By: Barry Gordon

Barry Gordon — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:04:40 +0000

“the bit was as overblown as Altman himself”

Of course! That was the funny part. And as a bona fide liberal, I have to admit that I thought Stewart was out of his element. Different writers, maybe?

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:13:35 +0000

dmac, the punch line was “I don’t really have a joke here…I just thought you ought to know that a lot of people think that”…of course, George Clooney pulled a Sean Penn and took umbrage…

By: dmac

dmac — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:49:58 +0000

There was one joke Stewart made that started off with something along the lines of…”just so you know, everyone outside of Hollywood thinks that this place is basically Soddom and Gommorah…(pause)…” He then trailed off, and that was the joke.

Wish I had the exact transcript, but I laughed out loud on that one – and not a peep from the audience.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:47:37 +0000

Shales wears his partisanship on his sleeve at times, so perhaps he was disappointed Stewart didn’t go for a full Bush-bashing fest? The only credit he gives him is for the one joke that made fun of Dick Cheney.

Of course, Shales also dumped on the March of the Penguins producers for bringing stuffed penguins on the stage, so maybe he just woke up feeling cranky. The whole review reads like someone who just wants a nap.

I thought Stewart was pretty good. And I’d definitely take Letterman again over another bout with Whoopi, who pretty much spent the whole time acting like Hollywood stars had never seen a black woman before and expecting laughs for that.

By: The Moderate Voice

The Moderate Voice — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:45:35 +0000

Reviews For Jon Stewart As Oscar Host Are Mixed (UPDATED)

The reviews are starting to come in for Jon Stewart as host of the Oscars — and