DagSeoul: Positions, Populations, Punk, Poetics

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This is what Jon Stewart is all about: rehabilitating and recovering the undesirable in the social order and making it palatable. In this case, Louis CK can both enjoy a “good” rape joke and claim to sympathize with those oppressed and/or offended by it.

There. The liberal social order has been restored. We can all profit from this interview, can’t we….what a load of bullshit.

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“I’ve read some blogs during this whole [rape joke controversy] that have enlightened me. This woman said how rape is something that polices women’s lives. They have a narrow corridor. They can’t go out late, they can’t go to certain neighborhoods, they can’t dress a certain way…I never…that’s part of me now that wasn’t [there] before.”

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Louis C.K., The Daily Show, 7/16/12. (via hulksmashes)

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RESPECT RESTORED

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From the same interview: “Stereotypically speaking, feminists can’t take a joke.” “Any joke about anything bad is great…any joke about rape, the Holocaust…any joke about anything bad is a positive thing.”

Directly after the above quote: “…and I can still enjoy a good rape joke.”

Just thought we should all know what he said.

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The comedian and writer, David Feldman, discusses his time working for Jon Stewart and Stewart’s poor treatment of his writers after they joined the Writer’s Guild.

Feldman’s interview begins at 21 minutes and begins discussing Jon Stewart after 31 minutes. His interview lasts for almost thirty minutes.

I’ve never really trusted Jon Stewart. I know that’s like kicking a hornet’s nest what with all the Stewart fans on tumblr. I don’t give a shit. He’s an anti-union hack who knows how to play his audience. Feldman calls him an “impersonator”. That’s about how I feel about him. His is one of the only American shows I still watch from time to time, but I don’t like his politics nor his illusory liberalism.

Daily Show on Common performing at White House

These are the kinds of segments that keep me watching The Daily Show in spite of Jon Stewart’s often idiotic statements about taxation and the differences between the right and left wing that always leave me wanting to never watch the show again.

Then he produces one of these segments and I temporarily forgive him.

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To the Freaky Fans of TV Trolling My Blog

A little note for the Jon Stewart Fan Club: What you watch on TV is not real.

  I know you enjoy the idea that you’re all chummy with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, that you know them well, that they speak directly to you and what you know of the world about things you get, understand, about things that are meaningful to you and your friends.

Well, allow me to burst that dreamy bubble of order you’ve created for yourself. The Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert you see on TV are not the real Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. They are well-produced, laboriously rehearsed, highly constructed, spectacular representations mediated in such a way to turn a profit for the owners of Comedy Central.  They are laboring, not to change the world and inform the masses, but to turn a profit.

From time to time it may seem that the way they use entertainment illustrates the need to think critically about the world we live in and to support a worthy cause or two, but that is a fortunate result and has absolutely nothing to do with the performance of the product they labor to create.  Call it a fringe benefit.

I know this makes you pull a sad face.  But you might ask yourself why it matters to you so much that somebody criticizes your TV heroes.

When you figure that out, we can continue to discuss what I see wrong with Stewart’s decision to write jokes that implement horrible right wing tropes about the middle and being childish.

Jon Stewart: The Middle Man.

let me guess.  Jon Stewart thinks both sides are being childish.  Didn’t see that one coming.  …yawn…