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tepista wrote:
Wolter wrote: I spent a long time staring at Private Gladiator
I bet you did.
Gladiator? Glad he didn't!
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He had a few good bits on that. It's crazy that TDS has I think all of their archival material up there. I was trying to hunt down a "Public Excess" bit that was in the very early Stewart area where some comedian mocked public access television bits. There was one in particular where some fat woman was dancing and the comedian said "This is what your aunt would look like if she was a circus whore." I have occasionally used the term "circus whore" to great effect.

Oh and I gave up rather quickly as they had a ton of those "Public Excess" bits and I didn't care that much to go through it all.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:I was trying to hunt down a "Public Excess" bit that was in the very early Stewart area where some comedian mocked public access television bits. There was one in particular where some fat woman was dancing and the comedian said "This is what your aunt would look like if she was a circus whore." I have occasionally used the term "circus whore" to great effect.

Oh and I gave up rather quickly as they had a ton of those "Public Excess" bits and I didn't care that much to go through it all.
I don't recall those, but it sounds more like a Kilborn gag. Kilborn's TDS was often funny, but it had a certain mean-spirited "picking on the fucked up" that could be off-putting. Stewart turning the guns on the powerful and hypocritical made it so much more satisfying.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
matedog wrote:I was trying to hunt down a "Public Excess" bit that was in the very early Stewart area where some comedian mocked public access television bits. There was one in particular where some fat woman was dancing and the comedian said "This is what your aunt would look like if she was a circus whore." I have occasionally used the term "circus whore" to great effect.

Oh and I gave up rather quickly as they had a ton of those "Public Excess" bits and I didn't care that much to go through it all.
I don't recall those, but it sounds more like a Kilborn gag. Kilborn's TDS was often funny, but it had a certain mean-spirited "picking on the fucked up" that could be off-putting. Stewart turning the guns on the powerful and hypocritical made it so much more satisfying.
I agree.

I actually was worried when Kilborn left. How hilarious that it ended up getting so much better.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
matedog wrote:I was trying to hunt down a "Public Excess" bit that was in the very early Stewart area where some comedian mocked public access television bits. There was one in particular where some fat woman was dancing and the comedian said "This is what your aunt would look like if she was a circus whore." I have occasionally used the term "circus whore" to great effect.

Oh and I gave up rather quickly as they had a ton of those "Public Excess" bits and I didn't care that much to go through it all.
I don't recall those, but it sounds more like a Kilborn gag. Kilborn's TDS was often funny, but it had a certain mean-spirited "picking on the fucked up" that could be off-putting. Stewart turning the guns on the powerful and hypocritical made it so much more satisfying.
I found the clip:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-j ... of-stories

It wasn't a very good segment in general and that Rich Brown guy wasn't worthwhile, but I did love that phrase "circus whore."

Jesus, I saw this bit once, twelve years ago. :meh:
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
matedog wrote:I was trying to hunt down a "Public Excess" bit that was in the very early Stewart area where some comedian mocked public access television bits. There was one in particular where some fat woman was dancing and the comedian said "This is what your aunt would look like if she was a circus whore." I have occasionally used the term "circus whore" to great effect.

Oh and I gave up rather quickly as they had a ton of those "Public Excess" bits and I didn't care that much to go through it all.
I don't recall those, but it sounds more like a Kilborn gag. Kilborn's TDS was often funny, but it had a certain mean-spirited "picking on the fucked up" that could be off-putting. Stewart turning the guns on the powerful and hypocritical made it so much more satisfying.
I found the clip:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-j ... of-stories
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I used to love Frank DeCaro's Out at the Mvies. My favorite was for the movie Ever After, but it's not on YouTube. So here's the Gladiator one:
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Also, he's a pretty amusing person to follow on Twitter.
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There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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9/10. Two were guesses.
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Anyone remember the puzzles thread?

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The second picture wasn't needed. :shifty: :shifty: :shifty:

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Chuck Mangione wrote:The second picture wasn't needed. :shifty: :shifty: :shifty:
:shifty:
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Wolter wrote:
Chuck Mangione wrote:The second picture wasn't needed. :shifty: :shifty: :shifty:
:shifty:
:yuck:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
Wolter wrote:
Chuck Mangione wrote:The second picture wasn't needed. :shifty: :shifty: :shifty:
:shifty:
:yuck:
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1980 Albums. I got 8/10.
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