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...we’ve seen, change means different things to different people. But it might augur something particularly unfortunate for Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert, the anchors of Comedy Central’s two immensely popular fake news shows, “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report...
...eight years, the fortunes of Stewart and Colbert have been intimately linked to the Republican leaders they lampoon. At the start of Bush’s presidency, Jon Stewart was the little-known host of an obscure TV show that promised reporting on “all the day’s events—at least the ones we’re let into.” Spurred largely by his coverage of the 2000 and 2004 elections, Stewart has since become an icon of American popular culture—a 2007 Pew Research Center poll found that Stewart...
...Stewart’s meteoric rise has been matched by that of his former employee, Steven Colbert, who launched “The Colbert Report” in 2005, and has come to rival his old boss in acclaim and popularity...
...least some of this success comes from the serendipitous influence of America’s bumbling leadership. Both Colbert and Stewart rely on the ridiculous moments in actual news for their satire, and for eight years, the Bush Administration has been running a veritable ridiculousness factory...
...even if Obama somehow morphs from untouchable messiah into comic goldmine, something will still be missing. Colbert and Stewart are fundamentally opposition figures—Stewart once described his job as “throwing spitballs” from the back of the room. This outsider status is a key element of their identity. For years, I have watched their shows because, in a country seemingly dominated by conservative ideologues, they offered an oasis where Right was still wrong, and laughter could lighten the burden of the very unfunny things happening to America...