Comments | pykebert: A letter to John Stewart, from a useless moron.

pykebert

A letter to John Stewart, from a useless moron.

Mar 01, 2006 23:34

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=w060227&s=siegel022706

they get more ignorant every day.

Comments 11

bekilynne March 2 2006, 04:47:05 UTC

apparently if you're not a member, you can only read about the first two sentences...

pykebert March 2 2006, 04:54:43 UTC

odd. It works for me, and i'm not a member. here.

pykebert March 2 2006, 05:00:11 UTC

If anyone actually reads this, i'll be surprised. It's long. Worth it though.

pykebert March 2 2006, 04:55:22 UTC

Dear Jon Stewart ( ... )

pykebert March 2 2006, 04:55:50 UTC

Jon, be honest. Has being Mr. Civic-Minded Serious Satirist of Our Debased Public Life merely become a successful shtick for you, based on its unexpected popularity during the 2004 presidential campaigns? Is it a trusty routine, like Jack Benny's stinginess, or Rodney Dangerfield's hilarious bad luck, both of which were a lot funnier than your current comedic hallmark? I recently tuned into your show and found you bravely trying to explain deficit spending even as you were bravely trying to make a joke about deficit spending. After informing the audience that the war in Iraq has cost the equivalent of $2,083 per taxpayer, you said ( ... )

pykebert March 2 2006, 04:57:42 UTC

That's really what I have to talk to you about, Jon. The "young thing." It makes me fear for your future. Because, you see, I get glimmers of authentic wit from you. You did a bit about Al Qaeda holding a convention at a hall in the Jupiter room, and then the Zimmerman bar mitzvah booking the Jupiter for 10:30 that had me going. You seemed to ad-lib at the end of that one; you're so quick that another time you made me laugh simply by explaining that the theme music at one point was so lengthy because you had to walk two feet to a different spot in the studio ( ... )