JON AND STEPHEN: 3/4
Before we begin, a gallery of pictures from the first TCR of the week, and the first panel of today's Questionable Content contains a name you may recognize! ;)
TDS!
1) SCARBOROUGH. Morning Joe! XD Jon is singing and dancing and having just enough fun with this. Scarborough claims that "Jon Stewart is... the angriest person I've ever met." ...LOL Oh this has proven that they have never watched the show, or apparently any other show. Especially on Fox.
Jon is weeping and has running makeup and OMG WHAT is dressing up like Napoleon and I think I may have to marry this man where the fuck did they get a horse. Jon, what has gotten into you this week? BECAUSE I LOVE IT. HI JOHN OLIVERRR ♥
I need gifs of Jon on a horse, stat.
2) Other forms of journalism with Jason Jones! "End Times" and talking abotu the newspaper. Ahaha. *coughs* Ah, yeah. Don't I love it when they talk about the decline of print media. Not a Magazines major or anything. Nope.
Poking fun at NYT and their old technology and how the news is 'aged' versus 'real.' (The reporter has never heard the term aged.) Of course, blah blah lookit me being a journalism major, people go to newspapers -- when they go to newspapers -- because they trust them to have analyzed things and fact-checked more than TV stations. (The NYT has a horrible website, btw.) Although I think they have generally failed on adapting to the Internet. People now expect to get the paper for free, online, and, well. Not a viable business model.
...Though the Huffington Post is of a slightly different calibur than the Drudge Report, NYT guy. o_O
Tangentially, I love hearing from the correspondents. TDS has such awesome people. (Hope to see from Aasif and Wyatt soon.)
3) Guantanamo Bay and prisoners coming to the U.S. (Another moment I want to Jon-gif.) Ahmed Ghailani is getting arraigned in the U.S. for a crapload of stuff. Rep Michael Rogers -- (R) Michigan -- thinks that the prisoners shouldn't be in America. Because... we can... keep them in jail after the military commission has found them not guilty if they're not here. (Jon: "We can call it... dungeon!")
Oh Cantor. You just made me add music to this post.
HI AGAIN JOHN OLIVER. And a pork chop necklace. Making fun of how people are saying to be afraid of the prisoners breaking out, but no one in New York (where the guy's being tried) seems to be all that afraid. (On that point: how little faith do these people have in American prisons?) John: "Tell Aasif's wife I love her!" XD John begs for Jon to get rid of his porn if he doesn't make it back.
4) Tonight's guest is Saad Mohseni, the executive producer of "Afghan Star," a documentary film. The people featured want to take peoples' hands "from weapons to music."
"People are the same" he says, no matter where they are. In the documentary they start out with the bad signers just like Idol. Saad says it's watched by a majority of people who have TV sets and it's widely endorsed by people at large. Apparently the Islamic Counsel ruled against the show in Kabul. It's a form of rebellion, making a stand through singing. They've got six court cases right now. "This is how things change," Saad says.
Jon points out that we in the U.S. take all this stuff for granted, but over there it's got a lot of power and people are very aware of the power of that. The woman contestant has gotten death threats but is okay, and is still putting out clips.
There was footage from the 80s in there, and Saad says the international community (when Russia invaded) brought not just military aid but culture, and then the more radical government took over in the wake of the conflict. Saad: "The true Afghanistan is what you saw from the 80s."
60% of the population is under 20 and the median age is 17. Jon says in the fifties in America showing an interracial couple on TV would've gotten a bad reaction, and Saad said (this was backstage, before) that attitudes change. The woman contestant whose name I keep missing shows the real Afghanistan, he says.
Joking about Jon being a guest judge, and Jon promised he'd come to Kabul before he remembered he's a, um. Coward. (Not the word he used.)
5) *sputters* TIME. NO TOSS TONIGHT. D: And Katie Couric is the guest tomorrow so I'm assuming not one either, but I saw someone suggesting that since Stephen's Twittering again he might already be home, so there may have not been a possibility of a Toss in the first place. I think he started Twittering yesterday.
A shout out for Stephen and the Moment of Zen is an outtake from the horse segment lolol Jon.
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TCR!
1) "I demanded a room just as good as Saddam had" so Stephen is in a spider hole, which appears to be a man-sized hole under something and LOL I think he put body armor on his Emmy. He sprayed his head to get ready for the show.
Stephen pops out of a trap door in the floor and thanks the military. Aw, no golf club or stand-up tonight. The audience is taking pictures with their digital cameras. :D
2) So far all he's seen in the base though he's been in Iraq for five days. Tonight he finds out in the first of his one-part series "Better Know a Cradle of Civilization." Historians think Eden was there, etc. -- "blah blah blah in 1979" Saddam rose to power. More recently, "Saddam was sent to live on a farm upstate."
Barham Salih, the Deputy PM is there to Better Know Stephen! He questions whether he wants to be the Joe Biden of Iraq and Stephen says "I think so!" (Joeyyy.) The question is, how do you bring democracy to a former brutal dictatorship (answer without giving Stephen's staff any ideas)?
Barham thanks the troops for saving them from "tyranny and genocide" and overthrowing Saddam. The task of building a democracy rests on the Iraqis' shoulders, but for a time they still need support. "Life is not about perfect solutions," he says. A united, democratic Iraq will provide all communities (Sunni, Shia) what they need.
He has a PhD in Oceanography! -- and Stephen asks how often he uses it in Iraq. XD He says the statistics, etc, help out. "The politics of Iraq are a dangerous ocean," Stephen says.
3) JOEYYYYY :DDDD "Do not give Colbert a sidearm, he's dangerous enough as it is." Lol no wonder Stephen told Barham he wouldn't mind being Biden.
4) Stephen has recently put together some care packages with Tom Hanks! Tom Hanks in the TCR studio with Stephen, who still has his hair. Tom pretends to appreciate Stephen's imaginary respect for him, being an actor in war movies.
They. Um. Shaved each other('s faces). LOLOL ..."Rusty Tang" was Stephen's porn name for a while. There is also trail mix, which can serve as a metaphor for the situation. No alcohol allowed over there, so the boys crack open a beer to the troops. They have a recordable card and leave a rushed, apparently improv'd message -- and Stephen cracks up a bit.
Stephen pulls out ice cream and A PUPPY OMG. Tom doesn't let him put the puppy in the box because the puppies will eat the ice cream. LOL THE DOG BOWL IS BACK. They're trying to teach it not to eat the ice cream and HERE IS ANOTHER GIF I MUST HAVE. Stephen is eating out of the dog bowl which of course he's done before. Tom carved an ice sculpture of a puppy eating ice cream and they can send that instead and they are officially five-year-old children.
Telling you how to sponsor a care package through uso.org, a $25 donation gets $75 of goods for the troops.
They both think the other is the nicest guy in Hollywood and get into a mock fight. Tom knocks Stephen out and nails him in a box and omg I love these guys so much except we already know Stephen was kidnapped OMG THE PUPPY IS IN THE BOX WITH HIM.
...Sorry that this is so ridiculously long, guys.
5) Sarah Palin and a shout-out to her son Track.
6) The Commander of all of Iraq's 130K troops, Charles Jackoby. Odierno works at the strategic level with the top levels of government, while Jackoby works with the troops. XD Jackoby points out his "favorite" soldier, who immediately goes red and is like "oh shit I am so getting it later but GUYS STEPHEN POINTED AT ME."
He's heartened at the way things are going, but says success is a complex question (of course ;) all of Stephen's questions are complex). You have to work and sacrifice together to get trust with the Iraqis.
The general points out that Afghanistan and Iraq are totally different cultures and Stephen subsequently points out that in America it's all just 'the Middle East.' Stephen asks about the war in Iran and Jackoby says that's Odierno's territory.
7) Sitting in the audience again, a female soldier rubs Stephen's head. And the Nation weeps in utter jealousy.
TDS!
1) SCARBOROUGH. Morning Joe! XD Jon is singing and dancing and having just enough fun with this. Scarborough claims that "Jon Stewart is... the angriest person I've ever met." ...LOL Oh this has proven that they have never watched the show, or apparently any other show. Especially on Fox.
Jon is weeping and has running makeup and OMG WHAT is dressing up like Napoleon and I think I may have to marry this man where the fuck did they get a horse. Jon, what has gotten into you this week? BECAUSE I LOVE IT. HI JOHN OLIVERRR ♥
I need gifs of Jon on a horse, stat.
2) Other forms of journalism with Jason Jones! "End Times" and talking abotu the newspaper. Ahaha. *coughs* Ah, yeah. Don't I love it when they talk about the decline of print media. Not a Magazines major or anything. Nope.
Poking fun at NYT and their old technology and how the news is 'aged' versus 'real.' (The reporter has never heard the term aged.) Of course, blah blah lookit me being a journalism major, people go to newspapers -- when they go to newspapers -- because they trust them to have analyzed things and fact-checked more than TV stations. (The NYT has a horrible website, btw.) Although I think they have generally failed on adapting to the Internet. People now expect to get the paper for free, online, and, well. Not a viable business model.
...Though the Huffington Post is of a slightly different calibur than the Drudge Report, NYT guy. o_O
Tangentially, I love hearing from the correspondents. TDS has such awesome people. (Hope to see from Aasif and Wyatt soon.)
3) Guantanamo Bay and prisoners coming to the U.S. (Another moment I want to Jon-gif.) Ahmed Ghailani is getting arraigned in the U.S. for a crapload of stuff. Rep Michael Rogers -- (R) Michigan -- thinks that the prisoners shouldn't be in America. Because... we can... keep them in jail after the military commission has found them not guilty if they're not here. (Jon: "We can call it... dungeon!")
Oh Cantor. You just made me add music to this post.
HI AGAIN JOHN OLIVER. And a pork chop necklace. Making fun of how people are saying to be afraid of the prisoners breaking out, but no one in New York (where the guy's being tried) seems to be all that afraid. (On that point: how little faith do these people have in American prisons?) John: "Tell Aasif's wife I love her!" XD John begs for Jon to get rid of his porn if he doesn't make it back.
4) Tonight's guest is Saad Mohseni, the executive producer of "Afghan Star," a documentary film. The people featured want to take peoples' hands "from weapons to music."
"People are the same" he says, no matter where they are. In the documentary they start out with the bad signers just like Idol. Saad says it's watched by a majority of people who have TV sets and it's widely endorsed by people at large. Apparently the Islamic Counsel ruled against the show in Kabul. It's a form of rebellion, making a stand through singing. They've got six court cases right now. "This is how things change," Saad says.
Jon points out that we in the U.S. take all this stuff for granted, but over there it's got a lot of power and people are very aware of the power of that. The woman contestant has gotten death threats but is okay, and is still putting out clips.
There was footage from the 80s in there, and Saad says the international community (when Russia invaded) brought not just military aid but culture, and then the more radical government took over in the wake of the conflict. Saad: "The true Afghanistan is what you saw from the 80s."
60% of the population is under 20 and the median age is 17. Jon says in the fifties in America showing an interracial couple on TV would've gotten a bad reaction, and Saad said (this was backstage, before) that attitudes change. The woman contestant whose name I keep missing shows the real Afghanistan, he says.
Joking about Jon being a guest judge, and Jon promised he'd come to Kabul before he remembered he's a, um. Coward. (Not the word he used.)
5) *sputters* TIME. NO TOSS TONIGHT. D: And Katie Couric is the guest tomorrow so I'm assuming not one either, but I saw someone suggesting that since Stephen's Twittering again he might already be home, so there may have not been a possibility of a Toss in the first place. I think he started Twittering yesterday.
A shout out for Stephen and the Moment of Zen is an outtake from the horse segment lolol Jon.
~~~
TCR!
1) "I demanded a room just as good as Saddam had" so Stephen is in a spider hole, which appears to be a man-sized hole under something and LOL I think he put body armor on his Emmy. He sprayed his head to get ready for the show.
Stephen pops out of a trap door in the floor and thanks the military. Aw, no golf club or stand-up tonight. The audience is taking pictures with their digital cameras. :D
2) So far all he's seen in the base though he's been in Iraq for five days. Tonight he finds out in the first of his one-part series "Better Know a Cradle of Civilization." Historians think Eden was there, etc. -- "blah blah blah in 1979" Saddam rose to power. More recently, "Saddam was sent to live on a farm upstate."
Barham Salih, the Deputy PM is there to Better Know Stephen! He questions whether he wants to be the Joe Biden of Iraq and Stephen says "I think so!" (Joeyyy.) The question is, how do you bring democracy to a former brutal dictatorship (answer without giving Stephen's staff any ideas)?
Barham thanks the troops for saving them from "tyranny and genocide" and overthrowing Saddam. The task of building a democracy rests on the Iraqis' shoulders, but for a time they still need support. "Life is not about perfect solutions," he says. A united, democratic Iraq will provide all communities (Sunni, Shia) what they need.
He has a PhD in Oceanography! -- and Stephen asks how often he uses it in Iraq. XD He says the statistics, etc, help out. "The politics of Iraq are a dangerous ocean," Stephen says.
3) JOEYYYYY :DDDD "Do not give Colbert a sidearm, he's dangerous enough as it is." Lol no wonder Stephen told Barham he wouldn't mind being Biden.
4) Stephen has recently put together some care packages with Tom Hanks! Tom Hanks in the TCR studio with Stephen, who still has his hair. Tom pretends to appreciate Stephen's imaginary respect for him, being an actor in war movies.
They. Um. Shaved each other('s faces). LOLOL ..."Rusty Tang" was Stephen's porn name for a while. There is also trail mix, which can serve as a metaphor for the situation. No alcohol allowed over there, so the boys crack open a beer to the troops. They have a recordable card and leave a rushed, apparently improv'd message -- and Stephen cracks up a bit.
Stephen pulls out ice cream and A PUPPY OMG. Tom doesn't let him put the puppy in the box because the puppies will eat the ice cream. LOL THE DOG BOWL IS BACK. They're trying to teach it not to eat the ice cream and HERE IS ANOTHER GIF I MUST HAVE. Stephen is eating out of the dog bowl which of course he's done before. Tom carved an ice sculpture of a puppy eating ice cream and they can send that instead and they are officially five-year-old children.
Telling you how to sponsor a care package through uso.org, a $25 donation gets $75 of goods for the troops.
They both think the other is the nicest guy in Hollywood and get into a mock fight. Tom knocks Stephen out and nails him in a box and omg I love these guys so much except we already know Stephen was kidnapped OMG THE PUPPY IS IN THE BOX WITH HIM.
...Sorry that this is so ridiculously long, guys.
5) Sarah Palin and a shout-out to her son Track.
6) The Commander of all of Iraq's 130K troops, Charles Jackoby. Odierno works at the strategic level with the top levels of government, while Jackoby works with the troops. XD Jackoby points out his "favorite" soldier, who immediately goes red and is like "oh shit I am so getting it later but GUYS STEPHEN POINTED AT ME."
He's heartened at the way things are going, but says success is a complex question (of course ;) all of Stephen's questions are complex). You have to work and sacrifice together to get trust with the Iraqis.
The general points out that Afghanistan and Iraq are totally different cultures and Stephen subsequently points out that in America it's all just 'the Middle East.' Stephen asks about the war in Iran and Jackoby says that's Odierno's territory.
7) Sitting in the audience again, a female soldier rubs Stephen's head. And the Nation weeps in utter jealousy.