Comment by Shayne — February 25, 2008 @ 12:38 pm

I can’t follow your last sentence here, “And I pointed that out because Stewart made a joke that there were no films on Iraq which was just a joke.” Huh?

And if your point was only about the two other films, why did you say anything about “Taxi to the Dark Side?”

37. “Taxi to the Dark Side” won best feature length documentary. There was a thread about this film on TP the other day. It beat out “Sicko”. Also there were several documentary shorts and two other feature documentaries that were about the Iraq war. Apparently nobody told Jon Stewart.

Comment by Shayne — February 24, 2008 @ 11:42 pm

Comment by thirdparty — February 25, 2008 @ 12:55 pm

he’s an ass. Only a moron would laugh at his “jokes’.

Comment by CZ-1 — February 25, 2008 @ 10:39 am

That could be because documentaries don’t have wide distribution if any. Anything else you’d like to argue about.
Budget: $1M (estimated)
Opening Wknd: $13.7K (USA)
Gross: $91.9K (USA) more »
Genre: Documentary / more »
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 6 wins & 1 nomination more.
Summary: An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.

I suspect you can count on further distribution of this film and an increase in gross sales.

Comment by CZ-1 — February 25, 2008 @ 10:03 am

I didn’t say this film was about Iraq. I said that to of the other nominees were about Iraq. And I pointed that out because Stewart made a joke that there were no films on Iraq which was just a joke.

Comment by Shayne — February 24, 2008 @ 11:42 pm

2nd technical correction: Also, Jon Stewart’s joke was about how well films were doing with audiences, aka ticket receipts, not how well they were doing with awards. The movie Juno did very well with audiences/profits, but all the Iraq movies out there did not have large audiences/profits.

Comment by Shayne — February 24, 2008 @ 11:42 pm

Technical correction: Taxi to the Dark Side is not about the Iraq invasion and occupation. It’s about torture in Afghanistan.

Comment by Dr. Matt — February 25, 2008 @ 9:28 am

But that’d seriously cut into their dividends from Viacom, GE, Sony, and others.

Comment by jdc — February 25, 2008 @ 8:11 am

Oh geez — lighten up. Yes, Jon Stewart took a dig at McCain’s age and some of the absurd rhetoric we’ve been shoveled by our leaders on the Iraq situation. He also took a swing at the Clintons.

Jon Stewart is a comedian who hosts a fake news show. Which, by the way, is very funny. AND it skewers everybody who deserves it — conservatives, progressives, liberals, Republicans, and Democrats. You may perceive conservatives being the butt of jokes a bit more often, but only because they provide the comedy industry with more ridiculous material.

If the conservatives feel that progressives aren’t being made fun of often enough, they can put on their own show. Oh wait — they did. Whatever happened to the “Half Hour News Hour”?

Dennis Miller. And he has become as funny as a rock in the mud =P

Comment by Gin — February 24, 2008 @ 10:09 pm
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why are conservatives funny? not ha ha funny, but “queer” funny?

I never heard of such thing as ‘Liberal comedian’ or ‘Conservative Comedian’…
I know one thing and that ’s called a ‘Comedian’.

Can you name a Conservative comedian?!!

You must be living a hard life trying to divide everything to liberal and conservative..
Life is not that way…

Relax.

Nope, just a brother who’s studying Arabic.

Shayne,
I’m not a Christian or Zionist. I’m a Muslim who supports Progressives becaue you guys defend the Rights of my people. If it wasn’t for Progressives, Muslim Americans would be rounded up and kill. I am eternally grateful to Progressives and support their Struggle against the Christians and their Zionist masters.

Comment by Abdul Hassan — February 25, 2008 @ 12:30 am

If you’re a Muslim, you’re not a very good one. A real Muslim would know that neither Progressives nor Muslims are struggling against Christians. We’re just struggling against bigots.

Now it’s true that Progressives want to help Muslim-Americans with their daily struggles: making a living wage, having clean air to breathe, having clean water to drink, having safe and well-maintained public infrastructure, having a social safety net for desperate times, and having a guaranteed right of free expression and worship. We fight for these same struggles on behalf of Hindu-Americans and Christian-Americans and Atheist-Americans and Bokononist-Americans.

Comment by Shayne — February 25, 2008 @ 12:05 am

I’m thinking you may be right, and that he’s related to “Crusader” who posted “Mohammad was a pedophile” on my blog last night. How cute :)

Next question?

That’s funny Gin, but maybe you can explain why the one conservative comedian, Dennis Miller, isn’t funny any more. Actually he’s not really a comedian anymore, he’s a radio personality (I use the term loosely) and now he’s the host of some bogus game show. I suspect that will last as long as his football announcer career. What a loser.

Comment by Shayne — February 25, 2008 @ 12:00 am

Whenever anyone mentions Dennis Miller I will forever remember his failed stint on MNF. At the time I kinda felt sorry for him because he seemed to try so hard to be funny, but he wasn’t. Sorta reminds me of my uncle who tries to be funny with everything he says, but likewise almost always isn’t.

Sad. Very, very sad.