Posted on 11/01/2010 5:24:35 PM PDT by Justaham
Comedy Central's coverage of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's weekend rally drew a modest TV audience.
According to the network, 2 million viewers tuned in between noon and 3 p.m. on Saturday to watch the hosts and musical guests entertain about 200,000 fans on the Washington mall.
Many more doubtless saw the show online, or caught coverage on the cable networks newtorks.
This time period rarely draws big numbers for non-sports networks (the Rally audience was more than three times what the Comedy Central slot averages).
Still, the rally received enormous media hype and 2 million is less than your average viewership for an episode of Comedy Central's Tosh.0.
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Glenn Beck covered the comedy fest on his show today. He handled it with class, pointing out that Stewart was co opted by the dems and leftists. He even praised Stewart’s closing statement. LOL! Bet that made Stewart do slow, smoldering burn.
200,000 fans
I’ve decided that this number is accurate, and Jon Stewart’s fans are just really compact, and each of them was carrying a dozen other fans in his or her pocket, and then there were the midgets and the brownies (not those ‘special’ brownies, I mean little people) and yeah, there really were 200,00 of them there. 200 million, actually, but you know how modest they are.
LOL! It was probably (mostly) FReepers watching the freak show for a good laugh. XD
You could have had 200 million people there, it still wouldn’t erase the fact that it was LAME.
What did Stewart say that has the lefties all tied up in knots?
Msn was it ever. I only saw the last part with Colbert running around on stage. It was like some high school play about politics, so unfunny and unwitty.
Stewart, the most sarcastic, bashing voice in political TV, winding up complaining about EVERYONE ELSE voicing THEIR opinions, was just too much for me. I was laughing at this guy, who’s said F-you to conservatives on his show, bemoaning how everyone else on TV is ruining the country when every night he does the same tired schtick, over and over, showing someone saying one thing, and then saying something that contradicts it—which he did at this show!
Lame as a wet noodle in the sink overnight.
Nothing, it was the praise Beck applied that made Stewart do a slow burn.
This time period rarely draws big numbers for non-sports networks (the Rally audience was more than three times what the Comedy Central slot averages). Still, the rally received enormous media hype and 2 million is less than your average viewership for an episode of Comedy Central's Tosh.0.
Is Jon ashamed of being Jewish? Why doesn’t he balls up and use his real name?
Did he not see the irony having Cat “kill anyone who criticizes the phophet” perform?
Did he not also see the irony in wasting the time of a bunch of activists so close to an election?
Stewart said something positive about somebody on the right, thats what made them come unglued...
That and Beck said that he agreed with Stewart on his last words at the rally...
I suspect Mr. Stewart will be ‘parting on the right’ (in a “slow-turnin’” soon enough)... just a hunch...like Beck said, his rally was co-opted, and I bet he feels shame...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE
And for Stewart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UrueP3aM40
Once someone proves themselves to be highly political they lose some perception of being funny.
LOL !
I watched for a while to get a few laughs. :)
It was boring so I turned the channel.
Yeah, it was pretty much a yawner.
He is a leftist and he does not want any opinions except for the ones he likes. He did the rally to make fun of conservatives and Glenn Beck even though he said he didn’t. If this was the case why didn’t he do this long ago before Becks rally? Jon Lebowitz Stewart is a liar and the people at the rally were stupid too so there
Tomorrow won’t be. LOL !!!!
Hahahaha! We’’re going to love EVERY minute of it!!!!! ;-)
BWAHAHAHA !!!!
I have my whole day and night planned around it. :)
Me, too!
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