Summer Joke # 1
Aug. 24th, 2009 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
busby1013Here's my first installment of my 12-part series meant to help stave off the Jon/Stephen sickness we all get when the shows go off the air.
This is The Threatdown!
*Swirling wailing alarm*
Threat Number 5: Jon Stewart!
*pause for various audience reactions*
Yes, I know it’s not kosher to badmouth your opening act, but something has got to be done about this menace to employment in this country.
Last week, Mr. Stewart had Betsy McCaughey as a guest on The Daily Show, and she was led to believe she would sit down to a friendly six-minute interview on the Obamacare bill.
No! First Jon forced her to schlep half the bill to his desk all by her lonesome. This is just cruel. I haven’t seen a single other member of the news media treat their healthcare commentators like slave drivers, requiring them to actually bring their homework along with them to prove their points.
Next, Jon gave this poor, innocent lady an undeserved tongue lashing regarding her criticism of the bill. Again, I’ve seen no other news media rube conduct themselves in this way. Everyone else has been polite enough to sit back and allow their guests to air their opinions with no logical push back whatsoever. They call it playing Devil's Advocate for a reason, Jon. It's evil!
Finally, he extended the interview for well over the allotted six-minute mark, making Betsy work overtime without pay! But that's not all. It has now been reported that just 24 hours after the interview, Betsy resigned from her job as director of Cantel Medical Corp.
Outrage! First, Jon caused the cancellation of Crossfire, tossing Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson onto the streets to sell apples(which were bought and promptly tossed at their heads), then Jim Cramer is chewed out, causing viewers of his thoughtful, nuanced financial show to switch channels, and now even the fair Betsy is out of a job!
We’re in a recession, Stewart! You can’t go around getting people fired right and left like you used to. You’re single-handedly driving up the unemployment rate! Jobs are scarce, and the rest of the news media knows it. They don’t want to be responsible for outspoken officials getting canned by making them answer for their claims. Come on, Jon! Be a patriot! I thought you were all about saving energy, yet here you are hogging all our coal to hold peoples’ feet to the fire. Shame.
PS: My previous set of break jokes can be found here. ENJOY!
This is The Threatdown!
*Swirling wailing alarm*
Threat Number 5: Jon Stewart!
*pause for various audience reactions*
Yes, I know it’s not kosher to badmouth your opening act, but something has got to be done about this menace to employment in this country.
Last week, Mr. Stewart had Betsy McCaughey as a guest on The Daily Show, and she was led to believe she would sit down to a friendly six-minute interview on the Obamacare bill.
No! First Jon forced her to schlep half the bill to his desk all by her lonesome. This is just cruel. I haven’t seen a single other member of the news media treat their healthcare commentators like slave drivers, requiring them to actually bring their homework along with them to prove their points.
Next, Jon gave this poor, innocent lady an undeserved tongue lashing regarding her criticism of the bill. Again, I’ve seen no other news media rube conduct themselves in this way. Everyone else has been polite enough to sit back and allow their guests to air their opinions with no logical push back whatsoever. They call it playing Devil's Advocate for a reason, Jon. It's evil!
Finally, he extended the interview for well over the allotted six-minute mark, making Betsy work overtime without pay! But that's not all. It has now been reported that just 24 hours after the interview, Betsy resigned from her job as director of Cantel Medical Corp.
Outrage! First, Jon caused the cancellation of Crossfire, tossing Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson onto the streets to sell apples(which were bought and promptly tossed at their heads), then Jim Cramer is chewed out, causing viewers of his thoughtful, nuanced financial show to switch channels, and now even the fair Betsy is out of a job!
We’re in a recession, Stewart! You can’t go around getting people fired right and left like you used to. You’re single-handedly driving up the unemployment rate! Jobs are scarce, and the rest of the news media knows it. They don’t want to be responsible for outspoken officials getting canned by making them answer for their claims. Come on, Jon! Be a patriot! I thought you were all about saving energy, yet here you are hogging all our coal to hold peoples’ feet to the fire. Shame.
PS: My previous set of break jokes can be found here. ENJOY!
