When will the Daily Show stop taunting me
By UndeclaredWriter
OK, so there are a few sad things that you might learn from this article. I get most of my tv comedy and all of my tv news from the Daily show. Perhaps this is not the way things ought to be but it is the way things are. The Daily show can go from high brow political humor to making sophomoric jokes about the male anatomy in one fell swoop. They can get Mike Wallace or Gweneth Paltrow to come on their show to pimp their latest book. They can inform me about the electorate without causing deep depression. I am a Jon Stewart/Daily show junkie.
My problem with them is the way they treat my Tivo like a little bitch. The Daily show is tricking my Tivo into recording multiple episodes every day. The Daily show is on 17 times a day and my Tivo has a strategy to skip the repeats. Every TV show submits the name of the show, time it is on, a summary of the episode along with some other pertinent data to clearing houses who distribute this. One of the most common ways to get this is through the Tribune service. This happens to be the service that Tivo uses to get a lot of its tasty goodness for skipping repeats, searching for shows with particular keywords and actors, etc. I have a source who says that Jon Stewart himself is an avid Tivo fan and owner.
Why, oh why, must it be that the Daily show keeps putting on “The Daily Show” for its summary? I know that they have other information, because every once in a while they will put the name of the guest as the show summary. In fact, as many times as not, they get the name of the guest wrong. Even if they were differently wrong on every episode, that would be OK with me. I think if they are going to try to attract a hip young crowd, then they should go ahead and not piss them off by tricking the hip new DVRs. I am trying to get my Daily show fix and I get 5 episodes of the same show.
I suppose that they already know that the Daily show is the only show on tv able to present news such that a 16-25 demographic will watch, so they don’t have to kowtow to the likes of me, and rightfully so.
November 12th, 2005 at 9:30 am
It sure sucks being out of that 16-25 demo, doesn’t it? Nobody makes things that appeal to you any more. I myself am rapidly approaching the graying-middle-aged-fatso-with-wife-kids-and-mortgage demo, and there’s just nothing for me out there.
If some clever company wants to capture the hearts and loyalty of my coveted demo, all they need to do is to invent an car that can extract its energy from used cat litter, gets 40 miles per kilogram, has an auto-pilot, and a unique feature where time stops progressing while your’re driving, the effect being that you can get from one place to another instantaneously. That’s what I’d like.
Oh, and it has to cost less than ten dollars.