So long, Sarah. You won't be missed.

[Jenne]

I'll have to check and see if the DVR got it, there was an outage during Stewart and I missed the second half of that.   

It's usually online the next day.

[LMNO]

I haven't watched his "Overtime" spots yet...I should.  They answer viewer questions on that part of it.

I tried, but they seem to be tied into some windows codec which I couldn't get to run in linux. Or rather, I figured that by the time I could get it working it'd probably be over.

I just wonder if it's as good as the rest of the show...because sometimes his show's pretty fucking good, and sometimes the panel falls flat or short of expectations.  So I often wonder how the rest of it goes...or if it's a waste of time.

Eh, I have a hard time with Mahr's delivery, especially the way he laughs at his own jokes; it's a smarmy, self-important laugh that irks me.  Plus, he's been known to deliberately distort the facts if they get in the way of a joke.  That's just lazy.

[Captain Utopia]

Eh, I have a hard time with Mahr's delivery, especially the way he laughs at his own jokes; it's a smarmy, self-important laugh that irks me.  Plus, he's been known to deliberately distort the facts if they get in the way of a joke.  That's just lazy.

Valid points. If you can get past the smarminess though there is some value to be gained. For example, I think he deserves some credit for taking a chunk out of Obama last month

[AFK]

15 minutes later, did anybody see Colbert interview Orly Taitz (apparently, the head of the Birther movement?) It was so spot on. I don't think she's familiar with Colbert. The tongue-in-cheek nature of the show went right over her head. By being "on her side", he got her to say some pretty crazy stuff. I think Jon and Stephen should be given the nobel prize for journalism.

[Jenne]

He's a typical Hollywood-type who's full of himself...I got over that a long time ago, mostly because he is one of the few leftwingers who is 1) out of the closet about his rampant pot-smoking and pro-pot legalizatin 2) talks about CA politics and knows wtf he's talking about when he does it 3) has some kick-ass people on his panel and during on-show interviews and 4) love his new rules.

I used to watch him on ABC before his ass got fired.

[AFK]

The ABC show sucked because it was too damned short, only 1/2 hour.  He or someone on the panel would really start ripping into Anne Coulter and they'd have to go to commercial. 

[Jenne]

I liked the set-up though, and he copied that for the HBO show he now does.  He's perfect for HBO, though.

[Cramulus]

I made up my mind about Maher after watching Religilous.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about poking people in the belief system

    I'm just not a smug condescending prick when I do it.

[LMNO]

...as far as you know...

[Jenne]

  He does bug me from time to time, I won't lie.  But I think his show supersedes him in a lot of ways, so I just ignore it.

[AFK]

Cram has a show!?!?

[Thurnez Isa]

I made up my mind about Maher after watching Religilous.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about poking people in the belief system

    I'm just not a smug condescending prick when I do it.

what LMNO said

As soon as you poke someones belief system you automatically become a smug condescending prick to them. So I figure if you're going to do it you might as well go all out...

[Thurnez Isa]

as for Cobert, Maher, ect.

I don't really watch them often cause I tend not to watch or read people I tend to more or less agree with. Im weird like that. If it's on a subject I don't know a lot about then yes, but I tend to watch or read stuff I know I probably wont agree with.

[AFK]

If Stewart and Colbert weren't on at the same time as Countdown I'd probably watch them.  I kinda like watching Olbermann get all frothed up.  He goes a bit overboard at times, but it's good TV nonetheless.  But boy howdy does his substitutes suck when he is on vacation.  You'd think Howard "YEEAAAHHH!" Dean would be a good TV host, but he's stiffer than Al Gore in a freezer. 

[Jenne]

The nice thing is, they are on the internet...so if you miss them and want to watch them, you just go to the comedy central website.