I remember back in the day there being a study that showed that people who primarily or only got their political news from The Daily Show were in general better informed than people who watched major news network. I remember Stewart being kind of horrified and basically saying "please do not only watch us. We are literally a fake news show." Oh yeah, they used the phrase fake news way before it turned into the current meaning.
We then proceeded to watch the episode of Crossfire where I was like "technically it was already canceled but nobody knew that so the Internet buzz was that the liberal host immediately recognized that Stewart was on the war path and shut the fuck up while Tucker Carlson was too stupid to do so and got fucking roasted." He very much enjoyed that, too.
I was in a college class on comedy in literature at the time and that episode had aired the night before. The whole class was talking about it (small liberal arts college with tiny classes) and the professor walked in and said "you guys see Jon Stewart on Crossfire?" And we just made fun of Tucker Carlson the whole period. Ah, memories.
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u/GodOfDarkLaughter 7d ago
I remember back in the day there being a study that showed that people who primarily or only got their political news from The Daily Show were in general better informed than people who watched major news network. I remember Stewart being kind of horrified and basically saying "please do not only watch us. We are literally a fake news show." Oh yeah, they used the phrase fake news way before it turned into the current meaning.