Divine Comedy: Jon Stewart on the Beck-Massa interview

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
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www.thedailyshow.com

This is one of Jon Stewart's best and funniest segments ever, I think, which may have something to do with the state of my sense of humor these days. Enjoy.

Comments

[Sir Charles]

LOL! (as they say).

Clearly I missed out on some essential activities on my 50th birthday.

[minstrel hussain boy]

massa would have been "killed by friendly fire" in my navy and jungle.

one of the things i never understood about homophobia in the navy though was "dude, you signed up to spend months at a time on a little bitty ship with nothing but men. exactly what the fuck did you expect to find? i mean really, regular navy is like jail, with a chance of drowning."

don't get me wrong, i served with two gay men that i know of for certain. the only discernable difference between their service and mine was our taste in bangkok hookers.

in a service branch which was founded upon "rum, sodomy and the lash" it's really hard to get where people are coming from with all of this.

in the immortal words of minister farrakhan, "i understand your anger, but not your surprise."

[oddjob]

mhb didn't even mention the Crossing the Line ritual..... ;)

[Sir Charles]

Are you a shellback or a polliwog?

[oddjob]

I've never crossed the line, but I come from a Navy family, so I've seen enough photos.

I know ritualized gay sex when I see it..... :)

[minstrel hussain boy]

i am a golden shellback. funny thing though, nobody really went to town on me.

something about the look on my face said "ride around easy lads."

[big bad wolf]

i learn so much here

[Sir Charles]

I like to think of us as NOVA with a lot of curse words.

[big bad wolf]

those are among the things i've learned. no one talked that way where i grew up; it was mostly teas and fox hunts.

[Sir Charles]

bbw,

I recall the teas and fox hunts of Brocton. They were legenday.

My paternal grandfather lost a boxing match in Brockton way back in the day. He was very old school -- worked in the tannery all day, took two trains to get from Peabody to Brockton and then fought his fight. They made them tough in those days.

[Corvus]

Oh, are we sharing stories of badass old dudes now?

My paternal grandfather was a train repairman in Chicago. All the other repairmen called him "The Bull." He was so strong that when he tightened the giant bolts on the outside of the trains, he eventually stopped using the gigantic wrenches that everyone else used, because he kept breaking them, so he started just tightening them with his fingers. Because finger tight (for him) was all they needed.

[Sir Charles]

Corvus,

There's only one place for such a discussion to go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Yes - Monty Python's the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch.

[oddjob]

:)

[Corvus]

Hah!

Well, in that vein, let me just say: he was raised my his one-legged Uncle Fritz. Who lost his leg, when, as a young newsie selling newspapers, he slipped fell off, and then underneath, a trolley.

Top that!

[Sir Charles]

Those were the good old days. Those golden, galtian days of yesteryear, where you didn't worry about having shields on the trolleys to protect the legs of young newsies. No, they lost their legs and learned a valauable life lesson in the process. None of your OSHA driven moral hazards.

[Corvus]

All those newsies were just losers and leeches anyways.

[Corvus]

...Man, you know, I don't think it is actually possible for me to have anymore contempt for Objectivism than I already do. It's just a justification of sociopathy. I think I actually hold Objectivists in equal or greater contempt than I do racists.

Hah! And "objectivist" triggers spellcheck. Yes!