WAS.

AWESOME.

Brilliant, brilliant. I love the Neanderthal thinking of the Wash. Times columnist just skewering itself. And Kim Cattrall as a coup de grace?

This is why The Daily Show makes up about 70% of my TV time.

But last night's segment still doesn't beat her "NILF" commentary. Check out:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2053x_samantha-bee-nilf

Can't seem to find this one on Comedy Central.

Why do I so very often come across women in this country engaging in rhetoric that is... derogatory to women? Am I missing something? Is there something about the patriarchal hegemony that women find comforting? Or are these merely the Washington D.C. women who, just like the closet gays in the GOP, speak and work against themselves and their lifestyle just to get a little bit more power?

I can at least understand when gender bashing comes from men who are insecure with their masculinity (or lack thereof) and are terrified of some screeching harpy swooping down on them and making off with their testicles. It's not right by any measure, but at least one can see where it comes from. But women talking about how women should stay out of positions of power because they're more of a "nurturing type" and we need a "man at the helm"... that's just weird. I'm a rational guy. There must be a good reason for it! I just can't find it, not being a psychologist. And perhaps the feminist blogosphere has been all over this subject for a decade now. If so, I hope they've got some solutions worked out, because if this escalates, it'll be the Victorian times all over again.

And I love that she included "Mystery" from VH1 and Kim Cattrall!! What a hoot!

The columnist in this clip writes for the Examiner, not the Washington Times. The Examiner is this somewhat annoying rag we get tossed on our lawn every day for free, even though we never asked for it; I never read it. Here's the columnist's website (hmm, doesn't mention her star turn on the Daily Show, go figure).

http://lashawnbarber.com/

FreeProton I'm a woman and I'm as puzzled as you on this. It has gone on for ages. What's really funny is that this woman has a job. If she really believes what she is saying why isn't she a homemaker, as she would have other women be?

My favorite bit was when Ms LaShawn said "Jimmy Carter was president before I hit puberty, so I wouldn't know about him." Of course. Because anything that happened before we were teenagers can't possibly be useful in forming decisions today.

The piece was about gender, not sex.

Salon's copy editors: once again AWOL to serve their readers better!

Oh dear. It looks like I'm going to have to subscribe to full cable again.

...but didn't find it to be among Sam's best. Maybe it would have been funnier if I knew who Carrie Bradshaw was.

Not that she mentioned her in the piece. Did I miss something?

I wish I could tell you something more positive, but I think it is just as simple as the Larry Craig fiasco. Liberals do it too but it looks different when they do it.... You get a very motivated person with a "rich inner fantasy life" projecting what they think life should be on to all of the rest of us. Who knows maybe she has some cognitive dissonance leading her to crave the strong male archetype that should exist yet eludes her or some strong pushy women in her life that she thinks need to be taken down a rung. Kind of the same way Craig was so vehemently anti-gay anything and called Bill Clinton "a very naughty, NASTY, boy" on Chris Matthews and propositioned men in bathrooms on the sly.

I went through a masculine crave when I was younger, I grew out of it when I realized that men wouldn't ever give me the stability I craved, and that they were all fallible people themselves. But hey that’s what our crazy teenage years are for right? Then we grow up, become the parents, accept life's idiosyncrasies, and move on....or not.

She was parodying her the whole time, if you'd seen Sex and the City it would have been very obvious.

All of the smoking-while-typing-while-drinking-cosmos and so much else was an homage (if you can call it that) to Sex in the City. Except Carrie got splashed by a bus, not John Hodgeman.

The Daily Show/Colbert Report block on Comedy Central is arguably the best hour on television.

Without Comedy Central and The Onion the last 6 1/2 years would have been almost unbearable.

Can I just say how smokin' hot and awesome Annie Lennox looks in that iTunes ad that pops up every time I go to the Broadsheet index page? She rocks my world, I've adored her ever since I was a young teen and The Eurythmics burst onto the scene in the early 80s.

Samantha Bee. Very Daily Show, but with an added intellectual + silly + biting SCTV thing. Um, yeah. Basically, all men within my area code have a crush on this woman very married to Jason Jones who, by the way, is also great when interviewing democrats in Erie, Ohio.

Love her.

My favorite bit was when Ms LaShawn said "Jimmy Carter was president before I hit puberty, so I wouldn't know about him." Of course. Because anything that happened before we were teenagers can't possibly be useful in forming decisions today.

What Barber said was "Jimmy Carter was president before I hit puberty, so I wouldn't know about him [being as hot as Samantha Bee claims him to have been.]"

Hope that helps.

Maybe one day you'll learn about Copernicus.

The piece IS about sex. "Is America ready for a woman president?" Not, "Is American ready for a feminine president?" Get it? "Woman" describes a person's sex, not a person's gender.

...snide and incomprehensible. I've never seen that pairing.

The "NILF" segment was a real turning point for a lot of us. See http://www.afterellen.com/blog/scribegrrrl/samantha-bee-nilf-hunter?comment=355868