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Rejoice! Every "Daily Show" ever is now online
Viacom builds an amazing new site for the show.
By Farhad Manjoo [2007-10-18]
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  • Thank the Heavens!

    I, too, chafed and cursed when Viacom forced Youtube to remove its Daily Show videos. All well and good, I said, if only the Comedy Central website didn't totally suck ass. They should have had this thing up and running BEFORE they sued Youtube. I don't own a TV, but I love the Daily Show--Viacom was essentially giving me the bird by suing Youtube. I'm not won over yet, but this is a good step.

    -- Valkyrie607
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    Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:23 PM

  • the "first" daily show?

    Has the whole world simply chosen to forget about the Craig Kilborn era of The Daily Show? The first episode was in 1997, I believe, and there was actually a time when loyal viewers were -worried- about Kilborn being replaced by Jon Stewart. How soon we forget...

    -- crapweasel
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    Thursday, October 18, 2007 01:04 PM

  • Kilborn sucked then

    He sucks now. Who cares what happened in 1997 under the Era of Suck?

    -- Bukk63
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    Thursday, October 18, 2007 01:08 PM

  • crapweasel

    Here is a link to a reuters story about the new site which, among other things, states:

    "The earlier version of the program, which started in 1996 with host Craig Kilborn, could be available by early 2008"

    Now, as for forgetting Craig Kilborn's stint on the show, I only wish I could.

    -- generalDisdain
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    Thursday, October 18, 2007 01:19 PM

  • Kilborn

    I'll second the Craig sucking now comment, but to be honest I really liked the Daily Show back then. When Jon Stewart came on it actually took me a little wile to warm up to him. He was just so, so.... short.

    -- bloodyserb
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    Thursday, October 18, 2007 01:22 PM

  • Viacom Tactics Still Misguided!

    Yes, it's great that Viacom is putting ALL of the Daily Show online, but this doesn't validate their tactic of prohibiting sites like YouTube from hosting Short Clips. In order to watch the clips, you need to go to their site, so it's good at keeping existing viewers, but not at attracting new ones.

    Case in Point... I had never heard of "Top Gear", a BBC one hour automotive magazine show that's as funny as it is informative. I viewed several clips of the show that had popped up in the "most viewed" pages on YouTube (followed by several more that pop up as additional links once you view one) and fell in love with the show. I did a search of the BBC America channel in my DVR and now record/watch all the episodes. If those video clips were only on "Top Gear's" own site, I would never have seen them and become a regular viewer.

    Viacom needs to understand that web exposure ADDS viewers, it doesn't cause you to lose them. If they can't figure that out by now, I don't know what will help them get it!

    --Anonymous
    Thursday, October 18, 2007 01:47 PM

  • Gawd you're practically Trekkies

    Reruns, it's a rerun, man.

    --Anonymous
    Thursday, October 18, 2007 01:53 PM

  • HUZZAH!

    I am too broke to afford adding Comedy Central into my pathetic "basic" cable tier. I have placated my Daily Show love by downloading mini clips off the website of Comedy Central.

    But now -- FULL ACCESS! Yeay! Yippy! YES!

    Thank you Viacom. And The Daily Show.

    I might not sleep for days.

    -- IndigoSwash
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    Thursday, October 18, 2007 02:42 PM

  • The Early Kilborn Years Had Their Moments

    I’m one the people who can actually claim to have watched the Daily Show from its beginning. I remember the shows original opening which ended with:

    “Featuring; The Daily Show News Van, The Daily Show News Chopper and the TDS 8400 Laser Copier”

    I was hooked from that point forward. What a perfect slam on so many local news openings that stress all their little toys they over their actual reporting.

    And yes Stewart is god. But there was a lot of fun in those early Kilborn years

    I look forward seeing again the very first ‘5 questions’ with Bill Murray (the first quest to get all five questions correct). Those early feature stories from A Whitney Brown (someday hoping to become The Whitney Brown) were fun and even informative.

    There was a little more wildness back then. A little more, ‘we can get away with anything because nobody knows what we’re doing attitude’. And they were a little more experimental, taking some chances that I don’t think they’d take today.

    -- thorin01
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    Thursday, October 18, 2007 02:43 PM

  • John Cleese's 5 Questions

    I look forward seeing again the very first ‘5 questions’ with Bill Murray (the first quest to get all five questions correct).

    I loved John Cleese's answer when Kilborn asked him: "Why is English food so bad?" Cleese thought for a moment and replied, in that veddy veddy British deadpan way, "We had an Empire to run."

    He got it right, of course.

    -- KitchenGirl
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    Thursday, October 18, 2007 05:22 PM

  • The Post 9/11 Clip

    Watch the last Stewart Clip.

    It almost brings you to tears.

    Stewart is truly a rare talent

    -- Rocket
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    Thursday, October 18, 2007 05:31 PM

  • Truly incredible

    Great news that the Kilborn episodes are going to be put up eventually. Don't get me wrong, I think Stewart is far superior to Kilborn, but A. Whitney Brown was one of the best prototypes for eventual style all the correspondents would employ

    -- Arguman
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    Saturday, October 20, 2007 11:49 AM

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