A new Harvard poll -- yes, Harvard-- seeks to find the definitive answer to an actual bargument from the book:
Who's funnier: Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert?
You could read the results at the Harvard site, but there's lots of OTHER questions you'll have to sort through that's also in the poll (who likes Obama, who's white, who thinks what about immigration, blah blah blah).
Better just to click over to The Fix, a political blog at The Washington Post that does a great job covering the presidential race and really deserves a signed copy of the book.
(Oh, and the Harvard poll doesn't actually ask who is funnier. The polls asks young people their preference. That will NOT protect Harvard from a lawsuit from one bitter and under-selling author.)
4 comments:
Which comedian is funnier? Yawn. Come on Hanks, you've gotta go with something a little less pedestrian, like: who would win in a Texas Lumberjack match or steel cage fight. The show Last Comic Standing hasn't done nearly as well as say Survivor or the WWE. People want senseless obstacles, drama, and gratuitous beatings. Throw in some steel chairs and you are set. Or you could have them square off in the Ultimate Fighting octagon. I'm going with Stewart--he made Colbert anyway.
I agree with Vallejo on the former but not the latter. Stewart plays a good straight man, and his show has evolved into valuable political satire (and better insight than "real" TV news). But Colbert is a sheer genius. That correspondents' dinner -- come on! One of the most brilliant speeches in modern history.
I agree with Chapman, and give my shoulder a little brush in response to Valliant.
Colbert much quicker than Stewart, and lacks that lecturing streak you sometimes see during Daily Show interviews.
No, see you all misunderstand me here: I am saying Stewart would win in the octagon. Colbert is more over the top funny at the moment, but I think Stewart may have the staying power. And while neither strike me as brawlers, Stewart has a ninja-esque quality about him...
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