Bill Gates Crashes The Daily Show!
Anyone who saw Bill Gates on The Daily Show recently must’ve wondered at the guy’s hurried departure. Jon Stewart offers an interesting explanation.
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Jon Stewart Rips into Bush’s 2007 SOTU Address
Cheney wasn’t the only one laughing at Bush’s 2007 State of the Union address. Watch Jon Stewart rip it to shreds.
Both parties in an advisory role? I think they already have something like that. I think it’s called CONGRESS!
As a leader, you know you’re in trouble when a comedian knows your org chart better than you do.
Comedy Central Back on YouTube
The Daily Show sums up Bush speeches.
After suing YouTube, NBC signed a deal with YouTube. Now after having their clips pulled off YouTube over the weekend, Comedy Central’s owner Viacom signs a deal with YouTube. Do you see a pattern emerging here?
You gotta love YouTube’s data retention practices. Pulled clips just magically reappeared, stats and all. Here’s what Viacom had to say about it.
We want our audiences to be able to access our programming on every platform and we’re interested in having it live on all forms of distribution in ways that protect our talented artists, our loyal customers and our passionate audiences.
Of course, Viacom asserting copyright right after Google’s purchase of YouTube raises questions of sincerity.
A YouTube user questions Comedy Central’s motives.
Greed aside, it’s good to see Viacom gets this video thing. For a moment there, I was gonna bash them for having their clips pulled off. In the words of VC Paul Graham:
The big media companies shouldn’t worry that people will post their copyrighted material on YouTube. They should worry that people will post their own stuff on YouTube, and audiences will watch that instead.
In celebration of this landmark deal, enjoy a few of my favorite Comedy Central YouTube clips, supersized for your pleasure. Read the rest of this entry »
