"ChatRoulette is like regular roulette, but five of the chambers are filled with cock."<p>Strangely profound statement. As always, he does a magnificent job of making the mainstream media look like morons.
"we're slipping guys. we're bleeding viewers. people just don't care about the news anymore. we need something that grabs people. steve, who's our main demographic these days?"<p>"uh...well according to nielsen it looks like...scared old people."<p>"I have an idea."
I posted it on Twitter as well. Here is the Canadian link - <a href="http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/full-episodes/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart---march-4-2010/#clip270998" rel="nofollow">http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-ste...</a>
What amazes me about this short is not that they satirically covered the news, but the amount of clips and actual people they were able to put together to make the segment really work.
Jon & the Daily Show crew have a satirical way of covering certain topics without actually <i>covering</i> them, which I appreciate.<p>It's the same reason that most of my news comes from the Daily Show and news.bbc.co.uk
Sadly, you think the Mainstream Media would realize that viewers are not as afraid of the internets as they were back in the 90s. There is a reason why more people watch the Daily Show for their news these days.<p>On a side note, I would have loved a cameo appearance from Chris Hansen and the To Catch A Predator crew.
Linus Torvalds called the bsd-people for a bunch 'masturbating monkeys' and the digg-crowd for a bunch of 'wanking walruses'. I wonder if there was a more appropriate term for chatroulettes users..<p>But lets be honest guys - we all thought "err.. why did I not think of that".
I don't know wtf is wrong with these newspeople. Not that many people know about ChatRoulette -- for instance, no one in my family knows about it, and with all the time I spend online on sites like this, I've only heard it mentioned a few times.<p>But when you get on TV to "warn parents" about this "frightening new trend" of seeing penises, you tell a lot of "normal" people about it and only make things worse.<p>The mainstream media is desperate to look like they know what's happening with kids and the internet, but they really just constantly misreport and their own reporting skews numbers. See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter.
You're not allowed to submit links like this to HN, because HN is too serious and important for humor. Cue the censorious "we're becoming just like reddit" comments...