Comedian uses anti-Catholic jokes

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I just read a story about comedian and commentator Jon Stewart doing a show at the Foxwoods Resort Casino this weekend. Not unexpectedly, he spent most of the show skewing conservative Republicans but at one point he delved into religion and one of his jokes quoted in the paper was as follows: “The pope is the most loved man no one agrees with,” he poked. “The guy is a hat choice away from being the grand wizard of the Klu Klux Klan.” It’s likely that no one will complain about this outrageous statement even in the context of a “joke”. This is further evidence that anti-Catholic bias is pervasive in American society.
 
Unfortunatly, I think he’s right on with the first joke. I just don’t think that fact is very funny.
 
I am so tired of the anti-Catholic jokes, stories, movies, tv shows…everything. I just don’t know what to do about it. We protest, we boycott but it doesn’t seem to make a dent in it. We are just labeled sensitive or not tolerant.

On the other hand, it makes me feel that we must be doing something right if ol’ sparky is working this hard to get us.

I guess we just keep praying.:amen:
 
Bill Mahre (spelling?) does the same thing. You can read his trascripts on his web site. He also has said some real sick things about abortion.
 
The worst part of all is the fact that people take what celebrities say as the gospel truth. Look at Madonna and Tom Cruise, and all the celebrities that speak for the Democratic party. The average Joe cant seem to discern that they are using their status and celebrity to promote their views, no matter how much actual knowledge they have of a certain subject, i.e. abortion. However, if Bishop Wuerl ( Pittsburgh bishop) comes on his Sunday morning show and tells viewers how grave abortion or euthanasia is, angry viewers write to the paper and tell how the Church is wrong on almost everything, including abortion, birth control, and homosexual practices.

That is the problem with our society. We have been given every freedom known to man, but no real ability, for some people, to have the common sense to tell right from wrong. And those people get mad and spiteful when the Church tells them no and it is a sin. The people then say “Well, I can do what I want and I believe it isn’t a sin, yet I will still go take communion, and blah blah blah, and I will speak out against the Church”.

It is all about the irresponsible use (read: abuse) of freedom.

dxu
 
Half of the ‘underground’ comedians (open mic ppls, working their way up) also use anti-Catholic jokes. That’s why I don’t go to underground comedy anymore.
There’s a fine line between light hearted humor and taking it too far.
 
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swampfox:
What religion is Jon Stewart?
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I believe he is Jewish.
 
Jon Stewart often pokes fun at himself and the fact that he is Jewish. I think that is a big part of why I enjoy him so much.
 
I don’t get this guy - he is so not funny. Plus he doesn’t even have any conviction about what he believes. When questioned about his statements, he reverts to the “I’m just a comedian” excuse. Lame.
 
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Jennifer123:
I don’t get this guy - he is so not funny. Plus he doesn’t even have any conviction about what he believes. When questioned about his statements, he reverts to the “I’m just a comedian” excuse. Lame.
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I agree with your assessment. He is just that funny.
 
I don’t really mind Jon Stewart. Actually, it’s not his content that makes him funny: it’s the way he presents his information…

Example: I watch The Daily Show about two times a week (or less), and I see him poking fun at both sides of the political spectrum. The joke itself wouldn’t be funny if you read it on paper, but if you’ve seen the show and seen how Jon Stewart presents the material, you would just laugh on a count of how stupid some of the material sounds, like when he pokes fun at President Bush. It may not be funny to read what Stewart says about the President, but to watch and listen to him poke fun is pretty good. He’s poked fun at the Pope, too… but it was usually something about how he (the Pope at the time) worded a statement or how he spoke at a large gathering.

I dunno, maybe that’s just because Jon Stewart’s humor is appealing to teenagers like me. I just think some of you folks need to cool down… he probably doesn’t mean half of what he says. He does it for a living, after all… if his jokes weren’t so rude and off-color, they wouldn’t be as funny.

Peace,
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He reverts to the “I am a comedian” excuse because people seem to think that he’s something more. He’s not a political scientist, he’s not a polititan. He’s not a jouralist. He runs a fake news show. He has no journalist ethics to maintain(which is funny because it can be argued that comedy central’s ethics are more moral then the twenty-four hour news networks). He is just a comedian.
 
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Rhubarb:
He reverts to the “I am a comedian” excuse because people seem to think that he’s something more. He’s not a political scientist, he’s not a polititan. He’s not a jouralist. He runs a fake news show. He has no journalist ethics to maintain(which is funny because it can be argued that comedy central’s ethics are more moral then the twenty-four hour news networks). He is just a comedian.
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He takes himself pretty seriously if you’ve seen him outside of the Daily Show. That is what is so irritating to me, seems pretty self-righteous, but that’s just my opinion. I’m not overheated as another poster put it :rolleyes: 🙂 just getting fed up with celebrity lecturing.
 
I suppose. But I think that’s the same way with anyone who has a strong opinion. I mean, if CNN would pay me to guest on Crossfire I’d probably do some lecturing too. Unfortunately no one really cares what a 21 year old undergrad thinks. And with good reason probably. Some of us students are kinda crazy.
 
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16sr67:
I dunno, maybe that’s just because Jon Stewart’s humor is appealing to teenagers like me. I just think some of you folks need to cool down… he probably doesn’t mean half of what he says. He does it for a living, after all… if his jokes weren’t so rude and off-color, they wouldn’t be as funny.
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I think everyone would appreciate Jon Stewart a tad more if he didnt compare our Pope to the Klu Klux Klan and focused some of his sarcasm on the blunders of the liberal left. His success is dependent upon young people believing his analysis to be fair and balanced, which it regretably is not. I watched his show in the days of Clinton & Gore, and yet even then most of his content was aimed at the right, especially the religious right, while your president was testing pharmies on poor Africans & sleeping with interns. Somehow, during the great discrediting & scandalizing of the Presidency, Stewart rarely found the time to criticize the most corrupt administration since the days of Nixon.

For the record, I think Jon Stewart is a talented comedian, but we dont need to waste any energy finding excuses for his misadventures.
 
Colm O'Higgins:
I think everyone would appreciate Jon Stewart a tad more if he didnt compare our Pope to the Klu Klux Klan and focused some of his sarcasm on the blunders of the liberal left. His success is dependent upon young people believing his analysis to be fair and balanced, which it regretably is not. I watched his show in the days of Clinton & Gore, and yet even then most of his content was aimed at the right, especially the religious right, while your president was testing pharmies on poor Africans & sleeping with interns. Somehow, during the great discrediting & scandalizing of the Presidency, Stewart rarely found the time to criticize the most corrupt administration since the days of Nixon.

For the record, I think Jon Stewart is a talented comedian, but we dont need to waste any energy finding excuses for his misadventures.
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It’s not that I think he’s fair and balanced, but that he’s just funny in presenting the material. I don’t really give a hoot who he criticizes… he just does a good job at it.
 
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Several years ago I happened on his show when John Paul II was visiting the U.S. and he was making cheap jokes about the pope being old & feeble. That’s way beyond childish - making fun of ANY elderly person in that way is downright malicious.

I stopped watching stand-up or talk show comedians when I started substitute teaching. They’re all just overgrown versions of the self-appointed class clown who considers it his sacred duty to annoy his teachers as much as humanly possible. It wouldn’t even make a difference if they were funny, which most of them are decidedly not. Especially Jon Stewart.
 
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stellina:
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Several years ago I happened on his show when John Paul II was visiting the U.S. and he was making cheap jokes about the pope being old & feeble. That’s way beyond childish - making fun of ANY elderly person in that way is downright malicious.

I stopped watching stand-up or talk show comedians when I started substitute teaching. They’re all just overgrown versions of the self-appointed class clown who considers it his sacred duty to annoy his teachers as much as humanly possible. It wouldn’t even make a difference if they were funny, which most of them are decidedly not. Especially Jon Stewart.
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You’re perfectly fine to think that way, but it’s humor… it’s not like Jon Stewart personally has something against the late Holy Father. I’m sure Stewart has said something that even John Paul himself laughed at (if he watched the show at all). You don’t have to like something to think it’s funny.

Hey, if there was no class clown (or troublemaker to be more broad) in your classes, don’t you think it would have become bored and repetitive after a while going to class and seeing nothing new happen? I know I get annoyed when the class clowns and such interrupt my classes, but I also think about what those classes would be like without them. Very boring.

Since I put it that way, one could say that Jon Stewart makes the news industry interesting when he crosses the line and insults authority. People enjoy controversy… without it, we would all be bored to tears.
 
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