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COMEDY CENTRAL's 'DAILY SHOW'
has experienced a surprise audience erosion
despite a publicity push by host Jon Stewart.

Stewart, who announced last week that he plans to support John Kerry, pulled 1,040,000 total viewers for the month of September -- down 7% from August, and 15% from July, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Jumbo hype from media writers and Stewart's bestselling book apparently have failed to translate into any TV audience improvement, and the show's future is looking bleak.

I love the show but a combination of times and mass amounts of reruns conspire to make viewing it no easy task :) (and then I remember it is just a show and can sleep at night)

Plus the show seems to attract alot of supergay liberals, and minorities just can't keep a show on the air.

Plus the show seems to attract alot of supergay liberals, and minorities just can't keep a show on the air.

and they don't know no english to.

i read to drudge report and stopped

you know those things called credited news sources? try citing them

...see.

Simply ignore anything coming from Drudge Report. It's a propaganda site, devoid of any factual news.

I agree with UpwardThrust, the reruns of late with no warning of when a new show will air makes me more likely to not bother checking if it's new or not.

I agree with UpwardThrust, the reruns of late with no warning of when a new show will air makes me more likely to not bother checking if it's new or not.
I've set my recorder to only new shows. Since I watch them the next day it works for me. But like anything, the formula will go stale after awhile.

Ah, if I had DVR, I'd do the same, but cable's free and I'm not paying $80 for the next highest package. :D

No! This cannot be!

i can believe it
i watched the daily show much more often over the summer than i am now that my favorite shows are back with new episodes.

COMEDY CENTRAL's 'DAILY SHOW'
has experienced a surprise audience erosion
despite a publicity push by host Jon Stewart.

Stewart, who announced last week that he plans to support John Kerry, pulled 1,040,000 total viewers for the month of September -- down 7% from August, and 15% from July, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Jumbo hype from media writers and Stewart's bestselling book apparently have failed to translate into any TV audience improvement, and the show's future is looking bleak.

This is bullshit, since the Daily Show pulled more than a million in a single episode (the post-first debate live show.)

Wow, Drudge pulled these numbers right out of his ass

You can only listen to the same jokes so often.

No! This cannot be!
Please reread the words "Drudge Report".

And yeah, now that summer is over, it's harder to watch. More stuff to do, and they run a lot of reruns. The show is awesome, but it's inconvenient to watch.

Exactly, it drives me nuts they’re not making new shows for no reason. *Cries*

You can only listen to the same jokes so often.

Yeah, I'm tired of listening to Bush and Cheney too. Why don't they get some new material?

Plus the show seems to attract alot of supergay liberals, and minorities just can't keep a show on the air.What does that have to do with their audience eroding, even if it were true?

Plus the show seems to attract alot of supergay liberals, and minorities just can't keep a show on the air.

Do you have a problem with liberals?

In the last month they marked a few record high ratings. The article seems to make it a notion of this week, which is natural because this week was an 'off' week. The show returns to new episodes tonight. This really seems pathetic to try and dance on the show's grave-it's a talk show on Comedy Central for crying out loud. It goes to reruns just like Letterman or Conan does, it has migratory viewing just like any show of it's caliber has. Stating that the future of the show seemed bleak is just outright retarded. Two emmys in a row on Comedy Central? Yeah, their gonna keep it. Even if the viewership continues to drop it will still be above where it started. I'm willing to bet that it still rates the same or better then Shorties Watching Shorties or what ever some rerun of Mad TV.

Gotta love how quick the wolves are unleashed after someone dares question King George.

In the last month they marked a few record high ratings. The article seems to make it a notion of this week, which is natural because this week was an 'off' week. The show returns to new episodes tonight. This really seems pathetic to try and dance on the show's grave-it's a talk show on Comedy Central for crying out loud. It goes to reruns just like Letterman or Conan does, it has migratory viewing just like any show of it's caliber has. Stating that the future of the show seemed bleak is just outright retarded. Two emmys in a row on Comedy Central? Yeah, their gonna keep it. Even if the viewership continues to drop it will still be above where it started. I'm willing to bet that it still rates the same or better then Shorties Watching Shorties or what ever some rerun of Mad TV.

Gotta love how quick the wolves are unleashed after someone dares question King George.

As Jon Stewart himself points out, he's on a program that follows puppets making prank calls. The fact that the right-wing mouthpieces (although I believe another orifice would be more approriate,) are so quick to pounce on Stewart just shows the feebleness of their grasp on reality.

I believe the Daily Show regularly outdraws the O'Reilly Factor, and that's the "highest rated political opinion show on TV," whatever that means.

COMEDY CENTRAL's 'DAILY SHOW'
has experienced a surprise audience erosion
despite a publicity push by host Jon Stewart.

Stewart, who announced last week that he plans to support John Kerry, pulled 1,040,000 total viewers for the month of September -- down 7% from August, and 15% from July, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Jumbo hype from media writers and Stewart's bestselling book apparently have failed to translate into any TV audience improvement, and the show's future is looking bleak.People, keep in mind that J0eg0d is the original source for this story. Unless you consider j0eg0d to be a credible news source who would be able to discover this kind of information on his own, his post should be taken with less than a grain of salt.

And if he got the information from someone else, he's a plagiarist.

Does anyone really think that "The Daily Show" ratings are indicative of any matter of import to our nation?
Hey, but their book is top notch. I highly recommend it. It shows just what a farce our federal government has become. You have to look beyond the satire to see that a lot of what they say is somewhat true.
My personal favorite is the various Cabinet job descriptions:
"Secretary of Education - Charged with keeping our educational system among the world's best, using budgetary equivalent of one F-16 Tomahawk fighter jet."

The second-best satirical example of the banality of federal government is
Parliament of Whores P.J. O'Rourke, 1991
Timeless!

I love the show but a combination of times and mass amounts of reruns conspire to make viewing it no easy task :) (and then I remember it is just a show and can sleep at night)

That, and gee, go figure that people wouldn't have as much time to watch TV now that summer's over.

Simply ignore anything coming from Drudge Report. It's a propaganda site, devoid of any factual news.
But I'll be damned if the liberals don't quote everything it says about Bush as if it was the godhonest truth. Hypocrisy is such an admirable trait...

Look, obviously Stewart is learning the hard way that a good deal of his audience supports Bush, and that alienating them by announcing his support of Kerry is a tactical mistake. Honestly, I took him for an Independent. He has merely chosen a rather bad time to announce his affiliation. I'm sure that eventually his ratings will bounce right back up, after Bush wins and Stewart gets to spend 4 more years cracking jokes on him.

Look, obviously Stewart is learning the hard way that a good deal of his audience supports Bush, and that alienating them by announcing his support of Kerry is a tactical mistake. Honestly, I took him for an Independent. He has merely chosen a rather bad time to announce his affiliation. I'm sure that eventually his ratings will bounce right back up, after Bush wins and Stewart gets to spend 4 more years cracking jokes on him.

"Obviously?" It looks like people have, in less than two pages, come up with plenty of other likely reasons why there would be a dip in ratings. There's little obvious about it to those who consider different dimensions to it, but some will obviously believe what suits them.

Furthermore, the Daily Show would have lost most of the reactionary Republicans years ago. He's been criticizing Bush for nearly 4 years, remember? Any person who would stop watching now would have blacklisted him long ago.

But I'll be damned if the liberals don't quote everything it says about Bush as if it was the godhonest truth. Hypocrisy is such an admirable trait...

Look, obviously Stewart is learning the hard way that a good deal of his audience supports Bush, and that alienating them by announcing his support of Kerry is a tactical mistake. Honestly, I took him for an Independent. He has merely chosen a rather bad time to announce his affiliation. I'm sure that eventually his ratings will bounce right back up, after Bush wins and Stewart gets to spend 4 more years cracking jokes on him.

Really? Or maybe this was an amazing summer for The Daily Show like beating the news networks during the primaries (http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,603161,00.html), or when Clinton was on (http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA444245.html) or the record week it had during the RNC (http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA451304.html), or when Kerry and McCain was on (http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20040826/d_lline26.art.htm) (probably escaped your notice that when McCain was on Stewart called him "My president.") It certainly doesn't take into acount the record high after the debate. (http://www.lostremote.com/archives/002570.html) If indeed the ratings have dipped it is more likely a normalization than anything else.

But, yeah-it sure seems obvious if you're a partisan dumbass.

You can only listen to the same jokes so often.


Oh absolutely.
thats why Bush is a terrible comedian.

COMEDY CENTRAL's 'DAILY SHOW'
has experienced a surprise audience erosion
despite a publicity push by host Jon Stewart.

Stewart, who announced last week that he plans to support John Kerry, pulled 1,040,000 total viewers for the month of September -- down 7% from August, and 15% from July, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Jumbo hype from media writers and Stewart's bestselling book apparently have failed to translate into any TV audience improvement, and the show's future is looking bleak.I decided to do a little looking into this.

The list goes on and on. Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" scored a coup when it picked up its second consecutive win for best variety series. It also won for best writing on a variety series. The show, hosted by Jon Stewart, is averaging 1.1 million viewers this year and, during the GOP convention in New York, enjoyed its most watched week ever -- 1.3 million viewers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37114-2004Sep20.html

"The Daily Show." The Comedy Central faux news show posted its biggest audience ever -- 2.4 million viewers -- when it went live the night of the first presidential debate for post-squabble mop-up. The show's previous record was 1.9 million viewers on the night Sen. John McCain was Jon Stewart's guest.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10007-2004Oct5.html

So far this year, viewership has averaged 1 million for the weeknight 11 p.m. ET airing — an all-time high for the show.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2004-03-18-jon-stewart_x.htm

But I'll be damned if the liberals don't quote everything it says about Bush as if it was the godhonest truth. Hypocrisy is such an admirable trait...

Look, obviously Stewart is learning the hard way that a good deal of his audience supports Bush, and that alienating them by announcing his support of Kerry is a tactical mistake. Honestly, I took him for an Independent. He has merely chosen a rather bad time to announce his affiliation. I'm sure that eventually his ratings will bounce right back up, after Bush wins and Stewart gets to spend 4 more years cracking jokes on him.

Uhh... how would a Bush supporter ever watch the Daily Show?

I mean, have you seen it for the past few months? Jon Stewart is a comedian, so of course he has to be able to make fun of Kerry too, but how could you ever - ever - think he, or the show, was non-partisan?

I don't think the Daily show is gonna be hurtin for ratings later on. Its hit record high in the last year and won an Emmy for cryin out loud. Even if Jon Stewart lose his conservative audience, do you have any idea how many viewers out of the more than 200 million Americans with TV's are liberal? The show will be fine in the long run, this is just a hiccup caused by a week of reruns.