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Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette
- MrHyde 17y agoThe mainstream media does not understand the internet? Incomprehensible!
- groaner 17y agoOn the contrary, I think they understand exactly what this site is about and are happy to demonize it, possibly to the extent that they can get the powers that be to introduce restrictions on online video so that we can all go back to getting our spoon-fed media.
- lallysingh 17y agoNo, I think they're morons. That seems more consistent.
- itistoday 17y agoI see no reason why they can't be both, evil and morons. :-)
- cmgarcia 17y agoTin foil hatted.
- SamAtt 17y agoI don't think ChatRoulette needs anyone's help in regards to demonizing it. It's pretty much as it was portrayed. If anything the Daily Show made it look better (The one time I tried it I saw double the cock and not a single mainstream news personality)
- borga 17y agoIt's Jon. Sorry.
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- simplegeek 17y agoI'm not sure why you're sorry? Yes, I'm not American so may be there is something that I don't know? Just plain curious ;)
- tvon 17y agoI suspect the original submission said "John" and not the correct "Jon".
- swombat 17y agoSo how can I watch this in the UK?
- srogers 17y agoProbably the same way I watch Guardian football highlights.
- buro9 17y agoRent the cheapest linode possible out in New Jersey and then set up a proxy to effectively tunnel the traffic.
- Angostura 17y agohttp://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/4od http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-daily-show-with-jon-s... Well, that gets you the full shows, rather than this particular clip. Still it's a start.
- Dbug 17y agoThe show is also on the well known torrent sites
- petercooper 17y agossh -D 8080 -C -N your-non-UK-based-ssh-server-name Then use localhost:8080 as a SOCKS proxy from a spare Web browser (Firefox is particularly easy for this). Or get a cheap VPN account. Lots of providers. I pay $5 a month for this (mostly because my ISP frequently blocks access to Google). Hit connect, watch video, hit disconnect.. bob's your uncle, etc.
- 1010011010 17y agoWhich ISP is that?
- petercooper 17y agoI signed up with Pipex (a good business ISP), but they became Tiscali, then they became TalkTalk (a trashy - IMHO - consumer ISP). They seem to not-so-transparently proxy HTTP so badly that large swathes of the Web wobble in and out of working.
- freshfunk 17y agoROFL love his joke on how it's russian roulette with 5
- abstractbill 17y agoInteresting, looks like whatever you typed after the "5" tickled a HN bug - there's an unclosed <i> tag that causes the reply link on your comment to be rendered in italics.
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- staunch 17y agoThe asterisk is used for italics. If you leave one at the end of your comment it does this, it seems.
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- jayair 17y agoI posted it on Twitter as well. Here is the Canadian link - http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/full-episodes/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart---march-4-2010/#clip270998 http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-ste...
- dimarco 17y agoJon & the Daily Show crew have a satirical way of covering certain topics without actually covering them, which I appreciate. It's the same reason that most of my news comes from the Daily Show and news.bbc.co.uk
- Locke1689 17y ago"ChatRoulette is like regular roulette, but five of the chambers are filled with cock." Strangely profound statement. As always, he does a magnificent job of making the mainstream media look like morons.
- dotBen 17y agoNot wanting to be a pedant, but I think the exact quote is "ChatRoulette is like Russian roulette, but five of the chambers are filled with cock." Regular roulette doesn't involve a gun and chambers... unless you run up gambling debts to shady people, I guess.
- jimbokun 17y agoI think you should give a little bit of credit to a representative sample of the mainstream media for playing along.
- icco 17y agoWhat 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.
- handelaar 17y agoFriends don't send friends links to geo-locked video clips.
- fbu 17y agoAvailable in Belgium. Where are you ?
- ugh 17y agoGeo-locked? That’s strange. Where? I can watch here in Germany. Despite having to endure ads which are in no way relevant for me. I thought only Hulu was geo-locked. People might simply not know that something is geo-locked if it’s only unavailable in a few places. The sites (regrettably) don’t come with a warning.
- gjm11 17y agoUnavailable in the UK.
- ugh 17y agoThat’s both mean and strange. What possible gain could there be from excluding the UK and (seemingly) allowing access in continental Europe?
- pmjordan 17y agoIIRC, (a version of) The Daily Show is broadcast on UK television. We wouldn't want competition now, would we?
- ugh 17y agoComedy Central is broadcasting The Daily Show here in Germany. CNN, too. A crappy cut-together version, but still.
- halo 17y agoIndeed. It's shown on the digital terrestrial channel More4 the day after broadcast, as well as available online via 4OD. Sadly, The Colbert Report is also blocked and that's not shown in the UK.
- cookiecaper 17y agoI 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. 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. 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.
- dotBen 17y agoum, are you aware that Daily Show is satire and not really 'newspeople'. Just saying. "See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter." <sigh>
- henrikschroder 17y agoYes, but the Daily Show also showed clips from actual news programs, and they are certainly clueless.
- henrikschroder 17y agoI thought some more about this, and I think the biggest problem is that they have no sense of proportions, they are completely unable to figure out how popular something on the internet is, they don't know the difference between stuff noone cares about, and stuff that is actually widespread. Everything gets painted with the same "Newest craze on the internet" brush.
- qjz 17y agoNo, they're not. They have staff reading reddit, Hacker News, Slashdot, etc. in order to find interesting news leads to sensationalize. It's THEIR JOB.
- mcantor 17y ago
- nazgulnarsil 17y ago"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?" "uh...well according to nielsen it looks like...scared old people." "I have an idea."
- sutro 17y agoYou'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...
- sutro 17y agoThanks folks, I'm trying to get to 0, -4 at a time. I'm here all week.
- shizcakes 17y agoBrian Williams really has some phenomenal comedy cameos. I'm thinking of 30 Rock, and it seems like he keeps popping up all over the place.
- brandnewlow 17y agoHe's a genius. Read his Soprano's recaps for Slate from a few years back: http://www.slate.com/id/2163797/entry/2163798/ http://www.slate.com/id/2163797/entry/2163798/
- blazamos 17y agoHe Skype'd into my lecture class about the Internet & Society.
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- naqeeb 17y agoSadly, 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. On a side note, I would have loved a cameo appearance from Chris Hansen and the To Catch A Predator crew.
- harshpotatoes 17y agoI was waiting for Chris to pop out. "Sit down. Have a seat, Jon. So what are you doing here?"
- morphir 17y agoLinus 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.. But lets be honest guys - we all thought "err.. why did I not think of that".