Comedy Central will today launch a dedicated website for “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” that is designed to offer fans free video clips from the show.
Although it would be easy to mock Comedy Central’s I can’t believe 2004 called launch of free Daily Show clips, the offering is slightly better than it first appears; the site includes 13,000 clips representing every minute of the show since it launched in 1999, according to the LA Times.
Comedy Central content has long been a favorite illegal upload on YouTube, and BitTorrent provides ample downloads of most of Stewart’s back catalog.
Previous Stewart understudy and South Carolina Presidential Candidate Stephen Colbert has long had his own website at Colbertnation.com, and offers a program that is preferred by some. Its later time slot never seems to prevent high peer and seed ratios on BitTorrent.
Comedy Central’s parent company Viacom sued Google for copyright infringement on YouTube in March.
WTF? I went to the new Daily Show site. I thought I might like to watch a clip about Rush Limbaugh…and clicked the WATCH button. That popped up a new IE window, that let me know that I should bookmark this site — and after a static 30 seconds, it then went on to the Comedy Central home page.
No clip. Tried this 3 times from the Daily Show site…and all 3 times, I got no clip.
Wont’ be back….stupid programming — not the show, the idiots who gave users the WATCH button, and then didn’t let it work!
Jim
People were already downloading it through P2P.
Daily is a huge bore who just rants on and on about things he doesnt understand. Do’nt you hate guys like that?
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1) I don’t believe the new Daily Show site is actually up yet - that looks like the old site. The “Get ready for something big — check back later today!” text tips that off too.
2) “[Colbert's] later time slot never seems to prevent high peer and seed ratios on BitTorrent.” — Wouldn’t a later time slot *encourage* piracy?
“MotherLoad” will show many video from comedy central shows that will include never-before-seen videos. What could be those videos?
Actually, both the daily show and the colbert report are available for free (and legally) on ifilm.com
Agreed! Sometimes they talk about the same stuff but they have some nice hits, though.
Yes I get my dose of Jon Stewart on Spike too. It’s a much easier way of doing it.
“Although it would be easy to mock Comedy Central’s I can’t believe 2004 called launch of free Daily Show clips, the offering is slightly better than it first appears…”
This need some rewording and maybe some punctuation. I can’t figure it out.
I’ve been watching the Daily Show and the Colbert Report whenever I want via the Comedy Central web site.
Sucks: They only run one ad per show per few weeks, so it shows between every clip or every other clip, and I am TIRED of the Starbucks Iced Coffee and Doritos Two Chips In One Bag or whatever it’s called with Missy Elliot ARRRGH
Awesome: Still less commercials than watching it on TV, and I can watch it whenever I want. In front of my computer. And giggle like a maniac in the privacy and comfort of my own bedroom.
Huh? Save yourself the trouble and watch Daily Show episodes on Cavenger (http://www.cavenger.com/dailyshow.php)
I like both shows a lot but I highly appreciate the slightly more serious nature of the Daily Show. Yes it’s still comedy, but Colbert just gets out of control sometimes, especially during his interviews, and it’s really annoying.
Colbert was not an understudy of John Stewart. He was writing for and appearing on The Daily Show before John Stewart took over the role of front man.
Ironic that Viacom (the company who set up this site) is still continuing its lawsuit against Google over copy write infringement yet the search for their website is “Powered by Google”. Thick with irony.
Daily show is far superior to Colbert Report… I used to love Colbert on TDS but like someone else said he is out of control on his own. His interviews and “the word” segments are hugely boring and completely meaningless because he pushes his schtick so far that the guests stop bothering to try and make their points…
For all you Colbert naysayers, I have two words for you:
“Better Know a District”.
Both The Daily Show and Colbert Report are among the best shows on TV. No need to rank them or compare their relative merits.
Oh, and the site’s finally live. I recommend checking out TDS’s first night back after 9/11 - I believe it was the 23rd.
We bidded on the Colbert Book Project and we lost, but we got sweet shirts!
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“The Daily Show” is 15 seconds of incredibly funny joke(s), fluffed into one of the most BORING 22 minutes on Cable TV.
So, how does Jon manage 22 minutes? Well, he dedicates 10 minutes to his templatized, BORING, utterly-predictable Bush-bashing diatribe (during which the studio audience is stone silent, and can be felt awkwardly awaiting a real joke), then follows it up with a worthless book-hawking session featuring some turd nobody cares about.
Wrap it all together with some fancy graphics and presto, 22 minutes of 99.2% pure boredom.
Clips isn’t good enough, we want whole episode downloads. And iTunes $2.99 price is ridiculous for a 22minute episode, let it be 0.50$ max per episode or free when ad-supported.
“during which the studio audience is stone silent, and can be felt awkwardly awaiting a real joke…”
Seems like you’re confusing TDS with Fox News’ Half Hour News Hour. Except the part about a funny 15 seconds.
In all seriousness though, is it really shocking a troll wouldn’t find TDS funny?
You forgot to link to the site techcrunch….
http://www.TheDailyShow.com is the site that was launched.