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aasif mandvi,daily show,high irony,forced perspective the middle east: it's not a crisis, it's an opportunity

the middle east: it's not a crisis, it's an opportunity

posted by plastiquemonkey 3 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 2808 views
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an amazing performance. british-level irony.

he's entirely natural. he's not doing a newscaster parody, like colbert or the other daily show reporters. so it's harder to tell if he's joking.

also notice that his target is not the media, or the president, but americans in general. very tough.


written by plastiquemonkey  | 3 years 3 months 4 weeks ago | CH
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Cutting edge irony in its most desctructive/constructive form. You could tell that the audience was almost unwilling to go there on the 9/11 comparison. Great stuff.


written by dag  | 3 years 3 months 4 weeks ago | CH
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I'm surprised even the Daily Show went there. Ballsy. (See also: funny.)


written by ReverendTed  | 3 years 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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crisitunity!


written by virtualawrence  | 3 years 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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ReverendTed, I think the term you're looking for is "ballsalicious."


written by galactic_dev  | 3 years 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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that is ingenious. so true. hold a mirror to their faces


written by conan  | 3 years 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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*dead


written by deputydog  | 2 years 9 months ago | CH
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The link to this video has been flagged as dead. Fix it within 7 days or it will be discarded (dead called by gold star member deputydog)


written by siftbot  | 2 years 9 months ago | CH
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*undead


written by plastiquemonkey  | 2 years 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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The link to this video has been fixed (undead called by original submitter plastiquemonkey)


written by siftbot  | 2 years 8 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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video does not reflect title. *blog


written by gorgonheap  | 2 years 4 months ago | CH
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Sending this video to Sift Talk for discussion (sent by Silver Star member gorgonheap)


written by siftbot  | 2 years 4 months ago | CH
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I noticed that what is shown does not relate to the title of the video. I'm not sure what happened. So how should we take care of this?


written by gorgonheap  | 2 years 4 months ago | CH
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looks like a dead viddy repaired with the wrong embed

repair belongs to the original sumbmittah...

gonna return it and send plastiquemonkey a note

*return


written by choggie  | 2 years 4 months ago | CH
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Returning this video from Sift Talk (Returned by gold star member choggie)


written by siftbot  | 2 years 4 months ago | CH
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Mmmmmmkay... looks like returning it started a bug and now it's third in the top 15.

*weirdness


written by karaidl  | 2 years 4 months ago | CH
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don't know why they changed the embed. it was on myspace, but must have been pulled. now it's dead for me.

luckily, comedy central is finally putting older clips up...

so it's fixed now.

this is still completely brilliant...


written by plastiquemonkey  | 2 years 4 months ago | CH
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Delicous. You can almost hear the cold wet towel of uncomfortable truth slap the audience in their faces.


written by Rugil  | 2 years 4 months ago | CH
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it's not a bug it's a damn liberal conspiracy. accidents like this do not happen. the top 15 is rapidly losing credibility.


written by MINK  | 2 years 4 months ago | CH
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damn, i wish the daily show was this strong in it's sarcasm more often.


written by Memorare  | 2 years 4 months ago | CH
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OKAY! what a glitch!! this was previously posted, never saved, blogged and returnred, and now it is at #1 in the top 15

YAAYYYYYYYYYY!


written by choggie  | 2 years 4 months ago | CH
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This was, and still is, the funniest and most insightful political satire I've heard since the war began.


written by tremormilo  | 2 years 4 months ago | CH
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out of the 3 million Daily Show clips on the sift, this is easily one of the best


written by Selektaa  | 2 years 4 months ago | CH
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*1stTube


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Adding video to channels (1sttube) - requested by Grimm.


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*waronterror


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Adding video to channels (Waronterror) - requested by raven.


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i didn't see it noted anywhere else on the page, so i thought i'd chime in.

this is Aasif Mandvi's debut on the show.
he was already this damn good at it. solid actor. i had recognized him from 'Spider-man 2' and 'The Siege' when this aired.

also, if you could include the term i searched for, when looking for it (to see whether or not i could possibly hope to shnag this gem) ...

... the title of the segment is "Forced Perspective".


written by my15minutes  | 1 year 11 months 1 week ago | CH
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*dead


written by jonny  | 9 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by jonny.


written by siftbot  | 9 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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Awarding EDD with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.


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This video and Aasif Mandvi are pure genius. *promote one of the best pieces of Daily Show ever (also, I just realized fixing & then promoting stuff is quite gratifying ).


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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 4:15pm PDT - promote requested by EDD.


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**sigh**blocked


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This video has been flagged as having an embed that is Region Blocked to not function in certain geographical locations - declared blocked by SlipperyPete.


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