[lbo-talk] 'Jon Stewart's Perfect Pitch'

[Jeffrey Fisher]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 15:45:32 +0000, Carl Remick wrote:
> [I've always found Jon Stewart about as iconoclastic and 
> mordant as Johnny Carson.  The NY Times piece below does 
> nothing to change that view, despite Frank Rich's 
> insistence that Stewart's "humor is so sharp that it 
> never seems like the mushy middle."  OTOH, Andy Rooney, 
> of all people, comes across as a gutsy guy.]
> 

aren't you overstating your case just a tad, here? stewart 
strikes me as more akin to the smothers brothers than 
johnny carson  . . . personally, i think stewart is cooler 
than rich makes him sound in this column, but maybe i'm a 
liberal wuss.

j