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Full episodes are now available again in the UK.
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Not anymore
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Not anymore Well, they are (and have been) available in Germany for quite a while now. I this show so much
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Recently blocked for Australian viewers :(
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I'm not too heartbroken since you can still basically watch a full show by just watching all the clips in order (which it will handily do for you). Colbert is still totally blocked though which is really
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What the hell? why would the shows be blocked? Am i missing something? It's not political reasons is it?
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Tale
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What the hell? why would the shows be blocked? Am i missing something? It's not political reasons is it?
Geoblocking happens because rights are sold to broadcast the show in the country concerned, and the local broadcaster therefore needs local eyeballs on the local channel/website/ads, not the US channel/website/ads.
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As always, it's all about the money. The internet is a revenue-generating device, after all.
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Damn that came and went fast
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Wouldn't be a problem if the UK offerings were half as accessible as the daily show website. Grrf.
Proxies win.
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Looks like they've started blocking the clips now too.
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Yeah, as above though, proxies win!
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Found this, for firefox users if you don't want to use a proxy: http://forum.thedailyshow.com/tds/board/message?board.id=support_2008_oct&message.id=2897#M2897if you are using firefox, install the following addon: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967 then: 1) In Firefox, Go to tools->modify headers 2) From the drop down box on the left select add 3) Then enter: "X-Forwarded-For" in the first input box without the quotation marks 4) Enter: "12.13.14.15" in the second input box without the quotation marks 5) Leave the last input box empty, and save the filter, and enable it 6) Click the 'Configuration' tab on the right then proceed to check the 'always on' button. Close the Modify Headers box and it should work. Works a charm for me. How long this header spoofing will last given that it has been cunningly hidden on the official daily show forums is anyone's guess though.
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I know this is a comedy show, but it is also my only source of information for American politics outside of this forum. Is this a bad thing ?
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I know this is a comedy show, but it is also my only source of information for American politics outside of this forum. Is this a bad thing ?
No. This or BBC America may be your best shot. You have to love a country that treats its news as entertainment. (cue Don Henley)
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I know this is a comedy show, but it is also my only source of information for American politics outside of this forum. Is this a bad thing ?
No. This or BBC America may be your best shot. You have to love a country that treats its news as entertainment. (cue Don Henley) Over here people are bitching because you have to pay 17,98 € per month for public founded television programms if you own a television. Because "nobody watches those channels anyway". Nowadays I just tell them to watch a single episode of the daily show to see what happens if you don't have this "public option".
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You tell them if they don't pay up they get awesome news comedy? I don't know if your approach will work, Helm!
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You tell them if they don't pay up they get awesome news comedy? I don't know if your approach will work, Helm! No, I tell them they get the news equivalent of FOX news if they don't pay up. If they ask me what would be so bad about that, I tell them to watch the Daily Show.
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Ah, that could work.
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But just think about how cool an ultra right wing German nationalist news network would be
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But just think about how cool an ultra right wing German nationalist news network would be Yeah, just awesome. I guess we have it better, because our people are simply uninformed (and uninterested) and not missinformed.
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Over here people are bitching because you have to pay 17,98 € per month for public founded television programms if you own a television. Because "nobody watches those channels anyway". Nowadays I just tell them to watch a single episode of the daily show to see what happens if you don't have this "public option". To be fair our version of publicly funded television breeds it's own kind of stupidity. I'd gladly pay €20 per Month to get BBC level of quality (altough even that seems to be on a downwards slope these days) but for german public televison? German public television has been envisioned to be a truly neutral source of information without partisan influence or the need to make commercial viable programming with all the subtle possibilities for influence that enables. After WW2 and the National Socialists, the allies and the new german government felt that what they needed was radio and televion which could not be influenced by politics. That's why the government can't even collect the fees for the TV licence and the networks do this themselves. Cut to today where the board of directors for the two public television networks consists solely of members of the ruling parties, where nearly half of the budget is made with commercial advertising, where the programming of both public networks is a bastardized version of the private networks' programming, where Editors in Chief get bullied out of office because a local Governour is pissed off by the neutral reporting. There are still quite a few pearls of programming especially on the smaller special interest channels but this gets drowned out by a neverending stream of musical variety shows (Volksmusik), daytime soaps, the movie equivalents of women's pulp fiction, celebrity 'news' programmes and cooking shows. You could easily do a german version of the Daily Show. We just don't have the personalities for such a show.
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Arg, fuck this.
Any non-American care to point me to a proxy that works and will LET ME SEE THE FUNNY ??!
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Found this, for firefox users if you don't want to use a proxy: http://forum.thedailyshow.com/tds/board/message?board.id=support_2008_oct&message.id=2897#M2897if you are using firefox, install the following addon: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967 then: 1) In Firefox, Go to tools->modify headers 2) From the drop down box on the left select add 3) Then enter: "X-Forwarded-For" in the first input box without the quotation marks 4) Enter: "12.13.14.15" in the second input box without the quotation marks 5) Leave the last input box empty, and save the filter, and enable it 6) Click the 'Configuration' tab on the right then proceed to check the 'always on' button. Close the Modify Headers box and it should work. Works a charm for me. How long this header spoofing will last given that it has been cunningly hidden on the official daily show forums is anyone's guess though. This works for me.
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K9
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Arg, fuck this.
Any non-American care to point me to a proxy that works and will LET ME SEE THE FUNNY ??!
Channel4.com/4od We get it a day late, and you can't find back-editions. But you can at least get it.
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God Olbermann's response was petty and not in any way funny
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Olbermann is not good at being funny. He's good at being outraged. Although lately he isn't even as good at that.
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Petty? He basically copped to it. That's petty?
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Yeah, I didn't read it as petty; it seemed more to me like Olbermann didn't want to have to come up with a segment that night, so he spent most of his time running a pertinent Stewart clip instead.
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Yeah, and he admitted Stewart was right. Not sure what was petty about that.
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Generally I agree with olbermann but he has the same problem people like hannity or rush have and that's the need to be outraged. Being ok or just politely disagreeing with the opposition doesn't get ratings. I don't even think it's a concious thing,well for olbermann/hannity I think they are true believers so to speak but over time you find yourself getting pushed to the fringe more and more until a republican or democrat can't sneeze without you getting upset.
So in short, I'll just go with stewart and say olbermann is better than this but he can still fall into the same trappings as so many on the right.
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I know he apologized but the tone of his voice and what he said clearly stated different things
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I know he apologized but the tone of his voice and what he said clearly stated different things
He was just doing a bad Jon Stewart impression (like Stewart's slightly better impression of him.)
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I know he apologized but the tone of his voice and what he said clearly stated different things
He was just doing a bad Jon Stewart impression (like Stewart's slightly better impression of him.) SIR! SIIRRR! The past couple of weeks have all had golden episodes. Through all the funny, its like a fortress of common sense.
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