Is it my imagination or are the commercials longer on the Daily Show?

[napi21]

I've been sitting at my computer reading DU & I have TDS on TV. During commercials I ignore the TV. It seemed like a VERY LONG TIMe betewwn when Jon said his guest was Lou Dobbs and he'll be with us when we come back, and when Jon finally came back.

[rucky]

1. no writers, no content

how's Jon doing when he is on the air?

[Webster Green]

2. It always seemed that way to me..

Seems like there is more time consumed by commercials than by content. Sometimes I wonder why I stay up to watch. Most of the time the interviews suck, and they take up half the show.

[tom_paine]

3. Actually, most TV stations just found a new trick to pack another couple minutes of commercials in

so this is not just the Daily Show or Comedy Central, but most all of them, and the ones that still aren't doing it, will be doing it soon.

It is the new practice of starting the next show in one half of the screen while running the credits of the previous show.

Not to worry though, as these are the Good Old Days for everything, compared to what's coming as the Bushies tighten their control, these new longer commercial breaks will seem mercifully and breezily short in a decade or two.

I hope I am wrong, but I know I am right. Our only hope is to have a brief Obama or Clinton respite, which like the last Clinton Administration won't turn anything around, but just slow the fall. Until the next Royal Bushie comes along to pick right up where they left off like there was no interim, just as it was with the Bush I and Bush II Imperiums.

[defendandprotect]

7. True --- but when they're trying to kill a show they also do this ---

I've always been of the opinion that loosing Olbermann on Bush was a compromise to try
to cut into Jon Stewart's the Daily Show ---

and I think it's succeeded at both times --- 8pm and 11 pm ---

[daleo]

4. We now interrupt this commercial...

To bring you a brief program, from our advertisers. Don't go away, our commercials will be right back.

[MadHound]

5. Don't know, don't care, it is simply another scab who crossed the line

It simply amazes me given how much unions and solidarity are talked up around here, but when push comes to shove and it's "your show"(a fucking TV show!) all that union and solidarity talk goes straight out the window.

No shame, lot's of hypocrisy.

[napi21]

6. Would me not watching the Daily Show really help the union guys?

I admit to not always being a union supporter. My husband was a union member back when they got corrupt and pretty crazy. They are really good for our society and I wish they would get a lot stronger NOW, but somehow I suspect the networks having to resort to "reality shows" instead of most people's favorite shows will make a lot more difference than me skipping TDS.

[MadHound]

8. Actually yes, it would

It would hit the studios in the wallet, where it counts. If you have cable, satellite or TIVO, you're viewing habits are well known(what, you think that phone hookup is simply for ordering movies or what not?) Thus you can have a direct effect on ad revenue and help hold the purse strings. Keep them closed and force the studios back to the table.