'Daily Show' sears both sides of Occupy
Showing its ability to be an equal-opportunity mock-raker, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" did two segments on the Occupy Wall Street movement that in turn support and satirize it.
The first, anchored by Stewart, takes Republican officeholders and party leaders to task for hypocrisy in demonizing the protesters for using the very methods and approach that they advocated Americans use — when it suited the Republican interests.
The second, a field piece by John Oliver, puts forth the exasperation that the protestors' rabid eccentricities are undermining their own cause.
And in the end, even the "98%" — the people within the 99% referred to by the Occupy movement who are too caught up in their own lives to do anything about it — get sent up the comedic river as well.There's hardly ever a weekday when there isn't a worthwhile "Daily Show" clip to post, but the combination of these two was nattily done.
Variety's Team TV -- Cynthia Littleton, Stu Levine, Jon Weisman, Andrew Wallenstein and A.J. Marechal -- provides a roundup of stories big and small, as well as opinions and analysis from across the TV dial.
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