Both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s talents lie in their ability to use intelligence and physical comedy to show they are the masters in the craft.  Whether you agree with their politics or not, what they do can be done by few others.

So Thursday night’s Glenn Beck parody by Jon Stewart was extended, and was without doubt the most biting piece of satire I have seen since Colbert’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner send-up of Bush and the media.  It is more than a parody of Glenn Beck; it’s a parody of textbook demagogy with a slight-of-hand as the sermonizing is about Beck’s health, since he was off the air from appendicitis.  Six minutes in, the humor melts away and as spot-on and brilliant is Stewart’s impression, it’s not funny in the end.

See it to believe it (video below):

In related news, the Onion News Network reported that a victim in a fatal car accident was tragically not Glenn Beck:

Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck

I haven’t updated the blog in over a week, and I have some new things to post.  I’m currently on vacation, so I will try to have the blog updated sporadically in between dives in the pool.  Blog traffic didn’t fall off at all, so thank you to repeat readers.

Until then, enjoy the Onion News Network’s morning show program explore how to find a Halloween costume that will tone down your effeminate son (hint: nothing co-opted by the gay community like fireman or cowboy, or your son “will just end up looking like a stripper”).

Hilarious video sent to me by TDJ below: