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Eight Years of Games On the Daily Show

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 23, @11:55AM
from the and-now-your-moment-of-zen dept.

In the wake of the release of eight years of Daily Show clips onto the internet, Joystiq has done us the great favour of tracking down almost every game reference during the show's run. Check out the embedded videos to see John Stewart talk Pac-man in Baghdad, Ice Cube's enthusiasm for the Dreamcast, and Lewis Black's take on DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball

[+] games, tv, dailyshow, whybother (tagging beta)

tburton writes "Viacom has put the entire eight year run of the Daily Show with John Stewart online. The content is available from the official Daily Show site, and features clip rating, tags, and numerous community features. The whole thing is supported by relatively unobtrusive contextual ads. 'Viacom's decision to post its entire archive--while fighting YouTube in the courts--sets the scene for a battle between the established media players and their high profile entertainment brands against the user generated content sites, most notable YouTube. Also watching closely the Viacom experiment will be the telco IPTV industry which has seen the market place change rapidly as the quality of online video continues to improve, with at least one platform/site, Vimeo, already offering 1280X720 HD quality direct from the browser.'"

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I love this
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by jollyreaper (513215) on Tuesday October 23, @12:13PM (#21086469)

Now I can waste time that much more efficiently!

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Mark Hamill during the Craig Kilborn days
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by Steeltalon (734391) on Tuesday October 23, @12:22PM (#21086605)

One of my most vivid memories of the Daily Show was when Mark Hamill came to promote "Wing Commander IV" -- Ok, I know the game sucked, but the cool thing about that interview was Craig asking Mark about his role as the voice of the Joker on Batman: The Animated Series. Mark talked about how he auditioned. He looked at the concept art for the character and the thing he noticed was the smile. At that point, Mark's face broke out in an incredibly eerie grin and he started that haunting laugh. It was creepy... and, what can I say, it was awesome. It really didn't seem like that laugh should be coming from him.

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- Re:Mark Hamill during the Craig Kilborn days by Ambiguous Coward (Score:1) Tuesday October 23, @12:55PM
  - Re:Mark Hamill during the Craig Kilborn days by bazald (Score:1) Tuesday October 23, @01:07PM
    - Re:Mark Hamill during the Craig Kilborn days by Steeltalon (Score:2) Tuesday October 23, @01:35PM
      - Re:Mark Hamill during the Craig Kilborn days by Nasarius (Score:2) Tuesday October 23, @02:22PM
    - Re:Mark Hamill during the Craig Kilborn days by Ambiguous Coward (Score:1) Wednesday October 24, @01:16PM
- Re:Mark Hamill during the Craig Kilborn days by antdude (Score:2) Tuesday October 23, @04:35PM
Heh.
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by doctor_nation (924358) on Tuesday October 23, @12:32PM (#21086771)

I remember Lewis Black's segment on GTA- it's the reason I ever even gave the game a shot. Then, after playing for five hours straight, I decided it was probably a decent game...

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- Re:Heh. by miller701 (Score:1) Tuesday October 23, @01:40PM
Hand in your nerd cards, people
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by HairyNevus (992803) <hairynevus@gmail.cAUDENom minus poet> on Tuesday October 23, @01:37PM (#21087849)
(http://www.google.com/ig)

This article has been up for almost an hour and there's barely ten comments...about games/The Daily Show/game references on The Daily Show. Hand in your nerd cards, impostors!

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- Re:Hand in your nerd cards, people by AcidLacedPenguiN (Score:2) Wednesday October 24, @07:51AM
I hate reruns
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by xxxJonBoyxxx (565205) on Tuesday October 23, @02:09PM (#21088397)

I hate reruns - not sure who else would want to watch old Daily Show clips.

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- Re:I hate reruns by HTH NE1 (Score:2) Tuesday October 23, @02:28PM
  - Re:I hate reruns by fbriere (Score:1) Tuesday October 23, @11:09PM
- Re:I hate reruns by Facegarden (Score:1) Tuesday October 23, @03:50PM
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Amazing how much Jon Stewart has changed
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by antifoidulus (807088) on Tuesday October 23, @03:01PM (#21089165)
(http://slashdot.org???? | Last Journal: Saturday August 12 2006, @04:06AM)

In those first couple of videos he looked like a kid whose parents just bought him a suit that is 2 sizes too big and told him he would grow into it....

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- Re:Amazing how much Jon Stewart has changed by doctor_nation (Score:1) Tuesday October 23, @04:24PM
Re:I for one...
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by aweiland (237773) on Tuesday October 23, @01:03PM (#21087317)

I think the videos have tags on them. It could have been a simple search.

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