Categories: Uncategorized

Rob Ford is Late Night Comedy Gold

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report had a field day with Rob Ford’s belated admission that yes he did smoke crack — and hey, it was during one of his drunken stupours, so that’s different, amirite?

The Daily Show, November 4, 2013

The Daily Show, November 5, 2013

Jon Stewart makes a great point on the November 5th Daily Show:

“Mayor Ford’s a lot of fun to ridicule. My guess is, not a lot of fun to eulogize.”

He also says something I agree with as a humour writer: Even though I’d lose a lot of good source material, I’d much rather Rob Ford went into rehab and cleaned out rather than have to write an article that began with something like “While I disagreed with the guy on many, many, many points, I didn’t want to see him die tragically from an overdose/substance-fuelled misadventure/drug gang-related incident”.

The Colbert Report, November 5, 2013

The phrase “Chris Farley tribute mayor” is apt in so many ways.

Joey deVilla

Recent Posts

A Robbie Burns follow-up: “The Rights of Woman”

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Burns Night, here’s another poem from Robert Burns…

20 hours ago

Sunday picdump for January 26, 2024

It’s Sunday, which means it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are 136 memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around…

2 days ago

My plans for Burns Night 2025

Here’s the main course for dinner tonight... ...and that’s because it’s January 25th today, making…

2 days ago

Palm trees and a puffy vest

My friends in my old home town, Toronto, won’t find Tampa’s current temperatures cold, but…

4 days ago

“You had me at ‘grenade’” / “Show me the MAC-10!”

Clearly, I missed out by not watching the director’s cut of Jerry Maguire! But seriously —…

6 days ago

Same energy

7 days ago