"the Daily show is not confrontational journalism. It is sketch comedy. Also truth does not matter to them. Funny matters."

Actually, they DO do confrontation. But not for its own sake. For the laugh. And for the schadenfreude of enjoying the interviewee's mortification at being made to look as stupid as they are. And Mandvi, in particular, has gotten more testy lately. In another piece, he deftly juxtaposed the notions of "gun rights" and "gay rights" making a complete fool out of a legislator in Missouri. Honestly, I don't know how they can continue to suffer all the fools so gladly. If I had been doing what they do, I would have blown my top years ago. But I have seen him looking like he is getting less inclined to suffer them.

And they DO do truth. I would bet two weeks' salary on the truth content of E-V-E-R-Y-t-h-i-n-g on TDS/Colbert against a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g on Fox "News." In fact, it has happened on more than one occasion that a piece that appeared on TDS/C in satire has been the first appearance of that story that THEN migrated to the "legitimate" media.

Saul