Okay, you might wonder what's up with the current dust up between the Gawker Media site Jezebel.com and The Daily Show's purported hiring practices (read the original post at this link) and what that has to do with bondage.
The answer? Nothing at all. Two different issues, we'll get to the bondage later (because the bondage always comes later, dontcha know) and it's really the big big story here.
The piece has at least one error in it right off the bat, it completely forgets Kristen Schaal in its timeline of female correspondents on the show. And some of the other stuff sounded like sour grapes although some criticism of the women interviewed sounded credible.
Still, the point of the piece was to paint The Daily Show as a Stewart-led boy's club where a woman's input is not asked for or needed.
Well, the women who do work at the show (they claim 40% are women) wrote a response that's sitting on the show's website at this link. Go read it, here's an excerpt:
Jon's rule is: the strongest idea and the funniest joke win every single
time, no matter who pitches it--woman or man, executive producer or
production assistant. And of course none of these jokes and ideas would
get to air without the layers of production talent working behind the
scenes. The fairness of our workplace makes competition tough and makes
the show better.
(snip)
The truth is, when it comes down to it, The Daily Show isn't a
boy's club or a girl's club, it's a family - a highly
functioning if sometimes dysfunctional family. And we're not thinking
about how to maximize our gender roles in the workplace on a daily
basis. We're thinking about how to punch up a joke about Glenn Beck's
latest diatribe, where to find a Michael Steele puppet on an hour's
notice, which chocolate looks most like an oil spill, and how to get a
gospel choir to sing the immortal words, "Go f@#k yourself!"
I think this all happened because TDS hired Olivia Munn, a woman I am not a fan of. Either. The either is directed to the women at Jezebel who write that blog.
If you have a problem with Munn, thou
gh, write about Munn. I think the Jezebel writers didn't want to be seen as a group slamming a female in the media landscape so they conveniently turned their rage to Stewart, who has nothing in his history in the biz but a tradition of fairness.
Jezebel did link to the letter as well and then made some comment about how it would have been nice for one of the women currently working on the show to speak to them when it was attempted. I kinda don't buy that the women who work on the show had the chance, do you? The timeline is pretty tight here.
It was a in my opinion a cheap shot from a Nick Denton blog that didn't work out for Nick and Jezebel, and I think this case is now closed. Is that what you get in a blog when you pay per page view?
So, about the bondage? Who knew Stewart was into tying up world renown economists and throwing them in a supply closet for his personal sexual gratification? Watch this clip (LINK) to the end for that, or just look at the pics above.
I'm stunned, and now have a raging semi, as Mort Goldman would say.
(Yes, I looked for the clip, I know it's from the Peterotica episode, I just can't find it.)
Oh, okay, one more clip -- Julianne Moore promotes her new film The Kids Are All Right with Annette Benning and Mark Ruffalo and she begs LeBron to come east to NYC (LINK).
So, it's stay in Cleveland with Betty White or go to the Big Apple for Julianne ... hmmm, what's a gazillionaire to do?
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