Best. Job. Ever.

[WilliamPitt]

It's Funny How Funny Just the Facts Can Be
'Daily Show' Staffer Mines News for Laughs

By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 30, 2008; Page C01

So here's Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of coalition forces in Iraq four years ago, describing the situation in a TV interview in September 2003: "We're not in a quagmire," he's saying confidently. "The progress is unbelievable."

So what about that progress, general? Because here's Sanchez, now retired, talking about Iraq in a video clip from last October: "There has been a glaring, unfortunate display of incompetent strategic leadership within our national leaders. . . . There's no question that America is living a nightmare with no end in sight."

The before-and-after videos didn't air on CNN or MSNBC or ABC. Instead, the revealing sound bites ran back to back on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart." The satiric Comedy Central program regularly unearths telling footage ignored or overlooked by the real news guys.

Or, to be specific, Adam Chodikoff does.

Chodikoff, 37, doesn't perform on the show or write the gags that pepper Stewart's take on the day's news. But as the show's chief researcher and video wiz, he's the vital link in the program's comedic ecosystem. Chodikoff's job is to dig through the vast quarry of TV news footage to find the nuggets that form the program's pointed, often eye-opening "reporting." In a manner of speaking, he's an investigative humorist.



More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042902827.html?hpid=topnews

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Most excellent, my dear Will!

I'm very pleased to see people like him working on these stories!

I expect he'll keep doing it to whoever next occupies the White House...

I do hope he'll have to work a little harder, though, if Obama wins as I expect him to...


K&R

:patriot:

[grannylib]

2. I'd take that job...you're right! And how sad that Comedy Central

is the only network, apparently, whose staffers have such skills (KO's staffers being a notable exception)

[fed-up]

3. thank-you Adam for a job well done! nt

[Greyskye]

4. Adam Chodikoff - Difference Maker!

:yourock:


(apologies to Steven Colbert)

[bleever]

5. I'd quit the bait shop in a minute

for that opportunity.

:(


:rofl:

[Beaverhausen]

6. I can't tell you how many times I am amazed as I watch TDS and remark that they are...

... the only ones telling the real story. Now we know who to thank for it.

[Elspeth]

7. Comedy has become news.

And news has become farce.

[WilliamPitt]

8. .

[SalmonChantedEvening]

9. Does he need a gopher.

:D

Thank you Will!

[malaise]

10. Great post

Last night they had a classic about 'Wrighteous hypocrisy' - that Billy Graham comment was priceless given the attacks on Wright.

[Snarkturian Clone]

11. Incorrect, the best job ever is the announcer dude on Jeopardy!! NT