According to Lee Siegel, a "television critic", with reference to the Daily Show's completely awesome and totally fucking hillarious political comedy:

The New Republic Online: Laugh Deter: "The marriage of comedy and politics is even more unhealthy than the marriage of church and state."

He goes on to argue, making references to Stalin and other harsh regimes, that openly liberal comedians are somehow "ideologically" unfunny. Seigel also remarks that "Nixon put comedy on steroids, but none of the comics who took him as their target, from George Carlin to Robert Klein, actually got indignant about his policies the way a smug Bill Maher gets indignant about Bush's policies. " Sure, nothing political about George Carlin... ? [rant] Lee Seigel, you are a total fucking idiot. I don't know what this article was supposed to be, but it sure didn't look like the work an experienced critic of entertainment. Was this an attempt at punditry? P.S. to Lee Seigel: Peppering your article with french and latin expressions is not funny. It does not impress me. Nor would it impress the average television viewer. I wonder if it would even impress the average New Republic reader. Frankly, it pisses me off. It especially pisses me off when the non-English phrases serve no necessary purpose in the sentences where they occur. If someone told you that this is a sophisticated writing tactic, they lied; it is only the habit of pricks. [/rant]