Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-4-2010/tech-talch---chatroulette

by initself • 16 years ago

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MrHyde• 16 years ago

The mainstream media does not understand the internet? Incomprehensible!

groaner• 16 years ago

On the contrary, I think they understand exactly what this site is about and are happy to demonize it, possibly to the extent that they can get the powers that be to introduce restrictions on online video so that we can all go back to getting our spoon-fed media.

lallysingh• 16 years ago

No, I think they're morons. That seems more consistent.

cmgarcia• 16 years ago

Tin foil hatted.

SamAtt• 16 years ago

I don't think ChatRoulette needs anyone's help in regards to demonizing it. It's pretty much as it was portrayed. If anything the Daily Show made it look better (The one time I tried it I saw double the cock and not a single mainstream news personality)

borga• 16 years ago

It's Jon. Sorry.

simplegeek• 16 years ago

I'm not sure why you're sorry? Yes, I'm not American so may be there is something that I don't know? Just plain curious ;)

tvon• 16 years ago

I suspect the original submission said "John" and not the correct "Jon".

swombat• 16 years ago

So how can I watch this in the UK?

srogers• 16 years ago

Probably the same way I watch Guardian football highlights.

buro9• 16 years ago

Rent the cheapest linode possible out in New Jersey and then set up a proxy to effectively tunnel the traffic.

Angostura• 16 years ago

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-daily-show-with-jon-s...

Well, that gets you the full shows, rather than this particular clip. Still it's a start.

Dbug• 16 years ago

The show is also on the well known torrent sites

petercooper3• 16 years ago

  ssh -D 8080 -C -N your-non-UK-based-ssh-server-name

Then use localhost:8080 as a SOCKS proxy from a spare Web browser (Firefox is particularly easy for this).

Or get a cheap VPN account. Lots of providers. I pay $5 a month for this (mostly because my ISP frequently blocks access to Google). Hit connect, watch video, hit disconnect.. bob's your uncle, etc.

1010011010• 16 years ago

Which ISP is that?

freshfunk• 16 years ago

ROFL love his joke on how it's russian roulette with 5

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abstractbill• 16 years ago

Interesting, looks like whatever you typed after the "5" tickled a HN bug - there's an unclosed <i> tag that causes the reply link on your comment to be rendered in italics.

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staunch• 16 years ago

The asterisk is used for italics. If you leave one at the end of your comment it does this, it seems.

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jayair2• 16 years ago

I posted it on Twitter as well. Here is the Canadian link - http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-ste...

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dimarco• 16 years ago

Jon & the Daily Show crew have a satirical way of covering certain topics without actually covering them, which I appreciate.

It's the same reason that most of my news comes from the Daily Show and news.bbc.co.uk

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Locke1689• 16 years ago

"ChatRoulette is like regular roulette, but five of the chambers are filled with cock."

Strangely profound statement. As always, he does a magnificent job of making the mainstream media look like morons.

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dotBen2• 16 years ago

Not wanting to be a pedant, but I think the exact quote is "ChatRoulette is like Russian roulette, but five of the chambers are filled with cock."

Regular roulette doesn't involve a gun and chambers... unless you run up gambling debts to shady people, I guess.

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jimbokun• 16 years ago

I think you should give a little bit of credit to a representative sample of the mainstream media for playing along.

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icco• 16 years ago

What amazes me about this short is not that they satirically covered the news, but the amount of clips and actual people they were able to put together to make the segment really work.

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handelaar• 16 years ago

Friends don't send friends links to geo-locked video clips.

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fbu• 16 years ago

Available in Belgium. Where are you ?

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ugh3• 16 years ago

Geo-locked? That’s strange. Where? I can watch here in Germany. Despite having to endure ads which are in no way relevant for me.

I thought only Hulu was geo-locked. People might simply not know that something is geo-locked if it’s only unavailable in a few places. The sites (regrettably) don’t come with a warning.

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gjm11• 16 years ago

Unavailable in the UK.

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brandon272• 16 years ago

Unavailable in Canada.

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henrikschroder3• 16 years ago

Where I am (Sweden) the full episodes are locked, but the partial clips are free.

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nollidge• 16 years ago

It's by-definition kind of hard to know when something is geo-locked if you can see it just fine.

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GrandMasterBirt• 16 years ago

Unless its to tell their friends "lol ur f0x0red"!

Nah, ok lets get a thread going on proxy mechanisms to help handelaar open up this website.

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randomtask• 16 years ago

FreeVPN

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varaon• 16 years ago

Follow the instructions here to watch the video: http://ohryan.ca/blog/2009/08/15/how-to-watch-comedy-central...

Needs Firefox in order to install the Modify Headers extension.

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cookiecaper4• 16 years ago

I don't know wtf is wrong with these newspeople. Not that many people know about ChatRoulette -- for instance, no one in my family knows about it, and with all the time I spend online on sites like this, I've only heard it mentioned a few times.

But when you get on TV to "warn parents" about this "frightening new trend" of seeing penises, you tell a lot of "normal" people about it and only make things worse.

The mainstream media is desperate to look like they know what's happening with kids and the internet, but they really just constantly misreport and their own reporting skews numbers. See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter.

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dotBen2• 16 years ago

um, are you aware that Daily Show is satire and not really 'newspeople'. Just saying.

"See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter."

<sigh>

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henrikschroder3• 16 years ago

Yes, but the Daily Show also showed clips from actual news programs, and they are certainly clueless.

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cookiecaper4• 16 years ago

I wasn't referring to the Daily Show, I was referring to the "real news" programs it was mocking.

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dpcan• 16 years ago

How does getting more "normal" people on ChatRoulette make it worse?

This is just what it needs.

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cookiecaper4• 16 years ago

I meant that it makes the "craze" and the amount of teens using it worse. I guess if your goal is to make ChatRoulette a decent place then it's good.

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nazgulnarsil• 16 years ago

"we're slipping guys. we're bleeding viewers. people just don't care about the news anymore. we need something that grabs people. steve, who's our main demographic these days?"

"uh...well according to nielsen it looks like...scared old people."

"I have an idea."

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sutro2• 16 years ago

You're not allowed to submit links like this to HN, because HN is too serious and important for humor. Cue the censorious "we're becoming just like reddit" comments...

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sutro2• 16 years ago

Thanks folks, I'm trying to get to 0, -4 at a time. I'm here all week.

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shizcakes• 16 years ago

Brian Williams really has some phenomenal comedy cameos. I'm thinking of 30 Rock, and it seems like he keeps popping up all over the place.

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brandnewlow• 16 years ago

He's a genius. Read his Soprano's recaps for Slate from a few years back: http://www.slate.com/id/2163797/entry/2163798/

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blazamos• 16 years ago

He Skype'd into my lecture class about the Internet & Society.

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naqeeb• 16 years ago

Sadly, you think the Mainstream Media would realize that viewers are not as afraid of the internets as they were back in the 90s. There is a reason why more people watch the Daily Show for their news these days.

On a side note, I would have loved a cameo appearance from Chris Hansen and the To Catch A Predator crew.

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harshpotatoes• 16 years ago

I was waiting for Chris to pop out.

"Sit down. Have a seat, Jon. So what are you doing here?"

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morphir• 16 years ago

Linus Torvalds called the bsd-people for a bunch 'masturbating monkeys' and the digg-crowd for a bunch of 'wanking walruses'. I wonder if there was a more appropriate term for chatroulettes users..

But lets be honest guys - we all thought "err.. why did I not think of that".

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