The daily show?

When Jon Stewart said the bit about lava lamp, blahblahblah... I got the impression that he was being super tongue-in-cheek. Sorta taking the stereotype & laughing at *it*, not at the NORML guy. I'm sure there's a more concise way to explain what I mean, but I can't think of it right now.

I think he does that sort of thing a lot, to make the point that many of our stereotypes are just silly. I mean, he talks about smoking himself, & he's sitting behind the desk in a suit & tie, so there ya go. :)

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Originally Posted by mlleyeuxbleus

When Jon Stewart said the bit about lava lamp, blahblahblah... I got the impression that he was being super tongue-in-cheek. Sorta taking the stereotype & laughing at *it*, not at the NORML guy. I'm sure there's a more concise way to explain what I mean, but I can't think of it right now.

I think he does that sort of thing a lot, to make the point that many of our stereotypes are just silly. I mean, he talks about smoking himself, & he's sitting behind the desk in a suit & tie, so there ya go. :)

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Precisely. This is known as SATIRE. He is saying medical marijuana users aren't exactly the people who fit the bill as the stereotypical stoner, and its silly that the government is treating them that way. Hoping that someone will see it and say, hey this is crazy, these people aren't busting out their lava lamps, they aren't moving to harder drugs, and they aren'y wastes of life. They are simply sick people who would like to use a safe, relatively side effect free, and natural drug, to improve their quality of life.

Yeah mono, thank you for clarifying what I sorta meant to say, lol. :)

Penguin, to your question about if it's real or not... I could be wrong, but I'm under the impression that the issues & people they interview (like the toy gun guy, haha) are indeed 'real' & take themselves pretty darned seriously. The commentary & silly interviews are the poking fun part, which is great. I love it when the person being interviewed isn't sure what to make of it & gets all flustered. Makes me wonder how they get people to agree to be interviewed at all... I guess just clueless people mostly.

most of them are real that is why it is so funny...the guns for tots thing was real...