Summary
No, Jon Stewart had to emphasize this year, Stewart/Colbert will not be a presidential ticket in 2008. All in fun, of course, but there are some who get their news almost exclusively from Comedy Central's fake newscasters. Was this the year where fact and fiction tended to blur together? In publishing, one author claimed his memoirs were valid even if they weren't literally true. In film, we laughed at the antics of a randy, offensive, anti-Semitic journalist -- we knew Borat was fake, but his co-stars didn't (or did they?) When two celebrities drew attention for truly offensive comments -- anti-Semitic in one case, racist in the other -- they told us it wasn't the "real them," in essence. And on YouTube, fans were crushed to learn that a lonely girl they'd come to love was just an actress playing a role.
Perhaps it's impossible to enforce a theme upon a whole year of popular culture. But it's fun to look back. Join us for a chronological journey of things that made us talk in 2006.See the full content of this document
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Moments That Made Year Pop
January
In the first seconds of Jan. 1, we're greeted by a beloved icon, DICK CLARK, ringing in the New Year at Times Square as he has so many times -- only now he's struggling from aftereffects of a stroke. His words are slurred, his posture stiff, but his cadence is brisk and assured. Some critics imply he shouldn't have shown up, but many people -- f...See the full content of this document
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