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Friday 18 February 2011

Jon Stewart decided to try and jumpstart the American version by making a pilot episode for the American “Qu’osby show.” -

Jon Stewart decided to try and jumpstart the American version by making a pilot episode for the American “Qu’osby show.” -



Remember when Katie Couric asked a few months ago if America needed a “Muslim Cosby Show” in order get rid of “Islamaphobia?” Regular readers of this site know that one exists — in Canada.
But since our neighbors to the north are so far ahead of us, Jon Stewart decided to try and jumpstart the American version by having one of his Daily Show correspondents, funny man Aasif Mandvi, create a pilot episode for the American “Qu’osby show.”
The segment does included parts of an actual pilot, but also a focus group cleverly edited to fit Couric’s Islamaphobia stereotype. We’ll let you decide who Stewart and Mandvi are mocking more:

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