Comments on: Polyamory Makes the Daily Show

By: Annabelle River

Annabelle River — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:54:06 +0000

I too loved it, and I love that Jason Jones was willing to make his own attempts to sensationalize polyamory the joke instead of making polyamory the joke, which would have been “easier.” Thank you so much Joy!!

I too blogged about the segment at http://annabelleriver.blogspot.com/2010/01/re-defining-marriage-or-love-for-daily.html. Thank you Robyn for sharing!

By: Eric Francis

Eric Francis — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:03:45 +0000

Don’t worry — that was brilliant. I saw it. He nailed it, as usual; pardon the pun.

By: Robyn Trask

Robyn Trask — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:54:13 +0000

I thought was awesome and send you many thanks for doing the show. Robyn

By: Joy Reagan

Joy Reagan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:56:17 +0000

Awesome, Anita. Thanks for the review! Maybe they just had trouble finding people in Dallas/Ft Worth, TX who were willing to “out” themselves. Who knows. I’m just glad we got to do it!

By: Anita Wagner

Anita Wagner — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:01:05 +0000

Hi Joy – Thanks a bunch for stepping in and helping the Daily Show make this happen.

I’ll have to say that Daily Show’s trouble finding a poly couple or threesome to appear surprises me. We poly leaders who work with the media do have our challenges meeting media requests at times, but in this case I certainly didn’t hear that they were looking for anyone, and I doubt anyone else in the poly community who works with the media has, since we all share this kind of information and spread the word to help meet media needs. So I have to wonder just how hard Daily Show producers tried.

Regardless, I liked the piece a lot and blogged about it myself at http://tiny.cc/UVHYU

Best,
Anita Wagner

By: Joy Reagan

Joy Reagan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:25:23 +0000

Sorry to disappoint you, Euphrates! We actually heard about the skit from an email sent out to members of a “lifestyle” club we sometimes attend here in Dallas. Turns out they had a really hard time finding an open marriage couple willing to talk about it on TV and we were the only ones who responded. Sucks they cut out so much of the good stuff out of the interview, like describing how our relationship works and all that jazz, but it was a comedy sketch so it worked for what it was! Much love.

J. Reagan

By: Euphrates

Euphrates — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:54:14 +0000

Heh…a friend had e-mailed me asking if I knew anybody in Texas who might be willing to do a spot on the Daily Show, and I posted about it on my LiveJournal and had folks contact me about it. Not sure if those are actually my LJ friends or not (’cause I never did hear if they’d done it, and me being in Ohio, they’re folks I haven’t met face to face yet). But hey – I feel all famous and stuff. *snickers*

Link to my livejournal entry regarding last night’s show: http://mseuphrates.livejournal.com/791547.html