Too Hot For TV

This is a story that ran on The Daily Show - as reported by Steve Carell - after the "Burning Log" video made headlines around the world (it was a very, very slow news day).

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Entertainment

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• burning log
• fireplace video
• steve carell
• daily show

[thiswebsitehatesme]

is that show (the burning log show) displayed er' where, or just canada

[BurningLogMan]

Various versions of this video now air regularly over the Christmas season in numerous cities throughout North America. The first televised "Yule Log" was a short film loop aired by WPIX in New York City in 1966 and for many years afterwards. The "Burning Log" video rekindled that concept and really popularized the practice amongst cable companies and broadcasters in Canada.

[ReliableProductions]

I live in Victoria, and I worked in that very Shaw building!! I was a sales rep there. Great place to work :)

The video was staged and edited obviously, Daphne was in on it and the protesters are clearly fake. That other guy I don't know about though!

Everyone knows who Steve Carell is though, I mean come on.. Shaw is a TV broadcasting station of course they're going to know it's the Daily Show!

[BurningLogMan]

The protest was a real albeit tongue-in-cheek response to the notion that so many people were watching a fireplace on TV while at the same time enjoying something called "conversation".

The Daily Show was not nearly so popular back then - a lot of people who worked at Shaw TV hadn't heard of it. Steve Carell was not the household name he now is.

The people interviewed knew they were participating in a comedy sketch of course, but had no idea how stupid they would be made to look.

[DoktorInsomnia]

are the people being interviewed for real?

[BurningLogMan]

Yep - they're for real. Steve was very good at making people appear a lot dumber than they were, but the people interviewed in this piece were particularly... naive.

[0Smilelikeyoumeanit]

Haha i live in Victoria right now,

i remember watching the burning log a few years ago and getting all excited when the random arm would come in and poke the fire

[1tmac4life]

That idiot had to wear a raiders shirt. Disgrace lol

[dednburied]

hah malted cocktail....molotov cocktail.... ill go with malted

[wanderliscious]

soooo cool! everyone is so funny!... obviously they were all in on it. Daphne was great, perfect wth the returned pause and deadpan face.

[balohna]

@MrJeffuryca little lone? Do you mean "let alone"?

[tubenachos]

When the show was actually funny and about nothing but nonsense.

[nemises9k]

ed robinson is my dad and the baby was me and he was not faking

[NoFearNoFlame]

@Gogoleila nah pretty much all daily show correspondents are like this with the exception of Jon himself. They are always overly dramatic and hyperbolic.

[TerryMasters247]

omg the shhedule LOL

[MrJeffuryca]

Typical Raiders fan. I am dumbfoiled he can write a letter little lone know how to mail one successfully. Dumbfoiled...LOL

[fleetcadi1]

it was a pre-determained air shedual.....but you changes your shedual based on the publics actions LMFAO