At 7/16/08 06:18 AM, citricsquid wrote:
meme's belong on the internet, or on my t-shirts, not on TV. He sounded like such a prick when he said "You got rick roll'd". Seriously, why are TV producers allowed near the internet?
See I listen to the Daily Show at work in another window. And yeah, the meme's pretty old- but that's the gag. It was taking the piss out of the media outcry against Iran's apparent mastery of tools ten year old Americans use to make lolcats. Everyone on the net has been rickrolled before - consequently, there's a good chance everyone watching the Daily Show would get the joke.
Since it's not an old enough fad for everyone to have forgotton about it (the joke would have bombed utterly if John Oliver had tried AYB), or too niche to have limited appeal (such as by, say, turning the entire thing into a ZP! style reel of Windows Movie Maker bitmaps...), the joke works. And it's a good punchline for it.