Your take sure seems to fit what I've seen. Wow-- I miss the old show! Kind of in the same way I wish Woody Allen would make funny movies again. It ain't gonna happen, but I still miss 'em.

Comedy Central taking pride in the journalism awards: I'd always gotten the sense that they were semi-mocking in that. Either in the sense that journalism was stupid for thinking they were news or haha, a comedy show won awards that serious media companies didn't!