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You can watch it on the interweb, Steve - here:

comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

IS there any reason why there is no G on that list?

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

It's the implied GWB.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 8 September 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

heh. Never thought of that. that's pretty good.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

We still got 3 more years, let's not rule out the possibility of YAM SHORTAGE just yet!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Why you wanna go and make me all nervous like that, nickalicious.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure that even if we have a yam shortage, there will be plenty of sweet potatoes to go around.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

watching tonight, the fact that Brian Williams can move so effortlessly from being a smarmy little shit to being a sanctimonious voice for the voiceless in New Orleans made me respect him even less. Good interview though. That's all.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 9 September 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

well I was totally high when I watched that Brian Williams interview, and he did seem, well,kind of dramatic, but I thought it was affecting, really. I mean, for some reason, until that point, it hadn't really struck home how much the media were the only people bothering to cover everything down there. He seemed quietly outraged at the government. Maybe they're tired of the wool being pulled over their eyes by this administration.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 10 September 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Hunh. Williams is actually one of my favorite Daily Show regular guests (along with Fareed Zakaria), and my reaction was very unlike tremendoid's. Although his "I don't do opinions" bit was, shall we say, packed.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 11 September 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

I didn't understand Brian Williams going on and on about "these were Americans!!" Yeah, we know that. And? Does he imagine that Americans are immune from death? It had a weird ring to it, like when newspapers started saying "hey, AIDS is affecting straight people, too!" And, similarly, the interview ended with Williams going "had this been San Fracisco, or Boston..." and Stewart's "yes, totally, well thank you. Brian Williams, ladies and gentlemen" -- where was Williams going with that? Any speculation? Had this been Boston, then what?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 11 September 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

I thought he was trying to make the point that if this were an accident in a more affluent,on-the-radar city, the response would have been much more effective... he maybe was even trying to allude to the racial point, but i would think that'd be too hot-potato for an anchor.. I can't remember the context, though, so maybe he was saying something else... i didn't find the "these were americans" comment that weird, though; i mean, sure americans aren't immune from death, but large numbers in sub-third-world conditions is still shocking to see (esp. in person) given our resources, right?

― dave k, Sunday, 11 September 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

xxpost oh I think his dry(callous) wit and smugness make him a very funny, engaging, clever guest on most occasions. I just couldn't help filtering his heartfelt account through the fact that he doesn't seem to have ever given a shit about anything imo. I guess he deserves the benefit of the doubt but I couldn't take it straight, he's too good a bullshitter and I'm too much of a cynic.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 11 September 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

I think Brian Williams is typically a very funny/suave guest, but his appearance on here and, earlier on, Conan, always strike me as blatant attempts to lure young people to the daily news... i know all celebrity guest spots are plugs, but in this case (probably how stereotypically anchory he looks with the haircut and the facial expressions), it turns me off.

― dave k, Sunday, 11 September 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

i think maybe he's like the evolved version 2.0 take on William Hurt's character in Broadcast News or something; charming but satanic!

― dave k, Sunday, 11 September 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

ha I put 'fact' and imo in the same sentence, my intellectual immaturity laid bare. fresh meat for the wolves!

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 11 September 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

always strike me as blatant attempts to lure young people to the daily news

Well, yes, but he does it by being dryly sarcastic and by at least seeming to know his shit.

Since those are the qualities that I find missing from the daily news (and present on the Daily Show, let's say) then... what is the problem again? Oh, he probably doesn't actually deliver. I kinda suspect Fareed Zakaria doesn't deliver in his magazine either, but I haven't bothered to read that either. Either.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Brian Williams has a very strange, strained air about him that I find off-putting, including when he's on The Daily Show. But he did some hella good reporting from New Orleans, and his blogging from there was good too. My respect for him has ratcheted up a bit. As long as I don't have to actually watch him very often.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 11 September 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

OMG did you guys see KURT VONNEGUT on the Daily Show last night!?!? I love that man so much.

They have been doing this EVOLUTION SHMEVOLUTION feature this week, it is, like, ASTOUNDINGLY funny.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

"That's why we have giraffes, hippos, and the clap."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

what the hell was Samuel L Jackson going on about last week (unsure as to US broadcast, was included in weekly version)??? "i don't give money to the red cross becuase it's all bureaucracy, i just buy random people i see lunch" FFS???? and jon stewart is all "oh yeah sam, i love you [licklicklick]" exactly how fvcked is america?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

"i don't give money to the red cross becuase it's all bureaucracy, i just buy random people i see lunch" FFS????

i think the mindset is still around(my drummer said as much) that they won't donate to the Red Cross or the United Way because "all they do is take your money, right?"

the Red Cross really didn't do a good job in getting the word out about fixing all the administrative issues they had 4 years ago...

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I'm amazed Kurt Vonnegut is still alive, much less still full of piss and vinegar. Bless 'im.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

He seems to be breathing hard even for 82. Don't you think about half the studio audience seemed not to know what "the clap" was...

Footage of witchhunter Coburn doing crossword at Roberts hearing, priceless.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

America's not THAT fucked, but there was and is a perception that donating to United Way and the American Red Cross or certain other very large charity organizations is effectively "donating" only half of that sum, and the other 50% is handed off to cover irresponsibly huge overhead expenses. So in a way it's almost like just paying taxes, just slightly less corrupt. Jackson was just remarking on something a lot of people have felt for a while about charity donations, especially after certain fiascos immediately following 9/11.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

He seems to be breathing hard even for 82.

yeah, but I saw him speak about 17 years ago and he was breathing hard then. I wouldn't have expected him to still be with us.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

K-Von's a heavy smoker for serious.

― La Monte (La Monte), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

i'd trust the red cross before i'd trust newer, less-established charities. the red cross is very important, very powerful, very organized. they help people. even back when they were being criticized for 9/11, they were the ones out in the streets the next day, doing blood drives. and now, they put 91 percent of their proceeds towards non-administrative, non-fundraising, straight-up charity stuff. sure there are agencies where that number's higher, but for such a large organization, anything above 90% is pretty good.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 15 September 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

The segment where Helms treated Dover as though it were Colonial Williamsburg was so great!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 15 September 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Dayton, you mean. I've been there. They're very proud of the Scopes Trial.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 15 September 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

And hey cool, the science historian guy on the panel tonight, I worked on a book with him.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 15 September 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

K-Von's a heavy smoker for serious.

not only that, he smokes pall freakin' malls!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 15 September 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

that woman talking about balls of energy and twelve planes and feeling evolution in your soul was totally useless last night. the panel should have had a hard-core creationist instead.

― La Monte (La Monte), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

"Any speculation? Had this been Boston, then what?"

I'm suprised I haven't seen people drawing more comparisons to how those hurricanes were handled in Florida last year during the election campaign. I don't remember any serious complaints that the Feds were lagging behind during the middle of an election year, if anything it turns out Uncle Sam cut a whole lot of checks to people who had not even had any damage. On my satillite TV service, I have a Florida UPN network station and this is a story getting some coverage on their local news, but I have not seen it brought up much in national coverage.

― earlnash, Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

gwyneth paltrow is very tall and has excellent posture.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 16 September 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

And big fake teeth that would make baba booey jealous. Also, I think he just succeeded in making her feel really stupid about being married to a rock star, which fills me with delight. Did you see her uncomfortable expression and squirming?

― C.S. Lewis, Friday, 16 September 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

Her new movie looks so awful. Math just doesn't make for good movies.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 16 September 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was kind of rude that he only asked questions about her husband. Stewart's fanboyish Coldplay obession is the one thing I don't like about him.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 16 September 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/extras/vonnegut.jhtml (link currently dead)

From The Daily Show, September 13, 2005.

LIBERAL CRAP I NEVER WANT TO HEAR AGAIN

by Kurt Vonnegut

Give us this day our daily bread.

***Oh sure.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

***Nobody better trespass against me. I'll tell you that.

Blessed are the meek.

Blessed are the merciful.

***You mean we can't use torture?

Blessed are the peacemakers.

***Jane Fonda?

Love your enemies.

***Arabs?

Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.

***The hell I can't! Look at the Reverend Pat Robertson. And he is as happy as a pig in shit.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was disappointed when I read that list. I think it loses a lot if Kurt isn't reading it to you.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

I've seen bits and episodes, before, here and there, but I watched the last week's worth of episodes and wish it were on a TV channel in the UK, that I have

it's quite funny

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

ricky gervais is the guest tonight

― the happy smile patrol (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 September 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

I think it loses a lot if Kurt isn't reading it to you.

Yeah, that was kind of lame. Jon basically forced him to cut it short and let them put it on the website. They should have filmed a little segment after the show with him reading it out.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 22 September 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

The Colbert Report starts tonight.

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8595/colbertreport4zg.jpg

Stephen is woven into the fabric of modern American life... if this were Venezuala, they'd nationalize him.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

So is this going to be two tv shows of the exact same thing?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

If it were that would be fine by me but I think the Colbert Report is more of a fake Bill O'Riley style commentary show rather than a fake news show. So it's a slight variation on the theme.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm excited for this, as I can't take Stewart's constant mugging anymore.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

here ya go: vid of Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

O'Reilly won that one.

(Paraphrasing)
O'REILLY: "France is our enemy!"
STEWART: "Well, be that as it may..."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

He didn't mention cindy at all did he?

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

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