The Daily Show 2008
A Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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01-08: Jon's strike solidarity... unibrow?
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01-09: John Oliver... present due to the potential threat of deportation? Man, that makes Stewart's uncomfort about returning to the... err, a show seem like nothing.
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01-10: John Oliver on again tonight. I wonder if, due to the circumstances mentioned yesterday, he's the only correspondent?
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01-11: Nope. Mandvi, Riggle, and Jones were on tonight.
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01-14: Fareed Zakaria, making his three-hundred seventh Daily Show appearance.
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01-15: Jon and John Bolton were much more civil tonight. Not like their arguments about Lincoln during his last appearance.
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01-16: Too bad he couldn't have the show run long like Stephen did last week; the third of that Jonah Goldberg interview we saw was pretty interesting.
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01-17: Ahaha, a look back on the Lewinsky scandal of a decade ago, "10 Suckin' Years". The retro clips of Jon Stewart were great. "Jon, your younger brother was very talented."
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01-21: I think tonight's guest gave too little credit to the stories and traits newsmen assign to candidates. He said by the time one got recognized another would be there to replace it. However, things like "Al Gore exaggerates" and "John Kerry is a fake" went on for a good year.
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01-22: So they've sent Jason Jones to Iceland to get their troop to return to Iraq.
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01-23: Jason Jones on his failure: "I'd let down my country. Also the one below it." (HE IS CANADIAN HURF BURF.)
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01-24: Tonight's guest: the "hot lady" in the "hot lady/bald guy" pair they were recently talking about financial shows being.
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01-28: It's... A Daily Show. But nothing in particular leaps out.
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01-29: Jon agrees... that was a pretty lame State of the Union.
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01-30: Jon Stewart is very short. Also, they had to pull all the Giuliani 9/11 jokes they could this time, since they won't get as many chances. "After finishing 9th and 11th in Florida" ... "He made the announcement at 11 after 9, Giuliani Standard Time"
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01-31: I should really write these things sooner, because backwriting this entry from February 5th, I can't say much what happened.
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02-04: Ménage à awesome.
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02-05: Jon... never quite competent with the props. Getting that fire extinguisher expellent all over his legs, ahahaha.
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02-06: New Daily Show poll organization... featuring pretty well every single current correspondent. Making death threats.
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02-07: If Mitt Romney continues his campaign... the terrorists win. Also, an Ed Helms repeat from late 2005.
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02-11: On Hillary talking about eating hot peppers: "Her campaign may not be on fire, but I'm guessing her anus is."
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02-12: It somehow seems appropriate that frequent The Daily Show guest Bill Kristol would make an appearance on A Daily Show before its demise.
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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02-13: The The is back!
Actually the first thing I noticed that signaled a return to normalcy was Jon's show-beginning doodling. "He's writing!" I said, "On a script!"
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02-14: (I forgot to comment again.)
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02-26: Ahh, the good old post-Oscars Jon-bashing. Lowest ratings ever? Ouch. To misquote Jon Oliver, "Two years ago when you gave a basic cable performance, millions watched. Now when you give a world-class performance, you bring in a basic cable audience."
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02-27: Nobody drinks condom coffee like Jason Jones.
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