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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02-28: The youth-based version of the TDS election street team was even more ridiculous.
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03-03: The flow of the Hillary interview was totally blown by the satellite lag and them talking over each other.
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03-04: I want to watch Riggle's do-or-die primary show. "One will win. The other will get their head chopped off and shit down their neck!"
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03-05: Jack Nicholson's Hillary ad is crazy. Jon's fake one is crazier.
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03-06: Boy oh boy, more of their filthy filthy animations. This time with Michigan's mitten and Florida's... Dangleschlong. Not to mention that dirty Upper Peninsula.
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03-10: Rob Riggle vs anti-Marine forces.
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03-11: Ahaha at Lewis Black. Says he's not been on the show much lately, but when news broke about a prostitution scandal there was a helicopter at his apartment to rush him to the studio.
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03-12: Nice "Tainted Gov" trailer.
John Oliver says prostitutes are Spitzer's Achilles heel, if Achilles's heel had been on his penis.
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03-13: New contributor, Kristen Schaal.
Guest Dana Perino. They're really racking up those press secretaries.
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03-17: Ahahaha, Aasif's financial report done during a jump from a building.
Wilmore on Spitzer's replacement: "People thought they were eleting a white governor with a black sidekick. Now the sidekick is governor? Imagine if Ernie Hudson became lead Ghostbuster. Most customers would rather have a ghost in their house than Ernie Hudson."
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03-18: New segment: "The Govs Must Be Horny". Let's see if they can get through all 50.
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03-19: This just in: Jon Stewart to die at the end of March 2008 from the great plague.
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03-20: The return of the long fake hands! Last seen correcting Huckabee on his closeness to the nomination, now correcting 2003 Rummy on the shortness of the war.
Nice faux-(diamond commercial) for a 5th anniversary gift for Iraq.
They're on tonight! Dick Cheney: International Man of Misery.
Hey, a toss!
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03-31: Jon predicts a Mets year of 162-0.
Ahaha. Bush threw out the first pitch on "Boo day".
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04-01: Non-notable.
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04-02: Monsters of Nostalgia tour? I could go for that.
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04-03: Jon really lost it during John's recitation of ribald names.
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04-07: got mlk?
Ahaha. Riggle as a CG dolphin with breasts called Beowulf Porpoiseburg? This show has come far.
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04-08: Not notable enough to remember some days later when I write this.
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04-09: I love "Iraq Me Dave Petraeus".
Even Future Jon uses the fake hands.
Ahahahaha... Stephen confuses Petraeus hearings with Battlestar Galactica.
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04-10: Oliver's documentary on the... maturation of Fox's political views from one heavily criticizing executive power to one heavily in favor of executive power was quite interesting.
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