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March 18, 2008
At The Daily Show last night
So Todd, Heidi and I attended a taping of The Daily Show last night. It was fun, though not as euphoric an experience as seeing Stephen Colbert last year. One observation, though: Jon Stewart is about 2 feet tall. Even the average-sized Larry Wilmore towered over him. Which brings me to my second point: Larry Wilmore! What a guy. He did a hilarious piece subtly poking fun at Geraldine Ferraro for her "Obama is lucky he's black" comments, in the context of David Paterson taking over for Eliot Spitzer.
Other than that I was glad to see Jon do his Bush imitation, not because it's good, but it's somewhat charming. Interesting also to see the special effects - they used fishwire to simulate Aasif Mandvi's reporter's notebook flying out of his hands as he "fell" several stories, evoking the collapse of the financial markets. No toss, though. Disappointing. Jon Stewart's a bit boring between takes, too, keeping his head down, not doing anything crazy. He seemed like more of an old pro than Colbert. Also, people asked the stupidest questions during the Q and A. What do you expect on St. Patrick's Day in NYC.
Watch the episode here.
| By laurajuanita | 01:05 PM
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