TVSquad

"Is That Really Necessary?": John McCain wants to have a Christian president. We'll make it happen, McCain, we'll make it happen. FOR YOU.

"Here Comes the Grudge": On the first day of the Supreme Court's return, Clarence Thomas' book was released, chock full of revealing information on how much Thomas really hates everyone and thinks that John Roberts dresses too provocatively. I think Daily Show only brought this up because they wanted an excuse to crack all the "Coke and pubic hair" jokes that they've had stored up since the last time they've had the opportunity to make fun of Thomas. Senior Legal Analyst Jason Jones stopped by to say some things. I honestly lost all memory of everything else he covered when he said "furry pop-top". Eww.

"Specularium": Part of punditry is the art of speculating way too early, as demonstrated Daily Show-style with Jon, Aasif Mandvi, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, and Rob Riggle. This segment was pretty good. As usual, I liked Oliver the best. He had me at "Assuming I'm correct, which, unless I'm wrong, I certainly am", but I'd be lying if I said that Riggle didn't almost steal me away with "unicorns dispensing vitamin water from their teats". Also, Mandvi and Riggle's 2005 moustaches were pretty sweet. Or creepy. Actually, I haven't decided yet. And I kept expecting them to do a cut to 2005 Bee and show her with a full-on Fu Manchu or something. Alas, no.

The night's guest was Hardball's Chris Matthews, promoting his latest book, Life's a Campaign: What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation, and Success. Judging by the giddy little grin on Matthew's face throughout the beginning of the interview, I bet he thought it was just going to be another light-hearted discussion like all of his other visits to the Daily Show. Oh, no. This time Jon actually asked him stuff and made him, like, answer things. There were so many good lines in this interview. At first, I was madly in love with Jon's "I'm not trashing your book, I'm trashing your philosophy on life!", but then Matthews delivered the surprisingly endearing "This is the worst interview I have ever had in my life!" and called Jon a Zell Miller, which caused me to half-shout, "Oh snap!" to no one in particular. Jon's sheepish closing ("Friends?") was also wonderful. The whole interview was really fun to watch and the discussion was generally interesting. And by "the discussion", I mean "watching Matthews try to defend his book".

Moment of Zen: Clarence Thomas looked kind of tense when he was relaxing in his motor home.