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Posted Mar 17th 2006 7:10PM by Annie Wu
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Jon Stewart started off by announcing that Congress has raised
America's limit of debt to a whopping
$9 trillion. "Are you
getting an 'F'? Don't study harder! Just make the grading scale go to a 'K'!"
March 19 will mark the 3
year anniversary of
Operation Iraqi Freedom. The first year
anniversary was paper, the second anniversary was (we were hoping for) oil, and the third year anniversary will be
Operation
Swarmer, the largest air assault since Shock and Awe. Happy anniversary! "It's our way of telling Iraq we would
do it all over again..."
Continue reading The Daily Show: March 16, 2006
Posted Mar 10th 2006 3:08PM by Annie Wu
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Big news, everyone! Dubai backed out of the port deal! Jon
scoffed, "Apparently they're too good for our ports". Plus, Abu Ghraib prison is
going to close! Ed Helms reported on-location
regarding this "end of an
error era". He said that the Iraqis were really sad about the
closing because it was the heart of their economy. Where will all the blindfold-makers find work now?
Continue reading The Daily Show: March 9, 2006
Posted Mar 9th 2006 6:59PM by Annie Wu
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Jon started with some good ol' presidential humor by covering
Bush's visit to Asia. The president
went there to sign a nuclear cooperation (or as Bush would say it, "a nuke-ular kwap'ration") with India.
America will help India build nuclear reactors if they promise to stop their children from crushing us in spelling
bees. Bush also learned about Indian culture, seeing cloth made the old-fashioned way on looms, visiting farms, and
facing one hell of a huge potato. "Compared to India, our potatoes are literally small potatoes!"
Continue reading The Daily Show: March 8, 2006
Posted Mar 8th 2006 4:19PM by Annie Wu
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Jon's back on from his
Oscars gig. Oh, Jon, how we've missed
thee. After putting down his Hollywood sunglasses, cellphone, and Blackberry, Jon talked about the
mixed
reviews over his performance ("I sucked... and was great!"). He's usually pretty hard on himself (I
remember him uttering, "I am a loser" after one of his jokes during the Oscars) so it was good to hear
that Jon said that he had a great time. Audience may or may not have enjoyed his performance as host... it all
depended on which cutaways you saw (Jamie Foxx laughed it up, Joaquin Phoenix offered nothing but cold stares). Well,
for what it's worth, I thought Jon did a fantastic job with what he had. I really loved the "attack ads" that
Stephen Colbert voiced. Jon even showed another attack ad that they pulled at the last minute about monkeys in the biz,
out of fear of an uprising resulting in a
Planet of the Apes world. It's practical thinking.
Continue reading The Daily Show: March 7, 2006
Posted Feb 24th 2006 3:56PM by Annie Wu
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David Irving recently went
on trial in an Austrian court for denying that the Holocaust
ever happened. He showed up for the case holding his book Hitler's War. Hey, guess what? That was a stupid move,
Irving. Jon said that it would have been a better idea to show up with a neck brace and a yarmulke (I totally didn't
need a dictionary for that).
Continue reading The Daily Show: February 23, 2006
Posted Feb 23rd 2006 4:12PM by Annie Wu
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A sick Jon Stewart (aww... please get well before the
Oscars) opened the show by bringing up
a pretty
nifty story. Eight workers from a ham processing plant won a huge $365 million Powerball jackpot the other day
(dude, that's, like, a million dollars every day for a year). Jon reports that many of the workers planned to go to
work again the next day... not because they still wanted their jobs, but either because they wanted one last chance at
the employee ham discount or wanted to put a "little something extra" in the ham. "Hmm... This ham
tastes like... like a Powerball winner..."
Continue reading The Daily Show: February 22, 2006
Posted Feb 22nd 2006 4:23PM by Annie Wu
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The holiday weekend passed without Vice
President Dick Cheney shooting anyone else. Hurrah! However, the injured man popped up in the news again... this time
to apologize to the Vice President. Yeah, you read that
right. What an awesome position Dick Cheney is in, to be able to shoot a guy in the face and then have the victim come
to you and say, "My bad". For this, Mr. Cheney, I am in awe.
Continue reading The Daily Show: February 21, 2006
Posted Feb 17th 2006 9:32AM by Annie Wu
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Jon Stewart started off by stating, "Everyone is welcome here at
The Daily Show except... Belgians. I hate them
so
much". The audience was laughing it up, while I tried to dig through my head for any Belgian current events
that he might be mocking. In the end, I came to two possible conclusions: It was yet another pre-show
warm-up reference for the audience to enjoy (Belgian visitors, I guess), or Jon really does hate Belgians. The
former seems more logical, but the latter is a lot funnier to imagine... I will go with the latter. Jon
also remarked on the funky weather that New York has been having (about 60 degrees one day, 20 degrees the
next). "I believe that God... hates us," he said. "I feel like He's hazing us".
Continue reading The Daily Show: February 16, 2006
Posted Feb 15th 2006 2:40PM by Annie Wu
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Jon Stewart started off by wishing us a Happy Valentine's
Day and hopes that we're all getting laid ("Consider us foreplay this evening"). Aww, cheers, Jon. Same to
you.
As if TDS didn't rub it in Cheney's face enough in the last episode, they brought it up again:
Vice President Dick Cheney
shot a 78 year-old man in the face because he mistook him for a bird. Well, it turns out it was a lot worse
than they had previously stated. In actuality, Vice President Dick Cheney shot a 78 year-old man from the side and then
up to the face (birdshots spray). Holy crap.
Continue reading The Daily Show: February 14, 2006
Posted Feb 14th 2006 6:48PM by Annie Wu
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Mr. Jon Stewart was back with a whole new week of Daily Show (sorry, Rob, it just
wasn't the same without Jon). The "1800th episode" line tied back to a fan's question from the pre-show
warm-up. Read her
blog entry about the event. It's a
sweet story... It just makes you want to love Jon even more.
Well, it was no surprise that the first news to
be reported was "
Cheney's Got A
Gun". Vice President
Dick Cheney shot a 78
year-old man. In the face. While quail-hunting. The
face. While
quail-hunting. The injured man, Harry
Whittington, is the first person to be shot by a sitting Veep since Alexander Hamilton. At least the Aaron Burr story
had some good meat to it... The Hamilton/Burr fight was over political maneuvering, but the Cheney/Whittington case was
that Cheney mistook Whittington
for a bird.
Continue reading The Daily Show: February 13, 2006
Posted Feb 8th 2006 9:30PM by Annie Wu
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Jon Stewart just became a daddy (again)! Jon started off by commenting on his
wonderful weekend... His wife
just gave birth
to a baby girl named
Maggie Rose Stewart,
weighing in at 6 pounds, 9 oz. and 130 inches ("Like a tapeworm!" he exclaimed). Jon was clearly proud, as he
should be. And is it just me, or has Jon's hair gotten remarkably more gray in the recent weeks? Not like I have a
problem with it... The salt-and-pepper look suits him beautifully.
Continue reading The Daily Show: February 7, 2006
Posted Feb 3rd 2006 10:42PM by Annie Wu
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Tom DeLay stepped down as the House Majority Leader so the Republicans had to find a
replacemant for the Notorious TOM. But, hey, guess what? When the votes were counted, they found more ballots submitted
than actual Republican voters! It's very funny in sad, sad way. Have you lost faith in humanity yet? By the way, the
winner ended up being a fellow named
Robert Boehner (it's pronounced
"banner" but everyone knows it's really "boner").
Continue reading The Daily Show: February 2, 2006
Posted Feb 2nd 2006 7:25PM by Annie Wu
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Forget the Superbowl, America had the friggin State
of the Union, peoples. So what did President Bush say? Well, there was a lot of referenceas to 9/11, the war on terror,
and pretty-sounding, uplifting stuff about America and how "together we will make it stronger". Bush also went
into some crazy-talk about placing a ban on creating "
human-animal
hybrids". Dude, I didn't even know there was stuff like that going on in the country. This only makes me want
to start trying stuff... Anyone want to volunteer themselves to have half a rat sewn on their face?
Continue reading The Daily Show: February 1, 2006
Posted Feb 1st 2006 7:01PM by Annie Wu
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The Daily Show decided to give
Alan Greenspan a great send-off so they started up
the "Irrationally Exuberant Tribute to Alan Greenspan". Yes, ladies and gentlemen and you two hardcore
Greenspan fans,
TDS had a full episode dedicated to Greenspan (except for the Charles Barkley interview). Jon
expressed his love for Greenspan and his manly features ("I would totally do that guy!") and filled us in on
the basics (Age: 79; Sign: Pisces; Porn name: Chad Lexington; Drag queen name: Buttons Manhattan; Jewiness Per Square
Inch level of 59). Throughout the rest of the episode, correspondents joined in with their favorite Greenspan stories
(Rob Corddry took Greenspan's idea once and dumped a girl he really liked, only to find Greenspan and the same woman
having sex later).
Continue reading The Daily Show: January 31, 2006
Posted Jan 31st 2006 5:24PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show
Jon started off by commenting on how huge
Exxon (still) is, pulling
in a huge $10.7 billion a year. They're so rich now, they've actually started buying tankers of oil for the sole
purpose of crashing into Alaska. Plus, their tiger looks pimpin'.
"
The Great Firewall of China": Google has agreed to
censor their Chinese websearches. That's a little... strange. Jon tested out the new censored Google by running a
search for "underage Asian beaver" and clicking "I'm feeling undying obedience to our fearless
leader". Up came a Beijing Online article about the high birth rate of beavers.
Continue reading The Daily Show: January 30, 2006
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