Is he completely daft?

I'm not sure about most of you, but I deligently follow The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, one of the funniest and yet incisive political show in the US. While it comes on Comedy Central, the show has become a major success and is credited as being the reason for the Democrats regaining control of the Senate as well as the Congress in the US. It is also a multiple Emmy and Peabody award winning show.

It is mostly because of Stewart that I am paying a keen interest in what is happening in the Presidential campaigns in the US. Also I like Barack Obama a lot. And the affection is also thanks to The Daily Show (Obama came on the show and was probably one of the wittiest and most forthright politcians I have seen).

For a while, I could not see all the videos and so made it a point to go instead to iFilm, which is where a lot of The Daily Show videos are compiled. They are also neatly arranged by episode and so it's a great place to go to for these videos. Recently, I have noticed the sight slowing down and so have chosen to go to the mothership directly.

So every day, I go to the ComedyCentral website to see what Jon said last night. The best part of the site is that you can not only see last night's episode (in parts), but also parts of earlier episodes. So huge is the success of The Daily Show (and it' sister show The Colbert Report) that they have a seperate grouping in the Comedy Central video archives. Here you can see a lot of interviews Jon and Steven have conducted and with very influential people.

As I was sifting through the videos, I was listening to all the presidential candidate interviews that Jon has done. The most frequent on the show (from this lot) is John McCain. If you watch two of his earliest appearences, he starts both shows off with the same comment:

"What happened to the couch you had earlier?"

The first time, I can understand, but not after you come back again in another year and say the same thing. Is McCain completely daft? Some of his answers are also hilarious.

But fact still remains...He is the only Republican that Jon Stewart shows any respect towards. The rest of them are usually treated with utter disdain. Not that he spares the Democrats. They get chewed up as well. As he said during his interview on CNN's Crossfire (this episode that you HAVE TO watch):

"The absurdity of the system provides us with the best material. The only way it
would be hard for us to mock (the Democratic administration) is if their administration is less absurd than this one. But it will be hard to top this (the Republican Administration) one."

He makes watching news (even if it's fake news) worth watching.