The Daily Show: September 21, 2006

In a recent interview with Barbara Walters, who actually died four years ago, Bill O'Reilly bragged (it was so totally bragging) that he's on Al Qaeda's death list. HA! First of all, what makes O'Reilly think that Al Qaeda really gives a shit about him? Second of all, as Jon said, "Don't know if you've seen the Al Qaeda tapes... We're kind of ALL on Al Qaeda's hit list." I guess O'Reilly briefly forgot about the "America" part of "Death to America".

"The Futile Crescent": Baghdad's going to dig trenches to keep all the baddies out. Wow. Just... wow. Oh, and Tony Blair's ready to step down.

"ConTROVersy": Okay, the premise of this was really fucking awesome (note the emphasis on the unnecessary use of "fucking")... pitting the two Daily Show British guys, John Oliver and Dave Gorman (the Poll-Smoking fellow that has been gone for a while) in a sort of "Even Stevphen" discussion. Of course, they're both British gentlemen and therefore are too polite to argue, opting to spend their time drinking tea. In theory, this would have been totally awesome, but, for some reason, it ended up looking like a middle schooler's attempt at recreating Monty Python skits (and I'm being oddly specific because I'm drawing on personal experience).

Somewhat frustrated with Hugo Chavez, Jon met him with some stern words at Camera Three: "Hola. Donde estas your bibliotheque?" Jon chewed out Chavez for his hypocritical claim that George Bush is the devil. He even met Danny Glover at Camera Four (great angle) to yell at him for hanging out with Chavez (and Mel Gibson). To clear the situation, the Devil Himself phoned in from the Ninth Circle, Hell. First of all, I got a good chuckle out of the Devil picture constant transformations (traditional, South Park's, Jon Lovitz in Devil suit, Simpson's evil Flanders). Second of all, I'm really enjoying these Camera Tree talks. It's always Jon at his angriest and sharpest. Beautiful.

The night's guest was CC Goldwater, granddaughter of Barry Goldwater and the producer of HBO's Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater. This topic was way, way, way before my time so I wasn't as involved as I could have been. I did find the discussion pretty interesting, though. If I had HBO, I would probably tune in. "Seat of Heat": "If people don't make a 90-minute documentary about their grandfather, does that mean they don't love them?" Goldwater answered that if anyone gets the chance to make a documentary about their grandfather, they should.

Jon/Stephen: Stephen Colbert presents Stephen Colbert Chills 'N Talks about the Autumnal Equinox. Moment of Zen: YES! Tony Blair getting heckled in Parliament. I'm telling you, people, if you ever get the chance to watch the House of Commons on CSPAN, do it. It's incredibly entertaining.