The Daily Show: October 12, 2006

"Garden Statement": Holy crap, Bush's attire-banter is scary. Why the sudden interest in fashion? Geez. And the correspondent strip-poker thing was hilarious. I mean, the sight of seeing Dan Bakkedahl, Jason Jones, John Oliver, and Rob Riggle playing strip-poker was okay, but the united gasp of horror that arose from the audience as Bakkedahl started taking his underwear off? That was comedy gold.

"Back in Black": Tie change! Jon's tie went form polka-dotted to striped, so that means that they went to a pre-taped segment. Whee. Anyway, Lewis Black stopped by to complain about how the rich are getting richer (and burning their money away with ridiculous shit, like super-customized sportscars). At the end of the segment, Jon briefly plugged Black's movie, Man of the Year. I'm still kind of weirded out that Black agreed to be in that film. I mean, the whole thing is pretty much about a topsy-turvy world in which Jon -- not any other comedian, but JON -- runs for president.

The night's guest was David Mark, author of Going Dirty: The Art of Negative Campaigning. Pretty interesting conversation about attack ads and the like. The information about early negative campaigning was quite cool. I think we should go back to that... Politicians should stop bitching about each other's views on taxes and stick to accusing people of being pimps. "Seat of Heat": Going with the negative campaigning conversation, Jon asked Mark to say some mean things about Bob Woodward, the guy with the current number one book. I was expecting a kind of joke-y answer, but Mark went right out there and said that Woodward only writes about whatever will sell at the moment. Oh SNAP.

Jon/Stephen: Don't forget to watch Comedy Central's "Night of Too Many Stars" on Sunday night. Were Jon and Stephen wearing matching ties? Moment of Zen: Donald Rumsfeld is a snippy bitch.

John Ashcroft is going to be on the show next week. Jon, make him sing "Let The Eagle Soar"! Do it!