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May 26, 2012

The Daily Show: February 8, 2007

by Annie Wu, posted Feb 9th 2007 9:15PM

Jon Stewart"Controversy, thy name is Snickers..." Yup, some Superbowl ad talk. I laughed a little too hard when the sad robot blew his brains out. Does that mean I'm going to Hell? Robot Hell?

"Money for Nothing": I was absolutely mesmerized by Henry Waxman's face. Gosh, I can't even remember what this segment was about (something about losing $12 billion or something? Small change). Most of my time was spent trying to figure out who Waxman looks like. I eventually came to the conclusion that I was thinking of Batboy.

John Oliver filed a report about one man's mission to slay the Ladies' Night dragon. This was absolutely hilarious. Seriously, Oliver can do no wrong (just pretend "ConTROVersy" with Dave Gorman never existed). From the running in the snow to the awkward turn to the camera to the crazy infomercial man's suit... Brilliant. Oh! And we must not forget Kool & the Gang! That was amazing.

The night's guest was John Mellencamp, promoting his new album, "Freedom's Road". Wow. Mellencamp's pompadour is bigger than Jon's. Wild. This was a nice, light-hearted interview. I loved Mellencamp's story about Jon's young punk days... The mental image of young Jon Stewart dancing with his shirt off may have been permanently burned into my brain.

Jon/Stephen: None. Again. Always blaming the Chinese satellites, eh? Moment of Zen: Fox News' Capitol Hill Catfight. Wow. Interesting graphics.

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Violeta

And I think my favorite part of your review, Annie, is that link to the Bat boy page on wikipedia...the best part: "On 27 February 2001, he allegedly attacked a fifth-grader in an Orlando, Florida park. The girl was nearly ripped to shreds. The next day, he endorsed presidential candidate Al Gore." That just made my day.

February 10 2007 at 3:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Violeta

I think my favorite part was Jon talking in the beginning about people who hoped to intern at TDS...he started of with "This isn't the White House, this isn't Congress" and I totally expected him to just belittle the show as he normally does, but then to come out with "You will get sodomized" just made me laugh. Especially since I expect that a significant number of people who would want to intern there would hardly mind.

February 10 2007 at 12:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Cicconi

John Oliver rocks. For a while this week I was like "is he the only guy that came into work" but he's seriously grown on me. I miss the old correspondents like both Corddrys, Steve Carell, and Mr. Colbert ('this week in God' will never be the same). I'm not truly 'old school' but these are the originals to me. Jason Jones is funny enough, and who doesn't love Sam Bee.

I guess I don't really have a point to make. Ah, I remember. I used to not like John Oliver, but he's ok now. I think this week though, we've seen a little too much of him.

February 10 2007 at 12:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
BillS

Crazy Infomercial Man = Matthew Lesko. Had I been drinking milk at the time, it would've headed noseward.

And I don't care what critics or Jon say, I've heard that John Mellencamp song about eight thousand times in Chevy commercials during football games, and I hate it.

http://popculturejunk.blogspot.com

February 09 2007 at 10:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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