The Daily Show: February 28, 2008
"Bushman of Africa": President Bush recently paid a visit to five countries throughout Africa. He shared his learnings and experiences through a slideshow, keeping it real old-school. Due to his initiatives on malaria, there will be a George W. Bush Day to raise awareness. Was that a joke, Mr. President? I'll pretend it was.Correspondent John Oliver stopped by to talk about this strange, new caring Bush and expressed his pain in seeing that Bush had it in him to do good all along. Whenever people bash The Daily Show (or the Colbert Report) for being really unfair to Bush, I like to point them to segments like this. Sure, they have a bit of a liberal bias, but they're not afraid to point out the blunders of the Democrats, nor do they shy away from recognizing when Republicans or conservatives have done well. Seriously, these two shows are probably more fair that many mainstream news outlets. Bless their snarky little hearts.
"Trendspotting with Demetri Martin": It's been a long time since we've seen anything from Demetri Martin and his hair, so it was good to see this segment again. Martin covered the importance of the youth vote and the media's attempts to reflect it in a hip way. I think we've just learned that the hippest way to present a story about youth voting is with hand-drawn graphics and rainbows. The Daily Show Street Team was awesome/terrifying, by the way. I would mind seeing the correspondents doing more crazy group work like this and their recent graffiti'd van polling segment.
The night's guest was former Giant Head and friend to the show, Brian "BriWi" Williams. It's always fantastic to have him on the program, just because it's so much fun watching him and Jon interact and chat like old buddies. The two of them threw jokes back and forth, poking fun at taking over hosting duties for the presidential debates and the Oscars. They also talked about Williams' great performance on Saturday Night Live.
Moment of Zen: Ed Henry tried to jazz things up a bit. He should stop.
