The Daily Show: May 28, 2008 - VIDEOS

Hey, hey, hey. Comedy Central's press site has updated Daily Show cast photos. This time, Aasif Mandvi has been included and Samantha Bee has been totally Photoshop'd to bits. I mean, I'm just assuming someone was trying to hide her growing baby bump and that Bee doesn't actually look so proportionately awkward and walk like a fembot. Be sure to take a look at those hi-res photos up close. It's time to update your TDS desktop anyway. I don't want to see anymore Dan Bakkedahl, okay?

"Indecision 2008: Full Release": In case you haven't noticed, John McCain is super old. Obviously there's been a bit of worry regarding the state of his health going into the election. Last Friday, McCain made some people's Memorial Day weekends super awesome and attempted to quell his followers' fears at the same time by releasing about 1,200 pages of medical records. Please note that this heavy reading material only covered the last eight years. After news returned that, despite the fact that he's taking multiple medications and has various surgeries and histories of illness, McCain is fit as a fiddle. Jon's response to "Is 71 the new 30?" was perfect: "I guess that would make 'dead' the new 50." Also, what poor intern had to sit down and do a watercolor of McCain's buttocks? Actually, forget that. Who had to don an ill-fitting wig and do a McCain booty dance?

On the other side of the aisle, the Democrats still haven't stopped fighting. This hasn't kept people from speculating who Barack Obama might tag as a running mate. Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore stopped by to discuss and make Jon, in all his whiteness, uncomfortable with saying, "Magical negro." Also, at the mention of Obama and Bill Richardson teaming up to be Black & Tan, I immediately thought of Gandhi and George Washington Carver. Anyone that understands this reference gets an imaginary cookie. Anyway, Wilmore was hilarious, as usual, but I'm still waiting for another joint-report with John Oliver. Seriously, I'm going to keep talking about it until it happens. This segment hasn't aired since October, unfortunately:



Oh, right, and the proper Wilmore segment:



The night's guest was Fred Burton, author of Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent. All this super-spy talk was extremely interesting, but it didn't save the interview from being a little awkward at times. I always feel terrible when an otherwise okay guest finds no other way to react to Jon's joking questions but to laugh forcefully and then do nothing else. Even a slight shrug or a playful "Yeah, right!" would suffice, just to kill the silence. But no, no... Some guests just kind of leave Jon hanging and then he has to awkwardly stumble through a few more jokes before coming to another question. It's almost as bad as when guests go into crazy stand-up routines instead of engaging in discussion. Yeah, I'm lookin' at you, Dennis Miller!



Moment of Zen: But... I thought everyone loved to read about colonoscopies during their Memorial Day BBQs.