The History Channel has gained the nickname "The Hitler Channel" among some I know for its constant airing of World War II specials (many of featuring, well, Hitler). Perhaps they were thinking of that reputation when they put together their new slate of specials, which, according to Broadcasting & Cable, includes specials hosted by Jon Stewart and Lewis Black of The Daily Show.

Stewart will be given two hours with which to target the immigration issue in a special called The Naturalized. Considering the current economic implications of immigration and its role in last year's presidential campaign, there should be plenty for Stewart to work with to keep the special current. Stewart has already begun work on it, according to B&C. The special will follow eight people on the track to becoming U.S. citizens. the special will air in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Wow, it wasn't until I saw this montage that I realized how creepy and forced Hillary Clinton's laugh sounds. I get the feeling that it was only because she was on FOX News, even though the idea of Hillary being an android incapable of properly feigning human emotion is mighty appealing.

"AhmadineMinute": All the angry Jewish fellows and tough guys of New York City have come together to rant about Ahmadinejad hanging out in the City, filling their air with their oh-so-mockable voices. Jon really went to town with the voices tonight, didn't he?

(S02E01) The question of whether or not to allow illegal immigrants to remain in this country and eventually become citizens of the United States is a hotly debated issue. Passions run deep on both sides of the coin, and those positions seem to be deeply held and mostly inflexible.

The premiere episode of the second season of 30 Days, produced by Morgan Spurlock (of Super Size Me fame), focuses on the issue of illegal immigration by having Frank George, a member of the Minuteman vigilante group that voluntarily patrols the United States/Mexico border, live with a family of illegals for a period of 30 days in order to understand their situation.

(S04E02) Paul Rudd is a funny guy, and he should really do more comedy. He appeared in this episode, albeit briefly, as an instructor in Trudi's Lamaze class who informs the women, "your vagina will be ripped in half." That's about all we hear about Trudi and her pregnancy in this episode, though she does have a funny conversation with Williams where Williams explains to her that a baby must be fed everyday and cannot, as Trudi assumes, just have food laid out for it like a cat. Trudi counters with, "If I knew you were going to judge me on my parenting skills I never would have introduced you to my unborn child."

Rewinding to the beginning of the episode, the deputies discuss new policies on when they can and cannot shoot at a person. One of the new rules is that they can only shoot after they've already been shot once. Trudi inexplicably asks if she can shoot people and chickens who come into her yard.

"Leonar-D'oh!": Jon Stewart started with some important news about the upcoming Da Vinci Code film. He somehow managed to take advantage of the word "Cannes" and work it into a "Khan!" joke. What a geek. Anyway, loads of religious groups are really angry over the film, staging protests and hunger strikes, just like Gandhi did to protest the Gold Diggers of 1933 (this joke gave Jon an excuse to dance/twitch rhythmically to Indian music). Apparently, some albino groups are pretty irked, as well. Jon said that religious groups always get attention for their huge protests, so it was good to see albinos get their moment in the sun -- um...

Ahhh. Live television. There's nothing quite like it, is there? Tonight, CNN cut to President Bush's speech on immigration a tad bit early. The president was actually rehearsing as CNN suddenly interrupted an anchor's pre-speech analysis by cutting to the President delivering a line from his speech. Then, the President stopped and looked away.

It turns out, it wasn't really CNN's fault. NBC was the pool network on the speech and it was supposed to keep up a graphic on the screen until a countdown showed up and then the President gave his speech. But, some NBC producer had the graphic taken down early so the network feed showed the President speaking. I would guess that the folks in the control booth at CNN crapped their pants when they saw the President appear on the network feed early, delivering his speech. Of course, all the conspiracy theorists will argue that CNN was trying to make the President look stupid.

The video of CNN's goof is after the jump (or catch it here later, if YouTube is busy):

Mexico's Vincent Fox is planning for the legalization of several drugs in small amounts for personal use. Yup, this will include cocaine, heroine, and marijuana (craziest Spring Break ever). Jon was kind enough to warn us to drink only the bottled bong water in Mexico. He also showed us that the legalization will serve very well with our immigration issue: Mexicans will keep flocking to America for jobs, Americans will flock to Mexico to get hammered and fall into the Gulf. Excellent.

This was a special topic-specific episode, entitled "Race: The Afrospanicindioasianization Of America" (and yes, Jon did stumble over the name). "Evolution Schmevolution", their last topic-specific series, was somewhat disappointing, so I wasn't expecting much from this episode. And I'm glad I didn't. I guess some of the correspondents wanted to take a vacation or something because there weren't any of them on live (just Jon and Resident Expert John Hodgman).

"Delay: The Inevitable": Big news! Big news! Tom "The Hammer" Delay has announced his resignation! Cue lots of cheers and applause from the Daily Show audience. That's right, Delay... no one likes you. Not since you stole the Fonz's hairdo. And your lame reason for resignation ("Because I care so deeply about this district and the people in it, I refuse to allow liberal Democrats an opportunity to steal this seat with a negative, personal campaign") deserved nothing but sarcastic crying... which is what Jon heartily served up. Silly Delay.

Back in September of 2005, The Daily Show featured a special report, "Evolution Schmevolution", during which they totally resolved the issue concerning intelligent design vs. evolution in just four half-hour segments. Well, it looks like The Daily Show is off to fix another one of the world's problems with another special report. In response to the current turmoil over the immigration issue, they will present "Race: The Afrospanicindioasianization Of America". Ooh, catchy title. According to the press release, Rob Corddry, John Hodgman, and Demetri Martin ("Trendspotting" for immigrants?) will be joining Jon Stewart to completely solve the issues of bigotry and illegal immigration within 22 minutes.

I wish they still had Lewis Black hanging around. For some reason, I feel like a "Back in Black" portion would be appropriate. Anyway, this episode will air on Wednesday at regular TDS time (11:00 PM EST).