Via a small victory, from Jim Treacher

No matter what side of the political spectrum you’re on, if you are incapable of feeling at least a tiny amount of joy at watching ordinary Iraqis celebrate this, you are lost to the ideological left. And let me also add, if you are incapable of feeling badly that we even had to use force in the first place, you are ideologically lost to the right. And I would inform both of those groups to leave the room now and do not watch the program. It’s like ice-skating: We throw out the high score and the low score. The rest of the people, you’re welcome at the table.
--Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

Why is Jon Stewart not king of late night?

That’s been my problem with most political discussions — there’s nothing wrong with the left or the right: there’s just a point at which you are so left that every fact that doesn’t agree with you is a fabrication or part of a conspiracy, and there’s a point where you are so right that everyone who doesn’t agree with you is an anarchist (I almost typed antichrist there, which wouldn’t have been half-wrong). I’m not saying ‘can’t we all just get along’, but some folks lack perspective.

(Or, in Robert’s case, pretend to lack perspective just to piss people off :)

Because when you take good people (Craig Kilborn) from the Daily Show and put them on late night they turn into zobie-freaks.

Or they sit there and become zombie freaks over the years...

I was a huge Carson fan. Huge, loved Johnny, since he left it's gotten sad.

How long can Leno's chin get?

How freakish can Letterman and Paul Shaffer get?

It's painful for me to watch.

Save Jon, stay on the Daily Show.

Though Stewart is funny, he's thought provoking funny, not stupid funny which seems to be what late night has gone to. And though I did like Johnny, he was nowhere near as serious an interviewer as Jack Parr.

Jack Parr and Charlie Rose are a little too serious for me.

I like Johnny because he and Ed had that semi-gin-drunk look to them all the time, like watching old footage of the Summit in Vegas.

wow, what a great snippet! thanks for posting that

Who, me? I'm innocent, I tell ya! And if you don't believe me, I can get al-Sahaf to vouch for me...

~Robert