Three weeks ago my mom e-mailed me and said The Daily Show with Jon Stewart was coming to Inverness, Fla.* that weekend. At first I thought she made a bad typo in her e-mail when she told me why, but after seeing the 7 p.m. replay of the show I now know better.
Yep, it’s almost time for the Cooter Festival.
So … who else has had their hometown featured on The Daily Show?
Can you show me your cooter?
Well, the Daily Show reported the fact (and it is truly a fact, regardless of what spin the national party tries to put on it) that the Republican Party here in Albuquerque required people to sign a poorly written, misspelled statement of support for George Bush before they could get in to hear Cheney speak at a public high school.
**To other New Mexico residents: Yeah, I know that was technically in Rio Rancho, but that’s practically Albuquerque anyway. 
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Whether or not Rio Rancho is a seperate city is dependent on whether or not you want to be associated with Rio Rancho at the time.
A couple (?) of years ago, one of the Stephens visited Saratoga Springs, NY. I don’t remember the details of the piece, but it had something to do with city employees somehow being classified as dead when they were still very much alive.
Speaking of The Daily Show, does anyone know what Vance DeGeneres is up to these days?
Stewart just recently mentioned my home town of Arlington, VA . . . and it was completely random. Some joke where he pretended to solicit immature jokes from viewers, and then used such a joke in the next segment and credited a fictitious kid from Arlington.
Madison has I’m sure been featured more than once. The time I saw was for a story on some university students who are suing everyone in sight over downtown bars ending drink specials, claiming that it’s illegal collusion in violation of anti-trust laws.
Remember that Samantha Bee piece where she talked to the guy who took a dump in the city hall bathroom every day, because they ruined his sewer pipe and wouldn’t pay for it?
That was my town: Naugatuck, CT.
I was shocked when the mayor’s caption popped up on screen, since they hadn’t said the town name before that and I hadn’t heard the story before. I wish they had shown an exterior of the town hall, so I could point out what a travesty of architecture it is. The rest of the square is full of wonderful buildings by McKim, Meade and White (who did the original Penn Station) and the town hall is a generic 70’s glass monstrosity.
That Cooter bit was one of the funniest skits I’ve seen in quite a while. Ed Helms is brilliant. At the part when the mayor is talking about the director of Parks arranging for a “viewing of a cooter” and the people start laughing off camera, I just lost it.
I don’t remember any Daily Show bits about Houston (not my hometown, though), but I’m sure there has been something here… Of course, Insomniac did Houston and there is the infamous Conan O’Brian bit here.
The Cooter Festival bit had me whooping out loud, especially when the people off-camera (Crew? Observers?) cracked up and the guy being interviewed whipped around, and said, “What?” 'cause he didn’t get it.
Congratulations, ladybug!
Hey, there used to be (and still could be) a “meat market” type bar near the University of Cincinnati called “Cooters”. I couldn’t believe it when I first saw it. If it wasn’t in Cincinnati I would have thought it was a strip club.
Rumor has it that the mayor of Inverness (the guy being interviewed) is a huge fan of The Daily Show and was determined to outjoke the interviewer. I don’t know if he outdid Ed Helms, but that scene was damn funny. 
Interesting bit of trivia: Inverness is about a 30-minute drive from the town that banned Satan.
I laughed out loud at that story. I’m sure the interviewee was a fan of the show, judging by his responses.
Samantha Bee: This is the sort of thing Gandhi would do.
Interviewee: Well, yeah, if he ate.
Serendipity, I found a little bit of info on Vance DeGeneres for you.