Well you know that “sofasticated” City Humor must have gone over some peoples heads. 
Jim
It may suprise you to learn this, but Jon Stewart has not lived in New York City his whole life. For example, he got his BA at The College Of William & Mary, located in Williamsburg, VA, a bustling town of 1 movie theater and approximately 4 Jews.
So at the very least, he has experienced life in (what was then) rural Virginia. So don’t accuse him of never having traveled west of the Hudson.
I’ve lived a lot of places other than New York City – Manhattan, KS; Wiliamsburg VA; Ann Arbor, MI; central Virginia, and even Bulgaria for a couple of months. That I choose not to return to The City at this time in my life does not remove the fact that it is the Greatest City on Earth and the Capitol of Everyithing.
London’s not so great, really. It’s just NYC with a subway that closes Weak!
In fact he was raised Lawrenceville, New Jersey and I think he lives here again.
Jim
Great, but I watch the show every day, too, and I can assure you it wasn’t. :rolleyes:
Possibly because they were from LA? Since Los Angeles County is so large and encompasses so many other cities besides the city of LA, it’s common for people from various suburbs to describe themselves as being from LA. Whereas in San Francisco, the city and county are coterminous, although I’d guess only locals know that. When someone asks me where I am from here in Chicago, I usually say “A little ways north of San Francisco” - I wouldn’t say “San Francisco”, unless it makes sense in context. Besides, I really am a native San Franciscan, even if I haven’t lived there in a long time, so it’s not a lie, although it is a little misleading (since my family moved to the 'burbs when I was a kid).
The reason San Francisco seems so small is that it is small. It’s only 47 sq. miles and it only has 770,000 people. It’s not even the biggest city in the Bay Area - San Jose is quite a lot larger. The only reason it gets play as a major city is because it’s the heart of the Bay Area, which is a major metropolitan area. Compared to Chicago, it’s absolutely tiny. After spending most of my life in the Bay Area, the city of Chicago is intimidatingly large, although the two metropolitan areas are pretty comparable in size.
I was born in Queens (high five Queensians!) but now live in the Bay Area. One of the SF stations continues to prattle about the Bay Area being “The Best Place on Earth” I never heard any crap like that when I lived in NY.
It ain’t the best place without decent bagels and anywhere close to acceptable pastrami. Feh.
That cracks me up because Disney World is 42 square miles.
Now there is an area where “The City” can’t compete. It gets thumped down hard when it comes to higher education compared to Boston. That is a pretty big category. Sure, there are some good schools in New York but it gets trounced pretty easily by its neighbor to the North at the elite academic levels.
MIT & Havard alone would trump any other US City.
Ian Faith: The Boston gig has been cancelled…
David St. Hubbins: What?
Ian Faith: Yeah. I wouldn’t worry about it though, it’s not a big college town.
Stranger
Correct. Even the second tier Boston Schools like Boston University, Boston College, Brandeis, Wellesley, Tufts are still pretty damn good. The number of colleges in the Boston area can range into the dozens depending on where you draw the boundaries.
Don’t forget Emerson. My brother and Henry Winkler graduated from Emerson (tho not together) (along with several thousand others over the years)
(I’m the cute one)
