shit-finish?
During the election fiasco (when they made a number of brilliant shows, btw), my favorite scene was when Steve Carrell went to visit some circus freaks in Florida and ask them what they thought of the mess. Yes, circus freaks. The all demonstrated their freakishness by putting nails in their heads. (Like, in their ears and up their noses.)
Steve asked them all who they voted for, and all three say, “Bush.” So Steve asks “Do you think you would have voted for Bush if you didn’t have nails in your head?” One circus freak looks thoughtful and says “Probably not.”
It was priceless!
I also love the Dollars and “Cents” segments. The frantic banging on keyboards, the absurd stock market predictions. Nancy Walls as the “money bunny”.
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Another great moment:
When the Enron scandal first broke, the Daily Show showed clips of a bunch of Senators giving the Enron execs quite a tonue lashing. All of the clips included the senators using seagoing metaphors, like “You drove the Enron ship aground”, etc.
Cut to Jon, who said something like “The senators used up all available sailing metaphors, leaving the next speaker disappointed.” Above his shoulder appeared the Sea Captain from the Simpsons.
Jon, very sadly: Yarrrr.
I love the Daily Show.
For future reference, the one with the glasses is Colbert and the one without them is Carrell.
The post 2000 election shows were priceless:
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Stewart appearing on camera, a couple of days after the election, unshaven and in a rumpled suit, with half-empty cups of coffee and cigarette butts all over the set, and saying “When we named our election coverage ‘Indecision 2000’ WE WERE KIDDING!”
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Stewart saying that they were going to interview an expert on counting and then having the Sesame Street Muppet, “The Count”, appear and say, “One, One vote for Gore, Mwa ha ha. Two, two votes for Gore, Mwa ha ha…”
A long time they had Maury Povich (who is the husband of Connie Chung) on the show. One of the Five Questions went something like:
Craig: “What should everybody do tonight?”
Maury: “Everybody have fun tonight. I’m gonna wang Chung tonight!”
Dr. J
Jon: “You may be wondering how Iraq managed to rebuild its economy so completely after the devastation of the Gulf War. Well, it happened with the aid of a small company known as Haliburton and its hard-working CEO . . . Dick Cheney. Cheney will defend this decision on the next episode of CNN’s “WHAT THE F*UCK WERE YOU THINKING???””
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And this:
Steve Carrell: “Also, Jewish boys are required to partake in a barbaric ritual at the age of 13 known as a bar mitzvah. This is a ritual in which the boy is required to read aloud from the Torah . . . while walking backwards across hot coals with a cinder block chained to his scrotum.”
Jon: “Uh . . . Steve, I’m Jewish and . . . I had a bar mitzvah . . . and I don’t remember any of that.”
Steve Carrell: “That’s because you’re Reform.”
The greatest one was when the two Steves went out drinking. They had a camcorder set up on the table and one of them just kept throwing them back and the other stayed sober. The table was just more and more covered with empty glasses and bottles. And the drinking Steve just became more and more obviously drunk. Hilarious.
I think I cried when Kilborn or Stewart (don’t remember) refered to Niel Patrick Harris in Starship Troopers as “Doogie Himmler”. If you saw the movie, you would understand.
Pardon?
Your name is just a Shape, so what do I call you?
Just for the record…Can’t you read???
That was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Especially that last bit with the country ending up in total chaos. (“End of day one. Day two …”)
There was another post-election report about the endless recounts where one of the Steves (Colbert, I think) said Gore was giving up on the U.S. courts and going to the Hall of Justice. He said Bush was filing a brief before the Legion of Doom. They ran a transcript of the LoD’s proceedings:
Villian #1: Do we even have jurisdiction?
Villian #2: Of course! For we are the Legion of Dooooooooooooooom!
Absolutely priceless. I wish I had it on tape.
I also loved Lewis Black’s rant about possible host cities for upcoming Olympics.
(Video of a desert country with buildings in ruins.)
Lewis: Well that’s just great. But what if I don’t want my next Olympics held beyond thunderdome?
I almost hurt myself laughing at that one.
Eh, his/her name is not a shape, it’s an “n” with a tilde. I’m assuming that you cannot see this character in your computer and thus assume that his/her name is square-a-square-i.
The OP can read, alright, her/his name shows in his/her computer correctly.
PD. Instead of pointing out why you said square or cube, your comment was out of line and rude…not called for.
My favorite moment has always been when one of the female correspondants gave a cow a handjob.
Cut to ziplock bag filled with a pint of porcine semen and a very relaxed looking pig with a big grin on his face.
Ack. Gave a pig a handjob.
I don’t watch the show often enough to know who anyone, besides Stewart, is, but I loved a throw away comment made by one of the cast after a rant about 9/11 " Not only will it be the scariest Halloween ever, it’ll be the scariest Thanksgiving and Christmas ever too!"
Stephen Colbert rules.
I still remember when he called Monica Lewinski a “walking humidor”. :eek:
Also, his commentary on movie trailers was hilarious. Especially the trailer version.
SUCK…MY…(cut to explosion)
Stephen Colbert: If you’re such a big lesbian, why are you turning me on?
Or when he started shaking a handfull of beads at a roomful of women to incite them to “go wild”
Over the KKK’s involvement in Missouri’s ‘adopt-a-highway’ program:
“One way or another, there will be trash on Missouri’s highways”
On Monica Lewinsky’s possible testimony:
“Experts say that if she keeps her mouth shut, she may take it on the chin.”
When I want your opinion Karl I’ll ask for it ,ok? I think the person who did the OP can speak for him/herself.