I thought I had done died and gone to heaven.
Jon Stewart AND Viggo Mortensen?
Oo! Yummy!
And it was a good show.
I love Samantha Bee–and that trucker was er, something else.
Loved the political riposting in the early part of the show, but have to say, once Viggo came out–I completely forgot 'bout politics…
thoughts?
Oops! Meant the title to be in caps. Fix that if needed, mods, please.
And I love the ad links at the bottom—I take back my complaints! They’re a riot.
I scared the cats, I was laughing so hard at the Peace Rally bit. And it only got funnier when Jon Stewart made it plain that the audience didn’t know how to react! Priceless!
Favorite line: “dude, I hitchhiked all the way from Oberlin for this?”
Seriously, we have such a good time making fun of the Right, we need to recognize the ridiculous when it comes from the Left, as well.
I didn’t think the writing was very sharp on the peace rally stuff. They had the grist, but didn’t mill it very well. And Samantha Bee’s piece was too long by half.
Ah, but you don’t need much in the way of writing when you have Jon Stewart reacting to what’s going on. Even his crappy impressions crack me up.
I’ll agree with you on Samantha Bee, though - most things by her are too long.
I’m not a fan of hers, but Samantha Bee had some of her funniest lines ever in that piece. And then, yes, it kept going for too long.
Not a great episode, in my opinion. A couple of jokes in the beginning really fell flat. But Stephen Colbert’s taped comments about Aragorn were an interesting surprise.
Not a great episode?!?
Viggo was there! And we learned that Colbert is a LOTR maniac.
(ok, so it wasn’ t a brilliant epi–but the eye candy alone was worth it).
I want some of those LOTR chocolates! Yummy, in all the good ways. 
The audience wasn’t reacting because the material on the Peace March just wasn’t very good. Oh, look, they aren’t professional speakers! Oh look, Jesse Jackson is a human being who needs to blow his nose! It was an attempt to be even-handed when there was nothing there to mock.
Now, the indictment of Tom DeLay… If that doesn’t provoke some real humor they need to turn in their license to ill. So to speak.
Okay, I’m a big Cronenberg fan, and I’ve been pretty jazzed about A History of Violence.
Then I saw Viggo on some cheesy Entertainment Tonight clone saying that, in his opinion, A History of Violence was the best project he ever worked on. The natural reaction, of course, was to exclaim to all present “That’s saying something, because the motherfcker was in the goddamn Lord of the mother-fcking Rings trilogy, for god’s sake!”
I was glad to see Jon Stewart approximate the jaw-in-lap gobsmacked look that I must of had on my face, when Viggo said something similar during the interview.
I could have easily done with another ten minutes for that interview. A Daily Show interview is so short, and they were really going along nicely. Viggo’s bizarre little joke with the toy reptiles and whoopee cushions (and Jon’s reaction) was funny, but ate up a lot of time, as did Colbert’s recorded exposition on the genealogy and aliases of Aragorn – I really did want to hear a little more about the movie. I loved that bit about how Cronenberg has a healthy sense of humour: “Even when we were doing all this horrible stuff, he was chuckling in the corner.” Mwahahaha.
Never speak a word against Sam’s bits though. Her bits are perfect.
She’s funny, too.
As a Washington resident, I noticed two glaring flaws in the truck driving song. The freeway between Seattle and Spokane is I-90, not I-5: I-5 goes south from the US/Canada border, through Seattle, down to California. Also, the “E” in Spokane is silent; it’s pronounced Spo-CAN.