Did you guys see this? I caught it on DVR a day late and laughed my frigging ass off. Stewart practically severing his arm while doing a bit on the Weiner. This just keeps getting better.
When I heard the news of Weiner’s press conferenceand admission of guilt, my first thought was, “I cannot WAIT to see what Jon Stewart will do tonight!” and was a bit let down by the meagre few sentences he devoted to it. Didn’t occur to me that he’d have a longer bit planned for the next day, so I was very happily surprised, and laughed my ass off the whole time.
And he used to bartend!
I thought yesterdays aftermath might have been even funnier. He got himself quite a few stitches.
I found myself wishing they let the part with Oliver as host go on longer.
I allowed Stewart some slack on covering Weiner’s press conference on the previous show since it came so late in the day. Which they of course referenced in the opener on the next show.
I liked it when they showed Oliver at the desk at the “regular” opening but wondered how they were going to get out of it. John telling John “It was just a bit.” was perfect.
Being in front cameras does things to people. But smashing a blender with a glass in your hand? Whoa.
I was troubled by the side-text during the opener. Some made it seem like they were inserted by the “News Channel” covering the press conference and some seemed to be from the Daily Show, a la Colbert’s “The Word”. (Where’s my slash thingie?) E.g., the one apologizing to the intern.
I haven’t watched the show in a while, but aren’t Weiner and Stewart long-time friends? If so, has Stewart referred to the friendship, or has it been business as usual?
He’s been very open about the fact and hasn’t made half-assed attempts to defend Weiner because of it. The tone’s been more “Comedy gold or friendship? Comedy gold or friendship? Which do I choose? 
Dammit Weiner, you’re my buddy, but you’re screwing up bigtime here.”
Last night’s episode was also pretty funny. Jon brought up the Facebook messages that Weiner sent to one of his girlfriends telling her that he wanted to do it doggy style so that they could both watch the Daily Show. Which is pretty creepy, considering he and Jon are friends.
Are you guys serious?
The whole thing was painfully unfunny, just like everything The Daily Show has done about the whole Weiner story. It was possibly one of the most poorly-done stories i’ve ever seen on the show, and Stewart’s constant references to Weiner as a friend just got embarrassing after a while.
Yes.
No accounting for taste, i guess.
Yeah, and that whole schtick was painfully boring and unfunny. He either should have gone the “comedy gold” route properly, like he would have for anyone else, or just moved on.
All we got was this awful, self-indulgent crap about how Weiner is Stewart’s friend, along with some tediously-predictable dick jokes. I love The Daily Show, and i like Jon Stewart a lot, but this was bad, bad, bad.
You say no accounting for taste, I say everyone finds different things funny.
I haven’t caught up on my DVR, and I’ve heard inklings about Stewart getting hurt. I’m sure I could take the time to look it up on my own, but what fun would that be?
So … uh … what the hell happened?
He was doing a skit set up like a press conference. For whatever reason, he had a blender behind the podium to make (strawberry daiquiri?) drinks. He cut himself on a broken glass.
I would think that dick jokes were the obvious way to go with this story. How else would you have covered it, had you been a Daily Show writer?
How many double entendre joke can we squeeze in in 60 seconds.
That’s been a key part of the comedy. I didn’t know about the friendship so some of the humor in the episodes late last week went a little over my head. This weeks however after all the details came out were just fantastic. Stewart basically said…aww, screw it!
Oh. Oddly, I started watching that clip on the Daily Show site last night, but I clicked off it because, like mhendo, I felt it was falling flat. That and LA Noire wasn’t just going to play itself.
The deal was that as things got worse and worse he started making himself bigger and bigger drinks.
I wonder if they really chickened out on jokes Monday night - Colbert did a lot better with the story. It wasn’t the best bit they ever have done, but it was funny.
In GD there is a thread about the dearth of conservative humor. This kind of shows why - Stewart, putting comedy first, went after a friend, while no conservative comics seem to have gone after the much funnier escapades of Republicans.
Is there a bunch of conservative comics? (I haven’t read that GD thread.)