How does a musical guest work in the context of The Daily Show at all? Whose crap idea was that?
I hope this was a one-time deal. Even if they lined up a great band, (and I have to say that Jon was close to the mark when he described The White Stripes as the next best thing to a Spandau Ballet reunion) I don’t need “crappy variety show” watering down my dose of honest fake news.
It felt like the show had about ten minutes of content.
At least next week they’ll have Jimmy Carter on to make up for it.
I still won’t feel completely right about it until Comedy Central promises to kick whoever fielded this idea right in the nuts, though.
It made the show a little short - and even shorter because Jon was introducing the idea. I’m not a White Stripes fan, but I really didn’t mind. If they did it once every couple of weeks it wouldn’t bother me. One song instead of an interview… eh. The celebrity interviews often don’t go anywhere anyhow.
I may be misremembering, and it wasn’t a regular Daily Show, but a year-end special (I think 1999), but didn’t they have They Might Be Giants playing live once? I’m pretty sure TMBG are responsible for the theme music, too.
As I told my husband, The White Stripes must have a hell of an agent/manager. They’ve been all over lately.
Since I love Jack and Meg, I was happy to see them on the show. I recorded it to watch again until I’m tired of the performances.
That said, I don’t want this to be a trend on TDS. Any time not filled by Jon or Lewis Black is wasted time anyway–why are all of the new special correspondents so shitty? Other than Samantha Bee occasionally cracking me up, I’m hating the stupid interviews. Although I must say that last night’s security expert, ‘I’m a former homicide cop and I do security and…what the fuck else do I do? Oh yeah, private investigator.’, has got to be one of my interviewees.
Hey, that might not be bad. But instead of being a little bit Rock and Roll and a little bit Country, they could be a little bit Christian Rock and a little bit Rap. You know, Chr-ap.
OK, so scotandrsn’s is funnier than mine. I’m posting anyway!
At least TDS was completely up front that having the White Stripes on the show made no sense in the context of the fake news. The image of Ted Koppel backing up Def Leppard (?) was, to me, hilarious.
And, of course, if TDS didn’t have a rock band on the show, Stewart would never have been able to ask a guest, “How was the pot [in Eastern Europe]?”
You could have enjoyed him a few months ago when they interviewed him the first time.
Yeah, that was a stinker of a show last night. Not only was there no moment of Zen, but they also cut the WS’ second song off to go to Colbert.
Doesn’t Jon, for the most part, hate having to do interviews with people who just don’t matter (them being 99% of actors & musicians)? I’ve always gotten the impression he’d rather have the mailroom kid from The Onion rather than, say, Evanescence or Ray Romano.
All too often I think the Daily show is too short or at least the interview was.
Now a musical guest. If you are going to have a musical guest, please give us an extra 10-20 minutes of show.
I didn’t really like the musical guest concept.