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Jon Stewart, Lily Tomlin honor George Carlin

The late comedian George Carlin — famous for those "Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV" — was honored Monday with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the only award he saw as a legitimate comedy prize.

Jon Stewart, Lily Tomlin, Joan Rivers and others saluted Carlin at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for inspiring their own comedy, and they took up his cause of pushing the boundaries of free speech.

On the red carpet before the show, Stewart said he was about 10 years old when Carlin's album "Class Clown" was released. Stewart said it made him the funniest kid at school until his friends also found Carlin's work.

"For all his antiestablishment cred, he was a working man. He punched in. He sat down and he wrote," Stewart said. "He respected what he did."

Associated Press

Video of Jon on the Red Carpet

Jon Stewart Profiled in Moment

Full profile @ momentmag.com

On January 11, 1999, a nervous 37-year-old comedian who could have passed for a college student settled into a host’s chair that was too high, wearing a gray suit that looked too large. “Honestly, I feel like this is my bar mitzvah,” he told actor Michael J. Fox, the guest sitting opposite him. “I’ve never worn something like this, and I have a rash like you wouldn’t believe.”

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In the public square, Stewart may be the perfect Jewish ambassador for our times: smart but not arrogant, extremely funny but not mean—a valedictorian, most popular, best-looking and class clown all wrapped into one.

So, is Jon Stewart, to ask that annoying question, good for the Jews? As Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International, puts it, “Are you serious? How could Jon Stewart not be good for the Jews?”

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Stewart/Colbert Halloween Fun

Count Stephen by Colboarder WheresMeLuckyCharms, and some really amazing Fake News-O-Lanterns I found floating around the internets.  If you know who made these, let me know so I can credit!

 

Jon Stewart at Northeastern University

As blogged by ohnotheydidn't member comeuppances:

Jon Stewart came to my school Friday night for our "Homecoming Week".  He was, as you can imagine, totally hilarious.

The event was actually over-sold and ended up starting thirty minutes late as a result. He did an hour and a half of great material, which included making fun of Sarah Palin and how she can say anything and still sound sweet, how entertaining his children are, how stupid George Bush is, and how ridiculous it is that every four years we become obsessed with gay marriage.

He started the show by thanking us for the fancy stage decorations which included five potted plants and a banner with the school's name on it. "Is that canvas?", he quipped.

Some quotes:

On Bush: "We got swept up by the Macarena. We don't know what the fuck we're doing. We're idiots. Why do we want the president to be like us?

"People keep saying are we ready for a black president? Barack Obama, maybe. Mr. T, no."

On Sarah Palin: "... Today again, she was talking to a small town, and she said that small towns she really likes going to because that's the pro-America part of the country. And I just want to say to her, just very quickly, Fuck You."

Photos & videos of the the event.

Stewart & Colbert in Entertainment Weekly

STEPHEN COLBERT: One of the things I love about my character is I can make vast declarations and it doesn't matter if I'm wrong. I love being wrong. So my character can tell you exactly what's going to happen: The Democrats are going to change everything. We're going to have gay parents marrying their own gay babies. Obama's gonna be sworn in on a gay baby. The oath is gonna end ''So help me, gay baby.''
STEWART: Then they'll head right over to the abortion mixer. There'll be a dance, and then there'll be a little tent set up outside, just in case anybody wants an RU-486.

Full Text of Interview

 

RICKLES!!!!

Oh, well.  Maybe next year...or not.

Jon Stewart's Airport Sightseeing

This was too hilarious not to post!

Arriving to Minneapolis today for the Republican National Convention, I couldn't help but make a stop to one of the landmarks at the airport: The infamous men's bathroom where Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was caught last year for allegedly seeking a public stall tryst.

It turns out that many other arriving guests had the same idea, including Jon Stewart and the cast of "The Daily Show," as well as a host of other passersby. Stewart and his team posed for pictures before making their way to St. Paul, where his show will tape all week. A "Daily Show" billboard on I-494 greets conventiongoers with the message, "Welcome, rich white oligarchs!"

At one point, an airport employee in a golf cart came by and stopped, pointed to the men's room sign and said something about the landmark, as if proud of the attraction. "I didn't understand a thing he was saying," Stewart said.

Stewart was so moved at being there that he declined to elaborate on his thoughts of being at the site: "It's personal, private."

A fellow writer then emerged from the bathroom with a photo, reporting that the stall was "narrow."

Photo and video here.

Behind the convention's 'Daily' grind with Jon Stewart

By Gary Levin, USA TODAY

DENVER — Forget Rock the Vote. Inside the Pepsi Center this week, the true rock stars are the correspondents of The Daily Show, besieged by politicos and press, posing for pictures and being filmed by fans as they film their fake news reports — or try to, anyway.

Full Article @ USA Today