Like many late-night cliches, it was pioneered and perfected by Jon Stewart onThe Daily Show.
“It’s another entertainment show beginning with an overwrought speech by a shaken host,” Stewart noted.
I’m sure we’re getting in right under the wire before the cast ofSurvivoroffers their insight."
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The result was a demonstration of the emotional human stories underneath so much of the show’s comedy.
Five votes to four votes."
He never exemplified that role more than during his explosive 2009 interview with Jim Cramer.
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Few interviewers on any program challenge their subjects to this degree.
To parody this,The Daily Showsent Stephen Colbert to London to report.
According to Colbert, British slander laws prevented him from talking about the allegations directly.
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Not only did Stewart break down laughing by the end, even Colbert couldn’t keep a straight face.
But indeed they were, and they were very good at it too.
That would mean Allah is not the one true god, which we know him to be.
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Reporting in Iran
The Daily Show’s correspondents journeyed all over the map.
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