I wish the CNN Kickstarter was real.
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I'd probably pledge at least $30. Maybe get a neat little tea cozy in the process.
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Heck, if it lets me, I'll pledge a billion. Jon mentioned the likelihood of having a lot of credit card payments rejected if it ever came to collecting on those promises.
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The Blitzer-Mobile is a weird plane shaped like his beard.
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Sometimes, Jon's interests really surprise me.
He's a middle-aged white Jew who reads historical non-fiction in his spare time...but he also loves soccer, and Wu-Tang Clan.
Gotta wonder why there was no new Daily Show tonight, er, last night. By which I mean Thursday Night.
edited 15th Aug '14 12:08:43 AM by NickTheSwing
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They're on vacation for two weeks.
Well that explains recent events.
The world might be a saner place if they stopped taking breaks.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
It's been said many times before. The doomsday clock speeds up when they're off air. 
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On the other hand, it's always fun when the show comes back and Jon asks if they missed anything while they were out.
Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great
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The long breaks are apparently a consequence of their contract with Comedy Central, whereby they operate like any other serial that gets a certain number of episodes per year. They're treated more like a sitcom than a news program, which is unfortunate.
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That's because they're not actually news programs.
Their contract is 40 weeks a year, by the way. Which I know because @midnight was given the same schedule as them, and Chris Hardwick announced it on the Nerdist Podcast when they got picked up. So really, they're only off 12 weeks a year. In the summer they take the breaks two at a time, both because summer, and so that there are months during other parts of the year they won't be off at all.
Other late night shows run for longer periods; why not them?
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
Aptly titled The Daily Show Podcast without Jon Stewart
, the show is a behind-the-scenes peak at the writers, producers and correspondents who make the TV show, with in-depth looks into segments, interviews and the staff itself. The first episode is hosted by head writer Elliot Kalan and correspondent Jessica Williams, who chat with producer Sara Taksler and writers Jo Miller and J.R. Havlan. Despite the name, new episodes will premiere every week with rotating pairs of hosts with each episode running about 20-30 minutes long.
"It's hands down the funniest, most behind-the-scenes podcast you'll ever listen to with half your attention while you do other stuff," says Jon Stewart.
My guess is it has to do with them being on cable as opposed to network TV. Also Comedy Central doesn't exactly treat its original shows the best (not that TDS is getting treated badly).
Ugh iTunes.
I'm kind of glad. I didn't want to watch his coverage of Robin Williams, it would have been too depressing.
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To my knowledge, it has nothing to do with cable vs. network TV and everything to do with simple industry standards. 40 weeks out of the year is basically the normal contract. Late night talk shows on network TV do breaks just like TDS, except nobody ever notices. Even seemingly perennial shows like Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune only have 40 weeks of new episodes a year. The only difference is they do a single 12-week break where they air reruns, so it's less noticeable. (And in Jeopardy!'s case, they schedule a 2-week tournament right before the start of the reruns and rerun a tournament before new episodes resume, to make the continuity breaks less obvious.)
edited 20th Aug '14 1:25:15 AM by PoochyEXE
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Well that was a shame, Che's last couple of pieces were actually kind of funny.
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I liked that they played off of the way they gave Oliver a sendoff.
"It was nice working with you, Wyatt" was wrong on so many levels, but I still guffawed. It helps that Wyatt was one of my favorite correspondents.
I'll miss Che. He was pretty good.
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He wasn't. But he was getting there. His last couple location pieces were absolutely stellar, but his studio segments still needed work.
He was showing signs of becoming the next Samantha Bee, in terms of getting crazy people to talk to him. I don't think he actually made me laugh out loud once though.
edited 19th Sep '14 9:38:14 PM by Mullon
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Well, not all of them. Just the ones that need cash.