Jon Stewart & The News

At work, one of the few things we all seem to have in common is that we watch the Daily Show. There is the sci fi group. There is the sports group (particularly baseball, but a few football fans). There's a chunk that watches South Park. But we all watch the Daily Show. Even Tom Friedman is talking about Stewart's pull on educated Americans.

I know I personally rarely watch regular network or local news. I do read both the NY Times and the Washington Post fairly exhaustively online, and The Economist in print. But, the only news show I watch - and its now even getting DVRd on occasion if I can't see it at 11 - is the Daily Show. Its funny. Its like the old Weekend Update on SNL only better.

I saw Dennis Miller on the Daily Show a couple weeks ago. That was kinda weird. I kept expecting them to trade off the spoofs. But Miller isn't anywhere near as funny as he used to be. He got is big schtick and now he annoys me a bit. Although I like that I usually know what he's talking about. Its kinda like reading Orientalism - if I can get the references, I'm doing OK.