August 19, 2005

Must-See TV

Thursday, 23 Sweltring (Wedmath, sorta), 2005

Here at the Funny Farm, thanks to the magic of Tivo, we are able to watch the very few television programs we enjoy these days whenever we want. This tends to cause us to viddy things some time after they are impressed upon the melons of yer basic viewer.

Which is why it has taken us until recently to see the excellent interview that Jon Stewart gave to Seymour Hersh the other day, as well as the equally wondrous John Irving interview the night after, and of course the comically surreal Steve Carrell interview. And a local Funny Farm fave will be on to cap off the week:

Your Humble Narrator with the Most Dangerous Man in Comedy

Regarding the Seymour Hersh interview, perhaps Jon was truly as stunned by what he was hearing as he seemed to be. But we think that Mr. Hersh spoke volumes of truth to power in his brief minutes on the Daily Show - so much that it was too much for most to take in at once. It almost seems to us as if tinfoil helmets could be this fall's fashion statement...

If you get a chance to view the Daily Show from this week, or Sy Hersh's interview with John Stewart either via reruns, recording, or the internets, it would be well worth your while to check it out - even if you're only viewing the internets via dialup and that's the only way you can get it.

Posted by (: Tom :) at August 19, 2005 05:06 AM
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I also caught the Hersh interview a few days late. I also thought he was right on. I wondered if Stewart was playing a disbelieving foil to Hersh in the interest of seeming balanced.

Regardless, the interview ended entirely too soon, especially when you consider that at least five seconds could have been added if Stewart didn't have to pimp Adam Carolla's cro-magnon hijinks at the close, which he appears, to his credit, to do through clinched teeth.

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