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Oct. 29th, 2006 01:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quidditchgrrlI had so much FUUUUUUUNNNN today. Fun has been sorely lacking in my life of late. And FUUUUUUUUNNNN non-existent.
Today was the Thurber House honors for their Best American Humor 2005 award winner, the writers of America (the Book) - Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, and David Javerbaum. I went to their reading, which was funny and excellent.
Jon is more off-the-cuff than I expected. Each of them read a piece from the book, and Jon did a segment with Professor Stanley K. Schultz, who contributed entries for the Teacher's Edition of the book.
I asked a couple of questions (for which Jon made fun of my verbosity): To Ben and DJ about The Colbert Report and whether they were surprised at how successful it has become (they are, and happy about it - Ben said Stephen was leaving TDS anyway???)
For Jon, I mentioned the article and asked him what he thought of his critics' opinions that his fan base gets all of their news from a fake news show. He said that he doesn't think that's true at all - if the people watching didn't follow any other news, the show would be like Charlie Brown's teacher talking - and that he (Jon) isn't a megalomaniac.
My faith in watching TDS has been affirmed - they really do GET IT. :) Ben Karlin is so cute, I love him.
I snarfed a ticket from someone at work, and, ticket and BuckID in hand (I swear, I am NEVER giving that thing up, it's the handiest thing I have), went to the Schottenstein Center for a Daily Show kick-off event. Jon, Ben and DJ were there, along with Sam Bee and Jason Jones.
Too bad I didn't bring my binoculars, because I was in the nosebleeds, practically against the ceiling, looking down over 500+ seats on the main floor that the ushers wouldn't let anyone have. >:O
The moderator was the Dean of the College of the Arts, and clearly had no idea what she was in for. Jon had a lot of fun making lewd jokes ("Is the Dean of the College of the Arts allowed to make a blow job joke? She's making jokes about fellating people!") and taking off on his own tangents. He seemed to enjoy pissing her off.
They interspersed the WORLD'S DUMBEST QUESTIONS with clips from the show, while Jon acted like a kid with ADD - he tried to climb the scale model of University Hall, he jumped around, brought random people up on stage (including a guy dressed as a barely-legal nurse). There was a lot of talk of Jon's cat fucking people, too.
Best: The moderator mentioned that the university president was in attendance, and 15,000 people BOOED HER. Whoa, yeah. I guess there is another person who knows what it feels like to be booed by a stadium full of people!
Jon joked that he was surprised so many people turned out for a moderated discussion on a Saturday night, but when the lights came up, he shouted, "Holy shit! You're fucking kidding me!" when he saw all the people.
I'm considering taking off work on Thursday to go and see Sacha Baron Cohen, who's going to be here as Borat. Or not.
Today was the Thurber House honors for their Best American Humor 2005 award winner, the writers of America (the Book) - Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, and David Javerbaum. I went to their reading, which was funny and excellent.
Jon is more off-the-cuff than I expected. Each of them read a piece from the book, and Jon did a segment with Professor Stanley K. Schultz, who contributed entries for the Teacher's Edition of the book.
I asked a couple of questions (for which Jon made fun of my verbosity): To Ben and DJ about The Colbert Report and whether they were surprised at how successful it has become (they are, and happy about it - Ben said Stephen was leaving TDS anyway???)
For Jon, I mentioned the article and asked him what he thought of his critics' opinions that his fan base gets all of their news from a fake news show. He said that he doesn't think that's true at all - if the people watching didn't follow any other news, the show would be like Charlie Brown's teacher talking - and that he (Jon) isn't a megalomaniac.
My faith in watching TDS has been affirmed - they really do GET IT. :) Ben Karlin is so cute, I love him.
I snarfed a ticket from someone at work, and, ticket and BuckID in hand (I swear, I am NEVER giving that thing up, it's the handiest thing I have), went to the Schottenstein Center for a Daily Show kick-off event. Jon, Ben and DJ were there, along with Sam Bee and Jason Jones.
Too bad I didn't bring my binoculars, because I was in the nosebleeds, practically against the ceiling, looking down over 500+ seats on the main floor that the ushers wouldn't let anyone have. >:O
The moderator was the Dean of the College of the Arts, and clearly had no idea what she was in for. Jon had a lot of fun making lewd jokes ("Is the Dean of the College of the Arts allowed to make a blow job joke? She's making jokes about fellating people!") and taking off on his own tangents. He seemed to enjoy pissing her off.
They interspersed the WORLD'S DUMBEST QUESTIONS with clips from the show, while Jon acted like a kid with ADD - he tried to climb the scale model of University Hall, he jumped around, brought random people up on stage (including a guy dressed as a barely-legal nurse). There was a lot of talk of Jon's cat fucking people, too.
Best: The moderator mentioned that the university president was in attendance, and 15,000 people BOOED HER. Whoa, yeah. I guess there is another person who knows what it feels like to be booed by a stadium full of people!
Jon joked that he was surprised so many people turned out for a moderated discussion on a Saturday night, but when the lights came up, he shouted, "Holy shit! You're fucking kidding me!" when he saw all the people.
I'm considering taking off work on Thursday to go and see Sacha Baron Cohen, who's going to be here as Borat. Or not.
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Date: 2006-10-29 05:21 am (UTC)And dude.. Jon's cat.. fucking people? Or cat-fucking people? ;P Either way is disturbing. ;)
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Date: 2006-10-29 05:27 am (UTC)Sam said the day she got drunk, passed out, and woke up with her head in the kitty litter box. Jon said he got drunk and woke up with his cat fucking him.
Later, Jason responded to the question "is there an initiation for new correspondents?" by saying that Jon's cat fucked him, and it wasn't that bad.
So, yeah, weird.
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Date: 2006-10-29 05:28 am (UTC)Oh, Jason.
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Date: 2006-10-29 05:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-29 05:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-29 05:37 am (UTC)(Jon, of course, immmediately said, "you know, peer pressure stops working once you get out of college!" to the crowd)
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Date: 2006-10-29 05:39 am (UTC)Er, anyhoo. Thanks for posting about it and such. :D
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Date: 2006-10-29 08:20 am (UTC)HA!!! I can just see that in my head too!
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Date: 2006-10-29 12:20 pm (UTC)