The Daily Show: Should it have come back?

[Death Metal Moe]

I tuned in to see what I thought was going to be another Rerun of The Daily Show, but it was a new one. Their 1st show back I guess. I caught it late, and got the end of John's emotional thoughts on the events. But then, they just played a few of these old stories. I thought it was a bad show. They should have either done a whole half hour show on the disaster in a serious tone, or payed their respects and moved on.

Personally, I think they should have waited until next week to start shows again. Thursday is the last one for the week, so no one really expected to see that show tonight. I bet most fans didn't even see it. They would have had a much bigger audience for their come back show if it was on Monday. Just a thought.

Now watch this topic fall down the the list into obscurity! HAHAHA! King of the useless posts!!

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[HordeKing1]

njdmmoe - Although I didn't see the show tonight, I'm replying so you don't think your posts aren't read!

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[IkeaBoy]

I should have come back since Jon's speech was the greatest, most emotional, most heart wrenching speech of any host. As Jon said we need to laugh again and I agree. He was great.

"Drop the Bomb, Exterminate them all"- Kurtz

[Pootertoot]

I just saw it a few minutes ago, and it was the most beautiful, most eloquent speech to come out of this all. It hit me so hard, I transcribed it. Fucking transcribed it.

Here it is:

Good Evening, and welcome to the Daily Show. We are back. This is our first show since the tragedy and there's no other way really to start the show then to ask you at home the question that we've asked the studio audience and that we've asked everybody that we know here in New York since September 11th and that is "Are you okay?"and we pray that you are and that your family is.

I'm sorry to do this to you. To..to...It's another entertainment show beginning with an overwraught speech of a shaken host and, uh, television is nothing if not redundant. So, uh, I apologize for that. It's something that unfortunately we do for ourselves so that we can drain whatever abcess is in our hearts and move on to...the business of making you laugh, which we haven't been able to do very effectively lately.

Everyone's checked in already...I know we're late. I'm sure we're getting in right under the wire before the cast of Survivor offers their insight into what to do in these situations.

They said to get back to work...and there were no jobs for guys in the fetal position under their desk crying. Which I gladly would've taken.So I come back here. Uh, tonight's show is not normal, obviously, we looked in the vault and found some clips that we thought would make you smile, which we thought is what's necessary..uh..right about now and...a lot folks have asked me "What are you gonna do when you get back? What are you gonna say? Geez, what a terrible thing to have to do" and...I don't see it as a burden at all. I see it as a privelege and... (John becomes visibly choked up) I just...uh,..see it as a privelege...and everyone here does...see it that way. The show in general we feel like is a privelege...just the idea that we can sit in the back of the country and make wisecracks...which is really what we do...we sit in the back and we throw spitballs...but never forgetting the fact that it is a luxury in this country that allows us to do that, that it is a country that allows for open satire...and I know that sounds basic...uh...that it goes without saying but that's really what this whole situation is about. It's the difference between closed and open. It's the difference between free and burdened. And we don't take that for granted here by any stretch of the imagination and our show, uh, has changed, I don't doubt that. What it's become, I don't know. "Subliminable" is not a punchline anymore. One day it will become that again, and, and, lord willing it will become that again, because it means we've ridden out the storm,

But the main reason that I wanted to speak tonight is...is...not to tell you what this show's gonna be, not to tell you about the incredibly brave people that are here in New York and Washington and around the country is...uh... (John becomes choked up again) but...but...we've had an unendurable pain here and...I just...I wanted to tell you why I grieve... (John starts to cry, but takes a breath and pauses, then resumes, voice cracking a bit) but why I don't despair... (John pauses) I'm sorry. (He chokes back tears, then smiles at the camera weakly) Luckily we can edit this...

One of my first memories is of Martin Luther King being shot...uh...I was 5. And if you wonder if this feeling will pass... (John chokes back tears again) uh...when I was 5 and he was shot, here's what I remember about it...I was in a school in Trenton, and they shut the lights off...and we got to sit under our desks...and we thought that was really cool. And they gave us cottage cheese. Which was a cold lunch, because there was rioting, but we didn't know that! We thought "My god! We get to sit under our desks and eat cottage cheese!" And...and...what a...and that's what I remember about it. And that was a tremendous test of this country's fabric...and this country's had many tests before that and after that and... (he pauses, looking down)

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[IkeaBoy]

thanks for transcribing it pooter, it's still amazing even if you just read it.

"Drop the Bomb, Exterminate them all"- Kurtz

[Death Metal Moe]

thanks Horde King! I appreciate you bothering to read my stupid shit. And I promise I'll post my next idea in the RIGHT area too.

And I'm sitting here with my foot in my mouth just a little. After I saw the replays of Thursday's Daily Show, I began to think that it was one of the best "welcome back since the 11th" shows I've seen so far. Mainly because he was so real, and that he didn't stop when he broke down. Bravo John. I was wrong, and I admit it. I'd like to hear other cast member's comments on the WTC as well.

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[girl germs]

--><a href="http://mfile.akamai.com/2597/rm/comcent.download.akamai.com/2597/dailyshow/stewart/jon_6030_300.ram">here's</a><-- the clip if anyone is interested.

[JustJon]

We knew that he would have to do this show eventually, whenever they came back. I like that they didn't advertise it, didn't make a spectacle of it, just did the show they had to.

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[TomPoo]

his speech was amazing

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