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Article: JON STEWART PLANS TO KEEP PACE WITH QUICK-WITTED `DAILY SHOW'.(Television)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 14, 1999
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It was a sight no man or woman alive had ever seen. It was instant history, and as we watched it unfolding on TV - hear ye, hear ye - we knew this was something we would never forget.
Yes, this was unimpeachably Jon Stewart, in charge for the first time ever Monday as the host of Comedy Central's ``Daily Show.''
Happily, it was no trial to watch. In Stewart's hands, ``The Daily Show'' was about as funny and fast-paced as before. But his swearing-in, if you choose to call it that, was a signal event for the 2 1/2-year-old parody newscast that bills itself as ``the most important television program . . . ever.''
And for its viewers.
``I ...