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Article: COLUMN: Energy, enervation and Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show'
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- February 23, 2005
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Clint Rainey
University Wire
02-23-2005
(Daily Texan) (U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas -- Comedy Central has hit it big with "The Daily Show" -- a scary number of people get news from this program. Watching it last Wednesday (then unremittingly subjecting myself to a video clip of that night's show so I could quote accurately for this column), I found an unintentional quirk -- and an opportunity -- during one of the guest interviews.
Let me set the tone: Jon Stewart has welcomed his second-rate guest (actor Alan Cumming) and bumbled an icebreaker that inquired about the enjoyableness of live theater versus that of movies.
Cumming contemplates. (It will take undivided brainpower to answer this.)
"Uh, ...