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Transcript: Profile: Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" to be broadcast in Scandinavian countries
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ALEX CHADWICK
NPR Special
09-14-2004
Profile: Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" to be broadcast in Scandinavian countries
Host: ALEX CHADWICK
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
ALEX CHADWICK, host:
Probably, you already know the civic virtues of Scandinavia: high literacy, low crime, a citizenry well-informed about world events. Apparently, some international TV executives think the Nordic countries need yet more reason to feel superior to we simple Americans, so they're bringing in a US cable news program that makes fun of us, Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."
Yesterday, its host Jon Stewart met a dozen members of the Finnish, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian press and one member of the American media sat ...