The Best of The Daily Show

We also use Google, for almost everything, really, but confirmation bias is a great danger when looking on Google for arguments that would support your side of the story. You will find them, but that just means there are more stubborn people like you.

Commercial sidenote: use Google to find vizitky (personal and business cards), and let us know if you can find some cool designs. We know we have a lot of competition when it comes to cards but we want to be the best and easiest to use in Czech Republic.

Great interview with Jon Stewart

2010-11-17T01:54:00.000-08:00

Look at this fairly long, but terrific Jon Stewart On The Rachel Maddow Show Uncut, it is a great summary of what Jon Stewart and his team do, but also much wider ideas about TV. Don't miss it.

On an unrelated note, me and my friend started a website to design personal business cards at vizitka.cz. "Vizitky" means business cards in English, but we sell also personal cards, allowing you to design them on-line, very easily. Wish us luck :-)

Personal "business" cards are for everybody

2010-04-07T17:35:00.000-07:00

Cards for personal use, for students, moms with kids, for travelers etc. Technically, they shouldn't be called Business Card but rather personal cards. In Czech, we call them "osobní vizitky", but in English, the name varies.

Personal cards (cardstore)
Personal Business cards (vistaprint)
Business cards for personal use (clickbusinesscards)
Calling cards (article in time)

I Czech, vizitka means "business card", but is derived from "visiting card", so it actually has personal meaning embedded in it. Visiting card has actually quite an interesting history, I will get to that some other time.

Ricky Gervais aka the stupid boss from The Office (UK version)

2010-02-23T07:18:00.000-08:00

Ricky Gervais from the British BBC documentary The Office visits The Daily Show.

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Ricky Gervais

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Neil Postman in The Daily Show

2009-11-28T09:55:00.000-08:00

It's not that I don't like Rob Corddry and his ridiculously ridiculous ideas that make us laugh hard. But I really wished they payed more attention to my favorite scholar, Professor Neil Postman, author of the book Technopoly. His ideas are great warning and are worth spreading.

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Lies of the Machines

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Health Care Crisis

I am glad that they showed both sides, but I'd still be happier if Jon Stewart would have done that interview. Well, there are other interviews with Neil Postman out there...

The Daily Show on Health Care Reform and Obama PR

2009-08-19T23:02:00.000-07:00

Funny comments on Obama's comparison of post-office and FedEx:

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Healthcare Protests

Heal or No Heal: town hall meeting with unreasonably reasonable guy

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Heal or No Heal - Medicine Brawl

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Suggestive questions in US TV public opinion polls

2009-08-18T03:42:00.001-07:00

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Poll Bearers

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Political Humor

Spinal Tap Performance

Chipms or Orangutanes?

2009-08-06T13:02:00.000-07:00

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Human's Closest Relative

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Spinal Tap Performance

"When humans lost all these hair, did we retain a single stripe of the hair on the top of the head?"

Obama kills a fly, Stewart is a wuss

2009-08-04T02:42:00.000-07:00

News of the day (about month and half ago)?

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Obama Kills a Fly

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America versus Iran: Who knows whom better?

2009-08-04T02:24:00.000-07:00

And, a bit surprisingly perhaps, Iran wins, answering all the questions about United States of America with flying colors. Jason Jones is frustrated admitting even the goat shepherds know his country fairly well.

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Jason Jones: Behind the Veil - Ayatollah You So

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Other Behind the Veil episodes.

And in this episode of "Behind the Veil", Jones investigates why Iranians are so evil.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

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Jason Jones: Behind the Veil - Minarets of Menace

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If you like these, you will surely love John Oliver's travelling interviews.

It is not all just fun, though:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

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Jason Jones: Behind the Veil - Persians of Interest

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President Obama is "Roseta stone of racial understanding"

2009-07-31T06:15:00.000-07:00

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White House Beer Simulation

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US media crazy about Twitter

2009-07-09T07:22:00.000-07:00

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Twitter Frenzy

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"This new technology sounds adorable! Here is how Twitter works: I have no f***ing idea!" As Samantha Bee says: "Young people love it, according to reports about young people made by middle-aged people."

"Because we're rotting corpses grabbing for any glimmer of relevance,” eplains Sam why all the politics and media truckle towards young people with facebooks, tweets and similar gimick.

CIA is hiring

2009-06-30T09:42:00.000-07:00

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Spy Low Sell High

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Jason Jones in Iran

Milgram experiment and Asch's experiment

2009-05-31T14:46:00.000-07:00

One of the most famous psychological experiments with, for me, very disturbing results and implications. In Milgram experiment, participants were instructed to ask other participants series of questions. If "student" reply was wrong, they were instructed to administer an electric shock. This experiment was to test how many people are willing to knowingly push a switch causing someone a pain or even endanger their life - simply because an authority told them to.

I really recommend to read the full Wikipedia article about this experiment, this is just a brief description.

Of course, no real danger is present, but participants do not know that. We must assume that the behaviour they show is similar to how they would react in real life. And the thought is quite scary.

When Milgram asked his coleagues, experienced psychologists, how many percent of participants will administer the lethal shock (450 V), they estimated noone would ever do that. In reality, more than 60 % of participant did. Two thirds of people were knowingly causing a threat of death just because an unknown authority told them so.

Many variants of this experiment in 1961 and following years showed that this was not a random behavior, but rather significant phenomenon - people are tought since their childhood to follow authorities' orders, even if they seem strange. They don't feel like decision-making people then, but rather they think of themselves as mere tools.

Sources:

Similar topics are discussed in Asch's conformity experiments :

Scamalot - Jon Steward with British Accent

2009-05-23T03:18:00.000-07:00

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Scamalot

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White House Organic Garden Spikes Controversy

2009-05-18T04:44:00.000-07:00

Samantha Bee investigates why Michelle Obama opening organic, green garden at the White House could be harmful. Frankly, I think she does a good job humiliating the hypocritical clerks and exposing their hidden motives.

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Little Crop of Horrors

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Obama's spokesman confiscates Journalist's cellphone

2009-05-18T04:17:00.000-07:00

Way to get the press coverage. These are the enhanced interrogation techniques, I guess...

Search for reviews on Google - QRS

2009-03-06T15:34:00.000-08:00

How to find reviews using Google? Quick Review Search might be the answer. It is basically a Customized Google Search, specialized on searching reviews on trusted domains. Trusted reviews can by found on sites like gizmondo.com or dpreview.com, and these are the domains this new customized search looks in. QRS might prove useful, since otherwise the search results on product reviews are full of ads and e-shops.

Using Google for review searching is sometimes very tedious work - there is just too many e-shops. This Custom Search uses Google to search only trusted review webservers. Please give it a try and let us know how it goes.

Obama's turning troops into GeekSquad, Jon says

2009-03-04T03:44:00.000-08:00

The troops will have different tasks. Again. Jon highlight the similarities of Obama's and Bush's plans on how to "end" war in Iraq.

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Mess O'Potamia - The Iraq War Is Over

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Maybe you should reclassify the soldiers as trees so they never have to go...b

George Bush and his Watergate

2009-02-22T04:08:00.000-08:00

What was president Bush's "Watergate"? It might very well be his handling of Enron scandal...

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Back in Black - Enron

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Lewis Black notices how similar the rhetorics of Bush and Cheney are to the ones of Nixon...

FOX News biased against Barack Obama

2009-01-24T09:56:00.000-08:00

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Fox News Fear Imbalance

Barack Obama Interview
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This is crazy. FOX News start blaming president Obama only 24 hours after he's sworn in. Wow. Some of those are really childish claims, too.

Barack Obama on his way to White House - fine moments

2008-11-23T04:39:00.000-08:00

Ted Kennedy supported Baracka Obama

Barack Obama drains 3-point jumper on first try in Kuwait during his numerous travels

Obama elected president of USA

Let's see what change he might bring. There are already lot of speculation. Will Obama get rid of daylight saving time? If you go deeper, you find that he probably never said that. Two scientist only mentioned that it might be good idea and it would be compliant with Obama's environmental policy. But another blog writes:

In order to conserve energy, President-elect Barak Obama wants to eliminate daylight saving time

I turns out that he never said it. The author of the green blog realized it and now it reads:

In order to conserve energy, President-elect Barak Obama should eliminate daylight saving time.

That's more like it. Anyway, I think it would be a good move.

John Hodgeman and his great lecture at TED

2008-10-25T02:21:00.000-07:00

John Hodgeman just published a new book, which he announced at The Daily Show. Kind of. You could call it an meta-introduction of the book: he mocked every book-introducing by Jon Stewart, especially his "fascination" by every book he is presenting.

John Oliver travels again! Interview with Iraqi UN ambassador

2008-10-11T03:22:00.000-07:00

I love John's interviews. They are so offensive and terrible, you can't but laugh, laught at him, at the interviewee and at the media in whole. I wonder whether they are somehow staged or not. Or if it's mostly creative aftercut? Anyway, this interview with ambassador of Quatar is probably even better, the principle is similar, though.

Barack Hussein Obama - attack someone by his name i lame

2008-10-05T04:52:00.000-07:00

This is supposed to be a serious journalism, but it sounds like a lame joke to me:

The Daily Show mocks this perfectly:

Obama's been laid in with name which causes all kinda problems. Al Qaeda? Who's sayin' Al Qaeda?

First Debate summed up by Daily Show

2008-10-03T10:30:00.000-07:00

If you don't have time to see the full debates, Jon is nice enough to summ it up for us.

Perception analyzer, you say? Jon keeps one of these in his skull. And so should we.
What about the debates: almost no solutions, only words. McCain apparently kept repeating that "senator Obama doesn't understand" blank. And Obama, on the other hand, kept repeating that his oponent is right. Of course, this is somewht "biased summ-up", but probably no more biased than anything else :-)

And some reactions?

Finest moment of Bush's presidency?

2008-08-15T02:41:00.000-07:00

Bush:I don't see America having problems.
Jon Stewart: I think that might be our biggest problem.

See the various luxurious hotels before you travel

2008-08-11T04:49:00.000-07:00

It is quite cheap and very easy to book theese hotels... But if you're just considering some destination, you can learn more about them before you book your room and fly there. Art Of Travel.eu recently started publishing videos of the hotels they offer.
Even if you don't travel a lot, you will enjoy these.

Greek hotels

More about Boutique Hotel Booking System at Art Of Trave.eu.

McCain: motorbike roaring i Sound of Freedom

2008-08-07T02:33:00.000-07:00

I understand that presidential candidates have it tough now. But still, some of the gestures they do seem very dumb to me. Or shortsighted, at least. Like McCain encouraging the crowd of Harley Davidson motorbikes owners to greet him with roaring of oil-consuming machines. Like Stewart said: "That is not freedom, that is pointless sending money to Saudi Arabia."

I'm with Obama on this - inflate your tires!

Best -ing politic team ever - The Daily Show

2008-08-05T01:34:00.000-07:00

I just love their parodies. Their overexaggerated clips show us how other media "only" exaggerate.

How to decide whom to vote if you don't care?

2008-07-28T14:54:00.000-07:00

Obama or McCain? Who will it be? If you are an American citizen, it is up to you. Sort of. Kinda. Anyway, you are often asked to give opinion on that, aren't you. If you don't have one and you couldn't care less about politics, The Onion will help you:

Dan Carlyle and his advice - Political Non-Opinions

At this point, there's hardly a difference between the two parties anyway.
Politics today has too many labels.
We take voting for granted. A lot of the world doesn't even get to pick their leaders.
I'm an independent.

Or you can try to become member of this group: No values voters or even Citizen for Bleaker America

As always, The Onion is hilarious.

How to stop smoking? Move to Japan

2008-06-05T00:08:00.000-07:00

Apparently in Japan it is forbidden to smoke on the street. But not because of second-hand smoking or health-related issues. No. It's because they are so crowded people would get burned. So they banned it. David Sedaris talks with Jon about how to stop smoking by moving to Japan, and has some interesting facts about Japanese policies on smoking.

The slogan you don't deserve

2008-05-23T05:59:00.000-07:00

Aparently, republican party ("party of status quo") decided to change their slogan. Not only is that slogan kind of inappropriate since their president is serving his eighth year, but also it seems they are not the first one to have this slogan. "The change you deserve" is already taken by Effexor - antidepressant, medicament against stress.

Also, let's rememer that Jon Stewart promised that, should he ever start a war, he would stop playing squash and abandon his yacht. Also, he reminds that Philip Morris Companies renamed to Altria Group - and that way they can keep killing people.

Funny? Windows 95 explained by Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry (vitnage Microsoft 30 mins video tutorial)

2008-05-09T14:07:00.000-07:00

I stumbled upon this video on YouTube and I cannot but share it with you. I love Matt Perry and Jennifer Aniston (or Chandler and Rachel) and so I enjoyed this weird video and even laughed few times. More info about this 1995 video here on IMDB.

Lame jokes prevail, but there are some good moments. Matthew Perry and Jenifer Aniston are doing their best to exploit their Chandler and Rachel characters.

Perry: Oh, and no messy DOS build-up!
Assistant: What is this, a paper towel commercial?

Part 1

Microsoft was obviously trying to get the attention of the youth. I don't know how they did, but I guess today they are both hated and used by the majority of the planet.

Part 2

This video provides some interesting historic insight into how people perceived Microsoft Windows 95. Those features we find boring today were amazing by then.

Part 3

Explained in this video: drag and drop, plug and play, taskbar, printer installation wizard (Perry:better than installation ogre), email, multitasking, Pinball, video from CD (remember video being something unusual on the computer?), File Explorer, fax sending, audio player, and of course, the mysterious red button.

Part 4

I'm really sorry Bill Gates didn't show up himself. He probably realized he doesn't need to make this kind of fool of himself:-)

P.S. I know this is blog about The Daily Show, don't worry, it won't change. By the way, Matthew Perry was on Daily Show, and so was Jenifer (although it is rather involuntary appearance). Also the last episode of Friend got Jon's attention. And I cannot forget to mention Matthew Perry in SNL - Sarcasm 101.

That preacher sure is crazy. But the media are so much worse...

2008-05-01T08:04:00.000-07:00

Media coverage of this Obama's former preacher is horrible.

Luckily, there is The Daily Show to make it even worse :-)

Booking hotels on-line is easy and difficult

2008-04-28T17:37:00.000-07:00

Not long time ago, I didn't even know you can book hotels on-line. But recently I got aware of it and realized that booking hotel or hostel is sometimes quite handy.

Booking hotel on-line systems

Many travelers appreciate the convenience of booking their hotel room on-line, and paying on-line for it using e.g. credit cards. There is vast amount of services like this. Some, like Booking.com, Hotels.com or Quikbook.com offer large amount (thousands)
of hotels in different areas all around the world.

Others, like Splendia.com or ArtOfTravel.eu focus on smaller number of hotels,
which are selective, hand-picked, sometimes exclusive. Most of these services allow the customer to see when the room will be free, what would be the price and some offer extra information about the hotel and travel destination. That is something I like about Art Of Travel - they keep their site clean, yet they add new info. Even if you don't use them to buy a room, you can find useful information for your trip.

Disclaimer: I realize this looks like an PR article. I still hope you might find it useful.

Has Hillary still a chance to win? And who cares about Pensylvania once the primaries there are over?

2008-04-24T09:23:00.000-07:00

OK, this shows how Hilary thinks about voters. "Come on, are we going to count that state? If we were Republicans, I'd have already won..."

Luckily here's my favorite Brit to show us the paradox of primaries in Pennsylvania: one day everyone cares about the state, the other day the state is forgotten....

US Military biasing news media

2008-04-23T00:46:00.000-07:00

I guess it shouldn't have surprised me, but somehow I thought they wouldn't go for it so blatantly. Of course military wants to have some influence on what is reported, but the Iraq war shows us the extremes. Message Force Multipliers, that is rich.

Bowling for Pensylvania

2008-04-06T12:09:00.000-07:00

In presidential race, we often lose perspective on importance. But there are some things that are beyond any doubts the core essence of the true politician: sport skills. So media are doing fair job informing us about possible flaws in our potential future leaders' abilities to rule the country.

Seriously, why does that even matter? Perhaps The Daily Show has the answer - Presidents first pitch.

Well, Jon Stewart himself tried it once as well, so he probably isn't all that independent to report on importance of sport exhibition.

Here is another excellent bowling video.

Iraq after 5years (and backwards)

2008-03-21T11:02:00.000-07:00

Five years? This war gets longer and longer. Jon points out some paradox quotes and declarations made by president Bush and puts them in retrospective so they make some sense...

John Hodgman talked about similarly it in his Keys to Success:

7 jobs of "The PC Guy" John Hodgman

2008-02-24T04:43:00.001-08:00

You surely know John Hodgman, American humorist and one of the best Daily Show correspondents, in my opinion. But first, I encountered him in hilarious commercials from Apple Computers. I'm sure you know them: Hello, I'm a Mac... And I'm a PC. Here is one of the best collections of "Get a Mac" ads:

But John Hodgeman is a man of many occupations. I decided to review them. I enjoyed putting this together, so I hope you'll enjoy it as well. If you love John Hodgman, you will know most of them by now, but a comprehensive collection never hurts.

John Hodgman - Computer Expert (Net Neutrality)

John Hodgman - Historian (When to judge Bush)

John Hodgman - Astronom (Is Pluto a Planet?)
In Prague Atronoms decided that Pluto is not a planet. Why? Because it is roughly the size of a glass eye.

John Hodgeman - Meteorologist
How do experts predict the future weather? John Hodgman majored in hurricanes, his minor were Crisp Fall Days :-)

John Hodgman - Physician, Medical Expert
Talking about Human Growth Hormone.

John Hodgeman - Martial Arts Expert

John Hodgman - Motivational Speaker
This is my favorite: John explains is system 8 keys to success.

There are several more occupations, but that would be for another spot. Thanks for watching, if you liked this, keep an eye on Best videos of Daily Show blog :-)

Certainly not The Daily Show - Writers Strike SumUp

2008-02-22T00:21:00.000-08:00

The Writers strike is over and here are three videos to summarize it. For me, it was kind of fun, watching Jon Stewart and his correspondents working without the staff, and I think they did very well. Mayby the writers came back because they just missed the fun:-)

This is how The Daily show came back as A Daily Show in the middle of strike January 7 2008.

Even Jon Oliver went to strike, as a writer, not as a correspondent, though :-)

What was the strike about? Money, of course.

This is what the writers did during the strike:

And here is the first Daily Show after the writers came back. I just love the introduction!

Early electronic voting systems in USA

2008-02-21T23:41:00.000-08:00

"Can electronic vote be trusted?" asks the Wall Street Journal article back from November 2006. Despite my zeal for virtually anything electronic, I must say that I was quite concerned about this kind of questions. If the system is owned by a private company, you can't really tell what is happening with your vote, and you have no way to check it, given there is no palpable evidence of how you voted.

But as John Hodgman explains, that doesn't matter. You can just imagine that "things" happen inside the computer.
And while we're at it, have a look at this (well known and old, but hilarious nonetheless) video of how that might eventually work... Electronic voting: Kerry and Bush

What has Bush ever done for us?

2008-02-21T01:21:00.000-08:00

President Bush had his final annual speech State of the Union. Surprisingly, he stated that the Union remains strong. "Despite everything Mr. president did, that is," adds Jon Stewart. And what did Bush do for us? Six years ago, he passed the No child left behind act. "And that was it!"

I loved the link to the Kyoto protocol, which the USA failed to sign, despite their declared effort to stop the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Hodgman talks about the terrorist brand

2008-02-19T00:54:00.000-08:00

This might be pushing it too far. But, well, humour is important, and it shows in overemphasize how media sees Al-Qaeda.

I will bring more of John Hodgman soon. His observations and ability to talk seriously is marvelous.

Bhutto believed islam is being hijacked

2008-02-14T00:36:00.000-08:00

Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan politicion and activist, was killed this Christmas (December 27 2007). On The Daily Show, Jon talks to Mark Siegel, who wrote a book about Democracy in Islam. The book was finished a week before the murder occured. This interview is quite serious, and I am glad it got this prime time.

This is Jon's interview with Musharraf, president of Pakistan, who refused to give her propper support and protection after the first attempt to assassinate her. She watched the interview and allegedly thought of it positively, as Siegel recounts.

To lighten it up, here is John Hodgeman with his perception of nuclear weaponry.

How to protect kids from guns?

2008-02-12T00:47:00.000-08:00

After seeing Bowling for Columbine, I was well aware of the fact Americans are too gun-oriented. I know there are historical reasons, for it, and there is some peak point at wich having a gun might be a felt neccessity. But still - if someone points their gun at you, are you going to risk that after you pull your, you will be shot? Isn't it better to be the one who is not armed, thus not being able to do an irreversible mistake, and also not giving the other person to do such mistake? I sure might change my perspective when I have to protect my kids, but I don't feel it is healthy to have guns around.

And while we are at this, how exactly did this happen? I mean, sure, we Czechs are incompetent big time (although not very often, because we have hard time spelling that word), but not in such scale...

Czech President - 2008 election

2008-02-09T04:30:00.000-08:00

There is another reason why I love watching The Daily Show. It makes me feel better about how the politics looks here in Czech Republic. I wish we had something similar to The Daily Show, some show that could stand the comparison to the briliancy of Jon Stewart and his team.
Right now there is presidential election here in Czech Republic. Unlike in USA, only the lawmakers can vote the president here, so the election is indirect. Upside to it is that the whole process is a lot shorter (not like in USA where it takes more than a year). The downside is that all the scandals and embaressment you experience during the whole year we have to watch condensated into two-day ellection. We already saw alleged bribe attempt, tedious wars wether the election should be public or private, two lawmakers drop ill... So far, that is.
I wondered if there were some clips about Czech Republic in the vast Daily Show video archive. Well, there was one.

And eventhough it is just a short movie and the clip doesn't say much about us, the message is clear: we are better than America :-) I wonder if Jon will mention the Czech Presidential election in his show... He could, couldn't he?

Al Gore in Daily Show (and in Futurama)

2008-02-08T15:56:00.000-08:00

Have you seen the movie An Inconvenient Truth? Al Gore makes some serious and disturbing points here. I think he helps people understand how serious the situation might get if we won't act responsibly.
But I also like when he talks on the lighter side. In interview with Jon Stewart, Al Gore provides some solemn points.

Put he was brave and cocky enough to play in Futurama, morover, he used part of Futurama in his now-famous slideshow presentation.

And this is one of the trailers for The Inconvenient Truth. It is definitely a movie worth seeing.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
- Upton Sinclair

Our salary doesn't depend on it. Our future might. Will we go with the responsible choice or with the lazy one?

Super Tuesday - Daily Show analysis

2008-02-07T23:55:00.000-08:00

Jon reviews how the coverage of so called Super Tuesday promissed fascinating numbers and amazing results, as well as erudite commentaries such as: "I think it is interesting that these numbers show that people want to vote for people they like." Wow!

Well, they needed to kill six hours. The results: Obama and Hillary almost side by side with Hillary slightly ahead, amongst republicans McCain had best outcomes, followed by Huckabee, who did well in the South. "Do you see me as a number?" Jon asks the anchors. "Because I don't see you as numbers. I see you as human beings, each and every one of you, individually wasting my time!"

How to be Happier - Tal Ben Shahar interviewed

2008-02-07T16:33:00.000-08:00

Do you buy books based on internet videos? I do now, since dollar is going down, I'm daily visitor of amazon.com and ebay.com. For example, I bought the book Happier after I saw this interview with Harvard professor Tal Ben Shahar. Jon Stewart studied psychology, so he doesn't fall for this kind of stuff easily.

The book is called Happier and the reviews are not bad. I am in the middle of it and I love some of the ideas, for example that you should write three or five nice things that happened to you each day. Honestly, I didn't think it would have such an impact, but it has. You tend to notice the fun and the blessings of the regular day and thus, you are happier. Try it.

Not Always Fun - The Daily Show After 9/11

2008-02-07T13:39:00.000-08:00

The Daily Show is not always about fun. Once the archive of all the videos were out, one of the first episodes I looked up was the one right after the attacks in 2001. Here it is:

It is another reason why I like the show and why I admire Jon Stewart - he was able to continue the fun while taking it very seriously. You could see his heart was in it. I respect his wit and intelligence, and after seeing this clip after September 2001, I can respect him for his tact and sincerity. And perhaps this was another thing that helped me, a European, realize how terrible a day it was for Americans.

Oliver Wilmore Investigate the N-Word

2008-02-06T14:46:00.000-08:00

Oliver and Wilmore investigative masterpieces are my favorite treasures in the archive. As in the Qatar clip, sometimes it is hard to tell whether it is fake or real. Either way it is quite funny.

By the way, I don't think you could persuade people, the less the society, to stop being racist by baning a word. On the other hand, this kind of proposals bring new attention to something general public might consider solved. If someone cares, it is probably worth caring, or at least listening to their opinions and take them into consideration.

Hilarious - John Oliver teases the ambassador of Quatar

2008-02-06T13:21:00.000-08:00

I have to admit this is probably the clip that made me watch The Daily Show regularly. John Oliver, british comedian, member of The Daily Show (and writer as well, luckily not on strike) interviews the ambassador of Qatar (Quatar, Katar, I used to misspell the name before I had to google for this video quite often to show it to friends). It is so funny I could't believe it is not a fake.

It was not until I saw his other clips that I realized it is not fake. John Oliver just exploits the power he has as a journalist to make people uncomfortable. I wouldn't like to be interviewed by him, I guess. Here is the YouTube version.

The clip begins with: The American lack of knowledge about other countries... So, do you guys know where Czech Republic is? Just asking, no reason :-)

Net Neutrality explained by John Hodgman

2008-02-06T13:10:00.000-08:00

I first saw John Hodgman in the Mac - PC commercials, and I loved him. It kind of made me feel better about my choice of PC in fact. So I was amazed to actually see him in my new-discovered and soon-favorite show - The Daily Show. Here he talks about the Net Neutrality act.

There is also a YouTube version of this clip. I like the part where he talks about all the crap going around the internet, for example Chuck Norris Jokes.

Jon Stewart The Fire Fighter

2008-02-06T12:48:00.000-08:00

John Stewart comments on how different news stations handle the "Super Tuesday". I love the part with fire extinquisher. Well, I don't blame him, I hate how the news anchors invent new and new ways how to exaggerate.

And I sure hope he will do some other jokes with that again. Not soon, maybe in a month or so. Or they could bring the Even Stephen back. Those two guys were fantastic!