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...gone on the show to promote my first book, The Areas of My Expertise. I was already a huge fan of The Daily Show, and I thought, Okay, this is about as strange as it's going to get in my life. I had a good time, Jon Stewart and I got along, and they ended up asking me to do comedy on a semi-regular basis. So then I thought, Okay, this is as strange as it's going to get. The book had been doing okay, but it was taking its time finding an audience, as a highly...
...agriculture was throughout the 1920s. And for all the current ills of megabanks like Washington Mutual and Wachovia, the national banking system still enjoys a measure of stability far greater than in the 1930s--or even the '20s. The kinds of "runs" on savings institutions that we watch Jimmy Stewart battle every Christmas season are all but unimaginable, thanks in large measure to the psychological reassurance provided by a landmark New Deal innovation, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), whose authority to guarantee bank deposits has recently been expanded. And today's federal outlays make up nearly...
...tutors also coordinated events in Houses, including a film screening of Margaret Cho’s “I’m the One that I want” in Winthrop. The celebrations concluded with a concert in the Quincy Cage Saturday night with gay singer and novelist Stewart Lewis. Relating his own experiences of being told to “play straight” in meetings, Lewis entertained about 20 students with his songs and anecdotes. “Does anyone have trouble coming out? Or are we all cool?” Lewis asked the audience...
...Stewart, Jon •Palin is compared to "Jodie Foster in the movie Nell...
...will be a vote to determine the future of American political humor, whether it be a brittle rehash of the stale conservative robot-rhetoric gags, or a softball jabbing of an administration that most liberal humorists have all but canonized already. Folks like Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, who have flourished under the current administration, now find themselves in a perplexing and significantly un-funny dilemma: a risky change or more of the same.Luckily, after the map has been rent all asunder and our nation bleeds red and blue again, we’ll still be able to look toward...