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McCain wants to reopen his party. Young voters have been fleeing it. McCain goes on Jon Stewart's show--"at great risk," he cracks. He has freewheeling conversations with reporters, which have helped win him good press. "I kind of enjoy the give-and-take," he says. "I really believe that Presidents run into difficulties when they don't communicate all the time with the American people...
...that the two-month late-night hiatus was a blessing or a curse for candidates. The shows have long since been institutionalized as a free-fire zone on politicians, where ridicule is relentless and labels harden into epitaphs. On the first strike-era Daily Show, on Jan. 7, Jon Stewart bemoaned the agony of watching Mike Huckabee give a victory speech in Iowa with action star Chuck Norris--"Chuck Norris!"--looking over the candidate's shoulder, yet having nowhere to do a Chuck-and-Huck gag the next night...
...Routines like that have turned the production - loosely modeled on U.S. news parody The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - into one of the most highly anticipated programs on Indonesian television each week, with a viewership estimated in the tens of millions and spanning all social strata from politicians to parking-lot attendants. The actors are ostensibly members of government from a parallel Indonesia - the "dreaming republic" of the show's title - where everything is the same apart from the spelling of leaders' names. Cast members always refer to Indonesia as "the neighboring country," introducing a modicum of libel defense that...
...Maybe it’s the coffee people—if they had created a more complete product, we wouldn’t need cigarettes,” suggested Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” to his guest, Allan M. Brandt, the Harvard medical historian and author of “The Cigarette Century...
...humoring me?” Stewart asked, accusingly, drawing a chorus of laughs from the audience, and unwittingly providing the greatest irony of the June appearance...