About (Late) Last Night: Stephen Colbert, Oprah crash 'The Daily Show' [video]
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There isn't a much more exciting surprise guest for a "Daily Show" audience than when Stephen Colbert stops by unannounced, as he did last night. For him to be upstaged takes a monumental celebrity appearance like, say, Oprah Winfrey, who not only showed her face via video screen, but presented the entire audience with one of her trademark lavish gifts. For once, Jon Stewart happily took the back seat.
First to pop in was Colbert. "So, what do you want?" Stewart asked. "You didn't get a rally permit, did you?" he joked. He was referring to the Comedy Central pair's concurrent events planned for Oct. 30 in Washington -- Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity and Colbert's March to Keep Fear Alive. Both are semi-ironic reactions to Fox News host Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally and an all-around batty election season. And so as if to match the still rising madness of the political climate, Colbert and Stewart announced that their two events would become one: The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. The audience was eating it up, and both hosts were giddy. Then the screen behind their heads lighted up.
"Hi, Stephen," Oprah cooed from the video screen. The third host, most popular of all, reminded Stewart that when he was on her show, they discussed her audience's all-expense-paid trip to Australia. Stewart complained that his audience never gets anything. "That made me feel just a little bit sad," said Oprah. "So, I know that you have this huge event coming up, and I'm really excited about it, because I think we need a little bit more sanity in the world."
"I had my staff sneak into your studio early this morning with a little gift," Oprah teased. "Look under your seats!" The entire audience pulled a red envelope from beneath the seats.
"You're going to the rally! You're going to the rally! You're going to the rally!" Oprah cried, in a relatively reserved burst of self-mockery. "Now get out there and restore some sanity!" Stewart kicked his feet up on the desk and sat smugly. "I've got to say, Jon, your rally is supposed to be about sanity and that was insane," said Colbert. For Oprah, it was just another day at the office.
-- Joe Coscarelli
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Well, isn't that special! The only thing missing was that it should been on May 1st in front of the Kremlin memorial to Lenin on Red Square in Moscow with tens of thousands like minded party members with Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and Molotov all on the platform. Just like the good old days.
Posted by: math man III | October 15, 2010 at 08:09 AM
ALL IN GOOD FUN...
Posted by: Valda | October 15, 2010 at 08:24 AM
Your comment makes no sense whatsoever. In what way does this event mirror a May Day event? The folks going to the Stewart/Colbert Rally are not "like-minded" except for one area - we are sick of the over-the-top rhetoric that is taking the place of political and social discourse. Your post is a perfect example of this kind of tired extremist blathering.
Posted by: 4Sanity | October 15, 2010 at 08:26 AM
Seriously folks; they're comedy shows. Those that can't make this determination deserve to made fun of by these pundits.
Posted by: Carla Akins | October 15, 2010 at 08:42 AM
math man III:
Stalin hardly strikes me as a guy with any sense of humor or irony. He found stoking his own ego to be far more important than even the most basic considerations of decency and civility. Rather like some of the rightwing shills on Fox and talk radio we have now.
Posted by: CalculusGuy | October 15, 2010 at 10:10 AM
@math man. As a Russian, I find your comments highly offensive and derogatory towards our once great leaders Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and Molotov. Maybe you should read up on your history and find good in what they were able to accomplish. nyetsky!
Posted by: gary | October 16, 2010 at 02:05 AM
Math man can't do the math. And Gary - you don't know your own history (if you are Russian - which you obviously are not.) Stalin was responsible for the murder of 20 million of his own people. No Russian loves Stalin. As for you you mathman - Stalin, Trotsky. Lenin and Molotov never stood on ANY platform together either historically or politically. And to compare Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to any "bolsheviks" or communists (and I use that word so very losely as Stalin was no communist - he was a totalitarian) is idiotic and insulting. Your rhetoric is indeed proof that we need a rally to restore sanity NOW. I think you two could also use a rally to restore history.
Posted by: Rodney Mills | October 17, 2010 at 12:53 PM
Rodney - I completely agree. Can we please have a rally to restore history??? It really seems like some people in this country need to learn a) that this country was founded on people fleeing religious oppression and b) how horrendous the McCarthy era really was.
Posted by: Brenda | October 20, 2010 at 04:46 PM