“The Daily Show” correspondent John Oliver’s brisk British accent resonates in the still, comfortable air of Liz Shaw’s historic home in Meigs County.
Shaw’s brow furrows curiously. Her dog howls from the backyard. The show’s producer, Ian Berger, critiques the scene. And despite an urge to laugh, the video crew films silently, carefully capturing an interview set to be featured on this Thursday’s episode of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” airing at 11 p.m. on Comedy Central.
This “Ohio wit” that Oliver refers to is perhaps Shaw’s repeated ability to make even the comedian laugh, which he says “never happens…”
“Here is the first video look at Gus Van Sant’s “Milk.” The film tells the story of California’s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk (played by Sean Penn), a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated. Out this November, it costars James Franco, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsh and Diego Luna.”
Cindy McCain’s $300,000 Outfit Worn on Speech Night at RNC
From VanityFair.com
September 4, 2008
“One of the persistent memes in the Republican line of attack against Barack Obama is the notion that he is an elitist, whereas the G.O.P. represent real working Americans like Levi “F-in’ Redneck” Johnston.
It caught our attention, then, when First Lady Laura Bush and would-be First Lady Cindy McCain took the stage Tuesday night wearing some rather fancy designer clothes. So we asked our fashion department to price out their outfits.
Laura Bush Oscar de la Renta suit: $2,500 Stuart Weitzman heels: $325 Pearl stud earrings: $600–$1,500 Total: Between $3,425 and $4,325
Cindy McCain Oscar de la Renta dress: $3,000 Chanel J12 White Ceramic Watch: $4,500 Three-carat diamond earrings: $280,000 Four-strand pearl necklace: $11,000–$25,000 Shoes, designer unknown: $600 Total: Between $299,100 and $313,100
Wow! No wonder McCain has so many houses: his wife has the price of a Scottsdale split-level hanging from her ears.
(All prices except Laura’s shoes and Cindy’s watch are estimates, and the jewelry prices are based on the assumption that the pieces are real.)”
Jon Stewart, on the set of “The Daily Show,” tied Tom Brokaw, Brian Williams, Dan Rather and Anderson Cooper among admired journalists. And that was last year…
Appearing on the Daily Show last night, CBS’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan crticized the lack of media attention to the Iraq war. She said she felt responsible for the fact that “no one really understands” what is happening in Iraq. She also said that the soldiers there “feel forgotten”:
Tell me the last time you saw the body of a dead American soldier. What does that look like? Who in American knows what that looks like? Because I know what that looks like, and I feel responsible for the fact that no one else does. … And the soldiers do feel forgotten, they do. No doubt. From Afghanistan to Iraq, they absolutely feel — you know, we may be tired of hearing about this five years later, they still have to go out and do the same job.
About a month ago I posted a picture of 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan via Glamour.com on the Eaton Square Exchange. I didn’t really do it for any reason other than I had seen several of her “60 Minutes” segments and thought she was really hot… it got very few hits………. until today… when Lara Logan appeared on The Daily Show.
For those of you familiar with the “Colbert Bump”, I call this the “Stewart Shove”.
Edit: As of 1:20 p.m. today, Eaton Square Exchange registered 2,010 hits..
“Well, according to today’s Washington Post Style cover he is. And Amy Poehler’s Wonder Woman! The Post dubs them “comedians of clout,” and while we know the kids hang on Stewart’s every word, how do they stack up against the real news people.
Other News vs. Comedy cases pop up on the dial: In its season finale last month, “Saturday Night Live” attracted about 6.5 million viewers. “CBS Evening News” is averaging about 5.7 million viewers nightly. That means that Amy Poehler, the diminutive, perky faux anchor, garners a larger audience to watch her deliver fake news than Katie Couric, the diminutive, perky true-life anchor, does to see her deliver real news.
A similar numbers game plays out on the cable channels. “The Daily Show” drew about 1.8 million viewers recently, as clocked for a Pew study, putting the program on a ratings par with Fox News’s “Hannity and Colmes,” and exceeding such other news-commentary shows as Chris Matthews’s “Hardball” on MSNBC. In comparison, Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor” draws about 2.6 million viewers nightly.”
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