Jon Stewart

I've been spending a lot of time lying in bed since I broke my ankle. With a laptop and an internet connection, it's not too hard to keep yourself occuppied. Today I went over to YouTube and searched for Jon Stewart. Mainly I wanted to find his monologue at the Academy Awards presentation, but of course I got many results from the Daily Show. Since I hadn't seen the show in a while, I decided to watch some of them. It was really good stuff. It's hard to the Daily Show to be great every day but I think over time it produces many good segments. However, one of the most interesting videos I watched was a part of Jon Stewart's appearance on Larry King Live on CNN.

Before I'd ever watched Larry King Live, I had an image of Larry as a good interviewer with a long, respected career. After seeing him with Jon Stewart today, I lost some respect for him. Maybe my image of him was undeserved, or maybe it's wrong for me to judge him on a couple minutes of just one show. It's just that the questions he asked were so ridiculous, and Jon Stewart seemed so rational, level headed and smart that in contrast, Larry looked stupid.

Oh well, I don't know who cares about Larry King anymore. But if you're not very familiar with Jon Stewart, and you have some time, go over to YouTube and search for his Daily Show stuff. Now that he's come to the attention of the general public, from being known among Comedy Central viewers, he's bound to be talked about more (although I've probably missed the boat on talking about this issue, since there was so much press about his Oscar hosting already).