The Daily Show: Difference between revisions

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In the [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-5-2010/american-apparently 5/5/10 episode.] [[Captain Obvious|"I'm beginning to think 'the American people' is a meaningless phrase.]] ...And as such, perhaps should be struck from public utterance, along with other such false monolithic projections such as 'the Founders intended', 'our children deserve better', and [[Blatant Lies|'nobody doesn't like Sara Lee'."]]

* [[Artistic License Physics]]: When interviewed on the Daily Show, Neil deGrasse Tyson reminded Jon that the globe in the opening is spinning in the wrong direction.

{{quote| "Have you ''read'' this book?"}}

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-september-13-2010/islamophobiapalooza Squirrel!]

* [[Double Entendre]]: the "Jon Stewart [insert double entendre such as "Touches Kids" here]" segments.

** Perhaps the best yet, lifted directly from a senator's rant to Anderson Cooper: Jon Stewart and Anderson Cooper Have Their Fun Looking At Gaping Holes.

*** He later asks them to change this when he's asking the same of Glenn Beck to come on. First they make an offer to take some thing off his chest into "Drop a Load on Jon Stewart", then an offer to get to know each other becoming (despite [[Lampshade Hanging|Jon's hopes]]) "Two Established Television Personalities Penetrate Each Other On The Daily Show While People Watch".

* [[Double Subversion]]: For instance, when during the episode with the Glenn Beck impression he made reference to masturbating to a Calvin Klein billboard he could see from his apartment window. An ad with a shirtless male model came up, to which he said, "No!"; then it was replaced by an ad with a scantily-clad female model, to which he said, "Ewww, no!"; it turned out to be an ad with a more muscled and and well-oiled male model.

*** And got extra jokes out of it, too. [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-february-15-2007/dance-dance-resolution "It's as if Harvey Fierstein had hosted the Daily Show!"]

* [[Here We Go Again]]: Jon Stewart cut his hand by breaking a glass object [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-25-2012/space-innovators AGAIN!]

* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: Frequently left in. For instance, Jon Stewart stumbling all over the camera placement while talking with Gitmo.

* [[Homage]]: Jon riffed on Churchill while talking about his ''Crossfire'' appearance: "Tomorrow, I will go back to being funny, and your show will still blow."

== I - J ==

* [[I Know Kung Faux]]

* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: Alluded to during the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning.

* [[If I Had a Nickel]]: "You know, if I had a nickel for every time Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after bin Laden."

* [[Implausible Deniability]]: They get sitting heads of state, major government officials, Hollywood stars, scientists at the top of their field, and ''actual news anchors'' as guests. They've earned Emmys and Peabody Awards(!), and can get celebrities to drop by unannounced for a cameo and good joke. Their news is at ''least'' as insightful as the regular stuff put out by the networks and the 24-hour news channels (though people like Fareed Zakaria and Christiane Amanpour are probably better). But as he said when it was still true (and people were even treating the show as serious news), "The show leading into mine is puppets making crank phone calls."

* [[News Parody]]

* [[Nice Guy]]: Among other things, Jon Stewart has been an active proponent for granting medical aid to the dying rescue workers and volunteers from the 9/11 terrorism massmurder; and [[Needs More Love|improved education]] for autistic children.

* [[Not Making This Up Disclaimer]]: "-- and this is true --" Jon has to do this with disturbing frequency.

* [[Not So Different]]: His claims to this effect - which he insists are weaker than they've been taken - have provoked a ''lot'' of backlash from the left, especially following the Rally to Restore Sanity, which he [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-november-8-2010/msnbc-suspends-keith-olbermann mocked] with his "[[Blame Game|The Rally to Determine Precisely the Percentage of Blame to be Doled Out to the Left and the Right for Our Problems]] [[A Lighter Shade of Grey|Because We Know the Only Thing That Matters Is That the Other Guys Are Worse Than We Are]] [[The Colbert Report (TV)|and/or Fear]]."

* [[Overly Long Gag]]:

** Jon will occasionally do something random (like vigorously scratch the back of his head) while waiting for the audience to stop applauding or laughing, then when they quiet down, he'll continue to do it until they laugh again.

{{quote| Guy's name is Tony Bologna<br />

Favorite pasta, rigatoni<br />

[[Discussed Trope|You thought I'd say]] spumoni or tortoni<br />

No, he's [[Painful Rhyme|lactose intoleroni]] }}

**** Later, on the [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-november-28-2011/spray-it-forward November 28, 2011 show], he [[Call Back|mentioned Tony Bologna]] and continued:

{{quote| The theme music to that done by Tony! Toni! Toné!<br />

* [[Short Title Long Elaborate Subtitle]]: Many of the guests' books.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Jon's interviews. Especially the authors - Jon reads every book plugged on his show cover-to-cover, and it shows.

** Jon's impression of Dick Cheney depicts him as Burgess Meredith's version of [[Batman (TV)|The Penguin]].

** John Hodgman is perhaps best known as the PC in Apple's ''"Mac vs. PC"'' ad campaign. Jon Stewart forces him [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-july-19-2006/net-neutrality-act to admit this during the show].

* [[Stacy's Mom]]: Made fun of in their sketch about [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-july-17-2008/cougars "cougars"].

* [[The Stoic]]: Of all the possible people, Colbert had a moment of this during the 2008 elections. When Obama locked up California and, thus, the elections, the entire crew started freaking out and wondering what the post-Bush world must be like. So, they head outside and start gushing over the fact that the sun is shining, children are at play, etc. Meanwhile, Colbert just stands there, and firmly reminds them that Bush is still president for two more months, killing the mood of the others.

* [[Straight Man]]: Stewart to the correspondents.

* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: Invoked intentionally during one of Stewart's Glenn Beck impersonations.

** The running joke about Dick Cheney. Did you know that anything he touches becomes pixelated? Except plants, which die three days later?

** When Cheney had a heart transplant, Stewart did an intro in which he thanked the gods of comedy for the setup... except that it coincided with the Treyvon Martin shooting and he [[Sarcasm Failure|couldn't keep up the gag]].

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: "The best f* cking news team ever. We have a rocket. CNN doesn't have a rocket."

** Which is topped by the Election Day intro [[Stephen Colbert|Stephen]] cooked up: '''''[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=209508&title=indecision-2008-americas-choice THE FINAL ENDGAME ALPHA ACTION GO TIME LIFT-OFF DECIDE-CIDAL HUNGRY MAN'S EXTREME RAW POWER ULTIMATE VOTESLAM SMACKDOWN '08 NO MERCY: JUDGEMENT DAY '08]'''''

'''Stephen Colbert''': ...kudos. }}

* [[When I Was Your Age]]: Happens briefly in [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-may-3-2005/colbert---sign-of-the-crimes this] segment. [[Stephen Colbert]] tries to outdo an interviewee's impoverished upbringing with "[[Alien Geometries|Did you have floors?]]"

* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-february-2-2010/story-hole---children-s-cartoons-from-hamas Right here.]

{{quote| '''Jon Stewart''': In a segment we like to call "Jon Stewart's Story Hole". Remember, it's our little secr-who wrote this?}}

{{quote| '''Stewart:''' What's with the Yiddish tonight? What's with the -- "shmaltzy", and the "just gave me a little schpilkis, but" -- "I took my punim over there", bing bang boom -- <br />

'''Williams:''' Joey Bishop, ladies and gentlemen. }}

{{quote| '''Dana Perino''': I don't know all the particulars of the bill, *stammers* the point of it... I have no idea what Anthony Weiner's even talking about! He's just screaming and it is ''such'' a turn-off.<br />

'''Jon Stewart''': Is it? Is it a turn-off? Is that from your Playboy profile? "My turn-offs include Weiner screaming, and in any way [[Take That|justifying my being treated as an expert]]"?! }}