{"id":615,"date":"2006-10-20T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/10\/ten-years-of-hilariousness-with-daily.html"},"modified":"2006-10-20T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T13:44:00","slug":"ten-years-of-hilariousness-with-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/10\/ten-years-of-hilariousness-with-daily.html","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years of Hilariousness with &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne anchor, five correspondents, zero credibility.\u201d Now that\u2019s a tagline that speaks to me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/shows\/the_daily_show\/index.jhtml\">\u201cThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart\u201d<\/a> celebrated its 10th anniversary this week. What? You\u2019ve never watched \u201cThe Daily Show?\u201d You don\u2019t know what you\u2019re missing. Being the \u201cOne News Organization with No Credibility to Lose\u201d has worked well for this fake news show, which takes political players, Hollywood actors, major news stories as well as funny minor ones and gives it that special \u201cDaily Show\u201d satirical touch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Daily Show\u201d has slogged on for 10 years with the very funny <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/shows\/the_daily_show\/news_team\/anchor\/jon_stewart.jhtml\">Jon Stewart <\/a>at its helm, and a look at this week\u2019s guests explains its rooted popularity with those of us tired of CNN and Fox News\u2019s spin: Attorney General John Ashcroft, comedian and author Amy Sedaris, and actor Kirsten Dunst all sat in the show\u2019s \u201chot seat\u201d this week.<\/p>\n<p>Recent episodes also saw Pakistan\u2019s President Pervez Musharraf subject himself to Stewart\u2019s spot-on, hilarious and squirmingly uncomfortable questions. No one and no story&#8211;with the war in Iraq and any aspect of George W. Bush\u2019s presidency as favorite fodder&#8211;is spared on this show. Politics, religion, Middle America, terrorism, Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Hollywood starlets all get deftly skewered. If you can\u2019t laugh at this, then you don\u2019t have a healthy sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p>Take Wednesday night\u2019s bit, when new correspondent Rob Riggle (who quickly needs to get out of his Steve Carell mode and find his own groove) traveled to Arcata, California, to interview Tom Kubbany, a regular ole American who happenes to share the middle name of Hassan with the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein\u2019s second son. Kubbany discovered he was tagged as being the \u201cson of Saddam\u201d on his credit report when he his home loan application was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>But how did \u201cson of Saddam Hussein\u201d get on Kubbany\u2019s credit report? Riggle turned to Shirin Sinnar, a member of the Lawyers\u2019 Committee for Civil Rights (and a friend of mine), who told him that credit bureaus are getting names from the U.S. Treasury Watch list, names of people who are in no way terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Only \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d could take an obscure story like this and run with it. Why should you care about Kubbany? Because it\u2019s a funny and ridiculous story that speaks volumes about a serious subject like national security.  It\u2019s vintage \u201cDaily Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This show is a total joke, and yet it isn\u2019t. Ten years and numerous Peabody Awards and Emmy wins later, it\u2019s the show that keeps remind us that life\u2019s better when we laugh at ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne anchor, five correspondents, zero credibility.\u201d Now that\u2019s a tagline that speaks to me. \u201cThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart\u201d celebrated its 10th anniversary this week. What? You\u2019ve never watched \u201cThe Daily Show?\u201d You don\u2019t know what you\u2019re missing. Being the \u201cOne News Organization with No Credibility to Lose\u201d has worked well for this fake&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ten Years of Hilariousness with &quot;The Daily Show&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/10\/ten-years-of-hilariousness-with-daily.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ten Years of Hilariousness with &quot;The Daily Show&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cOne anchor, five correspondents, zero credibility.\u201d Now that\u2019s a tagline that speaks to me. \u201cThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart\u201d celebrated its 10th anniversary this week. 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