I finally got a chance to watch some of TV shows cluttering the Tivo, and one of them was this past week’s Alias. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’m going to ruin it for you and let you know that the whole premise of the show was “ice-five”, which is either an homage to “ice-nine” in Kurt Vonnegut’s excellent Cat’s Cradle, or a cheesy rip-off. I have a feeling they meant to go for the former, but it ended up much more the latter, using only the “ice-nine” from the story, and skipping out on all of the sarcasm and irony encirlcing the Books of Bokonon (Although I guess Marshall could qualify as the midget Newt Hoenikker).
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2005 January 23rd
2004 September 30th
If you have a chance, Tivo, record, or watch one of the replays of the September 29th Daily Show if you can. I have to say that it was one of the funniest ones I’ve seen. Not only does Jon refute the claim by O’Reilly that 87% of the Daily Show audience are intoxicated stoned slackers. (Yes, I know O’Reilly was joking, but I don’t know if I’d argue with Stewart’s counter that most O’Reilly viewers are hopped up on crystal meth).
In other news, Comedy Central busts out a survey from the University of Pennsylvania showing who are the smartest late night viewers. You can take the quiz yourself and see where you fall. My results are below :)
You got 6 out of 6 correct on your first attempt. Excellent work! But when do you sleep? Check your score against these averages:
- “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart viewers - 3.59 correct
- “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno viewers - 2.95 correct
- “Late Show” with David Letterman viewers - 2.91 correct
- No late-night comedy viewing - 2.62 correct