Since apparently discussing "The Wire" and late night talk shows is going to occupy 90 percent of my blogging time for the forseeable future, some brief thoughts on the second evening of "A Daily Show" coming up just as soon as I TiVo the "Classic Krusty" episode where he discusses collective bargaining with the chairman of the AFL/CIO...
Nice to see a man who can pay attention to constructive criticism. After Monday night's odd, often bitter episode devoted entirely to the WGA strike, Jon Stewart came back and apologized for it, in amusing fashion. Other than a gag segment with John Oliver on the picket line (and was I the only one disturbed when the green screen version of Oliver started to dwarf the real one?), Stewart went back to doing what he does best: skewering the fools and hypocrites in both politics and the media. The media orgy over Hillary's crying episode was (pardon the pun) crying out for the kind of angry incredulity that Stewart gave it, and he had himself a ball picking apart his conservative book-plugging guest, who tried valiantly to stay on message but eventually had to start laughing himself at how well Stewart was skewering him. Vast improvement, all around.
Also, because I just got around to watching Monday night's Letterman this morning, Tom Hanks again proved why he's one of the best guests in the business when he came out and explained to Dave that getting a shave on-camera is the sort of thing that hosts without writers should be doing.
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