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Behind The Scenes At The Daily Show‘s Interview With President Obama

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As we await the airing of Jon Stewart‘s interview with President Barack Obama – the first time a sitting President has appeared on The Daily Show and the first time an interview lasted the whole show – here are some notes from an audience member.

• Stewart had to re-tape the opening because the Pres. Obama interview went long.

• Stewart took questions from the audience. He said that every other possible guest was “out campaigning” and Pres. Obama was the “last resort.

• To explain the absence of the usual Daily Show correspondents, Stewart said they were busy working in a soup kitchen.

• Songs played during commercial breaks: Springsteen’s “Born To Run” and Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing.”

More on the actual interview coming soon…

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  • Big Eddie

    Next : Obama appears on the Price is Right dressed as a hamburger . No dignity left at all .

    http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/greenman/index.html

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    Ok…. and so did what were the Grips doing. We are waiting with much ado….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

    Don’t care.

  • SmartAlec

    It’s fitting that Obama takes his comedy tour to the Daily Show

  • CosmosDan

    It was great!!

  • CosmosDan

    Big Eddie said:
    Next : Obama appears on the Price is Right dressed as a hamburger . No dignity left at all .

    http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/greenman/index.html

    Well, I just watched it and I’ll grant you that none of his jokes were as good as that Mission Accomplished one from Bush. He wins.

  • http://Race4Congress.com Magister

    Comedy Central may not like it, but I’m one of those who chooses to wait for the upload, especially if there’s a guest that I think will spillover to a web extra. So please excuses me, if I don’t revisit this post or comment until after 3AM.

  • felixw

    How fitting for Obama to make his big pitch on Comedy Central! Face it, the leading Democrat pundits nowadays are all clowns and buffoons — Stewart, Colbert, Maher, Olbermann, Franken, Letterman, Moore, Behar, etc.

    If you want one-liners, you vote Democrat; but if you want serious governance and responsible leadership, you are advised to pick a political party that doesn’t turn everything into a joke.

  • cmdrgmh

    Saw the interview. It was very good. The audience liked it. The questions were real. All in all good interview.
    Now for those who did not vote for the guy, (Big Eddie) your opinions mean nothing. You have no vested interest.

  • Kird

    cmdrgmh said:
    Now for those who did not vote for the guy, (Big Eddie) your opinions mean nothing. You have no vested interest.

    I don’t know man, considering the United States’ position in the world, probably every human on the planet has a vested interest in the President of the US whether they realize it, accept it or not. dolphins too.

  • Kird

    my thoughts on liberal punditry tonight after viewing a 3 hour special comment by Keith Olbermann and a 90 minute John Stewart interview with the President:

    Stewart > Olbermann (by a big mac margin)

  • tigerprez

    Stewart should have at least mentioned that he would be willing to do anything — anything! — to help the Democrats stay in office. That’s what this is all about, after all. Stewart is attempting to move the political conversation to the left, rebranding all liberals as “moderates” and making anybody who would dare to disagree with the new “moderates” certifiably “insane.” “Taking it down a notch” is politically expedient when public opinion is largely against you and the loudest voices of opposition are hurting you the most. Stewart never gave a crap about the temperature of the rhetoric when it was against Bush. Really, Obama should hire Stewart as his new press secretary. It would be his dream job, and, if anything, he has proven there is no better propagandist in the world today than Jon Stewart.

  • Kird

    tigerprez said:
    Stewart should have at least mentioned that he would be willing to do anything — anything! — to help the Democrats stay in office. That’s what this is all about, after all. Stewart is attempting to move the political conversation to the left, rebranding all liberals as “moderates” and making anybody who would dare to disagree with the new “moderates” certifiably “insane.” “Taking it down a notch” is politically expedient when public opinion is largely against you and the loudest voices of opposition are hurting you the most. Stewart never gave a crap about the temperature of the rhetoric when it was against Bush. Really, Obama should hire Stewart as his new press secretary. It would be his dream job, and, if anything, he has proven there is no better propagandist in the world today than Jon Stewart.

    hmm, I’ll say this: if where in Obama’s position, I’d rather have the one show on comedy central have my back than the entire msnbc network.

  • tigerprez

    The biggest takeaway from what was essentially Jon Stewart providing a preaching-to-the-choir forum for an Obama campaign speech was the President’s hinting that he will work to get rid of the filibuster now that the Dems will likely be holding to a slim two or three Senate seat majority. No doubt, that will be the next goal on his agenda, since he’ll need to fundamentally change the rules to not be a lameduck for the next two years. And once he does that, all holy hell is going to break loose. You think the Tea Party crowd is fired up now. Just wait.

  • Kird

    tigerprez said:
    essentially Jon Stewart providing a preaching-to-the-choir forum for an Obama campaign speech

    nah, he challenged Obama a bit. No doubt, Stewart’s liberal but he’s not a lap dog which I think he proved a bit in the interview which I think was the best with the President since Bret Bair’s.

  • Latin2

    Big Eddie said:
    Next : Obama appears on the Price is Right dressed as a hamburger . No dignity left at all .

    http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/greenman/index.html

    Not a hamburger, but the HAMBULGAR.

  • NORBIT

    OPRAH BITCH-SLAPS “THE VIEW”

    Oprah (on her new network):
    “It’ll be fun and entertaining, without tearing down people and calling them BITCHES!”

    Wow! – Behar took that one right across the face!

    So will she be coming back at ‘O’?
    Not likely with that cowardly BITCH!

    Hey BayWhore, to paraphrase:
    “Come say that in Chicago, Bitch!”
    heh-heh-heh!

  • Orion Antares

    felixw said:
    if you want serious governance and responsible leadership, you are advised to pick a political party that doesn’t turn everything into a joke.

    Now if only we had such a party with influence right now. Or were you some how implying that the Republicans aren’t just as much of a joke as the Democrats?

  • Sean68

    I haven’t watched the interview yet. Was Stewart’s first question, “So how ya doing?”

  • Sean68

    Kird said:
    nah, he challenged Obama a bit. No doubt, Stewart’s liberal but he’s not a lap dog which I think he proved a bit in the interview which I think was the best with the President since Bret Bair’s.

    He throws that shit in for a degree of deniability only. There’s no way Stewart would conduct an interview with Obama that had any chance of doing any real harm.

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