Commentary on the daily show with Jon Stewart

2002-07-08T20:03:00.000-04:00

8:00 p.m.
New Home.
This is the new home. (with archives that work)

2002-07-05T23:41:00.000-04:00

11:37 p.m.
I'm so pissed off that my archives no longer work.

2002-07-05T23:16:00.000-04:00

11:11 p.m.
Blogger was down all day today. While it was down, I found this Stacey Grenrock-Woods story that is going to be in the new Esquire magazine:
10 Things You Don't Know About Women

By Stacey Grenrock Woods
August 2002, Volume 138, Issue 2
Photograph by Jeff Lipsky

1. We say underwear, just as men do. Women never say panties, and neither should you, except under the rarest of circumstances, and maybe not even then. Likewise, the garment we wear on top is called a bra. When possible, please refrain from making a sound effect like boing! when we remove it.

2. Your virility may be called into question if you identify yourself as a vegan, raw foodist, macrobiotic, or some equivalent. Women tend to see these lifestyle choices as fine for themselves but not quite male enough as far as you are concerned. Sure, we're all for you taking care of yourselves, but we do not want you to regard yourselves as too precious. It is our task in life to get you to try things like couscous, and it is yours to politely decline the offer.

3. The same goes for driving. Women don't like men who drive like women. Not that we drive like women. By women I mean grandmothers.

4. If we are forced into a situation where a male stripper is imploring us to, say, lick whipped cream from his shaved inner thigh or lap tequila from his navel, it will most likely just perplex and embarrass us. We are more likely to become aroused by a female rather than a male stripper. But don't get any big ideas.

5. Not all women are thoroughly sold on the idea of pushing a baby out of a small opening in their bodies. It does not fill all of us with an inexpressible Sense of Purpose on this Earth. It fills us with a slow and steady sense of dread. Nevertheless, it should be noted that, when contemplating our golden years, we do like to imagine plenty of vital progeny gathered at our knee, hanging on our every wizened word and keeping us company after you die, which you will do before us because you are always eating all that crap. You should eat more couscous. (And stop driving like a lunatic.)

6. Thongs are not a girl's best friend. Diamonds are. We're not stupid.

7. Concerning the myth about women preferring men of power to men of attractiveness: once again, entirely true. But power and attractiveness are nebulous terms. Only in the rarest of instances will a young and vibrant woman appear on the arm of an octogenarian millionaire. Similarly, few of us will eschew a respectable-looking gentleman with an honest job who is kind and fun in favor of an unemployed underwear model with nothing to say.

8. The inclusion of the word Lady in front of a product doesn't make us feel better. We don't sleep more soundly knowing we have our own Foot Locker.

9. Most of us respond favorably to even the most diminutive gesture of compassion. You will find that when provoked by, say, a simple card or a kind phone call, our capacity for forgiveness and benevolence could blow your mind. Yes, we are different from you in some ways, but we do possess resilient hearts that long to connect with you on a level that transcends mere gender. But come on, no balloon bouquets. What do you think this is?

10. Women are neither a Ginger nor a Mary Ann, a Mary nor a Rhoda, a Rachel nor a Monica, a Madonna nor a whore, high maintenance nor low maintenance, nor anything else you may have seen on TV, read at a bookstore counter, or heard Billy Crystal say. We are all and/or none of these things, plus ten thousand other things that are constantly transmogrifying into more confusing things. One concept or phrase cannot begin to contain us. We do not stand united on any one principle, except perhaps this: We all love flowers, ponies, puppies, kitties, and rainbows. That is absolutely 100 percent true.

2002-07-04T23:36:00.000-04:00

11:32 p.m.
It looks like the archives are down. I think its a blogger problem b/c I've tried every template blogger has and the archives are still screwy (as in not showing up). Let's hope its up Monday.

2002-07-04T22:51:00.000-04:00

Anita notices something, and she has to tell everyone
10:46 p.m.

I was watching a TDS tape from November 2000 (after Thanksgiving) from January 2001. And if anyone has the December 7th 2000 episode, you notice that it starts out differently. I had forgotten all about that. Instead of "dog on fire" the background music is the one they use for the newsbreaks. I thought it was werid, and I don't think they did it ever again.

2002-07-04T17:00:00.000-04:00

4:55 p.m.
Lauren Weedman needs a house
I was bored, so I decided to search for Lauren on google: and I found this in the 'groups' section:
9-16-1996:
i'm looking for a place-studio or one bedroom-or shared housing-starting
december 1. i have no pets but i do have a job. i'm looking for
someplace that is pretty central to everything in seattle-i ride my bike
everywhere. i can pay about 400 max. so-if you know of anything-let me
know.

thanks-lauren weedman

I thought it was funny b/c it was before she got famous!

2002-07-04T13:05:00.000-04:00

1:02 p.m

2002-07-03T15:28:00.000-04:00

3:25 p.m.
I got my Mo Rocca autograph!!!!:

(taken at the post office)
Mo wrote this to me:
Dear Anita:
You could not pay me a greater compliment than "Best Dressed"
Thanks,
Mo Rocca

2002-06-30T13:50:00.000-04:00

1:41 p.m.
I just finished re-sizing all my daily show screen captures, and I want to ask a question to everyone:

what is the strangest thing you've ever seen on TDS

Like something that just felt out of place, or it wasn't funny, or well, you know what the word strange means.

Mine is that time on October 3rd 2001 where Steve brought in these 'exotic' animals, and everything went wrong, and Jon and Steve were trying their best not to laugh. Here's a refresher:

2002-06-29T20:27:00.000-04:00

8:23 p.m.
I updated the Vance site tonight, I added two new pages of images:
Vanceypants ninety
Vanceypants ninety-one.
I'm going to re-size more TDS images tonight so maybe I can get the TDS site back to Tripod.

2002-06-28T20:19:00.000-04:00

coming up next week
8:16 p.m.
Catch up with classic moments from The Daily Show next week. Coming Up on Monday 7/1: Paul Sorvino, plus "I on News."

I hope they show the June 18th episode b/c comedy central screwed up and they didn't re-show it on June 19.

2002-06-27T17:17:00.000-04:00

5:12 p.m.
So, wer're back at blogger after a two month detour using greymatter and netfirms. Netfirms trashed my TDS blog, so wer'e missing about two months worth of stuff now. So I will catch everyone up:

1.)Matt had a special (Matt Walsh goes to Hawaii)
2.)Beth Littleford [former correspondent] is doing commercials for an booze company. She plays a 'reporter' I believe

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I was re-sizing some screen captures, and it made me miss Nancy Walls. I need to watch one of her old correspondent stories again soon. One of my favorites is one from Feb. 2000 where Nancy talked to this guy who fixed up old GI Joe dolls, and she camped out at Toys R Us during the story.

That's one of the TDS things that I'd kill to have on tape.

2002-04-19T19:51:00.000-04:00

7:47 p.m.

The Richard Dryfuss interview was very funny. I watched last night's daily show with a tint on my old tv. Its kind of a pinkish hue. I really enjoy watching TDS this way. Mo looks extra yummy. (shaddup) I like the 'new guy' even if I keep on forgetting his name sadly. The little patch of hair in front is a tad distracting though. But hey, he's trying to be different, that's cool.

TV guide said last month that Steve and Nancy would be coming back this month. I don't think they are.

2002-04-10T11:28:00.000-04:00

11:25 a.m.
From Melissa:
I just saw a story on CNN called "White Collar Boxing" and they were talking about Mo Rocca is supposed to be boxing some NY sex columnust whose name I forgot. Or maybe they already did it. I saw Mo backstage at a boxing match pointing to the guy and saying "I'm going to have your ear for breakfast!"

2002-04-09T10:12:00.000-04:00

10:11 a.m.
From the JSEB/Jon Stewart Intellegence Agencey newsletter:
Lewis black will be doing an online chat "Taxed Beyond Belief" on April
11, 4 pm EST, on msnbc.com. Thanks to Dani:
http://www.msnbc.com/chat/default.asp

2002-04-04T10:10:00.000-05:00

10:08 a.m.
I don't care, I'm still calling it the JSEB. (Jon Stewart Estrogen Brigade)

2002-04-02T10:08:00.000-05:00

10:04 a.m.
ewww...Jon eating peeps. Don't get me wrong, I think peeps are cute, but I can't eat them b/c I cannot eat marshmellow. You could even see Jon getting sick after he ate them. I always love TDS after Easter. They always have good Easter candy jokes.

They're showing the Steve Carell "Satan Laws are Coming to Town" story again. I didn't even pay attention to it when I first watched it, so I'm recording it again. Just b/c I like having the entire epsiode on a tape (expect for the interviews-I could care less about the interviews)

2002-03-26T10:00:00.000-05:00

10:04 a.m.
Finally, a decent Steve Carell biography:
Steve Carell

Edgar

Best known for his frequent contributions as a correspondent on “The Daily Show,” Steve Carell now plays Ellie’s (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) passive/aggressive ex-boyfriend Edgar in NBC’s new comedy “Watching Ellie.”

For Carell, auditioning for the series was no simple matter. “My daughter Annie was born on the East Coast three days before the audition, so while my in-laws filled in, I flew to L.A. in the morning, auditioned that afternoon, and took the red-eye back that night,” he said. “In retrospect, the entire process is a blur. A newborn certainly shifts one’s priorities. I am just happy that I was marginally coherent!”

No stranger to primetime television, Carell was cast as a series regular in the 1997 television series “Over the Top” starring Tim Curry and Annie Potts. He also worked as a writer and performer on “The Dana Carvey Show,” and did a guest-star stint on NBC’s “Just Shoot Me.” Carell also appeared in the John Hughes film “Curly Sue.”

As veteran of the Second City Theater group in Chicago, Carell was twice nominated for a Joseph Jefferson award. Carell first got the acting bug at age 6, in his first grade Thanksgiving play, “The Roar of the Greasepaint...the Smell of the Turkey!” After graduating from Denison University in Ohio, Carell contemplated a career as an attorney and then quickly chose a career as an actor. “Acting seemed to be the more dignified and financially stable of the two,” he jokes.

Born in Concord, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Acton, Carell now splits his time between Los Angeles and his home in New Jersey. He is married to actress Nancy Walls (NBC’s “Saturday Night Live”), whom he met while at Second City and who also frequently appears on “The Daily Show.” His birthday is August 16.

2002-03-26T09:13:00.000-05:00

9:15 p.m.
There's an article on Steve on Netscape today, but its not showing up yet.

2002-03-25T11:08:00.000-05:00

11:00 a.m.
So I guess Steve will be living in a box next to Vance and Greg Proops
I can't find the exact article, but in today's newspaper, there was an article about Watching Ellie being canned, and its last ep airing April 2nd, and the rest of the epsidoes to be shown at a later date, here's an article about it from a couple of days ago:
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,9701,00.html?tnews

Well, him and Nancy was supposed to return back to TDS in April anyways.

(if your'e wondering why I mentioned Greg Proops, look down a few entires)

2002-03-20T11:08:00.000-05:00

11:07 a.m.
I guess its time to change the background to the TDS site. It's nolonger winter-y anymore. But I really like that snowflake background.

2002-03-18T18:14:00.000-05:00

6:11 p.m.
I had a fun/sad time listening to old TDS audio tapes that I recorded on a tape recorder around this time two years ago. It made me sad and nostaligic for the old times too. I was making a dub of the 1999 Webcast w/ Jon Stewart, Frank DeCaro and Vance for Melissa All of it made me very sad as I aforementioned. Made me nostalgic for the good ol days.Eleventh grade, coming home after school, talking to Jen Z until TDS came on at 7:00 p.m., and I'd record Vance on an audio tape. (I'd listen to them to the point where I have memorized them), and then going to bed around nine-ish, and not being able to sleep b/c I was too busy thinking about TDS and Vance.

2002-03-18T12:22:00.000-05:00

12:25 afternoon
So, Rendez-view (the show Vance was working on after he left TDS) is nomore:
(from the greg proops message board)
Rendez-View, she is no more.
Cheers, Miss B.
________

tvgameshows.net

At last, a crack in the ointment of the crowded field of dating game shows for 2002-03.

Paramount Television will not renew Rendez-View, the relationship game hosted by Greg Proops of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

The show, airing on 148 stations in a combination of late-night and morning slots, has only averaged a 1.0 rating and 0.6 in 18-49s for the season.

Ironically, counterpart Shipmates, also only checking in at 1.0, is expected to return after clearing 84 per cent of the U.S. for a second season. Telepictures has not made a decision on a return of the low-rated Change of Heart, which may hinge in no small part on whether superstation WGN/Chicago opts to renew.

2002-03-15T19:05:00.000-05:00

7:02 p.m.
aah! Jon said "9/11" I read somewhere that '9/11' is one of the phrases most people want to go away. I don't blame them. I'd rather hear it as "September eleventh"

(more info on my personal blog in the january 2002 section)

2002-03-15T09:52:00.000-05:00

9:52 a.m.
Jon is going to be on David Letterman on march 19th.

2002-03-14T08:59:00.000-05:00

8:59 a.m.
Melissa and I were talking about Beth and Vacne's last episodes and Melissa said this:
Yeah I guess TDS doesn't pull out the stops for people leaving. I bet they'd
have the friggin Radio City Rockettes come in if Colbert ever decided to
leave (fat chance there).

2002-03-13T20:06:00.000-05:00

8:04 p.m.
Even if I unscribed from the TDS newsletter nearly a month ago, I still ask people:
What was the newsletter about this week?

2002-03-11T09:27:00.000-05:00

9:27 a.m.
Oh, yeah, BTW, my Vance site turns two today.

2002-03-11T08:50:00.000-05:00

8:50 a.m.
I got info on the Frank DeCaro Oscar Special for this year
(from Annie's newsletter)
Mar 24, Sun, 12 am, 3:30 am, & 9 am, Comedy Central -- Jon is one of
the interviewees on a Frank DeCaro special entitled Frank DeCaro: The
Big O! True West Hollywood Story.

2002-03-09T23:24:00.000-05:00

11:21 p.m.
On Feb. 27th this blog was chosen as blog of the day by these people. I didn't even find out until tonight when I just typed in 'blog' on google.

Dude, that's werid.

2002-03-09T23:08:00.000-05:00

11:06 p.m.
I think Mo goes to the daily show studios just to get his daily allowment of cheese danish and office supplies and then he just goes home.

2002-03-09T18:26:00.000-05:00

6:24 p.m.
According to TV guide, Steve and Nancy are returning to TDS in April.

2002-03-09T18:22:00.000-05:00

March 9th 2002
6:12 p.m.
It looks like someone updated everyone's bios on IMDB.com for TDS.
Things I've learned today
Stacey's Birthday is November 22, ????, She's married to someone named Kenny Woods, and she used to book bands for the viper room, and she was a writer for the 2001 MTV movie awards
Mo Has a degree in English Lit from Harvard University (class of 1991).
Colbert's Birthday is on April 20th, 1964
Steve was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada [I think this is W-R-O-N-G]
Matt's Birthday is on October 13th, 1965
Mary's birthday is April 18, ????
Frank's birthday is November 6th 1962
A. Whitney Brown'sbirthday is July 8th 1952 {HE'S OLDER THAN VANCE!!!}

2002-03-07T19:46:00.000-05:00

March 7th 2002
7:43 p.m.
This week (expect for Mondays ep) was a pretty good week for TDS. Even with Colbert hosting, it was pretty good. Although Back in Black freaked me out a little too much, honestly, but he made it up w/the calculator watch.
Eh? Eh?

2002-03-06T19:45:00.000-05:00

March 6th 2002
7:43 p.m.

Which TDS correspondent would you like to be out of a list of ten to choose from?

2002-03-05T20:50:00.000-05:00

8:47 p.m.
Yeah, I've been pretty mean to Colbert these past few days, but there is this one thing he did back in 2000 that every time I think about it I still laugh pretty hard: When he was talking about graduation commencement speeches, and he did an impression of Bill Cosby, and he was laughing so hard he couldn't even get it out....that was pretty funny.

Oh, I never got around to my Vance site today. Sigh....

2002-03-05T15:23:00.000-05:00

3:21 p.m.
I fixed it! All by my self!

Now on to working on the Vance site.

2002-03-05T09:59:00.000-05:00

March 5th 2002
9:58 a.m.
I don't understand why the January 2002 page on the TDS site doesn't work still. I've tried uploading it several times now.

2002-03-04T20:07:00.000-05:00

March 4th 2002
8:05 p.m.
Haven't we seen enough of this?
Jon Will be hosting SNL on March 9th. Stephen Colbert will be filling in
for Jon Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Why can't Mo or Matt or even Lauren host? (Steve is probably too busy rgith now to host and ditto w/Nancy)

Thanks to Chaney for giving me the bad news straight up.

2002-03-03T11:49:00.000-05:00

March 3rd 2002
11:47 a.m.
Hopefully I can get some work done today on the sites. After I finish cleaning my bathroom.

2002-03-02T13:52:00.000-05:00

March 2nd 2002
1:50 p.m
Got a reply from vance about "Lateworld":
Nope. Not on that show. Worked on it briefly. I'm in talks with another show at the moment. Hope all is well.

2002-03-01T14:45:00.000-05:00

March 1st 2002
2:43 p.m.
From e! online:
Despite critical raves his first time out, returning Grammy host Jon Stewart was merely an afterthought at Wednesday's ceremony. The Daily Show host scored some funny points for his riffs on tight security and the difference between ZZ Top and the Taliban, but he took a backseat to--count 'em--17 performances during the ceremony.

2002-02-28T18:19:00.000-05:00

6:17 p.m.
Vanceypants got a new job!
I just got this e-mail:
--VH1 is getting into the business of late-night, with new series
"Lateworld,"
hosted by actor Zach Galifianakis. "Lateworld" will take the format of a
traditional late night variety show, using music as the springboard to
examine
the Hollywood scene. The half-hour series, set in Hollywood, will feature a
mix
of musical performances, comedy segments, roundtables and celebrity guests.
In
addition, field reporters from around the country will report in about the
day's happenings. Galifianakis' credits include the films "Heartbreakers,"
"Out
Cold," "Bubble Boy" and the upcoming WWII drama, "Below." He also starred in
his own stand-up comedy special for Comedy Central and has appeared on "The
Late Show with David Letterman" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."
"Lateworld" is produced by VH1 and Brad Grey Television. Michael Bloom will
executive produce, with Vance Degeneres ("The Daily Show") as the show's
supervising producer. The series premieres Monday, March 4 at 11 p.m.
(ET/PT).
The series will air weeknights Monday through Friday.

I guess he quit rendez-view. I'll ask him one day, but not today.

2002-02-28T11:05:00.000-05:00

11:05 a.m.
Grade Jon

(you have to be an excite member to do this)

Results:
Comedian Jon Stewart hosted the 44th annual Grammy Awards last night on CBS. How would you grade his performance?

A 13% => 633 votes

B 8% => 406 votes

C 8% => 388 votes

D 6% => 300 votes

F 10% => 465 votes

I'm not sure/I did not watch 55% => 2677 votes
Current vote tally: 4869

2002-02-28T07:19:00.000-05:00

February 28th 2002
7:17 a.m.
7:16 a.m.
Ahhh...here it is

2002-02-27T20:14:00.000-05:00

Febuary 27th 2002
8:12 p.m.
I wasn't going to watch the Grammys at all tonight, but thank god I caught the first ten miuntes....
I saw Jon wearing nothing but boxers.
Drrrrool.

God, I wish Yahoo took a picutre of that, or I get to see it on E! tomorrow so I can make decent screen cap of it.

2002-02-26T20:13:00.000-05:00

8:10 p.m.
There's a new comedy central.com newsletter called "comedy central.com cheat sheet" and there's a section called "deep six" and Mo was the first person to be "deep sixed":

Mo Rocca on bow ties, groin pulls, and breast implants!

By Igor

EDITOR'S NOTE: This marks the start
of The Deep 6, Comedy Central's six-question celebrity e-mail interview. You'll
find it here every other week. When we first conceived The Deep 6, we wanted to
find the perfect interviewer, someone who could engage talented comics on an
elevated plane of humor and insight. When that didn't work, we went with some
pasty-faced guy named Igor who works in the network basement. We hope you enjoy
Igor's first attempt at celebrity journalism. Ladies and gents... Mo Rocca gets
The Deep 6!

Question 1: How do you tie a bow tie?

MO ROCCA: Tying a bow tie is an absolute cinch! Take the left end and
wrap it around the right end. Then take the right end and fold it up underneath
the left, making sure the fat end of the right is facing left. Next take the
left, fold the slack and squeeze it through the hole created by the right, then
push it leftwards. Tug on the back left side and front right side at the same
time to tighten. Balance the length of fabric on each side of the know by
pulling gently at the front left side and back right side simultaneously. And
voila!

Question 2: Is Mo short for something?

M.R.: My father was the U.S. Ambassador to Mozambique when I was born in
1969. My full name is Mozambique Rocca. Just kidding! My parents were actually
hippies back in '69 and my mother, eight months pregnant, hitchhiked across the
Mojave Desert. She gave birth to me prematurely in the shade of an agave cactus.
Thus, Mojave Rocca. I'm joking!! Actually I was initially named Arthur but I was
such a fast crawler, I was renamed Mobile. Okay, I'll stop!!! The truth is, my
mother abandoned me as an infant and the only foster parent who didn't treat me
with total contempt named me Mo, after whom or what I don't know. I wasn't
allowed to ask. Sad but true!

Question 3: You've been taking gymnastics classes. How's that coming?

M.R.: My gymnastics classes are on indefinite hiatus, ever since I
sprained my ankle and pulled my groin. But I'm keeping the dream alive.

Question 4: When will machines take over the world?

M.R.: I don't even have a toaster. How the hell should I know?

Question 5. You worked at "Perfect 10." Tell me a story.

M.R.: Perfect 10 is the only men's magazine that features models without
breast implants. I was hired at its inception as a Consulting Editor. My first
assignment was to interview the 1997 Playboy Playmate of the Year, Stacey
Sanchez. Stacey had gigantic implants, though. So my interview included only a
headshot of Stacey. A bizarre start to a bizarre job that got extremely bizarre.

Question 6: I totally missed the bow tie thing. Could you tell me once
more?

M.R.: Just buy a clip-on.

2002-02-26T14:57:00.000-05:00

February 26th 2002
2:54 p.m.
Just a reminder, Watching Ellie premires tonight on NBC at 8:30 p.m. Remember, Steve's in this show playing Ellie's ex-boyfriend.

2002-02-25T15:02:00.000-05:00

3:00 p.m.
Some Jon appearances. Thanks to Annie's newsletter:
Feb 26, Tues, 11:35 pm, NBC -- The Tonight Show. Thanks to Sharilyn.
Feb 27, Wed, 7 am, CBS -- Early Show. Thanks to Christina.
Feb 27, Wed, 7 am, ABC -- Good Morning America. Thanks to Christina.

2002-02-25T12:32:00.000-05:00

February 25th 2002
Woah! Comedy Central.com got re-done. Thank god. The old layout took forever to look at.

Oh yeah, BTW, TDS is in repeats this week.

2002-02-23T18:20:00.000-05:00

February 23rd 2002
6:19 p.m.
there's a short little thing on Jon in People this week [the cover w/the lady who drowned her kids in the bathtub]

2002-02-22T21:02:00.000-05:00

8:59 p.m.
I got a good question that I just don't know the answer to:
Subj: do you know about writer?
Date: 2/22/02 8:56:34 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: meo7@REMOVEearthlink.net (MEO)
Reply-to: meo7@REMOVEearthlink.net
To: Sparklemilhouse@REMOVEaol.com

Hi Just wondering if you know if Daily Show writer , Tom Johnson is the
comedian originally from St. Louis, MO?

Thanks
meo

Oh yeah, BTW, can someone sign my Vance guestbook for the Vance site? I got a spam entry today. THe last time someone real signed my guestbook [and didn't call me a freak] was like in July of 2001.

2002-02-22T11:21:00.000-05:00

February 22nd 2002
11:20 a.m.
Was it just me, or during Ad Naseaum Wednesday night, that didn't look like it was done in the studio. The sound sounded different, and Steve was closer to the camera....maybe its just me making up stuff.

2002-02-21T08:47:00.000-05:00

February 21st 2002
February 21st 2002
8:44 a.m.
(writeen in my journla at 6:45 a.m.)
I was thinking, ok, for example, if someone e-mailed me, telling me that they have photos of Vance and Mimi's [Vance's ex wife] wedding, and that I could use them for my site , I'd decline. That's just too personal. I would ask to see one though, just b/c I'm dying to know what Mimi looked like. But, if it was like a wedding announcement that was published in the newspaper when they got married, well, yeah, I'd post it b/c it was something that the public saw anyway.

2002-02-19T20:09:00.000-05:00

8:07 p.m.
After nearly two years, I have quit the TDS newsletter. It's no longer fun to read. Morons.I just got my mail about it:

As you requested, you have been unsubscribed from 'dailyshow'.

I'm going to miss Dave Blog though.

Steve Carell is in TV guide this week, I scanned it:

http://laurenweediem.tripod.com/Steve.htm

2002-02-19T15:17:00.000-05:00

3:16p.m.
Well, maybe a few extra people watched Family Guy that night...
(edit at 8:10 p.m.)
*this was supposed to go in my personal blog, but hey, it can go here too...

2002-02-18T18:37:00.000-05:00

February 18th 2002
6:35 p.m.
According to the TDS/Comedy Central site, tonight is a repeat show, but tomorrows a new episode.

2002-02-17T20:18:00.000-05:00

8:17 p.m.
Someone wanted off my newsletter. What did I do to annoy them?

2002-02-17T17:20:00.000-05:00

February 17th 2002
5:18p.m.
83rd newsletter
if they only made the tic tac box quieter...

Vance DeGeneres
http://vanceypantsdegeneres.tripod.com/

Yall are going to think I'm on crack for this, but I moved the site back to Tripod last week. Fortunecity.co.uk was a bust.

-the image page has been re-done.
-added caps from the 1988 House of Schock video for Middle of nowhere:
http://vanceypantsdegeneres.tripod.com/vanceypants95.htm
-added some captures from the "Olympic Story" from April 24th 2000:
http://vanceypantsdegeneres.tripod.com/Vanceypants22.html
-added some captures from a May 2000 segement,an april, 2000 dollars and cents, and an House os Schock press photo:
http://vanceypantsdegeneres.tripod.com/vanceypants96.htm

Anita's daily show page:
http://anitasdailyshowpage.0catch.com/index.htm

complety re-done. the old layout looked so bare.

added January 2002 captures:
http://anitasdailyshowpage.0catch.com/january021.htm

added captures from something that happend long long ago:
The TDS year end spectular 1997:
http://anitasdailyshowpage.0catch.com/ender1997.htm

Living room w/out a tv.

Moving it to a laurenweediem tripod account that I forgot I had. Don't like angelfire.

The greg proops picture page
http://www.geocities.com/sparklemilhouse/index.htm
I'm going to make some greg proops screen caps tonight hopefully.

The special tonight is the turducken:
http://wowsmellthis.blogspot.com/
re-done. An homage to "Family Guy"

Updates to site and TDS commentary:
http://eviantds.blogspot.com/
also re-done.

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it looks like there's not going to be any correspondent hosting while Jon's at the Grammy's . One of my friends called for tickets during this week, and they said that the show's in repeats during the week Jon's away. I guess Matt, and Lauren will never get a chance to host. And Mo woln't get the chance to host by himself. Darn.

*~Anita~*
http://vanceypants.pitas.com/
I would like to see a cartoon called "The Adventures of That Guy On the Quaker Oats Box"
-someone off of the message boards on yesterdayland.com

2002-02-16T20:30:00.000-05:00

8:28 p.m.
Something from Melissa:
Man ive been at your vance site all night tonight, just drowning in all that beauty. I feel like somebody who really likes shoes walking through Imelda Marco's closet. Sometimes I think I objectify him too much. I mean he's wonderfully funny, but I can just be satisfied sitting here staring at a single screen cap of him for hours.

2002-02-16T20:25:00.000-05:00

8:23 p.m.
Would yall be upset if I shut down Living Room w/out a tv?

Maybe I woln't shut it down, but maybe like re-do it b/c its just sitting there, sadly.

2002-02-16T13:05:00.000-05:00

February 16th 2002
12:16 afternoon
You know what I'm sick of? Those people who are sick of Jon being liberal or whatever. Most of us don't give a s---t about that. We watch the show b/c its f-u-n-n-y. Something that's hard to comphrend for some of those folks. If they don't like the show, then why in the heck are they watching it?

1:01 p.m.
stewart on grammys-OK to be funny

2002-02-15T09:01:00.000-05:00

Feberuary 15th 2002
8:54 a.m.
according to the daily show community on Live journal, Steve came back last night. I haven't seen it yet b/c as you know I'm always one day behind.

2002-02-13T20:28:00.000-05:00

8:26 p.m.
I guess I'll fix the archive template tomorrow.

On to real TDS news, that guest that was on Tuesday zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. I wish he would of talked about his special [it had something to do w/bullies in school] more than what his dream world wants to be or whatever.

2002-02-13T17:20:00.000-05:00

5:19 p.m.
I'm not happy w/the new look of the blog. I'll work on it some more tomorrow or this weekend.

2002-02-13T15:18:00.000-05:00

3:16 p.m
re-doing the blog. that's why there's a generic template up.

2002-02-13T06:56:00.000-05:00

February 13th 2002
6:54 a.m.
Subj: Interesting thing I found
Date: 2/12/02 11:10:37 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:
To: SparkleMilhouse@REMOVEaol.com

When I was searching for Daily Show related stuff I
found this interested ad:

Casting for "The Daily Show"
I found this at Backstage.com and thought I'd pass it
along

"THE DAILY SHOW"

Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" is seeking men and
women, late 20s-40s, any ethnicity, to play news
correspondents. Permanent position. Comedic skills and
writing ability a plus. Pay: AFTRA scale to
negotiable. Send pictures & resumes to Liz Lewis,
Casting Partners, 129 W. 20 St., Ground Floor, NYC,
10011, Attn: The Daily Show. (First posted 2/8/2002)

I wonder if they'll keep the
new lady from last week, she seemed good. It's always
exciting getting new ppl on the show, even if it sad
when the regulars leave.

=====
© John DiMartino 2000

2002-02-11T19:10:00.000-05:00

February 11th 2002
7:09 p.m.
I re-did the Daily Show site. Enjoy.

2002-02-07T17:15:00.000-05:00

February 7th 2002
5:13 p.m
So I went to nbc.com and I got some info on the show Steve's going to be on:
Emmy Award-winning actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Seinfeld”) returns to NBC as the star of “Watching Ellie,” a new half-hour comedy detailing the life of a Los Angeles club singer, Ellie Riggs (Louis-Dreyfus), a single woman living in Los Angeles whose life is examined weekly in a 22-minute snapshot uniquely presented in real time.

Each week, Ellie confronts all manner of annoyances, including her much-too-pretty, married younger sister Susan (Lauren Bowles, “Ghost World”), mysterious international neighbor Ingvar (Peter Stormare, “Chocolat,” “Fargo”), and ex-boyfriend Edgar (Steve Carell, “The Daily Show”). Meanwhile, Ellie is trying to figure out just where she stands with her current “beau,” Ben (Darren Boyd, BBC’s “Smack the Pony”), who’s a guitarist in her band. Don Lake (”Best in Show”) also stars as Ellie’s veterinarian neighbor, Dr. Zimmerman.

Written and created by executive producer Brad Hall (NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” “Brooklyn Bridge”), the “Watching Ellie” premiere was directed by Ken Kwapis (“Malcolm in the Middle,” “The Larry Sanders Show”). The series is produced by NBC Studios.

and here's a photo of stteeevvvee:
http://www.nbc.com/Watching_Ellie/photo/1.html

2002-02-06T10:36:00.000-05:00

February 6th 2002
10:40 a.m.
So I missed the February 4th 2002 episode. I broke my record of not missing an episode since November 6th 2000. Before that I hadn't missed an episode since May of 2000.

2002-02-05T10:23:00.000-05:00

10:17 a.m.
Off of the comedy central/tds site [the broken image version]
Jon Stewart seems to be everywhere these days, find out where he will be appearing next:

1.)Jon Stewart will be hosting "Saturday Night Live" on March 9th.
2.)An article about Jon Stewart will appear in Monday's New Yorker Magazine.
3.)Jon Stewart will once again be hosting the 44th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 27th at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

2002-02-05T06:32:00.000-05:00

Febuary 5th 2002
6:30 a.m.
Just read this off of dummysayswha's live journal:
Besides, I feel much better now. Why, you ask? JON STEWART IS GONNA BE ON SNL MARCH 9TH! OHMIGOD OHMIGOD I AM SO TAPING IT! Okay, calmed down. Seriously though, it's about friggin' time! I hope they have him play a girl in a sketch. I also hope they do Jarret's Room. It's my favorite skit, and I'd always wanted to know more of what he was like in college. I was so hyped when I found out, I saw it on the Daily Show page. Then I went and told the TDS Experiece message board, and then I emailed the guy who runs the SNLRC at jt. org!

2002-02-04T11:58:00.000-05:00

Febuary 4th 2002
11:53 a.m.
I think TDS is in repeats this week...I think....

2002-02-03T14:52:00.000-05:00

Febuary 3rd 2002
2:51 p.m.
I'm watching a dog show on Animal Planet, and I recognized one of the doggies on there b/c TDS made fun of it!

2002-02-02T23:26:00.000-05:00

11:24 p.m.
Ok, I really need to move my TDS site. I run out of bandwith every single day! That's absurd!

2002-02-02T22:57:00.000-05:00

10:55 p.m.
I already got someone on the bandwagon to tell me about their experience at a TDS taping!

2002-02-02T22:41:00.000-05:00

10:39 p.m.
I sent out a newsletter tonight:

82nd newsletter
I guess its time to get everyone caught up
*It's been a long time since a newsletter, I know. Sorry. I've just been really busy w/moving and blogging, and staying off the internet cause the parents are waiting for someone to buy a truck...but back to the updates

Vance DeGeneres
New home!!!
-added caps from the 'rooster' tale of surivial [january, 2000] and january 4th 1900 episode, and peace in the balkans '99.and I just saw a freakin' pop up banner on my site NO NO NO! @#$% exuse my language, but I H-A-T-E pop up banners]
-theres a new transcript up. one that i um...forgot about. sorry.

Anita's daily show page
where the bandwith runs out by 3:00 p.m. every day!
I'm serious about the bandwith thing. Do people really go to my site everyday?
-I added a new section to the site that has icons for peoples live journals. I may also do some diaryland/diary-x layouts.

-I am also going to start a new section of the site called 'I went to a daily show taping' its going to include *detailed* accounts of peoples stories at daily show tapings. if anyone on this newsletter has been to a TDS taping, please tell me your story!

-I'm going to try to finish making january 2002 caps tomorrow. I already made two hours worth of them last night [theyre not up yet] and I'm going to try to put up caps of a *new* daily show ad comedy central is showing.

Living room w/out a tv
-added a couple of sound wavs.

Updates to site and TDS commentary
-added a place where you can add your comments. No morons, please.

The special tonight is the turducken
-added a place where you can add comments. No morons, please.

*~Anita~*
http://vanceypants.pitas.com/
I would like to see a cartoon called "The Adventures of That Guy On the Quaker Oats Box"
-someone off of the message boards on yesterdayland.com

2002-02-02T22:36:00.000-05:00

10:34 p.m.
Got Annie's newsletter in my netscape box today:
CBS is reairing Jon's interview with Steve Kroft tomorrow, Sunday, 8 pm,
EST. Eeeeexcellent. Thanks to Melly.

Yay! Something to watch tomorrow other than that stupid super bowl!

2002-02-02T21:07:00.000-05:00

9:02 p.m.
I'm searching for my daily show page on Google, and these are people who have brought me up:
deathlurks.blogspot.com

Mike C.org links

someone who took a photo of the set of the daily show

he also saw Nancy Walls-lucky dog. (I'm going to e-mail this person about maybe explaining in more detail about going to see the daily show, I may do a new part of my site called 'I went to a daily show taping' )

(*if these people have guestbooks, I'm signing them so maybe they can make another visit to my sites--I know I'm sad*)

2002-02-02T20:58:00.000-05:00

8:56 p.m.
Ha! Andrew and I rank higher than the offical TDS site. HA HA HA!!

2002-02-02T18:55:00.000-05:00

Febuary 2nd 2002
6:53 p.m.
The first 'Death to Smootchy [sp?] ' press photo with Jon it:

someone posted this at tdsexperience, I forgot who though. Sorry.

2002-02-01T19:54:00.000-05:00

Ignore the errors why I try to add a comment thing.

2002-02-01T19:37:00.000-05:00

7:34 p.m.
Here's a site on Mary Birdsong. Not much, but its something. I like her, but I didn't like the story much.

I also saw the new TDS commercial during south park last night when I watched it this afternoon. I made caps of it, but I don't know when they're going to be up. Steve wasn't in it. Maybe he just wasn't in that day.

2002-02-01T15:53:00.000-05:00

3:51 p.m.
I guess I have to move my TDS site. It's 3:51 p.m. and all the bandwith is used up already. I really liked 0catch too. Dorky name, but they didn't screw around w/you.

2002-02-01T12:07:00.000-05:00

Febuary 1st 2002
12:01 afternoon.
I got the new girl's name wrong last night. It's Mary Birdsong, at least according to melissa it is.

2002-01-31T19:52:00.000-05:00

7:51 p.m.
Comedycentral.com is down. But even when they're down, they're still funny!:
1) Our computers are refusing to talk to us. And though we plead, "please baby, please come out of the bathroom," the machine just won't come out. We're buying flowers and candy in hopes she'll forgive us.

2) We're fixing something that desperately needs fixing, so that the comedy keeps on flowing smooth. It'll probably take us a half-hour or so. Check back then.

2002-01-31T19:34:00.000-05:00

January 31st 2002
i was watching tds tonight at seven, and I saw a commercial for tonight's show and it looks like they're unveiling a new correspondent under the name of:

Mindy Birdsong

I re-wound the tape to see if this was true. and I swear to god, that is her real name.
She sounds and looks a lot like stacey.

2002-01-29T10:14:00.000-05:00

10:09 a.m.
Melissa told me what TDS was about last night, and they really need to stop w/these serious guests on TDS. That's why there's only like two posts now in every TDS newsletter. People don't watch the daily show to hear some suit talk about Enron in a serious tone. People watch daily show b/c its supposed to be funny.

2002-01-29T06:01:00.000-05:00

January 29th 2002
6:00 a.m.
TDS live journal icons for boys and girls

2002-01-28T19:36:00.000-05:00

January 28th 2002
7:34 p.m.
There's an article in the new tv guide [the one w/bernie mac on the cover] about Conan and Jon. About their contracts running out and stuff.

That's some scary s--t

2002-01-27T10:44:00.000-05:00

10:42 a.m.
Also, tomorrow is Mo Rocca's birthday!

2002-01-27T10:38:00.000-05:00

January 27th 2002
10:37 a.m.
If you have never seen the daily show before in your life, this ebay thingy is for you.

2002-01-26T09:50:00.000-05:00

January 26th 2002
9:47 a.m.
Happy Vance day!
Today is my second anniversary of liking Vance. I must pop in my cb2000 story and my pork princess story]

2002-01-25T14:22:00.000-05:00

This remindes me of when Jon replaced Craig for some reason.

2002-01-24T15:21:00.000-05:00

January 24th 2002
I got some mail today about some Lewis Black shows:
Subj: Tickets - Comedy Central Presents Lewis Black!
Date: 1/23/02 8:53:52 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: lewnews@netkinesis.com (Lew News)
Reply-to: lewnews@netkinesis.com
To: sparklemilhouse@aol.com

Want to see Lewis Black performing for his next “Comedy Central Presents…”
show? If you’re in the New York City area, you’re in luck!

Show dates and times:

Tuesday February 5, 2002
8:00 PM
The Hudson Theater
145 West 44th Street

There are three ways to get tickets:
- call (323) 769-5538 for reservations
- go to www.ocatv.com and click on the Comedy Central logo to print out a
ticket
- send an e-mail to tickets@ocatv.com

Can’t make this show? Don’t worry, Lewis seems to be everywhere! Here’s
where you can catch him:

January 25 - 26, 2002
Banana's Comedy Club
Best Western - 679 South Route 9
Poughkeepsie, NY
845-462-3333

February 1, 2002
University of North Florida Arena
4567 St. John's Bluff Rd. South
Jacksonville, FL
904-620-2999

February 2 - 3, 2002
Side Splitters
12938 North Dale Mabry Highway
Tampa, FL
813-960-1197

February 11, 2002
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Memorial Hall
Chapel Hill, NC
919-966-3128

February 14 - 17, 2002
The Punchline
2100 Arden Way, Suite 225
Sacramento, CA
916-925-5500

February 21, 2002
Montana State University - Bozeman
SUB Ballrooms
Bozeman, MT
406-994-1829

February 28, 2002
Potawatomi Bingo Casino
1721 West Canal Street
Milwaukee, WI
414-645-6888

March 2, 2002
Bendhelm Performing Arts Center
999 Wilmot Road
Scarsdale, NY
914-472-3300

March 6 - 10, 2002
The Punchline
260 Hilderbrand Drive
Atlanta, GA
404-252-5223

Show dates can change often, so be sure to check at the official Lewis
Black site, www.lewisblack.net, for any updates. As always, thanks for
your support!

If you want to unsubscribe from the LewisBlack.net list, please respond to
this e-mail and let us know.

2002-01-23T15:44:00.000-05:00

3:43 p.m.
I found my fortunecity.co.uk password!

2002-01-23T15:24:00.000-05:00

3:22 p.m.
Soooo...Fortunecity.co.uk works now...but according to them I forgot my password! ARGH!

2002-01-23T09:07:00.000-05:00

January 23rd 2002
9:01a.m.
So that's why there's a new announcer. The old one died. [Dan Foley if I'm not mistaken] I feel bad now for yelling and screaming about how much I hated the new announcer.

2002-01-22T16:26:00.000-05:00

4:25 p.m.

4:07 p.m.

Reading these old Salon Posts [a
few entries down] it made me want to make a list of why Vance may of left
TDS:

Only being asked to host twice, while Carell and Colbert got to host
around 10 times each.

TDS giving him crappy stories near the end. [a guy who lost his coat? an
old man who made this medicine?]

He was tired of the TDS grind.

He was tired of New York

He was tired of having to get all 'purdy' to be in
front of a camera.

ummmm...anyone want to help?

Melissa just gave me a hypothesis:

I wonder sometimes if Vance left because the Steve's were getting so much air
time. It does seem strange that someone like Vance who used to be on all
the time would suddenly disappear from the show and then quit. When he
answered your questions several months before that he sounded pretty happy being
there and had no reason to leave, so I wonder if he started to become discontent
around the beginning of 2001.

Remember Steve Carell's Halloween nightmare when he passes by Colbert's office
and he (Colbert) says something like "Look I'm the new host now!"
That almost felt like an "inside" joke to me, abut Colbert wanted to
be host so bad he can taste it.

2002-01-22T09:09:00.000-05:00

January 22nd 2002
9:03 a.m.
Question: Do you think that Stephen Colbert is just lingering on TDS so maybe he can get a crack at Jon's job if Jon ever leaves?