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~special~ 394.  Newseum Daily Show Exhibit: Seriously Funny

Earlier this week, I finally made it to DC to go to the Newseum and to see the Daily Show exhibit. Most of it was Daily Show post 2005, around the time I stopped watching because the interview segment was beginning to overtake the actual show -- of course this is just my personal opinion. I was there for the correspondents more than the interview. 

There were some gems from the early days however: 

(i’m really sorry if some of these look blurry, you know, no flash in the museum) 

This is the only mention of the Craig Kilborn years. It’s a picture from an issue of Esquire. The women standing next to him are Lizz Winstead and Madeline Smithberg, creators of The Daily Show. I got legit excited up in Panera when I saw the magazine on the Internet Archive. (January, 1998, big reading size here, 2) 

OH. This was the infamous article where Craig said that Lizz found him attractive and if “I wanted her to blow me, she would.” 

Craig got in big time trouble, was suspended for the show for a week, and correspondents Beth Littleford, Brian Unger and A. Whitney Brown hosted. Sadly those clips are gone forever. 

Anyway, back to Jon. Right when you walk in, you see that there is a giant braille transcript of the exhibit: 

Jon’s desk is incredibly tiny. This was the desk he had from 2007-2015.

lol, I almost cried when I saw Jon’s stuff he kept under his desk. 

Like Jon, I also prefer a cheap bic pen. 

When Steve Carell got on John McCain’s campaign bus back in late 1999, it was of course a big deal, to have someone from little Comedy Central interviewing a major presidential candidate. 

I want that 3D Jon smiling face in my roomoffice for the rest of my life. By the way, there were NO Daily Show items in the gift shop. None. Newseum kinda dropped the ball there. 

Oh man, back in the day I used to chase down any magazine in Barnes & Noble or at Target if they had a Daily Show ad inside. This one is from 2004. 

I realized when I was at the exhibit, these two magazines have been stuck in our storage unit since 2005. Sadness. 

There was a little binder of correspondents near the end of the exhibit. I was like, “great, its probably just going to be Steve, Stephen, and anybody who was on the show past 2005.” but nearly everybody was in the binder from Jon’s tenure. Steve’s screencapture was from during the 2000 Election recount. 

I think if I didn’t have a relative with me, I would have started crying while flipping through this book. 

Damn, they even put Miriam in here. 

Okay, this is when I almost began to well up seeing my boy Mo, and Beth.

Aw, I really almost cried when I saw Vance. 

Unfortunately, the rest of the newseum trip was canceled because I went with someone who was too offended by the other exhibits at the museum. I’m trying to make it back out there (by myself) before the museum closes (moves?) by the end of the year. 

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You know I have to plug my Daily Show zines at the end of this entry, right? I have a Nordstrom Card bill coming up from the damage from this trip. 

This is the one about my fan website I had about the show from 2000-2005. I just recently lowered the shipping on it. The binding is also different now, I just keep forgetting to update the photo. 

The second volume is my favorite episodes from 1999-2001.

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Lizz Winstead (born Minneapolis, MN, 5 August 1961)

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Sarah Silverman and Lizz Winstead to Host Star Studded Lady Parts Justice Telethon Fundraiser in February

Lizz Winstead’s Lady Parts Justice will be livestreaming a telethon with performances and auctions from the stacked line-up that you see above. From that, they’ll raise funds for their efforts in fighting and raising awareness for pressing issues on several fronts important to LPJ. 

The Life is a LIVING NIGHTMARE: A Telethon to Fix It will be livestreamed on Thursday, February 1st at 6PM PST with Sarah Silverman and Lizz Winstead (you know that she’s co-creator of The Daily Show, right?) as co-hosts at LadyPartsJustice.com or on FB here.

Get more details here.

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Instead of Jon playing a character - the news anchor, one of the derelicts in a derelict world of media - Jon made a creative decision to take the show in the direction of the correspondents presenting the idiocy, and then Jon is the person who calls out the idiocy with the eloquence that the viewer wishes they had. And he did it in a way that’s not condescending, it’s not smug. It’s funny, it’s emotional, it’s calling out bullshit. So Jon became the voice of the audience.

Lizz Winstead, The Daily Show (the book): an oral history.

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The Daily Show, created by Madeleine Smithberg and Lizz Winstead, premiered on Comedy Central on 22 July 1996.

Hosted by Craig Kilbourn, correspondents included A. Whitney Brown, Beth Littleford, Brian Unger, and Winstead.

Kilbourn remained for 386 episodes, sometimes publicly quarreling with Winstead (Kilbourn was suspended without pay for a week in 1997 after making a sexually-explicit joke about Winstead). Kilbourn was hired without Winstead’s consent. “I spent eight months developing and staffing a show and seeking a tone with producers and writers,” she said. “Somebody else put him in place. There were bound to be problems. I viewed the show as content-driven; he viewed it as host-driven"

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Six or eight weeks in, the writers called me into their office. They're like, "You can't change our jokes anymore." I didn't know what to say. So after a weekend of pacing and smoking and having tremendous Lincoln-Douglas debates on the couch by myself, I went back in, and it was horrible. I basically told them all to fuck off. "You work for me. And if you don't like the direction, okay. I get that. Don't work here." There were points were I thought "I made the wrong decision. I've got to leave." But I don't give up very easily. It was open hostility, which is so enjoyable. It became that sense of "Okay, let's arm wrestle." That will give you a hint of my personality of grudges. ...LIZZ WINSTEAD, The Daily show cocreator; head writer, correspondent, 1996-1998: As much as I loved the original writers, I created some little monsters. Once Jon realized he needed to take charge, you can't afford to have people who are not in the Jon Stewart business. And so there's a bit of Kool-Aid drinking that had to take place. ...JON STEWART: I think that was the meeting where I said, "You're not a group. You're not a unit. You're not 'the writers'. You're individual writers that have been hired, and you will be judged within that." It was just an attempt to reclaim some semblance of order. It was a flat-out power struggle, but one that I felt blindsided by. BEN KARLIN: At one point during the battle for the heart and soul of the show, one of the writers snuck into Madeleine's office and replaced some of the items on the board that tracks the stories we're doing with personal insults. Some of them were about me, some were about other people. It was the most juvenile thing in the world, and it could only have been two or three people. Jon and I used to have this thing: crazy out, sane in. We wanted to try to build a show of smart, funny, reasonable people with a similar vision who were hard workers.

The Daily Show (the book): an oral history - talking about Jon's initial struggle to get some of the original writers and staff on-board with his vision.

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