I’ve just uploaded a brilliant recent Daily Show interview with their Middle East correspondent in Beirut to YouTube. Instead of their usual correspondents, they has a guy act as their Arab correspondent. And while Jon Stewart was expressing concern about the carnage, the correspondent kept reacting as if he loved the whole birth pangs of a new Middle East thing — i.e. as if he lived in Condi and W’s alternate reality. It’s very moving comedy, and make sure you watch it to the end. (The first few seconds are blacked out, but then it’s fine.)
(Smaller download version here – 3MB)
Funny but very hard to accept humor knowing of the devastation and misery in actuality. As usual, The Daily Show does an excellent job of skewering the stupidity of the Bush administration. The end comments were brilliant.
If would be great if someone can find the episode of Daily Show that was mocking M ubarak and the elections. They dubbed over Hosn i’s voice with some really funny remarks. Anyone know what I’m talking about? It used to be on the Comedy Central site but I can’t find it anymore….