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The late-breaking news about now former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's sex scandal caught the Daily Show and some of its late-night compatriots short of jokes, and Daily Show host Jon Stewart admitted as much on Monday night's show, when he had to cut from a few brief Spitzer jokes to a package on Wyoming's Democratic primary. One night later, the political comedy show was ready to feast on the news, as shown in the thumbnail at left. The result lacked the impressive same-day turnaround of David Letterman's Monday night performance, but had its moments, as show in the excerpt after the jump.
Longer video: Comedy Central
Related: Colbert on Spitzer
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Yeah, for all the hullabaloo of the writer's strike, and all the cool Harvard studs who write for Jon Stewart, for some reason they always fail the quick turnaround test. It's like bla bla bla Stewart, how about some non-stale jokey, huh pal?
Bah. Still phoning it in. Let Stewart retire and have Sam Bee or that British Colbert/Mo Rocca clone take over.
Or they could bring back Kilbourne just for giggles.
'Twas the Wyoming Democratic primary, not Wisconsin, you elitist east coast journalist-person.
@jagorev: Ha ha, I went ahead and replaced it with "fly-over country," since I'm an elitist west coast person.
@jagorev: actually they were (obvs - Obama won) caucuses.
Is this supposed to be funny?
He can retire to my room
I'd pay to Riggle with Rob.
@donmiguel:
The head writer of The Daily Show is a Yalie.
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