you're the, i'm sure jon stewart loves that. >> right. >> exactly. it's like the office with ee helms. >> yeah. >> it's not, not a great thing. so, so, you're not just an on air correspondent in quotes but you also are a writer for the show. >> yes. >> how much of your time is divided between writing on -he one hand and being on air or producing pieces for air on the other hand? >> well, my day is pretty much writer first. >> yeah. >> so i come in around 9:00-9:30. >> yeah. meeting. the morning and then during that meeting it's all the writers, all of our segment producers and john. and over thh ourse of that meeting, which lasted about an hour maybe we figure out sooething where it's like oh you know, it might be funny to have wyatt in this particular thing. and then i sort of shift gears and i become a correspondent for the day. >> right. >> but if not then i'm working on an assignment writing something that may be for another correspondent, may be the headline, which is sort of the first part of the show. you know, so, so it varies. or i might get

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plus jon stewart v the tea party and this is a doozy. we'll show you the clip from last night's daily shly show a later. but first the news. with just hours to go before tonight's midnight deadline, the senate is expected to vote at noon today on a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling. that comes after the house vote last night where 95 democrats and 174 republicans voted in favor of the bill. the bill expected to pass in the senate with an even higher margin. and then it's on to the desk of president obama will he will sign the legislation into law before the united states defaults on its obligations at midnight. >>> the moment of the night, though, the surprise appearance of arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords. [ applause ] giffords received a huge ovation from her colleagues as she cast her vote in favor of the deal. it was her first time back on capitol hill since she was critically wounded in january's tragic shooting in tucson. that's less than seven months ago and there she is standing on the floor of the house of represen

my name is jon stewart. (cheers and applause) >> jon: no, no! i applaud you. (laughter) our guest the multitalented anne hathaway, very pleased about that. but first, there is an ongoing argument in this very country, about how best to close the enormous deficit that we have incurred. republicans have proposed doing it entirely through spending cuts. whereas the democrats have bravely fought back insisting we do it almost entirely through spending cuts. well, this week bizarrely uneccentric billionaire warren buff at the time entered the frey. >> the billionaire says while most americans struggle to make ends meet, we megarich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. my friends and i have been coddled long enough. >> i pay lower tax rate on much of my income than my cleaning lady does. >> jon: well, to be fair, warren buffett's cleaning lady is also a billionaire. (laughter) >> jon: warren buffett's op ed was a thoughtful treatise on the advantages the superwealthy currently enjoy at the hands at the tax code. or to put that another way. >> up next tonigh

central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song laying] [cheers and applause] captioning sponsored by comedy central >> jon: welcome to "the daily show". my name is jon stewart. great show tonight. jason bateman is here. i'm not sure what movie he is promoting because as far as i'm concerned he is in all of them. [laughter] and in all of our hearts. big day today. the senate passed and president obama signed a measure to raise the debt ceiling and cut trillions in federal spending. the republic lives to fight another day. the economic woes are not over. it's bad owl there. our bad is it if you were involved in a comedic response? [laughter] i'll show you. >> vice president joe biden has another job, landlord. [laughter] >> jon: that's not so odd. i would have guessed greeter at some type of riverboat casino or bartender at a haunted hotel. but these are difficult times. everybody is trying to make extra coin. not like it's coming out of our pockets. >> records show biden charges rent to the secret service ag

news -- from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] captioning sponsored by comedy central >> jon: welcome to "the daily show". my name is jon stewart. from the new planet of apes film, freida pinto would be joining us. i didn't know we had a new planet of the apes film. [laughter] before we get to tonight's show. i'm going to apologize. i'm a little blurry tonight. a little out of it. as usual, last thursday night after the show i went to ben begans for my -- bennigans for my end of week tequila sunrise smoothie. i'm not saying anybody slipped me a mickey but i woke up in kandahar. i want to explain quickly it's further away than what i thought. we'll have more on that later in the program. first, i did arrive home today to wondrous news. >> a deal has been reached in the debt ceiling debate. >> jon: oh, my god it's a rahm ramadan miracle. >> a debt limit increase of $2.1 trillion. a bipartisan committee created to agree on another trillion and a half in future spending. >> jon:

all right ok now this raises some broader issues about journalism and you know with jon stewart repeatedly said i'm not a journalist and this comedian you know i'm a commentator on commentating serious things i want to circle it from someone in the same vein or this is my favorite humor columnist dave barry and he said. thanks to my solid academic training today i can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how i got a good job in journalism now i'm going to say we're grateful that jon stewart now is seems to be on the round and we're going to least caught the media for ignoring him but he might be guilty of the same thing if you recall a clip we played just a couple weeks ago from john stewart. you know i think i may have isolated the republicans problem it's not that republicans have too few candidates is that the candidates they do have are doppelganger they have handsome middle aged mormon twins. they have the american history challenged. they have conservative firebrands from georgia and of course a pair of outreach. only one o

from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show with jon stewart." captioning sponsored by comedy central [theme song playing] [applause] >> jon: welcome to "the daily show," everybody. my name is jon stewart. we have a good show. we have a good show. our guest tonight, austan goolsbee. [laughter] that's my crypt keeper impression. "goolsbee." all right. turns out you were right the first time. all right. we often hear about how divided our country is and just how hostile the opposing parties in our political debate have become and the fear these divisions are so entrenched as to be permanent. well, i'm going to show you something right now. >> six-year-old lucy magnum is the brave little girl who nearly lost her right leg last week after a five-foot shark attacked her. >> now this little girl, little lucy magnum, says she forgives this wild beast. look at this. >> did you forgive that nice shark? >> [inaudible]. >> she said, "he really didn't mean to do it." [audience reacts] >> jon: and even if that little girl is, quite frankly, wrong about the sh

from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. ( cheers and applause ) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> jon: welcome to the daily show. my name is jon stewart. our guest mark adams will be here. a new book on machu picchu. awfully a lot of fun to say. machu picchu. we begin tonight with a more modern civilization and its mysterious decline. >> standard and poors one of the agency's, has dropped the u.s. from a triple-a rating down to a double-a-plus rating. >> jon: all right. i mean from triple-a to double-a -plus doesn't sound that bad. if you were going to rent the triple-x movie you got home and found out that the movie was just double-x-plus, are you going to worry that there was not quite enough (beep) and sucking to fill up the approximately four minutes you're going to watch it? i mean, six minutes. ladies? and by the way, the ratings agency is standard and poors. who is going to listen to a company whose name translates to average and below average. this is a big nothing burger. >> global markets in turmoil. >> high

from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> jon: welcome to "the daily show," my name is jon stewart. thank you for joining us! we've got a good show that we have prepared it for you with... love. our guest tonight, jay bahadur, author of "the pirates of somalia." by the way, "pirates of somalia," worst disney land ride ever. (laughter) it's a small world, pirates of... (laughter). but before we get to that, recent weeks have seen such discord and strife here in our united states. our stagnating economy and... what's a worse word than "stagnating" for a broken political system? (bleep). (laughter) it's cost us our a.a.a. credit rating. but before we get too down, remember that in some still credit-worthy countries the third "a" now apparently stands for "arson." london is on fire! dear god! what the hell is going on over in britain? please tell me the clash reunited and they're shooting a new album cover? (cheers and applause) please? wait, i'm... hold on. i'm bein

from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show with jon stewart." captioning sponsored by comedy central [theme song playing] [cheering and applause] >> jon: hey, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "the daily show." my name is jon stewart. [cheering and applause] welcome to the show. our guest tonight, we have a professor, professor john coffee from columbia law school will be here. he's going to help us understand the credit rating system. but first, always, a word of advice to the ladies out there. lady, if you're in a bar tonight... [laughter] and a gentleman comes up to you and leans in very smoothly and he says, "my brother has an ipad," don't go out with him. [cheering and applause] don't go out with him. yeah. don't go out with him because that will be a long night of staring at "star wars" figures that have never been taken out of the box to be played with. you don't want any part of it. hey, remember... the kids love it. nothing the television audience loves more than an inside joke that they have no idea what the [bleeped] happened. what are

from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> jon: hey, welcome to "the daily show." my name is jon stewart, great show for you tonight! we got a great guest tonight, our guest tonight, matt long, new york city firefighter who has competed in triathlons. oh, i guess that doesn't sound that impressive until you realize he's done it after being hit by a bus. (laughter) (audience reacts) he has a book about it. very exciting. it's been a long summer so tonight a little change of pace. we're going to cover politics. (laughter) in the wake of her saturday all or not important less than 200 vote victory over congressman ron paul in the ames, iowa, straw poll, michele bachmann's star shone brightly with the appearances on the five sunday talk show. this week, "face the nation," "meet the press," "the fox news sunday" "state of the union" she went on espn sunday night baseball, "real housewives of new jersey" and into the night by attempting to bust phineas and ferb. she was

this is the daily show with jon stewart. ( cheers and applause ) captioning sponsored by comedy central >> jon: hey, everybody. welcome to the daily show. my name shall jon stewart. oh, listen to the crowd. they are so fired up for independence day. i can't even tell you. ( cheers and applause ) now, pakistan independence day too or just india? that was yesterday? it's on a different day? yesterday. i think i just started a fight. our guest tonight the smooth soothe sar of the money honey bear ali velshi will be joining us but our big story tonight is is presidential politics. new candidates in, old candidates out. it all happened here. ames, iowa. founded in 1632 by willie ames. yes, once again ames iowa in the spotlight as a result of the 2011 iowa straw poll are in. >> with 16,892 iowans voting, the winner of the 2011 iowa straw poll is congresswoman michele bachmann. >> jon: there you go. >> audience: boo. >> jon: i see we have a lot of pawlenty supporters in the audience this evening. backman wins. the ayes or shall i say the crazy eyes have it. michele bachmann's 4,823 votes narro

from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show with jon stewart." captioning sponsored by comedy central [theme song playing] [cheering and applause] >> jon: welcome to the dail show. i'm jon stewart. our guest tonight... oh, you're too kind. our guest, former republican party chairman... our guest tonight, former republican party chairman michael steele here once again in non-puppet form. we're very excited about that. much more dynamic in non-puppet form. our coverage of the elephant stampede to the white house continues. as you may recall, sunday belonged to the fiery congresswoman from minnesota michele bachmann, whose performance at the ames straw pole vaulted her to the front of the race. >> first of all, congratulations on your victory. >> jon: but that was sunday. [laughter] after careful reflection, it was decided monday and tuesday belonged to texas governor rick perry, whose stunning entrance to the presidential race vaulted him to the front of the race. >> charismatic. he brings a new excitement and a lot of buzz to the g.o.p. landscape.

you interview jon stewart in the book. he's a funny, funny man. i watched him on tv. i think, jon this is the wrong place for you. he's better with bill riley than bill moyers. he took it heavy. i just want to get it out there. >> i'm having a major confession. you are now forgiven. >> all right. >> i mean be honest now, be honest with me, if you were -- if you were on a book tour and promoting a book and you were sitting down for an interview with somebody you'd rather have a little hostility. you would. you'd rather have some opposition here than to have somebody, somebody pouring karro syrup on your shoes. >> your hostility is bringing out thoughts i never had indulged before. [laughter] >> i think there's something to that. i do. >> wouldn't you? but you know, yes, of course. for an interview, absolutely. i was not very good at interviews when i was at cbs, when i was a senior correspondent to the "cbs evening news" on political analyst for the cbs news company. i wasn't good in the short quick time period that is going by and trying to get somebody to say somethin

11th, 2011, from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central welcome to the daily show, my name is jon stewart. we have a show for you tonight. our guest tonight a man name michael wallis, author of a new book called david crockett, that's right, david. (laughter) >> what mr. crockett preferred and actually he didn't wear a racoon tailed hat, he wore a ca ron pelt chappeau. they gave me the sen ten-- sentenced uttered every four years. our top story tonight is in a mark es, eye watch. the iowa straw poll which is the subject of indecision 2012, corn poll edition. the iowa straw poll is, of course, the early august to the very predictive precursor to january's wildly nonpredictive iowa caucus. (laughter) the idea is presidential candidates set up tents. in those tents the candidate offers to pay an individual $30 straw poll entrance fee. in return, the individual promises to cast their vote for said candidate all while both parties pretend this corrupt transaction in no way affects ei