. >> so how much did you love the bette midler concert three weeks ago!y the way you make fun as if i would never go to that, but i absolutely wanted to go to that, but i was not in town at that time. >> really? cancel me, my friends. okay. so -- >> jimmy: you went to it. oh, did your boyfriend go with you as well? >> yes, my genuine heterosexual boy friend went. i will be honest, my boyfriend's a great guy. i found it unacceptable. he could not list one single betz m bette midler song before that concert. and i said if you do not sob during "wind beneath my wings ", no [ bleep ] for you. can you name three bette midler songs? >> jimmy: there's the rose. wind beneath my wings. i know she sang backup on beast of burden. >> it's okay. it's okay. #equality. so i take you to the bette midler show. all right, i drag him to the show. and it's a fantastic show. and i sat among the people. i wasn't like you in the celebrity sky box. >> jimmy: they didn't give you good seats? >> no, i wanted to be up front because she's a real deal singer, she doesn't lip synch. >

he could not list one single bette midler song before that concert.ou do not sob during "wind beneath my wings ", no [ bleep ] for you. can you name three bette midler songs? >> jimmy: there's the rose. wind beneath my wings. i know she sang backup on beast of burden. >> it's okay. it's okay. #equality. so i take you to the bette midler show. all right, i drag him to the show. and it's a fantastic show. and i sat among the people. i wasn't like you in the celebrity sky box. >> jimmy: they didn't give you good seats? >> no, i wanted to be up front because she's a real deal singer, she doesn't lip synch. >> jimmy: what people were you among? >> i don't know. people that aren't famous. and soy was sitting there, and i took a few selfies with the fans, what have you. but then i heard a sound that could only be described as a gay thunder, a gay sound. it was when she walked down the aisle past me to take her seat, three rows ahead of me. her name is barbara streisand. and jimmy, you have never seen anything like it. it was like a gay cirque du soleil. just

your voice is like bette midler, barbara streisand and luciano pavarotti had a threesome, and then gaveect set of vocal cords -- yours. >> jon: oh, stop it... (cheering) >> so tonight, we celebrate what you've likely wanted all along, to teach the world to sing. (cheers and applause) ♪ welcome to "the daily show" ♪ ♪ i'm jon stewart ♪ ♪ don't go chasing water on mars ♪ ♪ if you like pina coladas and like to party ♪ ♪ come with me on the vacation ♪ ♪ the western wings ♪ ♪ karl rove just joined the executive ranch ♪ ♪ can't a girl get a wet one when it's time to change ♪ ♪ coo buyia my love ♪ ♪ the stars! ♪ ♪ i like big butts ♪ ♪ the pope is on the corner ♪ ♪ in new york ♪ ♪ the hills are alive ♪ ♪ i just voted yes ♪ ♪ well, hello...♪ papa, can you hear me ♪ ♪ rowe v. ♪ ♪ everything's coming up roses ♪ ♪ looks like we made it ♪ ♪ clang clang, clang with the health care ♪ ♪ ultrasound...♪ sometimes we screw up ♪ ♪ hold on, it was a very good -- ♪ ♪ ow! ♪ (singing) ♪ america ♪ ♪ (bleep) ♪ ♪ (bleep) ♪ ♪ (screaming) ♪ (cheers and applause) >> jon: wow. wow. jon, i can>> jon i can honestly say

we had bet -- bette midler. i don't think i was the biggest guy by any stretch of the imagination working at the comedy clubs. i deaf that thely -- i definitely think richard pryor was -- along with robin williams. >> as a kid in the suburbs i didn't know about richard pryor. we just knew what was on tv and it was dyno-mite. everyone had a catch phrase. fonzie had aye and you had dino-mite and freddy p ri nz had looking good. was it part of your stand up before you were on "good times." no. people get so -- it is like a depressing story, but i did one one day a tiny dino-mite and john rich who was our lovely and wonderful director said you have something there. that works. i said what do we got? i hope it is not a disease or anything. he says no that dino-mite thing will be great. he showed me how he wanted me to do it, et cetera, et cetera. i did it, and then norman lear came in and said i hate it. it is horrible. i said to john, yeah, john, how can anybody just stand in the middle of the room and say dynamite?

bette midler, can i interview her there is something always new and fresh a charming.rviewed in years. cher was always original. there are certain people whom you can come back and interview again and again. and there are certain people you do it once and you have got it. there is no new point. i can interview you every day and find stuff to talk to you about. >> thank you i appreciate that. >> that's one of the reasons you do a show every day. >> i think that journalism has changed in america particularly on television. that's it's become now a forum to advance agendas. do you understand what i'm saying? >> i do. >> rather than delivering news and facts to people, that the news agencies have turned now to push certain people. and i think barack obama is a good example of how the media got behind him and promoted him. and to this day many of them still do. do you disagree? >> i don't think this is what's happened to news. i think what's happened to news is that it's gotten lighter and lighter. we don't have news magazines anymore. they almost don't exist. the ones that