Now that you've all swallowed your medicine (the issues), you get your sundae, a roundup of "Daily Show" coverage.
Just off the phone with David Postman, who reports that yesterday he saw Ed Helms, a fake news corespondent for Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," interviewing Michael Murphy, the actor who played Jack Tanner, a fake politician (redundancy?) from a Robert Altman fake reality TV series called "Tanner '88."
Once again, a faker interviewing a faker about playing a faker on a fake real TV show.
The real reporter (we swear), David Postman, says he saw the fake reporter ask the fake candidate, "Do you like Jack?"
Murphy, the real actor, said yes, he does, about the fake candidate.
"The Daily Show" kicked off its coverage last night with reports from all over the convention floor and Boston. Postman reports that the fake reporters seem to be working harder than the real reporters in Boston, at least in the mornings.
Correspondent Rob Corrdry was shot through a cannon and said he'd be covering the "empty pageantry of this meaningless affair." He later took us on a tour of Boston, which amounted to his getting drunk and desperately -- and pathetically -- looking for his old prom date.
Jon Stewart noted that Monday night, billed as "John Kerry and John Edwards' plan for the future" was lacking only John Kerry, John Edwards and a plan for the future.
Steven Colbert took us through the Democratic nominating process, reminding us how weak and weird the field was (Sen. Joe Lieberman in New Hampshire: "I'm proud to tell you we are in a three-way split decision for third-place.")
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