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beeishappy:

LSSC | 2017.05.09 | Flashback To Stephen’s Last Day At The Daily Show

there are so many in-jokes in this and most of them are obvious but the “old ladies slipping on ice” one almost got past me and omg. that was a WHOLE THING with Geraldo Rivera, which culminated in this glorious segment that of course Jon and Stephen are still bringing up.

windandwater:

#it’s just…sooooo early in their career together

August 30, 1999. That’s when they did this.

For reference: Jon’s first day on the show was April 11, 1999. That’s 5 months of working together. Stephen has said in the past that even though he was on the show, he wasn’t heavily involved with it, just doing pieces here and there, and in 1999 he was also working on Strangers With Candy.

The pizza thing happened in November 2001, after a year and a half. They were treating each other like this in public in April 2001, after knowing each other about a year.

But this? This is five months in. They were doing bits like this and making “it’s funny because we’re implying we just had sex” jokes after five months of knowing each other, five months of working together on and off.

I’m telling you. That shit was love at first joke and there’s no way any of us will ever ship it as hard as they do.

I HAVE to reblog this again because of the amazing info added here.

Though I 100% agree with the conclusions, I have to point out that Jon actually started on the Daily Show January 11, 1999 (not April), and the pizza thing I believe was part of the Indecision 2004 DVD released in June 2005 (and you can even tell by their looks and by the set that it must have been taped in 2004/2005, most likely 2005).

That being said, the Summer Spectacular is still only 8/9 months in, and then there are those kissing videos. I mean…

“I’m telling you. That shit was love at first joke and there’s no way any of us will ever ship it as hard as they do.”

YES.

I was trying real hard not to ruin the OP’s post but this is going around again and my eye twitches every time so.

  • I did say his “first day on the show” was in April when in fact that was just his first show. That was unclear so you can mentally redline “first day on the show” to just “first show” but the point is his first actual show was in April. My link goes to the video of the opener of that first show.
  • We don’t know exactly how much they worked together prior to Jon’s first show, or even once he started. Stephen’s said himself that he wasn’t around a ton (I have scoured the earth for that interview and can’t find it even in my ridiculously extensive bookmarks, this is where I shake my fist at the internet for taking things down) so they clearly hit it off right away but in my commentary I deliberately hedged my bets and said 5 months because Stephen, by his own admission, wasn’t really around and Jon’s actual time being on camera didn’t begin until April. Either way it was hella fast but I did want to clarify my reasoning.
  • The pizza thing was absolutely not in 2004 and cannot be found on that DVD. It was Indecision 2001. The whole joke of the bit is based on how long it was taking to count the ballots and get an actual election result–something that happened in 2001, not 2004. Also the set is the 2001 set and Jon’s hair was grayer in 2004 and I scoured the entire earth for that clip back in the day and if I have to upload the entire thing that I obtained (………very legally I assure you) I will do it.
  • Anyway the point is it went fast.
  • Which we agree on
  • So I’m really only here to clarify that no it was 2001 dammit and I’ll just see myself out now.
  • Enjoy the bromance once again everyone.
colbwart:
“ USA Today | Colbert on that ‘Daily Show’ finale
“ “That might be my favorite thing I ever did on the Daily Show, making Jon squirm,” Colbert told USA TODAY Monday. “I had already written the Frodo thing, and their executive (producer)...

colbwart:

USA Today | Colbert on that ‘Daily Show’ finale

“That might be my favorite thing I ever did on the Daily Show, making Jon squirm,” Colbert told USA TODAY Monday. “I had already written the Frodo thing, and their executive (producer) Steve Bodow said, ‘Don’t you think it would be nice if someone said thanks? We thought you might want to do it, would you be willing?’ And I said, ‘I’d be honored to do it, but you know he’s gonna flop like a fish on a dock.’  I felt like a rodeo clown, just to watch him, like, crumble under someone thanking him. Because he really would never let us thank him, he was famous (for that).”

So he did, moving Stewart to tears: “I will remember that for the rest of my life, that look on his face: ‘Don’t do it, you’re killing me.‘”

I knew it. I fucking knew it. As soon as the everyone piled out onto the stage I knew they must have gotten together and said “someone has to thank him, and you should do it, for all of us.” I’ve always loved how terrible Jon is at taking a compliment. I too suffer from the inability to hear praise and it’s kind of wonderful to see someone so genuinely uncomfortable with it, to the point where people have to plan in advance to corner him just to say nice things to him. And of course it had to be Stephen, not just because it’s Stephen, but let’s be real, he probably would’ve deflected literally anyone else. Even on his last goddamn show.

An artist I really admire once said that he thinks of his career as a long conversation with the audience, a dialogue. And I really like that metaphor, for many different reasons. But the main one is that it takes away the idea of finality.

Nothing ends, it’s just a continuation; it’s a pause in the conversation.

–Jon Stewart

Pictured above: Jon Stewart having the audacity to thank me (as an audience member) for the very thing he always did for me.

Stephen Colbert said something that I love and quote constantly, though the full interview keeps disappearing from the internet and is therefore hard to link. He said: “You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time–of anything. If you are laughing, I defy you to be afraid.” Another time, when asked about this quote, he added that this is a physical thing, a genuine coping technique that he uses in times of trial and fear.

I came to the Daily Show at a time in my life when I was very, very afraid. I was finishing up college and just starting to rely on the show to make me laugh when the world was a shitshow, and then I graduated, and then I was stuck at home for two years.

I don’t know how else to describe the feeling of being surrounded by darkness all the time, or how to explain to you the vast gulf of uncertainty that gnawed at me constantly. If life is a journey or a road (and I love to say that it is), I was stalled, unable to move, unable to enjoy anything that was around me in the place where I was trapped. Looking back, I may be able to see how that road led here, how the darkness was only for a moment, but at the time, it was enormous, and I was fighting not to let it swallow me whole.

When I say that the Daily Show was my light in dark places (Stephen’s not the only one who can drop LotR references), all I mean is that it made me laugh. Jon was a voice of reason when I thought I’d lost it. He made me feel better about the insanity even as he pointed it out. And damn him, he even did that in this show, setting my mind at ease even while I cried. 

He gave me the energy to keep myself going, on those days when I just didn’t have it.

He made me laugh when I thought I couldn’t.

I won’t say this show saved me, because I did that part myself. And I don’t doubt for a moment that whatever Jon does next will be amazing, even if I don’t get to see him again before he goes. I don’t doubt that Trevor Noah will do a great job. But right now, all I can think is that this show that gave me the strength to dig myself out of the hole, the light to find my way out of the dark, and it’s leaving me. I’m strong enough now to get by, but at one point, I wasn’t, and I’m crying now in part for the person I was then.

I can’t be too sad, though, because he made me laugh. Even during his last show, even when saying goodbye. And so I can’t be afraid.

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