The speculation is that this will be a "best of" collection, featuring the funniest stuff from Jon Stewart's first year with the show. The best comparison is to point to NBC's The Tonight Show: when that show's title comes up, Carson and Leno are the host names that spring to mind. However, Jack Parr and Steve Allen hosted incarnations of the show first, just as Kilborn originally hosted The Daily Show. But Comedy Central's Emmy- and Peabody-winning series has reached its greatest level of popularity since Jon Stewart took over the desk in 1999, and is still running the show. it's probable that the studio wants to promote the DVDs from that angle, and so they're going with Stewart's first year on the initial DVDs.Now that's something I would buy.
Now we have new information from industry sources about this release. No, not about the content. About the release date! The "May 14th" date that The Bits passed along last year is now changed, we're told. We have it on good authority that the new date for this release is July 5th, and that distributor Paramount will announce the details of this release within the next 60-90 days. Stay tuned, and we'll update you just as soon as we can!
Monday is the sixtieth anniversary of the battle on the island of Iwo Jima. It was a day in which the United States Marines began raised the the flag on the island in what is now recreated in a monument in Virginia. The battle left 6,821 Americans dead. Roughly a quarter of the medals of honor in World War 2 were due to the Battle of Iwo Jima.
John Edwards will be on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos from some place in North Carolina to talk about his new job at UNC's new Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity.
Not every day that Tom Dorsey's column pops up in my inbox.
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