Iconoclastic, subversive, hilarious, and vulgar, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show is a major source of news for the twentysomething set as well as older television watchers numbed by conventional reporting. Packed with jokes, this mock textbook, with the familiar stamp on the inside cover reading "This book is the property of..." contains chapters packed with ludicrous charts and maps, sidebars, illustrations, and "were you aware?" and discussion questions. Prominent among the features are a foldout chart of the "shadow government" and an infamous "dress the Supreme Court" page depicting the justices in the nude. And there's plenty more.
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- Paperback
- Sep.01.2004
- 9780446691864
- Grand Central Publishing
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Iconoclastic, subversive, hilarious, and vulgar, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show is a major source of news for the twentysomething set as well as older television watchers numbed by conventional reporting. Packed with jokes, this mock textbook, with the familiar stamp on the inside cover reading "This book is the property of..." contains chapters packed with ludicrous charts and maps, sidebars, illustrations, and "were you aware?" and discussion questions. Prominent among the features are a foldout chart of the "shadow government" and an infamous "dress the Supreme Court" page depicting the justices in the nude. And there's plenty more.
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Jon Stewart is considered one of America's top social and comedic voices. From his anchor chair on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, "Stewart has breathed new life into a show that hadn't even seemed to need it," said The New York Times...
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Stewart ... has turned into the Bush years' sharpest jester, a satirist who doubles for his fans as a goofy, imperturbable reality check. Nobody better demonstrates how those post-9/11 reports on the death...
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