One of the reason that we love the Daily Show is that we think Jon Stewart is brilliant. Yes, he is funny but what is most impressive about him is that he is quick witted and smart. He doesn't always know what his guests are going to talk about and he seems to be able to respond spontaneously with an astute but hysterical reply. His guests run the gamut from movie star, to athlete, to author. But his forte is the polictical guest. He has heavyweights on his show - Jimmy Carter, Tony Blair, Madeliene Albright, Colin Powel, Barack Obama. When we got our tickets we didn't know who the guest might be, but I was excited. It was an election year, we were bound to get someone good, right?. So the week of our show, I looked up the guests signed up for the week. Monday - Kofi Annan, the ex-Secretary General of The United Nations, Tuesday - Salman Rushdie, famed author under death threat by Iranian extremists. Wednesday - our show- Pink. Yes, Pink. The singer. What???? Pink. I can't even remember a time where Jon Stewart has had a musical guest. Pink.
I have to admit I was disappointed but we had the tickets and I have never been to a television show, so what the heck! It is a very complicated procedure once you get the email indicating you have "reservations" for tickets. The email clearly indicates you don't actually have tickets but the email gives you the opportunity to stand in line for tickets. The Daily Show and other shows like it, overbook the tickets for every night in order to guarantee a full studio audience. So Snake and I went down a bit earlier than the appointed time to stand in line. I felt pretty good about our place in line. Goldengirl and Chizz were going to meet us later. We had time to kill. I started talking with the woman next to us in line much to Snake's disgust. He would prefer total silence in line, leaning up against the building, checking in on the last football spreads. Me - I prefer a little more human contact. So I talk to people. As it turns out, this woman was the opposite of us. She was there for Pink!!!! She was the worldest biggest Pink fan - and I can prove it. She actually came to see Pink perform on the Today Show that week. Apparently as all PInk fans know, she released a new album last week. So when this woman heard that Pink was going to be on that show she started planning her trip. She also saw Pink on the View and on the David Letterman show. Although to be truthful, she didn't see Pink on Letterman. Much to her disgust, Pink was bounced from the Letterman show for Obama. Superfan was very upset. She said Obama make a huuuggge mistake because everyone knows what a big Obama supporter Pink is. So that was a disappointment. We chatted in line. She showed me her Pink tatoo. At one of the 14 (!) Pink concerts this woman had gone to, Pink autographed her body, her left hip. So the woman did what anyone would do, she hightailed it to a tattoo artist to memorialize the signature on her hip. Of course. Trying to think of any Pink knowledge I had, I said something about Pink just having a baby in the last year or so, right? Superfan said "no, 16 months ago, her birthday is June 2" Okay Superfan just went to Superfanatic. A tad over board.
So once we got our tickets we had some time to kill and we went to the park across the street from the show. The park is part homeless, part dog park, part soccer field, part playground - basically typical NYC park. As we are sitting there, we see Pink come in the park with her entourage of about 15 people. She is carrying the baby. I am sure Superfan would have burst a kidney or something. One thing I will say, Pink seemed very into her child. She put her down to take a few steps and she couldn't have been more thrilled when the little girl walked a few steps. It just looked like she really liked being a mom, pretty genuine.
So after we got into the studio, which has some fairly tight security, we were ushered to our seats. It is a lot of hurry up and wait. There is a warm up comedian who was okay, he did single out Chizz and Snake, making a comment about Snake seeing his future in Chizz's hairline. Snake was wearing his GW t-shirt hoping to score some tickets to the Jon Stewart/Bill O'Reilly debate at GW in October. No such luck! The show was interesting and we enjoyed two different comedic segments, one on the Romney 47% video and one on the Democratic/Republican conventions. Then Pink came on and sang her two songs. She has a very good voice and obviously very talented. I peeked over at the Superfan. She was gone, had a look on her face that I get when I see a 70% off sign at Nordstrom. Pure rapture. I get it.
I enjoyed going to the Daily Show. It was a good experience, I am just disappointed that I didn't get to see Jon Stewart at his best with some political foe. Although Snake pointed out it is probably best for Salman Rushdie that we didn't have tickets that night, with Chizz's penchant for being at all things terrorist related. You are welcome, Mr. Rushdie. If I had tickets to the View and Pink was the guest, I would have been a-ok with that. But I didn't. Oh yeah, the guest the night AFTER we had the tickets? Bill Clinton. Sigh.
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