The 42-year-old actor, comedian, author, and pillar in "The Best News Team Ever" appeared as a Daily Show guest eight years ago while promoting his 2005 "satirical almanac," The Areas of My Expertise. Any comedic performance can take a hard wrong turn once the audience is licensed to speak, but hopefully the concluding Q&A will uphold our special place in the heart of the world's greatest satirical news show.Īs a program contributor since 2006, John Hodgman periodically recurs as the show's "Senior" or "Resident" "Deranged Millionaire": the unscrupulous "HodgeCo" tycoon who owns a sweatshop that, in addition to manufacturing shirtwaists and circumventing damnable child-labor laws, "has kids working on all kinds of things: asbestos, pre-lit fireworks, (and especially) industrial hand-manglers." They know it, and of course so do we."īut what does an "off-Broadway" spin-off of The Daily Show look like? On this occasion, the product will comprise a mesh of program montages – with a video introduction from its figurehead and faux-Cronkite, Jon Stewart – followed by individual stand-up sets from Hodgman, Madrigal, and Albanese with accompanying multimedia. But Lietza Brass, the Paramount's executive director of programming, gives a clean answer: "This show fits Austin's and the Paramount audience's demo sweet spot. So, on the A-list of America's young, hip, liberal outposts, why do we get priority? Our issuance of more cloying Jon Stewart fan mail per capita than other star-spangled bastions of progressiveness? That's a data crunch only a postmaster general would be privy to. "Daily Show & Friends" is a special, one-off performance for Austin eyes only. Like individual appearances by The Daily Show With Jon Stewart correspondents Samantha Bee and John Oliver before them, program cogs John Hodgman, Al Madrigal, and longtime executive producer and writer Rory Albanese will hit town: banding together at the Paramount Theatre on Nov. By the time 2013 ends, we'll have entertained a satellite van's worth of cable news charlatans – and they us. It's been a momentous year for fake-news ambassadorship in Austin.
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