Pre-toss banter: Jon Stewart “not at all worried” about Stephen Colbert in Iraq

Normally, I’d be content to wait for nerdygirl‘s Daily Show Toss Recap to replay the joyous little exchange between Jon and Stephen, but I saw this and knew I needed to share: lucky fan Doglet was in the audience last night and was willing to dish on the details. So in addition to seeing the toss from The Daily Show to The Colbert Report (a treat in itself), we get this nice little write-up about Jon and Stephen’s pre-toss banter over at Television Without Pity. From Doglet‘s comment:

Seeing the toss was really exciting; I could see “check in with our good friend..” on the autocue when I came in but thought it had probably been done before we came in. Jon came on screen with his feet up on the desk, which was really cute. He welcomed Stephen back and told him he had been “not at all worried about him”, to which Stephen replied “you’re very much like my mother in that way”. Apparently Jon sent Stephen a “Vietnam-era army helmet” as a present before he left. They riffed on that for a little while, Jon saying it was to match his “necklace of human ears” and Stephen saying he’d written “killer” on the side. They chatted about how hot it was (Stephen: “Every time I got out of a vehicle I’d think, I must step away from the tailpipe. Then I realised the whole country is IN a tailpipe”) and how bizarre it was that civilisation was born there, where there’s no vegetation except between the Tigris and Euphrates (Stephen: “It’s too hot to move. Let’s stay here and develop agriculture”). After the toss ended Stephen remarked “we totally freeballed that one” and then disappeared backstage for a while, before coming back out for the q and a.

Okay that is just beyond adorable. Let’s watch that charming little twosome again:

Seconding that standing O, over and over again. Welcome home, everyone!