The Daily Show Toss Recap – week of 9/21/2009
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Before we go, let’s check in with our good friend Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report…
Hello and welcome to the end of another week, Zoners! I’m starting to feel spoiled, two Tosses in two weeks! A naughty and fun one this week — let’s take a peek:
Daily/Colbert – Giganto-Phallicism Condition: Stephen tells the story of a Massachusetts island resident’s brave battle with giganto-phallicism.
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I loved this Toss! A clever play on the famous “Man from Nantucket” limericks (warning – portions NSFW) — except, of course, the subject of Stephen’s story is actually from Martha’s Vineyard. I don’t know any limericks about a man from Martha’s Vineyard. And then of course, Stephen puts a button on it with “Stay pretty!” Great fun this week. What did everyone else think?
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September 25th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Thinking of the “dirty” version of the limerick, I wonder: Was this toss written before or after the cake arrived?! ;)
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September 25th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Haha! Omigosh! I didn’t even think of that! :P
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September 25th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
I thought the Toss was ok, but not great, until I read about the cake that TCR sent to TDS. Now I just crack up every time I envision Jon’s 90 writers coming up with this toss as they were licking the frosting on the cake.
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September 25th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
I loved this Toss, if only for Stephen’s shout of “stay pretty!” at the end. =D
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September 26th, 2009 at 1:19 am
You guys are great, I can’t believe I missed the connection to the cake!
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September 26th, 2009 at 10:03 am
I think I saw the toss before I caught up w/NFZ, but the connection to the cake makes it even more hilarious. I love how, as the toss began, Jon was doing the finger-on-the-upper-lip-to-keep-from-busting-out-laughing move that I’ve seen Stephen do when he’s about to break character.
Thanks for the NSFW link to one of the actual limericks (Eew!) – I’ve always been such a goody-two-shoes that I’ve never seen any but the clean ones. ;)
recaptcha: matured Brit (hey, did John Oliver come up with this one?!)
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September 26th, 2009 at 10:47 am
I was in a bookstore with a couple of my friends once when we stumbled upon a book of dirty limericks. It was a BIG book, and we were cracking up at the very notion even before we started flipping through it. How much harder am I laughing now to recall that there was an entire chapter on the “Man from Nantucket”?
I’m not at all sure what to make of the fact that the only one I remember from that chapter is — no lie — the one that’s on the Wikipedia page. [laughing and grimacing at the same time]
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