Comments on: The Daily Show Toss Recap – Week of 11/2/2009

By: nerdygirl

nerdygirl — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:19:17 +0000

Having now seen the Formidable Opponent segment from Wednesday’s show I can confirm that Gore is capable of being funny on occasion, and his reputation as a comedy killer is exaggerated. :-)

By: cordgrass

cordgrass — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:46:57 +0000

Actually Gore is pretty damn funny when he wants to be. You can’t be funny when you’re running for president–losing was the best thing that could have happened to him.

By: mrtigger001

mrtigger001 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:27:27 +0000

The Toss got my write-in vote, and the “Sucka!” capped it off. I think in this particular instance, Al Gore was not a comedy killer, and it worked quite well.

As for Jon’s extended Beck impression, two things came to mind. (1) This is disturbingly accurate (2) I was surprised to see this done by Jon as this is usually Stephen’s thing (or a TDS correspondent). Stephen did a bit of it to a certain extent a few months ago, but Jon really stole the thunder on this one. I was absolutely impressed. Who said Jon couldn’t act?

By: PriyaNoblet

PriyaNoblet — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:03:39 +0000

Gotta agree! I haven’t laughed that hard at Jon’s ridiculous behavior in a while! As soon as he pulled out the books and the glasses, I knew we were in for a treat!

By: MaryLovesColbert

MaryLovesColbert — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:36:55 +0000

I love this Toss! :D Mister Gore was such a good sport to participate in the Toss as well as the Formidable Opponent segment on TCR! Very nice. =D

By: GabbyD

GabbyD — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:18:02 +0000

totally agree w u nerdygirl about jon– jon’s impression surprised me, and made me laugh!

By: lockhart43

lockhart43 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:04:14 +0000

That “Al-gorithm” joke Stephen made was actually super funny and very well-done. Kudos to Stephen and the writers for coming up with it!

Thanks for the shout-out to Jon’s parody of Glenn Beck. I still cannot get over how amazing the whole thing was! :D

By: colbaby

colbaby — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:50:20 +0000

“Sucka!”

I already mentioned it over in another post, but yeah the Beck parody was excellent. I was half asleep when I watched it last night, but thought it was impressive. Then I watched it again this afternoon and realized it was disturbingly accurate. Kudos indeed, Jon.