The Curiosity

On the return of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on September 7th, both hosts teased the audience and viewers with an announcement of a huge announcement – Stewart speaking more generally about something ‘unknown’ but of epic proportions and Colbert actually referencing the online movement; both toying with our hearts and minds.

This tease was in relation to the recent movement “Restoring Truthiness” that exploding on the internet just this last week. In summary, it is to hold a rally to “Restore Truthiness to America!” on October 10th, 2010. It is essentially a satirical response to the Glenn Beck” “Restoring Honor” rally that occurred on August 28th. As mrsamercer put it in the post that launched it all “There’s no way to have a logical public discussion with the teabaggers. The best we can do is to mimic them. ”

Before the launch of Restoring Truthiness, the idea of Jon Stewart holding a rally was floated around; it was soon realized that this idea just has Colbert written all over it. However, as it appears from last night’s shows, what ever they choose, they are choosing together (and let’s be honest, Colbert and Stewart doing this together was a given.)

To me, the way both Stewart and Colbert handled this can be taken a couple of ways. Either they have no intentions of following through and are milking it for all the comedy that its worth. Or the hosts have taken the internets’ idea for serious consideration and have begun the planning process. I can’t.. no.. I won’t believe the former, it has to be the latter. Has to be. The viewers trust them too much and a fake out will cut too deeply.

So if they are taking “Restoring Truthiness” seriously, why not announce it? Why the charade? Read the rest of this entry »

Canada was giving a gift today: we are able to watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report one hour earlier than the USA. Canadians can thank CTV for purchasing Conan to air at 11 pm on Comedy network, and by the same logic that Conan, Colbert and Stewart used for their famous “Who made Huckabee” feud, Canadians should also thank NBC and Jay Leno.

Because of this, Canadians were given a ‘sneak preview’ to the response to the Restoring Truth rally movement on the internet. What was that news? Not much more than a huge tease. Jon Stewart announced that he will have a big annoucement, and implied that the Moment of Zen was a clue (a video collage of rallys and large gourps of people being chased by bulls._ Colbert announced that he will not be out-announced by Jon Stewart, will fight back with a BIGGER announcement, an announcement that he will.. have an announcement… all with the help of a grey goose and some Grey Goose.

Now nothing has been said or confirmed; however, I would think that both Stewart and Colbert would not be so cruel to tease in such a way unless they were seriously considering doing something big. A rally on 10/10/10 perhaps?

I can only assume that they are biding time for logistics and to thoroughly think this through to see what they can or cannot do. I suspect that they will drag this out for at least a week until all their ducks are in order. It will be tortuous, but I will enjoy every second of it.

101010 is binary for 42, which is the meaning of life. It is meant to be.

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