Is The Daily Show's Day Done?

[prunesquallor]

Can The Daily Show survive the Barack Obama Presidency?

I've been thinking about this for several years now, wondering where the show could go post-Bush. There was a telling incident in 2007: Stewart tried to make a joke about Hillary Clinton (this was when she was still the presumptive nominee and liberals hadn't gone hardcore for Obama yet). The audience resisted, and IIRC even booed and hissed a little. Stewart said, "Oh, when it's your guy you don't like it!" I bet that's a taste of what's to come.

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[interrociter.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that's one reason we're seeing more media and musical guests on the Colbert Report?