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The Seriously Funny exhibit just opened yesterday June 21, 2019 at the Newseum in DC. Chronicling the rise and influence of Jon Stewart on the news, media, and politics. I laughed, I cried, I snorted. It was so moving.

Many of the personalities who commented on Jon Stewart were the very people he railed against, but even some of the most conservative voices still praised him for holding them accountable for their actions.

Half of the exhibit was how other media outlets counted him among the most trustworthy and humble man. The other half held up those he worked with who went on to continhe his legacy, like Samantha Bee and Trevor Noah. His continued love affair with Stephen Colbert. They even mentioned his continued efforts to help 9/11 First Responders as recent as just this week.

Earlier this week, I finally made it to DC to go to the Newseum and to see the Daily Show exhibit. Most of it was Daily Show post 2005, around the time I stopped watching because the interview segment was beginning to overtake the actual show -- of course this is just my personal opinion. I was there for the correspondents more than the interview. 

There were some gems from the early days however: 

(i’m really sorry if some of these look blurry, you know, no flash in the museum) 

This is the only mention of the Craig Kilborn years. It’s a picture from an issue of Esquire. The women standing next to him are Lizz Winstead and Madeline Smithberg, creators of The Daily Show. I got legit excited up in Panera when I saw the magazine on the Internet Archive. (January, 1998, big reading size here, 2) 

OH. This was the infamous article where Craig said that Lizz found him attractive and if “I wanted her to blow me, she would.” 

Craig got in big time trouble, was suspended for the show for a week, and correspondents Beth Littleford, Brian Unger and A. Whitney Brown hosted. Sadly those clips are gone forever. 

Anyway, back to Jon. Right when you walk in, you see that there is a giant braille transcript of the exhibit: 

Jon’s desk is incredibly tiny. This was the desk he had from 2007-2015.

lol, I almost cried when I saw Jon’s stuff he kept under his desk. 

Like Jon, I also prefer a cheap bic pen. 

When Steve Carell got on John McCain’s campaign bus back in late 1999, it was of course a big deal, to have someone from little Comedy Central interviewing a major presidential candidate. 

I want that 3D Jon smiling face in my roomoffice for the rest of my life. By the way, there were NO Daily Show items in the gift shop. None. Newseum kinda dropped the ball there. 

Oh man, back in the day I used to chase down any magazine in Barnes & Noble or at Target if they had a Daily Show ad inside. This one is from 2004. 

I realized when I was at the exhibit, these two magazines have been stuck in our storage unit since 2005. Sadness. 

There was a little binder of correspondents near the end of the exhibit. I was like, “great, its probably just going to be Steve, Stephen, and anybody who was on the show past 2005.” but nearly everybody was in the binder from Jon’s tenure. Steve’s screencapture was from during the 2000 Election recount. 

I think if I didn’t have a relative with me, I would have started crying while flipping through this book. 

Damn, they even put Miriam in here. 

Okay, this is when I almost began to well up seeing my boy Mo, and Beth.

Aw, I really almost cried when I saw Vance. 

Unfortunately, the rest of the newseum trip was canceled because I went with someone who was too offended by the other exhibits at the museum. I’m trying to make it back out there (by myself) before the museum closes (moves?) by the end of the year. 

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You know I have to plug my Daily Show zines at the end of this entry, right? I have a Nordstrom Card bill coming up from the damage from this trip. 

This is the one about my fan website I had about the show from 2000-2005. I just recently lowered the shipping on it. The binding is also different now, I just keep forgetting to update the photo. 

The second volume is my favorite episodes from 1999-2001.