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The Daily Show

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Wed Jul 24, 2013, 01:57 PM Jul 2013

Yesterday John Oliver was hilarious [View all]

I haven not watched the Daily Show for many weeks. Even before Stewart took his leave.

But yesterday, with the royal baby taking over so much of the news, decided to watch and was not disappointed.

First, the report was under: at Her Majesty Secret Cervix..

A reported said how, once the baby was born, Prince Williams would get an encrypted cell phone and would call the palace: Granny, it's a baby! (as opposed to, I suppose, a kitty..)

CNN filled the time by interviewing "regular" women who were in labor someplace else. One was given laughing gas but she was not laughing.

There was the Town Crier who announced the birth and Oliver said: I am English, and I cannot understand him.

And them both CNN and MSNBC broadcasted the full 62 gun salute which, said Oliver, took almost three minutes. By the 48th, he said, viewers should conclude that the network was on maternity leave...

To a more serious topic: his guest was Richard Haas, the chairman of the Council of Foreign Relations who wrote a book about how we first have to solve our domestic problems - like infrastructure - before we can advise other nations.

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John Oliver NewThinkingChance40 Aug 2013 #1
John Oliver has made me like the news Jovi-Balani Sep 2014 #2
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John was great....wonder what he is doing now. Soundspace Mar 2017 #4
Oh no. But you need to subscribe to HBO on cable question everything Mar 2017 #5
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