Unless you’ve been in some kind of isolated, underground cave for the past two weeks, you’re aware that the Olympics are currently taking place in Beijing, China. You’ll also recall that I had a chance to be there and do a lot of tourism there on a school trip two and a half months ago. So last week, when The Daily Show sent one of its correspondents to Beijing, it was quite interesting to watch and see some of the sights through their cameras that I was able to see through my own eyes. This is a cleverly funny clip that gives a rather, um, interesting tour through this interesting city.

Tags: Beijing, China, Olympics, Rob Riggle, sights, The Daily Show, tour, Video

Our news media is already difficult to follow when you’re listening to it normally, but what if you’re watching it somewhere without any kind of volume, voice, or sound for context. Then you get this hilarious result, which was exemplified by The Daily Show in this awesome sketch called News at the Gym.

Tags: funny, gym, Jason Jones, Jon Stewart, media, News, The Daily Show, Video

I may be kinda “out there” in the tech world, but I still have enough senses to smell something creepy when I see it, as was definitely evidenced a year ago when a special PreviewCast episode started talking about some strange thing for Second Life.

Well, the world gets creepier as last week, Congress apparently held hearings on these virtual reality “world” things–and weirder, the real hearing was apparently simulcasted on Second Life. Luckily for me, Jon Stewart considers this stuff to be as freaky as I consider it, and he even pulled out one or two of the degrading jokes that I’ve used for the past year on this segment to make fun of Congress actually caring enough to hold hearings on these things! Boy, I’m glad I’m not the only one with some good, common sense!

Tags: Congress, craziness, hearings, internet, Jon Stewart, online world, Second Life, The Daily Show, Video, virtual reality

Why do I, along with so many others, love The Daily Show? Because not only is it funny, but it actually gets through all the crap that takes place in our society, particularly during the election season. I would have posted this earlier this week (like BEFORE the March 4th primaries finished, perhaps) if I haven’t been so busy catching up on homework from my recent trip.

However, this has to be one of my favorite Indecision 2008 sketches yet so far this year, and I couldn’t resist posting it. It’s just got some of the best swipes at Clinton and Obama, and it actually takes a reasonable look at that ridiculous 3 AM-telephone ad (even I, the person who wakes up at extraordinarily early times of the morning each morning, wouldn’t be awake at 3 AM!).

And it’s a good thing that Jon Stewart mentioned that exception to the title, because she turned out to win the larger states after all. (Quite frankly, though I personally have a slight two-degree lean towards Obama, I really don’t like either Democratic candidate, so I’m holding out to see who gets selected.)

Anyway, enough with my blubber, time for Jon Stewart’s.

Tags: 2008, Barack Obama, election, Hillary Clinton, Jon Stewart, Ohio, primaries, Rhode Island, Texas, The Daily Show, Vermont, Video