"When future historians come to write the political story of our times," announced Bill Moyers on the public television program NOW, "they will first have to review hundreds of hours of a cable television program called The Daily Show. You simply can't understand American politics in the new millennium without The Daily Show." Writing in Esquire, A. J. Jacobs noted that "the smartest, most innovative show in TV is not Frontline or Nightline . . . or any Line. It is a small news show on Comedy Central hosted by a wiseass kid from New Jersey who has to comment on everything." Jon Stewart is the name of that particular "wiseass," a comedian, actor, and writer who "has established a distinctive place in the sea of television talk shows with his sharp but self-deprecating tongue and ironic humor," according to a contributor for Newsmakers. A spoof on serious news programs, Stewart's...