Daily Show
OMG! I almost forgot to post this! Tonight John Hodgman will be on the Daily Show again, and unless someone changes their mind, his bit will include a little musical funny business I wrote for him yesterday. I’ll be in the audience - listen for me laughing. I’ll be the one going “Ha Ha HA!” Hello national television audience…
April 25th, 2006 at 11:53 am
Now, when will Jon have YOU on as a guest!? Oh, and tell John that his “short answer/long answer” bit was hilarious!
April 25th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
Hellllllo Jonathan!
This will be the second person I sort of know to be in the audience for the Daily Show.
April 25th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
I’m not sure if it’s just me, and you’ve most likely already gotten this, but the Blog RSS feed seems to not be working.
In case you need the information, It’s the 2.0 feed, and I’m useing Firefox.
April 25th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Is it possible to put the song up on the website.
April 25th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
I hadn’t checked your site in the last few days. Let me tell you, it was MUCH cooler to turn on the Daily Show and just hear your song out of nowhere! That was AWESOME. “The Kurds will stay the same.” Tell it, brother!
So did he really give you $1000?
April 25th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
That was really cool! Great to see another collaboration of Coulton and Hodgman.
April 25th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
I would actually download the show on I tunes if you sang on the show.
April 25th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
That was so friggin’ cool.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
I heard Hodgman mention your name, and thought “wait.. that Jonathan Coulton?” The song and this post confirmed it.
That was great! Seconding the request for a downloadable version.
April 25th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
Somehow I never put two and two together and realized that John Hodgman was the Daily Show’s John Hodgman. Anyway, it was the best Daily Show I’ve seen in a while for the sole reason that I went completely nuts when I heard the name “Jonathan Coulton” there.
Anywhere that we can get the song?
April 25th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
This was a real surprise. Unfortunately I hadn’t checked teh site yet today, so I wasn’t aware until I was watching the daily show.
The good news is that I record the DS everyday, so I have the material. With the lack of notice I didn’t have time to properly set my equipment for maximum source quality, so I apologise in advance for the lackluster appearance of the following clip. Nontheless, it allowed me to be a bit hardsher witht he recompression without sacrificing an absurd amount of quality. In the future, you gotta give us some more warning, JC. ^_^
So without further ado, here is the Hodgman segment in it’s entirety (providing the context for the song), and a MP3 of the song clip. I hope everyone gets as big a kick outtuv it as I did.
http://www.badservo.com/external_links/cobras.avi
http://www.badservo.com/external_links/cobras.mp3
April 25th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
Damn that was funny. I didn’t read your site today, so that came out of nowhere!
April 26th, 2006 at 12:16 am
Please, please put the song on the web site. Not all your fans live in the USA and have access to the daily show.
April 26th, 2006 at 3:31 am
I was completely taken by surprise. The show was on but I wasn’t really listening to it and then out of nowhere they say Jonathan Coulton… could it be one in the same? Yep, definitely your music. It was awesome! Hope you can post it or another version of it on your site for download.
April 26th, 2006 at 3:55 am
Congratulations, Jon! I too was caught by surprise watching this morning. At first it seemed like coincidence, then a “shout-out”, and it was finally clear that it _was_ you.
April 26th, 2006 at 4:25 am
I was introducing a good friend to your ThingADay works last night (got ‘em all here on my HD) and he was pretty impressed. He’s a songwriter in a Toronto band and he kept saying “Man, I wish I could be this prolific.” We listened to “Code Monkey” (which he loved) and then went downstairs to watch Daily Show, which we never miss in ths household.
A few minutes later, I say “hey there’s John Hodgman, the guy who works with Coulton sometimes.”
And then -that- happened. Such glee! I figured it was only going to be a matter of time before you got onto the show, bud. Now you just need to get the rest of your self on there.
Nicely done.
April 26th, 2006 at 4:55 am
Perhaps one week’s Thing can incorporate this bit in a comprehensive treatment of How JCoulton Will Solve The Middle East Mess.
“There’s rioting in Africa, / There’s strife in Iran … ”
Snakes in parachutes, man, snakes in parachutes!!!
April 26th, 2006 at 5:33 am
They have *got* to work more of your stuff in.
That was great. The wife and I were bouncing all over the place during the segment.
April 26th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Congrats on winning the $1000 for the essay contest!
April 26th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Dude! Awesome song, very patriotic, brings tears to my eyes.
Oh yeah congrats on the $1000, every cent of it was worth saving the entire civilized world.
April 26th, 2006 at 4:58 pm
I was so overjoyed when I heard John Hodgeman mention your name, but I was even more awesome to hear your voice on national television. Congrats - I hope the Daily Show gave you a little more than $1000 dollars. Or maybe they’re cheap.
April 26th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
Did he just say Jonathan Coulton? He did! A song? Might it be one of Jonathan’s? It is! Cool.
Good on ya.
I call shenanigans though! You’re totally ripping off the upcoming Samuel L. Jackson epic “Snakes on a Plane.” Except for the parachute part. And no mention of Samuel L. Jackson. But hey, planes and snakes. What a ripoff!! I’ll never listen to another Jonathan Coulton contribution to the Daily Show ever again this week!
Take that.
April 27th, 2006 at 8:47 am
The clip is on the Daily Show website under Hodgman videos.
http://www.dailyshow.com
April 27th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
Wow - one of the people who is just catching up on my Tivo. My wife thought I was nuts but I was like - “that’s a real person that Jonathan Coulton”. And then the song. Great job.
Please sir, may I have another?
April 28th, 2006 at 12:15 am
[...] Military Review hosted an essay contest about countering the insurgency. "Nothing less than the civilized world might depend on it," the request for submissions said. "Oh, and please double-space," Jon added. Resident Expert John Hodgman revealed that he is one of the judges. He also explained that it’s not that strange for the nation to look to the public for help in this manner. For example, the national anthem was the product of a jingle contest and Pearl Harbor was done by a sweepstakes winner (she won a pack of Lucky Strikes and a lifetime supply of sadness). Hodgman read one of the essay entries and tore it apart ("You can’t fight a war on terror if you end a sentence with a preposition") However, one Jonathan Coulton created a terrific essay. So terrific that it desereved to be put into song-form (best cobras/Shiite/Sunni/Kurd song ever). Fun Fact: Jonathan Coulton is actually a real buddy of Hodgman’s and wrote that little essay-song. I thought it was a cute shout-out. [...]
April 28th, 2006 at 12:38 am
[...] Military Review hosted an essay contest about countering the insurgency. "Nothing less than the civilized world might depend on it," the request for submissions said. "Oh, and please double-space," Jon added. Resident Expert John Hodgman revealed that he is one of the judges. He also explained that it’s not that strange for the nation to look to the public for help in this manner. For example, the national anthem was the product of a jingle contest and Pearl Harbor was done by a sweepstakes winner (she won a pack of Lucky Strikes and a lifetime supply of sadness). Hodgman read one of the essay entries and tore it apart ("You can’t fight a war on terror if you end a sentence with a preposition") However, one Jonathan Coulton created a terrific essay. So terrific that it desereved to be put into song-form (best cobras/Shiite/Sunni/Kurd song ever). Fun Fact: Jonathan Coulton is actually a real buddy of Hodgman’s and wrote that little essay-song. I thought it was a cute shout-out. [...]
April 28th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
It’s just been on the daily show global edition.
Enjoy your international fame
April 29th, 2006 at 12:23 am
[...] Military Review hosted an essay contest about countering the insurgency. “Nothing less than the civilized world might depend on it,” the request for submissions said. “Oh, and please double-space,” Jon added. Resident Expert John Hodgman revealed that he is one of the judges. He also explained that it’s not that strange for the nation to look to the public for help in this manner. For example, the national anthem was the product of a jingle contest and Pearl Harbor was done by a sweepstakes winner (she won a pack of Lucky Strikes and a lifetime supply of sadness). Hodgman read one of the essay entries and tore it apart (”You can’t fight a war on terror if you end a sentence with a preposition”) However, one Jonathan Coulton created a terrific essay. So terrific that it desereved to be put into song-form (best cobras/Shiite/Sunni/Kurd song ever). Fun Fact: Jonathan Coulton is actually a real buddy of Hodgman’s and wrote that little essay-song. I thought it was a cute shout-out. [...]
April 30th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
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May 1st, 2006 at 12:16 am
[...] Military Review hosted an essay contest about countering the insurgency. “Nothing less than the civilized world might depend on it,” the request for submissions said. “Oh, and please double-space,” Jon added. Resident Expert John Hodgman revealed that he is one of the judges. He also explained that it’s not that strange for the nation to look to the public for help in this manner. For example, the national anthem was the product of a jingle contest and Pearl Harbor was done by a sweepstakes winner (she won a pack of Lucky Strikes and a lifetime supply of sadness). Hodgman read one of the essay entries and tore it apart (”You can’t fight a war on terror if you end a sentence with a preposition”) However, one Jonathan Coulton created a terrific essay. So terrific that it desereved to be put into song-form (best cobras/Shiite/Sunni/Kurd song ever). Fun Fact: Jonathan Coulton is actually a real buddy of Hodgman’s and wrote that little essay-song. I thought it was a cute shout-out. [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:11 am
[...] Military Review hosted an essay contest about countering the insurgency. “Nothing less than the civilized world might depend on it,” the request for submissions said. “Oh, and please double-space,” Jon added. Resident Expert John Hodgman revealed that he is one of the judges. He also explained that it’s not that strange for the nation to look to the public for help in this manner. For example, the national anthem was the product of a jingle contest and Pearl Harbor was done by a sweepstakes winner (she won a pack of Lucky Strikes and a lifetime supply of sadness). Hodgman read one of the essay entries and tore it apart (”You can’t fight a war on terror if you end a sentence with a preposition”) However, one Jonathan Coulton created a terrific essay. So terrific that it desereved to be put into song-form (best cobras/Shiite/Sunni/Kurd song ever). Fun Fact: Jonathan Coulton is actually a real buddy of Hodgman’s and wrote that little essay-song. I thought it was a cute shout-out. [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:22 am
[...] Military Review hosted an essay contest about countering the insurgency. “Nothing less than the civilized world might depend on it,” the request for submissions said. “Oh, and please double-space,” Jon added. Resident Expert John Hodgman revealed that he is one of the judges. He also explained that it’s not that strange for the nation to look to the public for help in this manner. For example, the national anthem was the product of a jingle contest and Pearl Harbor was done by a sweepstakes winner (she won a pack of Lucky Strikes and a lifetime supply of sadness). Hodgman read one of the essay entries and tore it apart (”You can’t fight a war on terror if you end a sentence with a preposition”) However, one Jonathan Coulton created a terrific essay. So terrific that it desereved to be put into song-form (best cobras/Shiite/Sunni/Kurd song ever). Fun Fact: Jonathan Coulton is actually a real buddy of Hodgman’s and wrote that little essay-song. I thought it was a cute shout-out. [...]
May 11th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
So glad to see you getting some (even if small) “press”. Your music rocks and I can’t wait until you hit it big!
July 10th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Here’s a link to the segment on Mother Load:
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=62629
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:48 pm
I thought that it was the decision to bomb ひろしま and ながさき (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) that was decided by sweepstakes.