Good Ol BadServo
April 26th, 2006
Fella by the name of BadServo is on TOP of it! For those of you who missed it, here are links to the audio and video from the Daily Show last night, as recorded, encoded, and posted by him:
http://www.badservo.com/external_links/cobras.avi
http://www.badservo.com/external_links/cobras.mp3
I’m pretty sure they re-run the show every following afternoon sometime, so you can probably catch it then too. Aside from my own excitement about having music on the show (and the strange uncomfortable out-of-body experience hearing Hodgman say my name while I was sitting in the audience watching the taping), I must say that it was a really funny show. JH was particularly funny I thought. Also I have a huge boy crush on Tom Selleck…
I’ve not seen the Daily Show until now (yes, there are some of us), and so I’d never seen that stunned, I-cannot-flippin’-believe-this-just-happened look on Stewart’s face as Hodgman explained that in the Middle East, ending a sentence with a preposition was a sign of weakness. It makes me suspect that Mr. Hodgman may be the very man for whose benefit “bullshit” became a verb.
I just listened to the audio of the show and loved it. Im a big Daily Show fan anyways. I’ll be watching the rerun, and i share the boycrush on the on Tom Selleck. My moms crush on Mr. Selleck is probably a lot less boyish.
Actually, this whole snake-as-counterterrorism idea isn’t completely new … and as can be seen below, it really works!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4795237232324013939
Having run across this clip recently on Google Video, and before downloading the DS segment, I was almost sure that this snake song was going to feature the above clip as background to the story!
Snakes On The Plane? That’s so yesterday.
Now it’s Snakes In Parachutes!!!
It’s officially on the TDS site now — woohoo!!
Jon-
I’ve been a fan of yours for only a dhort time now, becoming aware of your genius through the gigcast (the very one I was interviewed on myself). While spreading the word about your music as best I could (And having Skullcrusher Mountain stuck in my head for days) imagine my surprise when I read that your song was going to be on the Daily Show, a favorite of my family. I called them all up and told them to watch, that this guy was the one I had been raving about for weeks now…
My brother said you’re insane…but in a good way.
^_^
-glych
(who’s still humming Skullcrusher Mountain)
holy crap. [kc]udos to you, Mr. Coulton. and i dont know much about Hodgman but i’d seen him on before, and have to say he is one of the funniest fake anchors/guests ever on the show, with the exception of the jokes and puns he tries which fail horribly and only make him look like more of a loser. but therein lies the genious…
I loved when JH did the air-drums for a second.
@Michael: It’s not clear if you got this or not. The Daily Show is a comedy show, and the “reporters” reports are all written ahead of time, staged, and not meant to be serious.
When will we get to download the cobras song as a TAW download?
Peter–guess I was unclear at that. Oh yeh, I got it. Besides, I’d heard Hodgman’s work before and have learned to keep a tight grip on my leg lest he pull it clean off. (Lobster, anyone?)
And no doubt that Gobsmacked Stare is an oft-used item in Stewart’s toolbox. But it and Hodgman’s routine together produced a moment that, for this new viewer, won’t be soon forgotten.