first night of daily show convention coverage

The Daily Show does it again. Their coverage of the convention is absolutely hilarious and continues all this week. My personal favorite moment so far: Clinton's speech in support of Kerry, likening him to a savvy ship captain that can handle rough waters. Stewart continues with the metaphor:

...saying ahoy to prosperity while ending economic scurvy with the oranges of fiscal responsibility...arg!...

Hee. Took a page out of the "Start the Revolution Without Me" writer's book. Let us compare, shall we, taking the voice-over that sets-up the background of the French Revolution:

Paris, France, 1789. Thirty years later, under the reign of Louis XVI, longstanding grievances between aristocrat and peasant were about to boil over. The pot in which these troubles boiled was kindled with the firewood of oppression and injustice and heated by the flames that sucked the air from gasping peasants. Would the pot cool off, would it merely simmer, or would it boil over in the kitchen of France-- to stain the floor of history forever?

Hee.