Sex and the City 2
Last night’s Daily Show was definitely interesting with John Oliver discussng the Brits’ general misery, Lewis Black reporting on Glenn Beck’s Nazi Tourette’s and director of Sex and the City 2, Michael Patrick King, discussing his sexuality.
Michael Patrick King, director of the the much anticipated Sex and the City sequel, Sex and the City: 2 spoke with Jon Stewart where we learned that King and Stewart are friends from way back (King says, “You knew me when I was still straight,”) and King actually gave Stewart his first job in television. They also shared a story about how they were about to carpool (a six hour drive) to a wedding years ago and the first thing King revealed to Stewart before the drive is that, surprise, he’s gay now! They also talked about the movie being set in the Middle East, the “perfect place for a cosmopolitan sex romp” as Stewart points out, King’s security guard, Abdul, who gave him a knife as a gift after knowing him for only two weeks, and the amount of random dead bodies that apparently litter the streets of Morocco (where they shot the movie).
Also intersting was John Oliver’s report on the exiting Prime Minister. As Jon Stewart put it, “After six excruciating weeks of campaigning, one whole day of voting and five days of politicing,” Gordon Brown is out and David Cameron (Conservative Party leader) is in. In this continuing segment (aptly titled “Clustershag to 10 Downing”, in reference to the Prime Minister’s address, and the “clustershag” Britain has been experiencing after neither candidate running for Prime Minister gained enough seats for a victory), John Oliver (The Daily Show’s “Senior British Person”) gave a detailed report explaining why it is customary to make the exiting Prime Minister do “the walk of shame” with his family.
The footage is sort of uncomfortable to watch: the Browns (as in Gordon Brown, his wife and their two kids) were televised as they left 10 Downing (“Like something out of ‘Oliver’,” is how Stewart correctly describes the family as they leave), but as John Oliver reminds us, it isn’t as bad as the 70′s when they sailed former Prime Minister James Callaghan and his family five miles out into the ocean and made them swim back. He also insists this is something the Brits do because they are just generally miserable people and voted for Cameron because of his “dickish sense of humor”.
Speaking of miserable people, the ever cute, ever cuddly, and ever subtle Lewis Black was on for a segment of “Back in Black”. Black suggests, and came armed with clip after clip in support of the diagnoses, that Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourettes Syndrome. Black, who probably has the highest blood pressure of any comedian–hell, out of just anybody, period–almost exploded his head right off his body playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with Glenn Beck (except, “it’s just one degree and Kevin Bacon is Hitler,”). Black shows Beck tying Hitler to global warming, teaching kids about climate change, ACORN, TARP, The National Endowment for the Arts and The Peace Corps.
Surprisingly, Black is still alive by the end of the segment, but it’s possible that while he was busy exclaiming for six minutes, he opened up his mouth so far that he accidentally swallowed Glenn Beck–more on that later.
