THE DAILY SHOW'S MONTH OF ZEN
Comedy Central website, 12:00 a.m. ET
I sent out a Tweet about this before it started last Friday – every episode of Jon Stewart’s Daily Show since its 1999 premiere, streamed sequentially on the Daily Show website. What I didn’t count on is how addictive they would be from the start – or that Stephen Colbert would appear in the very first show, and Steve Carell in the opening week. The show, at the start, had a lot of maturing to do: the only media being examined from the start were religious and children’s TV shows. But Stewart, from the very start, was self-assured, and very amusing. Dive in at the Daily Show website any time, over the next month and more, and it’ll be a while before you resurface.