My previous post, a spec ad for Hampton Inn using a joke
about a disgraced politician caught in an adultery scandal and resigning,
reminds me of how I hoped Jon Stewart would end his tenure on The Daily Show. (I should have posted
this back then, but I forgot.)
I was hoping Jon Stewart, for his last moments and farewell
on The Daily Show, would stage a
scene as if he were a disgraced politician like Eliot Spitzer at a press
conference apologizing and resigning with his humiliated wife standing next to
him at the podium, saying: “I’m very sorry for my actions, and I’m leaving to
spend more time with my family.”
Jon Stewart had covered so many embarrassing “mea culpa”
resignations like that on The Daily Show,
I thought it would have been a really silly and fun way for him to leave the
show, and I’m sorry he didn’t do that.
