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So you already spend most of your time reading my blog. I’m willing to guess that the rest of your hours, when not cleaning the spyware off your overburdened PC, reading one of those books about that devil-worshipping Harry Potter, or trying to remember which words you can’t say on TV, are spent watching Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show.

In the past year, and especially during the 2004 election, Stewart turned into a media darling. You could see him on Crossfire, on Larry King, and being cited in nearly every day’s New York Times. I’ve been watching every night for a couple of years now and I make it a point not to miss an episode.

A few weeks ago, the Daily Show crew packed up their old studio, and moved across town to a brand new stage with a brand new set. I for one, find it horrible. It’s garish, cold, and completely lacking in personality. I’m not the only one who dislikes it.

The new conference table makes the Daily Show set a more serious place, closer to the world of news than entertainment; granted, the balance between the two is difficult to strike in a satire, but if it ain’t broke, why fix it?

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I don’t have the graphic-design vocabulary to describe this accurately, but let’s just say that you can no longer watch The Daily Show without struggling to block out two constant, and competing, written reminders that you are, indeed, watching The Daily Show.

Even the couch itself is blogging and reminiscing about what once was.

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