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The Daily Show Quotations

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Jon Stewart

[A picture of the players embracing, one "higher" than the other, appears on screen, spurring laughs from the audience]
Uh, I, uh...I don't know what to say! Extended coverage of the game will be presented later on a very special Daily Show: After Dark!
[Sexy music begins to play]
Oh...oh yeah, soccer: the world's game. [under his breath] Uh, I had to do that.

Stephen Colbert

See also: The Colbert Report

Samantha Bee

Listen, John McCain has finally put the concerns of women where they belong: in derisive air quotes! And this transcends politics, Jon. Reasonable people can disagree about abortion, but still agree on the unimportance of women's health.

It's about equality. And I'm sure if John McCain was raped, and has a baby growing in his penis, he would want it publicly discussed in the same level of abstraction without concern for his specific "life." Or..."penis."

Rob Corddry

Ed Helms

Mo Rocca

Lewis Black

Bob Wiltfong

Jason Jones

Wyatt Cenac

Dialogue

Jon Stewart: Stephen, thank you for joining us...with (Jim) Jeffords' new status as an independent senator, the balance of power has shifted...how else will this power shift play out in the Senate?
Stephen Colbert: Who cares, Jon? What about the band?
Jon Stewart: (confused) ...the band?
Stephen Colbert: The Singing Senators!
(a picture of Larry Craig, Trent Lott, John Ashcroft and Jeffords as the "Singing Senators")
Stephen Colbert: ...listen. Jeffords leaving means that the Republicans break up the Singing Senators.
Jon Stewart: They're the senators that sing.
Stephen Colbert: (shocked) Sing, Jon? They're only, like, the greatest Congressional music act ever! They're the standard in which all other senatorial singing groups are judged, man!
Stephen Colbert: Check out this rare bootleg I have of the senators' now legendary gig on NBC's Today show...
(clip of the senators signing "Elvira")
Stephen Colbert: Oom pa-pa, Oom pa pa, wow, WOW! I love those four lovable moptops...Larry Craig, the conservative one, Trent Lott the ultraconservative one, John Ashcroft the archconservative one... and Jim Jeffords the cute one!
(audience explodes into laughter)
Stephen Colbert: ...they had it all! Tight harmonies, wireboard looks, and medieval social agenda! But now it's over...except for the medieval social agenda.

Announcer: The Colbert Report...winner of the 2005 Peabody Award!
Colbert: If the voters had any balls...well, do you voters? do you have any balls? Because I do...lemme show you...

Stephen Colbert: Hi! I'm Stephen Colbert...I'm a successful and respected authority figure, and I LOOOOOVE DRUGS! There's nothing more I love than kicking back with some good friends, a cribbage board, a Benny Goodman album, and a whole lotta crack! (looks to the side) Hey there! (Enter Jon Stewart)
Jon Stewart: Yes?
Stephen Colbert: Do you want a reefer full of pot? All the hip kids are doing it!
(Stewart looks surprised, yet intrigued)
Jon Stewart: I would! It would be a perfect break from my job as a corporate drone to slip into a sweet, mellow high!
(Enter Lauren Weedman, snapping a rubber armband around her arm.)
Lauren Weedman: Hey guys, I'd love to do some drugs with you, but I'm off to donate blood.
Stephen Colbert: Good call. (turns to camera) So take it from us...middle aged adults with no idea what's cool...
Together: DRUGS ARE COOL!
Stephen Colbert (voiceover): This message brought to you by the National Council "Against" Drugs.

Stephen Colbert: What religion do I have to be to get this money?
Stephen Laverith, Centre for Public Justice: The government has said that it's not going to define what a religion is.
Stephen Colbert: That's refreshingly vague
(Switches to voiceover)
Stephen Colbert: ...and refreshingly lucrative. The first step is choosing your religion...
(back to Colbert and Laverith)
Stephen Colbert: Let's go over the big three. Judaism: the no-pork thing's okay, but the horns and the Christian baby blood... that's a deal breaker. Islam... fascinating religion, but it's kind of a PR nightmare right now... and ditto.
(picture of a Catholic cardinal)

Stephen Colbert: Oh, God, I gotta get out of here! Don't leave me, Jon!
Jon Stewart: Stephen Colbert, everyone.

Jon Stewart: What about the State of the Union? Did you go to the speech?
Senator John McCain: I had no choice.

Jon Stewart: Do you know of any candidate that has gone from top to bottom, from king to serf, so quickly as Howard Dean?
Bob Dole: I did. I mean, Joe Lieberman, he was banking on Al Gore's ticket. Then Al Gore endorsed Howard Dean, and now Howard's campaign tanked. So I told Kerry and Edwards, If Gore calls you, don't pick up the phone.

Samantha Bee: I'll read you some words, help me warm these up a bit.
Frank Luntz: OK.
Samantha Bee: Drilling for oil?
Frank Luntz: I would say, responsible exploration for energy.
Samantha Bee: Logging?
Frank Luntz: I would say, healthy forest.
Samantha Bee: Manipulation?
Frank Luntz: Explaination and education.
Samantha Bee: Orwellian?
[Frank Luntz is silent]

Jason Jones: Was it difficult managing a family while not being president?
Geraldine Ferarro: I'm sorry did you say NOT being president?

Rob Corddry: This is pork-barrel politics at its worst.
Sen. Joan Fitzgerald: How so?
Rob Corddry: It's... so so.
Sen. Joan Fitzgerald: You have no idea what pork-barrel politics are, do you?
Rob Corddry: Do you?
Sen. Joan Fitzgerald: Pork-barrel politics usually puts money into the system...
Rob Corddry: Oh, is that what they taught you in lady senator school?

Jon Stewart: We've also got a report from Mr. Rob Corddry in Oregon. We're gonna...hey, uh...wow, that's a nice box, Rob!
Rob Corddry: Oh, this old thing? (laughs) I only use it when I don't care how I look! (laughs again) No Jon, I've been spending a lot of time on satellite hookups, so with the holidays coming...it gives it a homier feel, you know?
Ed Helms: Jon?
Jon Stewart: Yes, Ed Helms in Minnesota?
Ed Helms: I...I, uh, didn't know we could decorate our boxes.
(Audience laughs)
Rob Corddry (mocking): Jon! I didn't know we can decorate our boxes! I'm afraid to take any action on my own!
Jon Stewart (off-screen): Guys...
Ed Helms (to Corddry): Shut up, Rob!
Rob Corddry (to Helms): You shut up, bitch!'
Ed Helms (to Corddry): You wanna say that to my face?
(Corddry moves from "Oregon" to "Minnesota" and into Helm's box...and face)
Rob Corddry: SHUT UP, BITCH!
(Helms headbutts Corddry, knocking him back)
Jon Stewart: HEY GUYS...GUYS! (stunned) Uh, I'm sorry, I apologize...that's, uh... Thought they were further apart.

John Oliver: When you’re a bankrupt ideology pursuing a bankrupt strategy, the only move you have left is the dick one.
Jon Stewart: When will these motherfuckers go away?
John Oliver: They probably won’t, there have always been motherfuckers, there will always be motherfuckers, but what we can’t do is let them control our motherfucking lives.

Jon Stewart: Let's go on Chatroulette. Let's see here. Okay, what do we go so far... [On a computer, the lower window features Jon Stewart throughout, the upper window shows whomever is on until one of them clicks next, starting with...] Okay, bored guy. Next. Let's see...all right, that's guy...[Next is a naked man, genitals blurred] Whoa! Okay, penis in my face! All right, bored Austrian guy, next. [Someone with blurred penis sticking out of pants] Okay! [Next, someone sitting without pants, blurred] Wow, I think that guy goes to my gym! All right, let's just get out of that...Wyatt?!
Wyatt Cenac: Jon, I don't have time to talk right now. I'm about to break this Chatroulette story wide open. Remember how I did that story on Twitter and then that other story on glory holes?
Jon Stewart: Right.
Wyatt Cenac: I think Chatroulette is the missing link! NEXT!
Jon Stewart: All right...no, no, don't send me back! I don't wanna go back...hey, Liz Claman, reporter from Fox Business. Are you covering the financial angle on Chatroulette and...don't just "next" me! Damn it! Diane Sawyer, what are you doing?!
Diane Sawyer: Oh, great.
Jon Stewart: Hey, what's going on?
Diane Sawyer: I'm checking out this Chatroulette thing, but so far I only get reporters.
Jon Stewart: Yeah, me too...plus some other things.
Diane Sawyer: What are you doing?
Jon Stewart: I'm doing a satiric look at Chatroulette.
Diane Sawyer: [pause] Sounds hilarious.
[She nexts him]
Jon Stewart: Damn it! She hit me next. Not cool, Sawyer! [Bored guy] Okay, that guy's boring, I don't wanna see that guy. [Guy on bed drinking water] That's just boring, let me get to the next thing as it goes there. Next, we go through there...Olbermann?! What are you doing here?!
Keith Olbermann: Bearing witness to the new era of communication, Jon. It is Orwellian, sir. It is Big Brother, and Big Brother is none other than each of us.
Jon Stewart: What?
Keith Olbermann: [cont'd] The Bush Administration's warrantless wiretap search society at T1 speeds, the surveillance state gone viral. At long last, sir, have we no shame? I...think one of us is supposed to take our pants off now.
Jon Stewart: WHAT?! No! Next! Next! Geez. [Jason Jones possibly masturbating] Jason Jones! No! Jason, no, what are you doing?!
Jason Jones: What does it look like I'm doing, Jon?
Jon Stewart: I'll tell you what it looks like you're doing...
Jason Jones: [holding up a Wii remote] Jon, relax, I'm playing Wii Craps.
Jon Stewart: Oh, God, thank you.
Jason Jones: While I masturbate.
Jon Stewart: No! Next! Next! Next! Next! Katie Couric, you too?!
Katie Couric: Hey, Jon. You know what, you would be the perfect interview for a piece I'm doing on Chatroulette.
Jon Stewart: Okay, well, do it.
Katie Couric: Okay, I'm just gonna toss to it.
Jon Stewart: All right.
Katie Couric: I'm Katie Couric. There's a new place where creeps like to dwell—it's called Chatroulette, and it's home to some of the most deranged criminal perverts I've ever seen in my many years of broadcasting. One of these vile creatures has actually agreed to an interview. Jon, Jon, there's your part.
Jon Stewart: Next! Next! Damn it, this is... [Jason Jones again] NO!!! What are you doing?!
Jason Jones: Jon, relax, it's Wii Butter Churn.
Jon Stewart: All right.
Jason Jones: While I masturbate.
Jon Stewart: No! Brian Williams! Hey, what's going on? Are you doing a story on Chatroulette for NBC? Is that this?
Brian Williams: [long awkward pause] Uh, yes. I was on here researching...the whole...the trend. I'm not...not like cruising.
Jon Stewart: No! Why would I even think that? That's crazy. Why would I? I wouldn't think that.
Brian Williams: [another pause] No, that is not what I was doing.
Jon Stewart: That's not who you are.
Brian Williams: We're doing a...we're researching this for a story.
Jon Stewart: Exactly! You're a great American and a terrific newsman. So...wanna get this party started? Let's do this, baby. Let's do this, yeah! Let's do this! Come on, Williams! Let's do...[Gets up and starts to undo his pants when Brian cuts it off] No, don't next me! I HATE CHATROULETTE!!!

Jon Stewart: We have complete coverage of Bin Laden's death from the "Best Fucking News Team on Television." We're gonna start with Aasif Mandvi—spent the last several years deeply embedded in the lawless border province of Waziristan. Aasif, your reaction to the news.
Aasif Mandvi: Well, I guess surprise, you know. Just because of that thing where everyone, including me, thought Bin Laden had been holed up in a cave here in the world's most remote mountains. Turns out the son-of-a-bitch was living in the SUBURBS! Nice suburbs! A million-dollar mansion in Abbottabad? That's like the Greenwich of Pakistan! While I've been humping it up the Hindu Kush, puking from altitude sickness and wiping my ass with scorpion husks, Osama Bin Trust Fund was living two miles from a GOLF COURSE!
Jon Stewart: I'm sorry, Aasif. I didn't know that...does Abbottabad really have a golf course?
Aasif Mandvi: It literally does! I could've embedded myself in the fourteenth fairway. FUCK YOU, OSAMA BIN LADEN!
Jon Stewart: All right, Samantha Bee is actually tonight in Abbottabad...
Samantha Bee: Yes, that's right, Jon, and Aasif is right. Abbottabad is exactly what you wouldn't have expected—a relatively affluent bedroom community.
Jon Stewart: And how are the residents that live there—we saw that the guy who Tweeted the news of what was happening. How are they taking the news of this?
Samantha Bee: Well, they are shocked. Shocked that so few Westerners had ever heard of this picturesque hamlet famed throughout Pakistan for its mild climate and top-ranked schools. A well-healed retirement haven for high-ranking Pakistani military men, but also just an hour's drive from the bustling capital Islamabad. Just take a look at this hidden gem. [Shows artist rendering of the compound] Four baths, eight bedrooms, space for all your wives, plenty of room for a pool there right on the left...
Jon Stewart: I'm sorry, Sam. Are you trying to flip his house?
Samantha Bee: Oh come on, Jon. A little steam cleaning, patch some of those bullet holes, use a little Brain-Out on the carpet.

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