Tiffany’s Comments (group member since Aug 24, 2008)

Tiffany’s comments from the Daily Show / Colbert Report / Nightly Show / The Opposition group.

Books featured on The Daily Show, February 2016:
- United States of Jihad: Americans Fighting for Radical Islam--from al-Qaeda to ISIS, Peter Bergen
- United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good, Cory Booker
- Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror, Michael V. Hayden


Books featured on The Nightly Show, February 2016:
none


*sigh* So few books anymore.

Books featured on The Daily Show, January 2016:
- The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building, David J. Peterson
- How To Be Right: The Art of Being Persuasively Correct, Greg Gutfeld
- The Covenant with Black America - Ten Years Later, Tavis Smiley

Books featured on The Nightly Show, January 2016:
none

Books featured as discussion topics on The Daily Show, December 2015:
- Wake Up Happy: The Dream Big, Win Big Guide to Transforming Your Life, Michael Strahan

Books featured as discussion topics on The Nightly Show, December 2015:
none

Books featured and discussed on The Daily Show, Nov. 2015:
- My Life on the Road, Gloria Steinem
- The Emperor of Sound: A Memoir, Timbaland
- Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath, Ted Koppel

Books featured and discussed on The Nightly Show, Nov. 2015:
- Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World, Bill Nye
- Year of Yes : How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person, Shonda Rhimes
- Even This I Get to Experience, Norman Lear. Previously on The Daily Show, December 2014.

Books featured on The Daily Show, October 2015:

- Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science, Richard Dawkins
- If the Raindrops United: Drawings and Cartoons, Judah Friedlander

Books discussed on The Nightly Show, October 2015:
none

Books featured on The Daily Show, September 2015:
-none-

Books featured on The Nightly Show, September 2015:
- Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet, Buzz Aldrin

I have no problem keeping this group as the Comedy Central shows -- that's how it started. But since Larry Wilmore doesn't have author guests who are there specifically to talk about their books (if he has an author, he just quickly mentions that they wrote a book, and the panel discussion rarely even has to do with the subject of the book), it makes for a very tiny monthly update!

*sniffle* I miss Stephen. *sniffle* I miss Jon.

That too. Then we have to discuss whether we want to branch away from just Comedy Central shows for our group. Is our group The Daily Show / The Colbert Report / The Nightly Show *and* Jon in whatever role he's in / Stephen in whatever role he's in (i.e. the host of a non-Comedy Central show), etc., or are we strictly The Daily Show (with whatever host) / The Colbert Report / The Nightly Show?

In other words, do we follow the host, or just the show?

This would be so much easier if Stephen hadn't left!

Wow... with it being a shortened month due to summer vacations and the upcoming Labor Day holiday in the U.S., and with it being a shortened month on The Daily Show, we have no featured books -- books that guests were there specifically to promote and discuss -- this month.

Let's hope Trevor Noah keeps the same model as Jon Stewart and has guests on to talk about books!

As we wind down our time with Jon, here are the books featured on The Daily Show in July 2015:

- Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Sarah Vowell
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Wright Brothers, David McCullough
- Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written, Doris Kearns Goodwin

No books were featured topics on The Nightly Show.

Better late than never...

Books featured on The Daily Show, June 2015:

- Team of Teams: The Power of Small Groups in a Fragmented World, Stanley McChrystal
- Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers, Nick Offerman
- The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America, Colin Quinn
- Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy, Judd Apatow
- Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari
- Reflections from Hell: Richard Lewis' Guide On How Not To Live, Richard Lewis

Books featured on The Daily Show, May 2015:

- A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, Brian Grazer (guest) and Charles Fishman
- It's a Long Story: My Life, Willie Nelson
- A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope, Tom Brokaw
- Taking a Stand: Moving Beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America, Rand Paul
- Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead, Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Books featured on The Daily Show, April 2015:

- Living the Farm Sanctuary Life: How to Eat Healthier, Live Longer, and Feel Better Every Day by Bringing Home the Happiest Place on Earth, Gene Baur
- My Journey with Maya, Tavis Smiley
- A Fighting Chance, Elizabeth Warren. Originally on The Daily Show, April 2014.
- In Defense of a Liberal Education, Fareed Zakaria
- Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life, Eric Greitens
- Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
- And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side, Dana Perino
- The Story: A Reporter's Journey, Judith Miller

Books featured on The Daily Show, March 2015:

- God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican, Gerald Posner
- March: Book Two (March, #2), John Lewis
- Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, Andrew Cockburn
- Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson
- Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish, John Hargrove

Books featured on The Daily Show, February 2015:
- I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend, Martin Short
- Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice, Bill Browder
- The Work, Wes Moore
- Believer: My Forty Years in Politics, David Axelrod
- It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War, Lynsey Addario

No books featured on The Nightly Show.

Vanessa wrote: "I don't think Jessica Williams has been on the show long enough to be the central point, but it would be awesome to get a female late night host and she's hilarious!

I agree -- she's hilarious, she's female, she's young, and she's black, so it would break the older(ish) white male pattern. Yeah, Larry Wilmore goes *a little* against type, but not much. I vote that if they're gonna give a show to another Daily Show correspondent, it go to Jessica Williams!

Linda wrote: "Hey, I hear Brian Williams is available for the next 6 months!"

*rim shot*

Oh my God, Bassem Youssef is a good suggestion. (And honestly, I didn't watch last night's episode, so I'm watching the rerun RIGHT NOW, and there's Bassem Youssef sitting in the correspondent's chair. ... Have they already started grooming him?!?)

John Hodgman I'm not so sure about. I'd probably stop watching the show on a regular basis if he took over. I can take him in moderate doses, but I don't think I could watch him be the leader four days a week.

I also wondered whether Jon was going to direct more, or if he just feels like he's getting older and needs to move on. He was quite the young man when he started on this path.

And of course I forgot to mention that they lost John Oliver last year -- so Colbert's gone, Larry Wilmore has his own show already, and John Oliver is gone.

It's crazy, isn't it?

I've decided that this is all a hoax to play off of Brian Williams stepping down (which has now become a suspension, but that happened after the Jon Stewart news broke).

My next thought was who's going to replace him. They just gave Larry Wilmore his own show -- who's left to host a (new) show? Do they move The Nightly Show to 11 p.m., and add a new show at 11:30? And again, who hosts it? Or do they just give up on a one-hour block, and only have one 1/2-hour show?

I smell Jessica Williams getting her own show.