bearsandballs:A goal of Colbert while working as a correspondent on “The Daily Show” — one of his “g
bearsandballs:A goal of Colbert while working as a correspondent on “The Daily Show” — one of his “greatest joys” — was whether he could make Stewart laugh in the middle of a segment. “I knew the piece was good if he couldn’t look at me when we were at the desk together…. The highlight was when we were covering the Democratic convention in 2004, and I did a piece on Obama being the son of a goat farmer and I said I was the son of an Appalachian turd miner. Jon couldn’t look at me for the entire thing.” (x)It took 11 years, but he got him. (2004/2015) -- source link