Continuing the Daily Show theme, check this out. I saw him first on guest appearances on The Daily Show, in a segment called 'Back in Black' and just got hold of one of his live albums, when he appeared at Carnegie Hall.
On The Daily Show, he's always one last syllable this side of a fatal apoplectic fit, while on the live album, he's more evenly paced. I always find him spot on in terms of his targets (his riff on how gay marriage is 'destroying' marriage in America is rather good) and am always heartened that there are some liberals who are willing to amp up their feelings to the volume that the loony right always subjects us to.
He's the first standup who I've put on my iPod since one J Seinfeld.
Speaking of whom, I still remember listening incessantly to 'I'm telling you for the last time' on my car stereo in the summer of 2001, when I was living in Chicago. I was living an upside down life, in an upside down year (about to get a lot worse) and it seemed fitting that I lived in downtown Chicago and commuted an hour out into the sticks, near Schaumburg. The trip into work could take anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half and when I got to work, it would be time to sit by the phone and start a day of cold-calling! Controlling the all-too-natural impulse to lie down and die in a quiet corner was possible only because I would listen to the Seinfeld live album all the way in and bound into work with a grin on my face.
Another album of that summer was 'Roxy and Elsewhere' by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, but more on that later.
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