After a week-long break, The Daily Show is back on the air on Comedy Central. It’s coming straight from Texas. Austin, Texas that is. “A city so liberal, a guitar can marry a cowboy booth” and “The Daily Show goes to the one part of Texas where we won’t get shot at”, reads the intro. Changing the location of a talk show for a whole week became popular in the last few years, with Conan O’brien doing his talk show in Chicago, then Dallas. On the first show last night Jon Stewart talked about Ebola. Texas has been Ebola free for a few days now and in a segment made with Samantha Bee he made fun of the Ebola hysteria. Saying Texans “shot at ebola, they gave it the death penalty, they prayed for the virus”. Samantha adds “all the needed to do is get their s#!t together”.
The Daily Show in Texas spared no expense at ridiculing the Lone Star state. Oversized belt buckles, the apathy between Dallas and Austin, food trucks of trendy Austin. Jon Stewart also talks about the way Texas handled the Ebola situation, boasting that New York would handle the crisis much better. Then it goes on to show all the ways the media goes hyper over the one Ebola case in New York.
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The main guest was Wendy Davis. She is a state senator and a democratic gubernatorial candidate. Davis promoted her new book “Forgetting to be afraid”. Stewart queried her about her 13 hour filibuster against anti women’s choice legislation and the future of the state. She spoke about her opponent and suppressed voting laws. It’s apparently legal to vote with a gun permit, but NOT with a college ID. But the Daily Show in Texas showdown has just begun, many correspondents like Al Madrigal (who isn’t working at The Daily Show anymore) and even actor Elijah Wood will be featured in the following days on The Daily Show in Texas.