i didn t know that. [laughter] - you re our chief political correspondent, stephen. i mean, every two years, we elect a brand new house of representatives, a third of the senate. it s called the midterm elections. - i only vote when the big kahunas are up, you know? el presidente. i can t be running around every two years voting. i got a life. - i could not have lived without the daily show, and colbert then becomes the companion show. - c for colbert. - that is also so compelling to watch this hilarious, pseudo-conservative dumb guy. - and who are the heroes? the people who watch this show average, hardworking americans. you re not the elites. you re not the country club crowd. i know for a fact that my country club would never let you in. - one of the things about being on the colbert report, and stephen would say it himself, was he was playing a character.
town of billing, texas is on fire. i loved friday night lights i grew up in colorado. it said in texas, but i knew every single person who was on that show and they weren t on the air any place else, you man clear eyes, full let s get the pilot of friday night lights is one of the best pilots. are there any television show ever do you ever do so almost instantly to the fact that jason street is the greatest quarterback that deal in high school has ever had street. i ve been scottie quarterbacks for notre dame for 27 years your son, maybe the best i hear about 35 or 40 minutes into the episode while trying to make a tackle apply a full. jason street is it any is paralyzed it is devastating because you get just far enough into the episode to think that maybe the bad thing will not
really did that? what would it take and then i thought, well, i had made money really bad. why would i didn t money? lung cancer inoperable we pitch breaking bad to not even a handful of places. some people liked it, some people not so much had been kind of been dead for bob, six months or a year or something like that. and suddenly i hear, hey, would you like to go meet the folks at amc? they re interested in new and breaking bad when we were making the decision to do breaking bad, we absolutely were looking for an anti-hero show and we wanted a guy that was going against the grain dead. come check this out. yes. cohen take it out. well, they always tell you need to have a good good one-sentence pitch. and i came up with what we re going to take, mr. chips and we re going to turn them into scarface what
- taxi! - there is something that makes you want to come back and sign up month after month. maybe you don t watch sex and the city, but you watch entourage. [crowd screaming] - entourage was originally based on mark wahlberg s life, and the appeal of the show is not so much about show business. it was these four guys who are, like, lifelong friends who could f k with each other and say horrible things to each other but be tight and be good friends. - they want to throw $4 million at you. - you re kidding. - are you smiling? - yeah, yeah, i m smiling. - can you hear me smiling? listen. [clicks teeth] you ve got my balls tingling, man. they drive that way in tiananmen square, bitch? - ari gold suddenly became the breakout character, willing to be ruthless, yet also a family man with a line in the sand. and you don t really know where that line in the sand is, which makes him a morally much more interesting character. - i just read an article in the times new york, man, not the
we didn t all go home and watch walter cronkite. - crossfire. on the left, james carville and paul begala. on the right, robert novak and tucker carlson. in the crossfire. - i remember when jon stewart went on crossfire. it was 2004. john kerry was the democratic presidential nominee facing george w. bush, and i thought, you know, watching it, i said, well, this could be a funny show. - can i say something very quickly? why do we have to fight? - [laughs] - the two of you. can t we just say something nice about john kerry right now. - i like john i care about john kerry. - and something about president bush. - he ll be unemployed soon. - [laughs] - i think anyone who enjoyed paying attention to the news and watched the daily show will forever remember jon stewart going on crossfire and reading those guys the riot act. - you re doing theater when you should be doing debate, which would be great. - you do debate - it s not honest. what you do is not honest.