Somebody asked me that before the show started. laughter we were talking before the show started and everybodys got a question and who would win in a fight, frog or shark . That kind of thing. Someone just said to me what race would you be if you could be i mean, obviously a jew is fine but, i mean if you had a chance, i mean, wouldnt you go asian just for a day . laughter cheers and applause its fine. Theyre nice people theyre casting a benton add and they needed its actually a perfect way to get into a program tonight. We begin with the ongoing negotiations to save our economy or, as were calling it, cliffpocalypsemageddonacaust. laughter our totally solveable budget problem. laughter jon thats scary. Four weeks four weeks, ladies and gentlemen just 20 some days. laughter our country will be heading over the fiscal cliff that we ourselves dug and put in our way. Its the set of automatic spending cuts and tax hikes that can only be averted if our nations leaders are able to display ba
[cheers and applause ] captioning sponsored by Comedy Central cheers and applause jon hey welcome to the daily show my name is jon stewart. Oh, we got a good one tonight. My guest tonight, new york mets pitcher and recent cy young recipient cy young recipient r. A. Dickey is going to be joining us on the program. cheers and applause the man. May be the first guest in the history of this program to be traded while i am talking to him. laughter they may just they may come in and take him away. laughter i think ill ask him what race hed like to be. laughter somebody asked me that before the show started. laughter we were talking before the show started and everybodys got a question and who would win in a fight, frog or shark . That kind of thing. Someone just said to me what race would you be if you could be i mean, obviously a jew is fine but, i mean if you had a chance, i mean, wouldnt you go asian just for a day . laughter cheers and applause its fine. Theyre nice people theyre casting