Snip from a breaking! news! report! I just phoned in filed for Wired News:
When the Comedy Central program The Daily Show With Jon Stewart canned its original set for a slicker, newsier replacement, much wailing and rending of garments could be heard throughout the land.
But while the old set may be sorely missed on TV, one group of die-hard Daily Show junkies plans to resurrect it for a cross-country tour — and a new life online. The fans purchased the old set in an eBay auction held earlier this year benefiting 826NYC, a nonprofit youth-literacy center in New York City.
Using the name Mouth of America Network, or Moan TV, the winning bidders now plan to produce an internet project called "The Daily Set Without Jon Stewart," to consist of podcasts, a blog and video webcasts that chronicle the adventures of the old set as it travels cross-country.
Link to Wired News story.
"The Daily Set Without Jon Stewart" spokesfan Hal Bringman tells Boing Boing the Old Set seems to have special awesome superpowers. It is a magnet, and trufans are steel. Here's a short excerpt from a long lovenote it received today from Alyson West in Atlanta:
Dearest Daily Show:
If only I had been wise to your ways I would have tuned you out at the start. But it was inevitable. You grew on me. You, with your flirty headlines and seductive reports. I wasn't really expecting to feel this way, but I do.
This is worse than that time in 9th grade when a senior basketball player came by my locker to ask me to the homecoming dance. You're reducing me with your charm. If I still used notebooks, then I would scribble your name all over their pages. If I did not have a car, then I would ask you to walk me home. If I wanted to put myself at risk for mono, then I would kiss you nonstop, Daily Show. That is how much I love you.
