Craving a little old-school "Daily Show"? You're in luck because Viacom is looking to make every single clip from "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" available via the Web.
All 13,000 clips from 1999 onward will soon be featured on www.thedailyshow.com, according to the LA Times. Want to watch Lynne Cheney present Stewart with a Darth Cheney doll, Samantha Bee re-enact "Sex and the City" or Rob Cordry navigate the streets of New York in a stretch Hummer over and over again? It will all soon be available via a searchable database on the site.
Sound a little like the YouTube version of "The Daily Show"? Indeed. Viacom might be suing YouTube for copyright infringement, but that doesn't mean it can't steal the idea and pocket some ad revenue for itself. Stewart actually referenced the battle on the show this week, jokingly telling viewers they could watch Stephen Colbert's presidential candidacy announcement on the Web, just "not on YouTube."
If anything, I'll look forward to watching older videos from former "Daily Show" correspondents Colbert and Steve Carell, a few of which were re-aired during a recent anniversary special. I also (mercifully?) missed commentary from the first few months of President Bush's term while I was studying abroad in 2001, so I imagine there might be a few gems I have yet to view.
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