As you probably know, tonight is the final episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I'm pretty upset about it. I haven't missed a Daily Show episode since I first started DVRing the program about seven or eight years ago, which not coincidentally, is about the same time we started this site.
Yes, it's fair to say The Daily Show has been a big influence on some of the things we do here at TLO. Our style and attitude may be different, and we're not anywhere close to the program in terms of quality, but just like Jon Stewart and his gang of writers and correspondents, we get a kick out of exposing the hypocrisy and mental instability of our politicians, media, and culture.
In fact, it's kind of funny how our hyper-local content can mirror that of The Daily Show at times. It's not intentional or something we necessarily planned, but for example, I guess you could say that Mary Fallin is to TLO as George Bush is to The Daily Show. She's an awful politician, leader, and about as bright as a Charleston's dining room. She's a material well that keeps on giving! To take things further, you could say The Oklahoman is our Fox News, Regular Jim Traber is our Rush Limbaugh, Braum's is our Arby's, and Hipster Boo Boo is... well... I'm not sure if Jon Stewart was lucky enough to have a Hipster Boo Boo.
Knowing how important Jon Stewart has been to my sanity and blogging career, I was actually kind of excited to see The Oklahoman's Richard ViralNovaBuzzfeedHall put together a clickbaity slide show of the "7 Times Oklahoma Was Featured On The Daily Show." That would be a nice trip down memory lane. Not even the NewsOK.com digital desk could screw up something like that, right?
Wrong.