John Oliver returned to his guest-hosting stint on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” Monday night,http://www.mediaite.com/tv/john-oliver-slams-florida-just-because-youre-shaped-like-a-dick-doesnt-mean-you-have-to-act-like-one/ and promptly broke the show. Everything was going fine until the commercial break just before Aaron Sorkin was scheduled to appear as a guest. When the show returned, Oliver and Sorkin were sitting in front of the set with bad lighting and worse audio.
“At the end of the last segment, basically the studio exploded,” Oliver explained. “We lost all power to cameras and monitors, and it seems I’ve now officially broken ‘The Daily Show.’” He did his best to keep things as familiar as possible. He offered up the broken set as “your moment of zen” and even sang the closing credits music.
Once they were done making fun of the studio mishap, Sorkin talked about his own fake news program, “The Newsroom.” He explained that he set it in the recent past because he liked the idea of the viewers knowing more than the characters. So when moments like Occupy Wall Street start to emerge, the viewer knows the whole story while the characters are wondering if its even newsworthy.
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