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HelenBaby

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    This must have been what it felt like when The Colbert Report started back in 2005. (I'm guessing that when Jon started hosting TDS, the general reaction was more of a "Who is this guy? We want Kilborn!")

    Jon Stewart was in several films and had a talk show on MTV as well as hosting a show called Short Attention Span Theater on Comedy Central (or it may have been The Comedy Channel back then-can't remember when the name changed.) So he wasn't an unknown at all. Plus, Kilborn had pretty much alienated a lot of people at that point, especially insulting Lizz Winstead, the show's co-creator in a magazine article. Kilborn was funny at first and had some good contributors on the show like Winstead and A. Whitney Brown. The show's changed so much since then you wouldn't even know it was the same show.

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  2. No, not really. I could have been at that podium for hours and wouldn't have had an answer. But once revealed, of course it made sense. It was a case of me not paying attention in 11th grade English class. I was an accounting major. I never studied much classic literature except for a few things in high school.

  3. Category-Shakespeare

    The clue--Hamlet said about this character that he was a "man of infinite jest"

    Of course, the answe was Yorick, and this clue was repeated almost verbatim in the regular game just a few months ago. But at the time, I just Could Not Come Up with the correct question.

  4. I was a contestant in 97. They had the contestant search in Atlanta. You took the test in person and they did tell us you had to get 75% correct answers. They kept those of us that did and we then played the mock game. They took our pictures and only told us they would call 1 month before taping if we were chosen as contestants. I took the test in May and they called in October for taping in November. My show aired January 1998.

    I was lucky because I was a woman in my forties with a pink collar type office job. My brother didn't even get invited to take the test.

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