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A couple of weeks ago, The Daily Show upgraded their website, adding a free and fully-searchable video database of the past eight years of programs from the Jon Stewart era. For fans of the show, it was heaven. Imagine being able to instantly watch one of those old “Even Stevphen” segments with Carell and Colbert, before their bloated comic egos whisked them away to greener pastures and/or the studio down the block. Or how about something from the Indecision 2000 campaign trail, which as you might recall ended up going into overtime (“Electile Dysfunction”)? It almost sounded too good to be true…and it was, at least for Canada.

Nielsen numbers came back from Sunday's big show and the numbers aren't good. Some 38.8 million Americans watched, which is 8% lower than last year and only the second time audience numbers dipped below 40 million. Some will pin it on the serious and indie-aspects of almost all the major films (Crash, Brokeback, Syriana, et al) others critiqued Jon Stewart. Torontoist blames Gothamist for doing such a hilarious job liveblogging the thing. Who needs TV when you've got Gothamist film gurus Jen Chung and Karen Wilson?

is presenting! He’ll be all edgy spelt with a ‘3’ and probably insult George Bush or something! Will he mention Cheney shooting a lawyer again? OMG that dude is the funny!

The Oscars are next weekend! And much like the fact that most people will skim over, or simply ignore the categories that don’t interest them, Torontoist is going to have to admit defeat to mentioning every single film out each week, particularly on a week like this one, with something like 12 new releases in the city this week. We mean, honestly. Some of it just isn’t worth reporting. Does anyone need to be told that Meda’s Family Reunion is clearly a pile of old ladies’ pants? That Spymate stars a monkey and is unlikely to interest anyone with an IQ higher than that of it’s star? That Doogal is an astoundingly inappropriate localisation of a beloved British children’s television classic, The Magic Roundabout, and should be ignored by everyone in the name of good taste? (Even if Jon Stewart is in it?)

dvd (which, don't get us wrong, we are always happy to do). Tonight, however, the stars seemed to have aligned in a truly magical way, and there are two excellent reasons for you to stay close to the couch.

If, like us, you were too cheap to shell out the requisite amounts of rent money required to see Stewart, Jon work his magic at Massey Hall tonight, be not dismayed! There is much to do for much less money on this weekend of drizzle and fizzle.

TOists will be shaking their booty at Do Something With A Blundstone, the Aussie-themed fundraising party tonight. It's a benefit for SKETCH, the lofty downtown arts studio that offers street-involved and homeless youth drop-in programs that integrate job and life skills development through the visual arts. At the home of the good pilsner folks Steam Whistle Brewing from 7pm to 2am tonight, ten bucks at the door gets you into the party (plenty of food and drink inside), a chance to win a pair of boots and at midnight, instead of turning into a pumpkin, entered in a draw for two tickets to Australia.

An extremely slap-dash look around the blogiverse has yielded the following links (excuse the tardiness of some):

Harry G. Frankfurt's Bullshit netted a shitstorm of press when it came out this year, despite the fact that it's little more than an academic paper, stretched out to constitute a book, as he admitted during a lackluster interview with President Jon Stewart.

Sarah Vowell, Writer, Humourist, Cartoon Character Voice

A hot topic around certain media water coolers this week is definitely George. And for once it’s not Mr. Bush we’re scrutinizing, it’s Mr. Stroumboulopoulos and his new show, The Hour.

So the Tuckman's gone, and with him all that 'partisan hackery' that President Jon Stewart so loved to loathe. But no love lost, really. Wells, sans Ink, has particularly good advice for what the bowtie-wearing, Canada-hating, smirk-laden wonk ought to have said. Too bad Tucker tucked out before taking it.

Torontoist likes to make our own rules, so when it comes to year end lists and such, there are no rules. Along the lines of Torontoist's kinda-sorta-best-of's for 2004, while out and about we've noticed some good stuff, some bad stuff, and some damn near ugly stuff:

We're glad that the Globe's trying to get all young and hip on us, but it looks as if they're also vying for the grand prize in the 'World's Busiest Cover Competition.' Each week brings a new collage of close-cropped heads, excessive text and weirdly useless lines. Maybe they're trying to catch up to the Post, which has reefered its close-cropped heads since the Conrad era. Regardless, we're hoping they'll tone it down a bit. We get the idea - it's a TABLOID, it's DIFFERENT, it's LIVELY. And we generally like the section, though Liam Lacey in a new format is Liam Lacey just the same.

, and many a nights spent looking to Jon Stewart for some clarity, some grounding amidst all this confusion and absurdity. Which reminds us of the excellent, unfinished Avedon symphony in the pages of the New Yorker - an absurd and beautiful election spread that is broad enough to encompass an America that holds both Jon Stewart, and crazy old convention ladies with too much lipstick, and more lapel pins than a waitress at Fridays.

Never Forget/Internet Vets For Truth is the world's most awesome compendium of despair-inducing presidential multimedia. You can watch Kerry's full testimony before the CIA in 1967, and Zell Miller's infamous 'spitball speech,' though Torontoist strongly cautions against any repeat viewings of the latter (may induce shock, or, in extreme cases, death). You can also watch Bush read My Pet Goat, and watch President Elect Jon Stewart get up in bow-tie wearing Tucker Carlson's face. Torontoist recommends you Bookmark For Life.