Today’s fun video: How funny can you make the census?
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Gary Locke Pt. 1 | ||||
| ||||
Oh right, the census.
That's why former Washington Gov. and current Commerce Secretary Gary Locke was on the Daily Show Thursday night.
The Commerce Department, see, is in charge of the Census, which is underway. It's in that government envelope you received in the mail and put with the sweepstakes, credit card touts and other stuff you'll open some time, when you get around to it . . . but may just throw out because the stack is getting too tall and it's late tonight and trash pickup is tomorrow morning.
Which means you are going to cost the federal government a bazillion dollars because they'll have to send a census taker to your door (about a gajillion times because you're just never home) to get the answers to the 10 little questions you could answer in about two minutes if you'd just Open the Darn Envelope and Fill Out the Damn Form.
But we digress. Locke's appearance is apparently part of the huge marketing effort underway for the census. The marketing effort seemingly did not spend a lot on writing Locke's jokes and practicing his delivery; but then, Locke was always a bit of a wonk, so he makes a decent straight man for Stewart, and manages to slip in a few interesting bits...like the question that was on the form in 1790 that isn't on the form in 2010. Answer at about 2:40 in the first clip.
And Locke does get two segments, which is more than Snoop Dogg got on Wednesday night. Second segment is below.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Gary Locke Pt. 2 | ||||
| ||||
