Jon Stewart shaped
The Daily Show into a funny, sharp-edged satire about politics and news media. But there was an awful lot of music flowing through the show’s DNA, from the Bob Mould theme song performed by They Might Be Giants, to Stephen Colbert’s love of Stephen Sondheim, to Ed Helms’s insistence on seizing every opportunity to sing on camera, to Jessica Williams’s turns as Senior Beyoncé Correspondent. This playlist has similarly eclectic influences. Some of the songs were heard on the show. Some are from moments in Stewart’s life and career. Some relate to my 9-month sprint turning 20 years of television into a book. All of them, however, are songs that I can’t ever hear again without thinking of
The Daily Show (The Book)...