Rally To Restore Sanity and/or Fear

[BoldMushroom]

Who's watching it right now? It's on Comedy Central and ComedyCentral.com.

Not sure why, but The Roots are playing right now. You might say their flow is insane.

[Eris]

Who's watching it right now? It's on Comedy Central and ComedyCentral.com.

I am now.

Not sure why, but The Roots are playing right now.

The roots kinda made sense. But the mythbusters?!

You might say their flow is insane.

It sure is.

[BoldMushroom]

Yeah, the Mythbusters got old fast.

Has Stephen Colbert been in that Chilean capsule the whole time...?

[Gjallarhorn]

Overall a great show; I loved Stewart's closing speech, and the Sanity/Fear awards Stewart and Colbert were handing out. R2D2 was clearly the best guest.

Seeing Stewart next to Kareem Abdul Jabbar was pretty funny; talk about an immense height distance.

[BoldMushroom]

I thought the amount of music in the show was a little excessive. The Roots and John Legend were a great opener, but they were half an hour themselves. Then there was 4troops, the Yusuf Islam/Ozzy Osbourne/O'Jays thing, Jeff Tweedy and Mavis Staples, the Colbert/Stewart song, Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow (ugh)...

I thought it could have been more pointed, more focused. I felt like a lot of the bits weren't as funny or daring as they could've been. Generally, I thought the funniest and most significant moments were the ones with Stewart and Colbert themselves. I liked the medals for promoting sanity and fear. The podium debate was the funniest part of the rally - bogeymen, fire, Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, media montages, giant Colbert puppets.

Considering the show as a whole, I was a little underwhelmed. I thought it could have been a lot less meandering and ancillary (and a lot funnier). The 40 minutes or at the end (after the dreadful Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow thing) were pretty worthwhile.