jon stewart
i don't watch late night shows, they're just not for me, but i'm 34 now, but when i was a kid during the 2000s i watched a lot of the daily show. watched it every day, even bought the silly book he made. this was during the bush administration. and this is not to say that i have particularly strong feelings about any of this. but i've observed recently that i have some kind of a strange, specific reaction to jon stewart now -- i spent so much more time with him during my adolescence than i did with my real dad, who he kinda vaguely resembles, that when i see a clip of him speaking there's a part of my brain that's like "oh, that's my dad". weird, right? the wonders of being an emotionally neglected child i guess.