The champion of fake news is for real!

He may be the epitome of fake news, but there is nothing fake about him.

Got to watch the “real” Jon Stewart at his act last weekend and was treated to an hour and half of rip-roaring political humor, some cheerful daily life banter accompanied by extensive impersonations and mockeries of religious frivolities (my personal favorite) – and through it all, he had our sides splitting. There were also witty comebacks to fans in the audience including an obsessive female one (not me).

My only complaint is that having not heeded to Ticketmaster’s urges on time, we ended up in the nosebleed section.

On second thoughts, there is a certain comfort in seeing such exalted personalities from afar – blur the image a little so they still have that semblance of unreality you often associate with them (it also helps to be myopic and too vain to succumb to glasses).

And now, to a petty observation: for those that have only seen him on the more flattering media of celluloid, when he says he’s tiny, he sure as hell means it.

Paraphrasing Oliver Goldsmith,

And still they gaz'd and still the wonder grew,
That one small frame could carry all he knew.