Check out this interesting New York Times article acknowledging that The Daily Show is a “genuine cultural and political force.”

A few choice quotes from the article:

- “The Daily Show” resonates not only because it is wickedly funny but also because its keen sense of the absurd is perfectly attuned to an era in which cognitive dissonance has become a national epidemic.

- Mr. Stewart has said he is looking forward to the end of the Bush administration “as a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal.”