Before The Daily Show with Jon Stewart went on vacation, the show profiled the correspondents getting ready to cover the Republican and Democratic conventions. In the segment, the correspondents noted that a few of the newer entries hadn't covered a convention.
The experts were leading the rookies through initiation, and the two most senior of the senior correspondents experts are Canadian.
Samantha Bee and Jason Jones have become the experts on The Daily Show. Being an expert doesn't matter too much in the regular segments. The work that goes in spoofing the convention requires the most difficult research and the most expert timing.
Bee is the longest-serving TDS correspondent, having been on the show since 2003. Jones, her real-life husband, is the second-longest serving correspondent, been there since 2005.
Given the GOP war on women, expect Bee to be on the forefront of that issue, even if she gets help from Jessica Williams, the newest correspondent on the staff.
You might recall Bee scouring the 2008 Republican National Convention (see above) trying to get them to say the word "choice" for the Palin family keeping Trig. Who could forget the Sarah Palin/Hillary Clinton spoof that landed Bee, albeit briefly, in The Daily Show anchor chair.
The staff got thrown a curveball since the Republicans canceled the first day, cramming four days of speeches into three days. The Democratic convention will also be three days, but that was scheduled due to the Labor Day holiday.
The Daily Show, along with its sister program, Colbert Report, run Tuesday-Friday for the convention weeks in Tampa and Charlotte. The Daily Show airs at 11 pm Eastern and Pacific on the Comedy Channel and 12:05 am local time on CTV; Colbert Report follows 30 minutes later.
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