Daily Show

Tonight's episode had Aasif Mandvi try to interview Health insurance executives at one of their meeting but he kept getting blocked by security so he tries to sneak back in, in disguise. First he's Senator Mandvi and demands entrance, then Uncle Moneybags, then Batman, each costume more ridiculous than the last but all to no avail. He wasn't getting in but it did look like he was amusing the security guards.

Jon's guest was Michael Lewis, author of The Blindside and Moneyball. His new book "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" is out and details how a few investors saw the current financial meltdown coming and were able to make a profit on it. in fact one guy with a glass eye and Asparger's made a billion dollars betting that the economy would crumble. This of course begs the question, if one guy could see it, why not all the others? Michael said the answer might be that the big banks had gotten so good at hiding their bad assets that they had fooled themselves into believing their own lie. Pretty good interview that made a very difficult subject easy to understand.

Daily Show

It's almost a Spy vs. Spy cartoon. Two spies engaged in the most duplicitous spy tricks available (poison, invisible ink, jetpacks, whatever) all to get not state secrets but intel from a candy bar company on how many peanuts really goes into a Mr. Goodbar. Sounds ridiculous, right? But according to Eamon Javers on tonight's Daily Show that's precisely what's going on. Large corporations are hiring CIA and KGB operatives to spy on their competitors! The worse part? The aren't retired operators but still employed by the government! Spying on China by day and on Hershey's by night. Very bizarre stuff. Mr. Javers book looks like it would be an interesting read.

Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Tonight Jon has a field day with Glenn Beck's interview with Eric Massa. It was pretty clear that Beck was expecting Massa to come on an confirm everything Beck has said about the Health Care bill but somewhere in his excitement he forgot that Massa was still a Democrat!

Massa certainly wasn't going to throw every belief he's held as a Democrat under the bus just because he feels strongly about health care! Of course Jon had a wonderful time splicing together all of Beck's attacks to draw something (ANYTHING!!) about the corruption of the Democratic Party out of him but it was obvious there was no water in this well. Too bad Beck, better luck next time!