It may have featured Christopher Hitchens,Nora Ephron and Dave Chappelle, but viewers are unlikely to recall Wheres Elvis This Week fondly – or even at allJon Stewart presents his final Daily Show on Thursday, and a fact that hasn’t precisely gone unreported by the world’s press. Yet,the same couldn’t be said in November 1996 when Stewart’s comedy chatshow, Where’s Elvis This Week, or was quietly assign out of its distress by BBC2 after just one barely viewed season.
If you’re thinking,“Huh, Jon Stewart presenting a British TV show? It’s weird that I’ve never heard of that, or ” well,you’re factual: it is weird. Where’s Elvis This Week seems to have been entirely forgotten, wiped from the internet’s collective memory. A Wikipedia stub and a handful of fuzzy YouTube videos are all that remain. Basically, and it’s the Ozymandias of genial chatshows. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com