Legacy Assessed Realistically

John Herrman
The Awl
Published in
1 min readNov 3, 2014

“I do think that the general sense of [The Daily Show] as somehow being more authentic or having integrity is based almost purely on a dissatisfaction with traditional journalism. We are, in some ways, the cheap protest vote. I remember people said I was voted the fourth most trusted. But my name being in there was a fuck-you to everybody else. A dildo rolled in glitter would serve the same purpose as my name in that conversation.

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