{"id":3598,"date":"2008-10-31T23:46:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T22:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2008-11-01T00:26:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T23:26:02","slug":"barack-obama-on-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/10\/31\/barack-obama-on-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"332\" height=\"316\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"comedy_central_player\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#cccccc\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=189761\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/sitewide\/video_player\/view\/default\/swf.jhtml\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"332\" height=\"316\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/sitewide\/video_player\/view\/default\/swf.jhtml\" flashvars=\"videoId=189761\" align=\"middle\" bgcolor=\"#cccccc\" name=\"comedy_central_player\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/index.php\">Barack Obama<\/a>&#8216;s recent appearance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/\">The Daily Show<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jon_Stewart\">Jon Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: 31\/10\/08: According to Variety&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.variety.com\/thompsononhollywood\/2008\/10\/stewart-and-oba.html\">Anne Thompson<\/a> this appearence had a dramatic impact on The Daily Show&#8217;s ratings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to Comedy Central, last night&#8217;s Obama satellite interview &#8220;lifted The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to record levels,&#8221; they wrote in an email:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was the most-watched and highest-rated episode in the show&#8217;s history, with 3.6 million total viewers and a 2.6 HHLD Rating.<\/li>\n<li>This episode beat the October 8 prior most-watched episode record set by Michele Obama, by 700,000 total viewers.<\/li>\n<li>The Daily Show with Jon Stewart&#8221; (October 29, 11:00 p.m. \u2013 11:30 p.m)<\/li>\n<li>3.6 million total viewers<\/li>\n<li>2.2 million P18-49 viewers<\/li>\n<li>2.6 HHLD Rating<\/li>\n<li>2.0 P18-49 Rating<\/li>\n<li>This is the first time The Daily Show has averaged more than 3 million viewers for a single episode.<\/li>\n<li>The Daily Show outperformed its previous best by +22% (2.9 million viewers on October 8, 2008).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama&#8216;s recent appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. UPDATE: 31\/10\/08: According to Variety&#8217;s\u00a0Anne Thompson this appearence had a dramatic impact on The Daily Show&#8217;s ratings: According to Comedy Central, last night&#8217;s Obama satellite interview &#8220;lifted The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to record levels,&#8221; they wrote in an email: It was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[114,627,625,626,434],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}