{"id":48,"date":"2012-10-25T20:10:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T20:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2012-10-25T20:10:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T20:10:03","slug":"my-jon-stewart-guests-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/my-jon-stewart-guests-number\/","title":{"rendered":"My Jon Stewart Guests Number"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nate Silver, a baseball blogger who is now a much bigger deal<\/a>, was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart a week or so ago.<\/p>\n

Bill from The Platoon Advantage<\/a> has met Nate and made a neat (Nate?) observation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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So I was wondering:<\/p>\n

How many of Jon Stewart’s guests have I met and chatted with?<\/p>\n

Here’s my list, using Wikipedia’s list of guests<\/a> as my guide. Some people were on more than once; I’m only putting up their first appearance date.<\/p>\n

1) Richard Perle, January 27, 2004. I know a family member of his and met him via that person. Short conversation, nothing about national security came up. But definitely a “chat.”<\/p>\n

2) Katie Couric, December 16, 2004. Met her at the When Families Grieve<\/a> launch event. Someone introduced me to her and we spoke for about a minute or two about the program.<\/p>\n

3) Marci Hamilton, July 11, 2005. She is a professor at Cardozo, where I went to law school, and we’ve spoken here and there.<\/p>\n

4) Craig Newmark, February 26, 2007. I’ve met him a few times. Gotten coffee and everything. Good guy.<\/p>\n

5) Jimmy Wales, January 5, 2011. I used to work for him and know him well. Strangely, I’ve been offered Daily Show tickets once in my life. That date? January 5, 2011. That’d have been weird.<\/p>\n

6) Kevin Clash, October 24, 2011. I work for him, kind of.<\/p>\n

7) Lawrence Lessig, December 13, 2004. Jimmy (#5) brought him in to speak to us at Wikia once. I spoke with him afterward about copyright and federal financing of campaigns.<\/p>\n

So my Jon Stewart Number is 7. For now. If you only count those who know who I am, it’d be three — Craig, Jimmy, and Kevin.<\/p>\n

Honorable Mention:<\/p>\n

1) Miss Piggy, July 13, 1999. I don’t know Miss Piggy but I know her performer — probably. It’s not clear who performed her that day. But I’ve never met Piggy so this doesn’t count either way. (Kermit was on the show on February 13, 2001, but to date, I haven’t met his performer.)<\/p>\n

2) Al Roker, July 20, 2000. He lives\/lived in my neighborhood, and I see him around every so often. He once stood in front of me at checkout at the grocery store and I said hi. We didn’t really “chat” so it doesn’t count.<\/p>\n

3) Joe Lieberman, September 14, 2000. His step-son (?) went to the same camp I did, and on visiting day, I apparently had a conversation with him about something, but it was only afterward that someone told me I was speaking with Joe Lieberman. And I may not have been, actually, because his step-son (or whomever) wasn’t in my age group, so it’s unlikely that it was me that Senator Lieberman was speaking with. But at least one person said I did.<\/p>\n

4) Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman, April 9, 2001. We’ve never met, but of February 18, 2012, he tweeted a link to Now I Know<\/a>. That has to count for something, right?<\/p>\n

5) John McCain, July 26, 2001. Met him at a book signing. We chatted for about three seconds, if you include the two seconds it took for him to sign a copy of his book for me. Doesn’t count.<\/p>\n

6) Rich Eisen, August 15, 2002. We’ve spoken on the phone, via Twitter, and via email a number of times — although he probably doesn’t recall most of them — but have never met.<\/p>\n

7) Joe Scarborough, September 30, 2003. I heard him speak once and am about 50% sure I went up to speak with him after, albeit briefly, and, apparently, inconsequentially if I did.<\/p>\n

8) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, May 5, 2004. Met him, said hi, no conversation. I took a lot of pictures, but there was no “chat” there. I didn’t even introduce myself.<\/p>\n

9) Floyd Abrams, April 25, 2005. Went to my old synagogue. Met him at a kiddush club<\/a> once but it was just a “hi, nice to meet you” thing, if that, until one of his friends came by. Spoke with his wife a bit (it was their anniversary), though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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