Jon Stewart spent much of the first segment on Monday's show talking about Barack Obama's backtrack on public financing. If that first segment is any indication, Jon Stewart is going to have a somewhat difficult task should Barack Obama get elected. I don't know if it was the bit itself or if it was the audience's affection for BO, but the segment went over like a led balloon. After the segment, Jon Stewart turned to the audience and said, "You know you're allowed to laugh at him, right?"

Politics is always going to provide ample fodder for shows like "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," but I think that the main reason these shows flourished in the ways that they have is because of the incompetency of the Bush Administration. It's given everyone who cares an outlet for our frustrations and there is no better outlet than laughter.

I think "The Colbert Report" will have an even more difficult time once Bush leaves office. "The Daily Show" is always going to have news footage of current events to mull through, but "The Colbert Report's" very existence relies on being an ironic middle finger to the Bush Administration.

And once Bush and Co. leave office, I think that it might be a case of Superman existing in a world with Lex Luthor. I recently read an article in which comedians remarked that Hillary Clinton would have been the better candidate from a comedic standpoint. They remarked that (as of now) Barack Obama is a comedian's worst nightmare.

So yeah, consider my curiosity piqued to see how "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" change upon Bush's exit and (hopefully) Obama's inauguration.

- Matthew