I was very fortunate to happen upon free tickets to see the taping today (Thank you again RS). When I get inside after waiting for about an hour and a half (not bad), I was directed to my front row seat. We are told by the audience-prep-guy, for lack of a better moniker for him, that we are allowed to ask Jon any funny question we want.
This is when I think to myself a couple things: I don't know anything about politics, nor anything funny about them, so I figured I'd go a unique route. I knew that Jon Stewart's real name is Jon Stewart Leibowitz (spelled differently, but who cares). So I figure I'll ask him about it. I planned on asking if we were possbily related.
Anyway, when Jon gets out to talk to the audience and take our questions, he calls on me in the front row. I say, "You know my name's also Lebowicz."
He responds, "NO WAY! (in a funny sarcastic way) That makes us... Jews." He then asked me where my family (grandparents were from) and he told were his were from. He told his family moved to Brooklyn and were the "white trash Jews (his words, not mine)."This just made the adventure of the day that much cooler, and made me realize I should ditch class more often. My 2 minutes talk with a celebrity, as well as the very fun afternoon experience of seeing a taped TV show were well worth missing that one Psychbiology class today. My friend told me he fell asleep for the whole thing. Me-1; that guy- 0.
