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    Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity Schedule Leaked

    Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have been keeping the Rally to Restore Sanity schedule under wraps, but they had to reveal it to the Park Service in order to get a permit. And the Park Service revealed it to the world.

    From the Christian Science Monitor:

    10:00 a.m.: The pre-pre-show begins with videos and music on the jumbotron to keep the gathering crowd friendly and entertained.
    Noon: The pre-show starts with a performance from The Roots.
    12:40: A comedian (to be determined) warms up the audience.
    12:57: A video countdown with a show introduction.
    1:00: The show kicks off with the national anthem by a musical guest (to be announced).
    1:05: Mr. Stewart welcomes the crowd – whose projected size is ballooning daily. Currently, there are 200,000 sign-ups on the official Facebook page alone.
    1:20: Mr. Colbert enters, and two actors – Don Novello and Sam Waterston – perform readings.
    1:40: Jeff Tweedy and Mavis Staple perform for 10 minutes, followed by Stewart and Colbert until 2 p.m.
    2:15: Sheryl Crow performs for five minutes, followed by speakers and guests (to be determined).
    2:30: Musical guests (also still being lined up) come on.
    2:40: The show turns to a pre-taped sequence – The Sanity and Fear Awards. (Noting the intense media interest in this event as she reads through the rundown, Ms. Lowe says, “I’d like some sanity, myself.”)
    To round out the three-hour production, Stewart and Colbert will make their final statements. Then, adds Lowe, “They all hurry up and clean up after themselves.”

    Comedy Central will air the entire event on television and on its website.

    As a reminder, dagblog.com is sponsoring a Rally to Watch the Rally to Restore Sanity at the Village Lantern in New York City. In addition to watching the events on the big screens, we'll have stand-up from comedians Jamie Kilstein and Lee Camp and a reading by Michael Wolraich, aka Genghis, author of Blowing Smoke: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies about the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Christmas, and Turn Junior into a Raging Homosexual.

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    Geese...and now you just blabbed it all over the place.

    HA Smile


    Shoot, Genghis; if you'd only let me know that Oprah the Magnificent had conferred her blessings on the event, I wouldn't even have asked any questions....The CSM makes it sound like a deal is in the making.  (I love fellow cynics...Innocent)


    I confess to a cynical attempt to capture google news clicks in order to advertise our event. The schedule is actually useful for me to plan the event, but I recognize that it's not necessarily all that compelling to dag readers. Sorry. I missed the google news window in any case. Still waiting on oprah.

    Kewl; it's all good...   ;P)  Your entertainment sounds better; Sheryl Crow kinda creeps me out.


    Good luck. I'm going door to door myself or I'd join you.


    Good luck to you, Flavius


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