Today the streets of DC, in particular the NW/SW part, have witnessed a comedic historical event that attracted over 250,000 people, all vowing to be on the sane side of mind whilst stamping all over each other on the underground trains. The Rally? Comedy Central's very own Jon Stewart dubbed it 'the rally to restore sanity'. His intention? to promote reasonableness (lol).
It was a very interesting turnout of people from all walks of faith and life. The whole event had a comedic feel to it with Stewart and Colbert in character but with a periodical political twist.
"These are reasonable people," Stewart tells Colbert. "They won't be once I release the bees!" shouts Colbert. "You're deliberately created fears of things that don't exist," says Stewart. "No I'm not, I'm raising awareness," replies Colbert.
Another funny performance was the duet of Ozzy Osbourne and Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam who appeared on stage together in perhaps the world's least likely duet.Then Kareem Abdul-jabbar was produced by Stewart after Colbert jumped in and claimed all Muslims were scary ( A jab at the NPR dude that got the sack for his 'fear of Islam' comment).
Stewart had some moments of seriousness as well making statements like "We live now in hard times, not end times" and "If we amplify everything, we hear nothing."
However my favourite part of the whole day was scouting for endless signs that proved to be top entertainment by themselves.
One sign said: "Iraqi-American here. I'm afraid to get on a plane with myself."
Another one had a Tea party slogan and underneath the slogan they wrote: "Snakes, Snakes, watch out for the snakes!"
Great day!
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