post-joseph heller name dropping

Jon Stewart. The world is not only watching, they're listening. Do you know how hard it is to get people to listen?

“The Daily Show” resonates not only because it is wickedly funny but also because its keen sense of the absurd is perfectly attuned to an era in which cognitive dissonance has become a national epidemic. Indeed, Mr. Stewart’s frequent exclamation “Are you insane?!” seems a fitting refrain for a post-M*A*S*H, post-“Catch-22” reality, where the surreal and outrageous have become commonplace — an era kicked off by the wacko 2000 election standoff in Florida, rocked by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and haunted by the fallout of a costly war waged on the premise of weapons of mass destruction that did not exist.

P.S. The article mentions Reza Aslan! I've totally done dinner and a movie with that guy! He's a smarty. And his book (No god but God) is pretty darn good.