Strange deskfellows.(Journalism)(Comedy Central's Jon Stewart)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, January, 2004

News viewers might have gotten a small taste of why Comedy Central's Jon Stewart (above) works so well on cable but so far hasn't found a home on a broadcast network. During NBC's State of the Union postgame last Tuesday, NBC's Tom Brokaw got Stewart's take on Bush's speech and on Howard Dean's strange post-Iowa Caucus screech.

But Stewart's tongue-in-cheek approach ("He knows a lot of states," Stewart quipped) clashed strangely with Brokaw's formal network style.--P.A.