The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Up Up and a Waste

Season 6 • 08/07/2001

Why fly around the world in a plane when you can do it in a hot air balloon.

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Andie MacDowell

Andie MacDowell's new film premiers on HBO, which means you'll be able to catch it for the next six months.
08/06/2001
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Moment of Zen - Nick Nolte

Nick Nolte taking a breathing test and passing out.
08/06/2001
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The Honey Pit

Wilt Chamberlain's house decor would even make a Serbian pornographer say, "Oh, that's too much."
08/06/2001
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Unsettling Discovery

Jon's going to be going on Fear Factor, no wait, make that his therapist.
08/07/2001
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Wild Blue Yonder

While costs are prohibitive now, soon balloon travel will not only be available to billionaires, but to millionaires as well.
08/07/2001
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People Who Make People

You just know that Pope John Paul's $8.5 million book advance went right up his nose.
08/07/2001
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Pope Book Deal

Jon recaps today's top news stories and previews Steve Carell's piece on beating the summer heat.
08/07/2001
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Moment of Zen - Clone Ranger

The Italian scientist Severino Antinori likes the idea of cloning.
08/07/2001
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Casino Dogs

Warning signs that your grandparents are in a gang, or that they just know you don't love them anymore.
08/07/2001
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Joe Rogan

In the game of dodgeball that is life, there are two types of people, those who throw and those who are duck.
08/07/2001
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Up Up and a Waste

Billionaire adventurer attempts to fly around the world in a hot air balloon... again.
08/07/2001
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Tara Reid

Tara Reid reports that "American Pie 2" answers all the unanswered questions from the original.
08/08/2001
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Rubber Band Suzuki

Two brothers in California create an enormous rubber band ball and get into the Guinness Book of World Records, otherwise, it would have been a waste of time.
08/08/2001
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Beat the Heat

If anyone ever asks you how short is too short when it comes to your shorts, Steve Carell says, not short enough.
08/08/2001
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Moment of Zen - Papaya Suzuki

Japanese group Papaya Suzuki and his Oyaji dancers sing and dance on stage.
08/08/2001
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Home on the Range

A little girl's novelty umbrella hat provided some relief in the heat wave, but her companion's funny Asian eyeglasses did not.
08/08/2001
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Heat Wave

Matt Walsh is in the Daily Show weather center, giving the weather from the Weathertronic 2000, which has ran out of suns.
08/08/2001
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Record Heat Continues

For strained journalism you won't want to miss, tune in to NBC's Catastrophe Week.
08/08/2001
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Jason Biggs

Jason Biggs' management threw him a party, but he left early and missed the arrival of the drunk Bush twins.
08/09/2001
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We Love Showbiz - We Hate Goodbyes

Nancy Walls and Steve Carell hate to say goodbye to retiring Michael Flatley, the Lord of the Shirtless Dance.
08/09/2001
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Down Town

Folks in Jefferson don't lock their doors -- they dead bolt them, then jam a chair under the door knob and sleep with one eye open.
08/09/2001
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