Categorical Aperitif

I don't have cable, so I have to catch up with The Daily Show periodically online. When I do, it often makes me laugh, but it rarely makes me roar with laughter like this bit did. The structure is perfect, the execution marvelous; by the time a panicky Jason Jones enters toward the end, the whole thing has become a small masterpiece of media-hysteria satire:

A favorite detail: the grave, newscasterly conviction with which Aasif Mandvi says "John, I give you frozen water...falling from the sky." These people know their craft!

// posted by nash @ 12:17 PM