An Open Letter to Jon Stewart

Those of you that know me have seen this kind of thing before. Inspired by Chris Berg, and egged on by Janice I sent the following email to Comedy Central:

Dear Jon Stewart,

I was very offended by your sketch which featured you killing a hobo for fun. I thought it was unnecessary and wasteful.

For generations my people have hunted the majestic hobo, not for fun, or sport, but for survival. Even in best of times we did not kill a Hobo and just leave it on the sidewalk. We learned to use the whole hobo.

We harvested their skin for their power. We offered their eyeballs to our dark and ancient god. We made life sustaining hobo pemmican.

In short you made a joke of something you know nothing about.

Shame, shame on you, Jon Stewart.

Terrence Ryan
Philadelphia, PA

At best maybe we'll actually finally get tickets. Worst, Jon Stewart will get a restraining order on me. I also noticed that I spelt his name "John" in the letter I sent. I bet he loses all respect for me.

January 13, 2006 Posted by Terrence Ryan at 12:17 AM

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Comments

You're aware that Gideon Evans, Without a Net alum, is a producer for the show? Guessing he can probably open a few doors for you, literally or figuratively.

Posted by: Jeff Porten at February 17, 2006 2:40 AM

Are you saying that Gideon would be happy to bring my hobo-killing issues to Jon?

Posted by: Terrence Ryan at February 17, 2006 9:53 AM

Gideon Evans here, I'm afraid you will be disappointed to find out that I myself made a hobo-killing joke in one of my field segments a couple of years ago. I'm not sympathetic to your cause of hobo preservation.

Posted by: Gideon Evans at March 20, 2006 10:53 AM

I would like to point out that I am opposed to wasteful, meaningless hobo-killing. Not all hobo-killing.

Posted by: Terrence Ryan at March 20, 2006 10:32 PM

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