The NYT analyzes Jon Stewart's totally punk rock beatdown on Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala.

There is nothing more painful than watching a comedian turn

self-righteous. Unless of course, the comedian is lashing out at smug and

self-serving television-news personalities. Jon Stewart could not resist a last

dig at CNN's "Crossfire" during his monologue on Comedy Central on Monday night

. "They said I wasn't being funny," the star of "The Daily Show With Jon

Stewart" said, rolling his eyes expressively. "And I said to them: 'I know that.

But tomorrow I will go back to being funny," Mr. Stewart said, adding that their

show would still be bad, although he used a more vulgar expression.

Today's action will be fun. I'll blog it after it happens, assuming i figure out how to do that legally.