Kurt Vonnegut on the Daily ShowI love Kurt Vonnegut. I love the Daily Show. Kurt Vonnegut on the Daily Show - what's not to love? Admittedly, Kurt is looking pretty frail, and is obviously doing the talk-show circuit regurgitating many of the same lines from show to show (he uses nearly the same 'people are a plague on the planet' spiel he used the other day on the Bill Maher show), but his take on the world, politics and human nature is always entertaining.

As John Stewart tells Kurt...

When I first read your books they opened up a whole school of thought to me of humanism that I never thought possible, and the one thing that always struck me was the inherent decency of the characters that you cared about, and it struck me that those characters reminded me so much of - upon reading interviews with you - of you.

Man, I wish I could get to say that to Kurt.

Re-reading Breakfast of Champions now, as I'm going through one of my regular Vonnegut seasons, having recently done Slapstick, Galapagos and Palm Sunday. And must get his new one (which is what he's plugging on the chat-show circuit) A Man without a Country.
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