The Daily Show gives out really lame gift bags to its guests
“First, let me tell you about the gift basket they give you. It came with a bottle of vodka from Ireland, and a gift card for a free tattoo,” said Al Jazeera correspondant Josh Rushing in a CBS interview. “And the gift card is presented in a very nice little jewelry box, a nice little velvet jewelry box. I thought at first it would be something great I could give my wife. Then I popped it open and it was a VIP gift card from some tattoo parlor in New Jersey.
I gave Jon Stewart a hard time about it, too, when he came back to the green room. I told him if he wanted to give me liquor from Ireland, I’d rather it have been whiskey. If you’re gonna give me vodka, make it from Russia. As for the tattoo, I asked him ‘Do I need to drink the vodka to deal with the tattoo? Do these gifts appeal to your other guests?’
Then he stopped being funny and said ‘It’s really embarrassing. We don’t put out those gift bags. Some promotional company does it. But it’s really embarrassing.’”
