Jon Stewart's Looks at the Downtown-Uptown Hurricane Divide
The Daily Show returned last night, and Jon Stewart looked to his news team to compare Hurricane Sandy damage in lower Manhattan versus upper Manhattan.
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Al Madrigal reported downtown, where the background was dark. Down there, grocery stores were empty, tunnels were flooded, and electricity was out. Madrigal's survival tactic? Keeping a machete on his back. "There's two types of folks still down here in no-juice town," he explained to Stewart. "People with machetes and dead people without machetes."
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Meanwhile, uptown in the brightly lit Times Square, John Oliver carried shopping bags and an ice cream. "It's a total hellscape up here," Oliver said as he took a bite of ice cream. "For starters, and I don't to start a panic, Serendipity has run out of mocha sprinkles. Which begs the question, Jon, where the f**k is FEMA when you need them?"
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