Happy birthday, Jon Stewart

Happy birthday, Jon Stewart! By “Jon Stewart,” I mean the host of the Daily Show, not the:

• Scottish footballer
• The secret identity of the Green Lantern
• Member of the Kingston Trio
• Financier and railway builder
• U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Canadian Member of Parliament
• Scottish Earl
• Son of James II of Scotland
• Son of James III of Scotland

What Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (Stewart’s given name) may lack in anti-Semitism, it gains in recognizance. Still, Jon, kick back and enjoy your 44^th knowing that among Jon Stewarts, you currently have monopolized name recognition big time compared with your counterparts above. Take that, John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Buchan!

Thanks to DVR technology, I have been a pretty regular Daily Show viewer for about two years now. I love Stewart’s sense of humor because it is somehow even drier than my own. (Some of my friends, and possibly my wife, would dispute that. Water, anyone?) Here’s hoping for many more years of fake news and occasional cameos by Steve Carell.