The Daily Show's Jason Jones goes to "Pundit School"

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"It was a circumstance where I should have Wikipedia-ed Neville Chamberlain."

-- budding wingnut broadcasting megastar Kevin James (you remember him -- the guy who got publicly pantsed by, of all people, Chris "Tweety" Matthews), to Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones in Monday's "Pundit School" segment

"That guy's got great hair."

-- Jason Jones, in the same segment, the guy in question being star pundit Ann Coulter

by Ken

I know you folks out there live to watch video clips, so if you didn't see Monday night's Daily Show, I'm going to have to insist that you drop whatever it is you're doing and watch this clip. You're studying for a big test, you say? So is the test going to go away if you watch some stinking five-minute comedy clip? The baby is crying, you say? And he/she won't still be crying five minutes from now? Come on, people, suck it up!

I have to say that I'm not normally a great fan of Jason Jones among the Daily Show correspondents. But his investigation of an honest-to-gosh "Pundit School," produced by Glenn Clements and Asaf Kastner, ranks with the funniest and most brilliant pieces the show has ever done.

The focus is Kevin James, the guy who got himself the national spotlight by accusing presidential candidate Barack Obama of Nevile Chamberlain-style appeasement (after Obama said that he would talk to foreign leaders), then going on and having not a clue when Chris Matthews persisted in asking, "What did Chamberlain do?" As Jason, trying to find out from Kevin just how horrible his Hardball experience was, helpfully prompts him: "It looked like you got your pants pulled down and spanked on national TV."

It turns out, though, that Jason is wrong. Pundit school operator Jess Todtfeld sets him straight. To him, our Kevin's got it all: energy, enthusiasm, hand gestures -- you name it. "But he doesn't know anything," Jason objects. As Jess explains, that doesn't matter.

Then we see "Ado Annie" Coulter doing the Neville Chamberlain riff but turning it into a saturation bombing assault. This is obviously punditocratic greatness. Annie's got it all: great energy, action words, the whole ball of wax.

"I tell you what else is great," Jason says. "That guy's got great hair."

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