Stupidly they cut the bit in two when they posted it online. You posted the last 6 minutes, here's the first 3 minutes:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-ju…

Er, I meant you linked to the last 6 minutes. Didn't mean to imply you're the one that cut the segment in half. My gaffe.

To my hope that you stop using "hopefully" to mean "I hope", add my hope that you lay off reaching for the easy "disingenuous" so often.

@3 - Hopefully, you'll get over it.

Love how dissing "hopefully" has become the crusade du jour for the pedantic prescriptivists.

@5 But at least they're not being disingenuous about it.

As an ingenue I remain ever hopeful.

Loves it!

@Gus, you should read Bill Bryson's "The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way."

A summary from my cousin: "I was on mushrooms once whilst in the middle of reading this book, and I got so wrapped up in the arbitrariness of language and grammar, and the fact that all of it is completely made up, that I just didn't know how to talk anymore. It shattered my world."

@9, I like Bryson well enough, but his defense of "hopefully" delights in missing the point of avoiding it, that writers like to use it as a flabby placeholder. Same with "disingenuous". These aren't bad words, but writers use them for shortcuts, which is a habit I get yelled at for in my own writing. So I yell at others. Paying it forward.

@10 A-HA! A writer, are you?! Hopefully you do not take this reply sarcastically, I'm not trying to be disingenuous....

...just, bratty. :)

well, hopefully this comment is the last one. seriously.