An Interest in Hanukkah? Jon Stewart Sings!
By Mandy Katz
"Can I Interest You in Hanukkah?" may be the first ever TV ditty sung a due by Jon Stewart and fellow faux-newsie Stephen Colbert. It's part of Colbert's upcoming TV special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All, airing Sunday on Comedy Central. Audio of the duet aired yesterday on National Public Radio's Fresh Air — you can hear it on the show's website (click "Listen Now" and skip to minute 7:07). Sample lyric: "Yes, indeed, 8 days of presents, which means one nice one, then a week of dreck."
Colbert, the show's host and self-described "broadcasting legend," also sings his own original carols. After all, the crusty newsman explains, perched on a piano bench in a cozy cardigan sweater, every time we hear one of those other, familiar, Yuletide standards, "someone else...