The good news: “The Daily Show” is coming to D.C. this fall, directly before the midterm elections.
The bad news: Within minutes of the announcement Monday morning, all the tickets were sold out.
Jon Stewart and company will head to the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Sidney Harman Hall in Chinatown to tape four nights of “When Grizzlies Attack: The Daily Show Midterm Teapartyganza” in late October, marking the eighth time the show has gone on the road. (The last and only time the “Daily Show” moved to D.C. was for the midterms in 2002).
The folks at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, obviously, are thrilled.
“We are all very, very excited,” managing director Chris Jennings said.
Jennings said the venue was selected because of its size and because it met all the technical requirements and was also used to film a Comedy Central special for native Washingtonian Whitney Cummings earlier this year. “Whitney Cummings: Money Shot” debuts Saturday night on Comedy Central.
For those who didn’t snatch up “Daily Show” tickets, the D.C. shows will be broadcast Oct. 25-28.
