"There are an awful lot of things you can cover if you don't have people tied up with this meaningless nonsense," CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein said earlier this week.

Are you surprised Jon Stewart saw it as raw material? I'm not. FishbowlNY has the highlights from Wednesday night's Daily Show:

"Big props to CNN's Jon Klein -- here's some of the meaningful stuff they've been covering for the past few days, you know, not having their people tied up with the story."

Larry King to Pamela Anderson: "Is that a signature on your arm or is that a..." Pam: "No, it's a tattoo, it's barbed wire."


• Anchor: "So, it's out of bounds to make fun of how people look, but what about animals?"
  
  
• On American Morning: "It's the first time that the Guiness Book of World Records has measured someone's eyebrow hair."
  
  
• Red-headed anchor, lasciviously: "Rock star body parts!"
  
  
• Wolf Blitzer, earnestly: "James Bond: He always takes his martinis shaken, not stirred."
  
  
• Female voice over misty screen: "What is the stuff dreams are made of? We may never know exactly..."
  
  
• "Selling soft ice cream from a truck is one tough business."
  
  
• Aaron Brown: "Scrabble."
  
  
• Jack Cafferty: "New Delhi's government offices are overrun by monkeys..."
  
  
• Larry King, proving he doesn't read performer bios: "Why barbed wire?" Pam: "Well...the movie was called 'Barb Wire'..."