Rachel shoutout on The Daily Show

[Merlinsky]

I got about 3.5 hrs of sleep so my memory of the exact joke is fuzzy (I totally should've posted right after he did it) and I had to stop and try to remember what led up to it for context. If I got it wrong, I'll fix it later.

Jon Stewart was doing a bit on this idiot from the winning Super Bowl team not wanting to join his team in the White House because he claimed (brace yourself) Obama only cared about his team because they won. Wow that was a brilliant observation. Jon went on to make jokes about how it's great he cracked the code on what it took to get an invitation. The end punchline of the bit was a shot of Rachel Alexandra eating at a table at the White House with Obama. Assuming I didn't transpose the Rachel joke from another bit on tonight's show out of sheer exhaustion, I thought it was great to be minding my own business and see an RA reference on an actual 'hip' show or whatever. He didn't use Mine That Bird, he didn't say 'the winner of [the race]'...he actually mentioned her name which I enjoyed. Like everyone should know to what he's referring.