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March 19, 2010, 9:07 am

The Daily Show With…Glenn Beck?

By DAVE ITZKOFF
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We’re getting dangerously close to three’s-a-trend territory, people. Not two months after Jimmy Kimmel performed an entire episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in the guise of his late-night rival Jay Leno, Jon Stewart devoted the better part of Thursday’s “Daily Show” to an extended impersonation of his Fox News adversary Glenn Beck.

Mr. Stewart’s pastiche had all the familiar elements of a Glenn Beck broadcast: the ominpresent graphics, the precariously dangling eyeglasses, the spirited use of a blackboard and just a little bit of histrionic showmanship. If there was a slight fish-in-a-barrel quality to the performance, it is now only a matter of time before another late-night host loses it entirely, “Single White Female”-style, and decides that he or she is really someone else. Who’s next? David Letterman as Larry King? Craig Ferguson as Chelsea Handler? Charlie Rose as Mo’Nique?

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