The Daily Show Is Coming to Austin

Who’s ready to have another laugh about our state’s deeply perplexing political landscape?

This morning, New York liberal media types at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart announced that Jon Stewart himself will descend upon our fair city for a week’s worth of programs set to center around the midterm elections.

Set for the week of Oct. 27-Oct. 30 and dubbed “Democalypse 2014: South by South Mess,” the mini-series (vacation? staff retreat?) will almost assuredly cast far more attention on the gubernatorial race between attorney general Greg Abbott and state senator Wendy Davis than, say, the City Council race for District 2.

Each taping’s tapped to go down at the Zach Theatre’s Topfer Theatre, a 420-person venue on South Lamar that doesn’t see big shows like this often. (No surprise, tickets to the tapings were snapped up online in a hot minute.)

A press release from the show notes that this will be the 11th time the series has packed up and shipped off to cover a major political event, though a closer look reveals special midterm election coverage has only been afforded to Daily Show viewers thrice: twice in Washington, D.C. (2002 and 2010), and once in Columbus, Ohio (2006).

So that’s great – or terrible – depending on who you’re voting for – and who wins.