Is that really Musharraf on the Daily Show?

… and yes, it was, in one of the most surreal television episodes of the year. Jon Stewart, carefully serving tea and twinkies, asking in question number one: “So… where’s Osama bin Laden?”

I’m not sure what’s more surreal… a controversial sitting President appearing on a book tour in the US, or a controversial sitting President appearing on Comedy Central, on a book tour in the US.

And he did the Seat of Heat - asked who’d win a vote in Pakistan between President Bush and Osama bin Laden, Mushaffaf said: “they’d both lose miserably”.

~~Nothing on YouTube… yet.~~

Aha! Thanks to reader Pelle Sten who supplies these links in the comments…

(clips are now after the click)

Part one

You’ll find part two here.

[This post, incidentally, marks the launch of the new multimedia version of Completetosh.com, which sees the print and new media parts of my brain merge, after this summer's move to a multimedia study deep in fashionable South London. There are expected to be some cutbacks in my pen budget, although that will be more than compensated for by a deep and ongoing investment in a Sky TV subscription. More on this to follow].