If our commenters are to be believed, Jon Stewart DID attend plenty of punk shows in the 80s, but according to what seems like fairly solid research by RVAMag, the above picture purported to Jon Stewart at a Dead Kennedys show is actually of Red Cross/Prevaricators bassist Alford Faulkner.

Doug Dobey confirms what I was already pretty sure about–that is not Jon Stewart but former Red Cross/Prevaricators bassist Alford Faulkner. The process of nerding out took place in multiple posts on my blog this morning: first one, second one, third one, fourth (and hopefully last) one. But hey, this was fun, right? –Andrew [RVAMag]

Maybe this is just me not wanting to let go of something so awesome, but considering Jon Stewart was originally misidentified in the photo by the original photographer (and I doubt he’d just assume a guy was Jon Stewart unless he’d remembered him being around at some of those shows), I think it’s almost more important to note that it could’ve been him as it is to point out that it wasn’t. I bet we’re still gonna live off the fat of the land, just like he promised, with super-furry rabbits in every color.

I usually don’t post on Fridays after Weekend Movie Guide goes up, and I usually leave the Jon Stewart stuff to the TV bloggers, but I couldn’t not post this.

Irish Willis Peele snapped a lot of photographs of Virginia “speed punk” band Front Line back in the 1980s, including this one, from a Dead Kennedys show in Richmond, Va. Peele says the guy in the center is William and Mary student Jon Leibowitz — who later moved to New York and now has a pretty successful comedy career under the name Jon Stewart. In case you’re wondering, it adds up — Stewart was at William and Mary until 1984. [Gawker]

I heard the Misfits were scheduled to play the same show, but backed out when the college ran out of soup.

Sidenote: Patton Oswalt also went to William and Mary. That should definitely be the first two bullet points in the brochure.

UPDATE: So I guess it’s not him. Oh drat.

Thank God Jon Stewart is hosting the Oscars, because I love any excuse to post Daily Show clips. 

Mind you, I still don't care about the Oscars, because, as I've said (yeah I stole it from someone else, sue me), Oscar has no balls.  See: Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction, Adrien Brody over Daniel Day-Lewis, Crash over whatever the hell else was nominated, Et Al.  They even cheapened one of their best decisions in years, Best Actor for Denzell Washington in Training Day, by giving Halle Berry best Actress for Monster's Ball and Sidney Poitier the lifetime achievement award the same night.  Wow, guys, good thing you got that out of the way all at once.  As if Denzell was only the best black actor that year.

Bottom line, Oscar has no balls and hates black people.  What an asshole!  They might as well just make the award a Jerry Bruckheimer statuette.