Jon Stewart and Conan O'Brien

Thursday, Jon Stewart was a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Not surprisingly, it was a Barack Obama love fest.

That's nauseating, but I manage to deal with the incessant yapping by celebrities about this golden age of Obama.

I marvel that celebrities are willing to expose how starstruck they are over Obama. They don't realize how incredibly naive they appear. It's embarrassing that they're so caught up in the cult of personality.

For example:

CONAN O'BRIEN: I want to talk about how the world has changed, you know...

JON STEWART: Hope.

O'BRIEN: ...in the last week. You just muttered "hope" now. HOPE!

STEWART: All of our enemies are now laid before us prostate [sic] on hope. They love the hope. They love the Obama.

O'BRIEN: It's very strange because you and I grew up in this culture of cynicism about politics, and then suddenly, everybody is...uh, seems delighted and happy, which is a good thing. I applaud that. It's...

STEWART: I guess.

O'BRIEN: It's strange. These are strange times.

STEWART: It is. But it's the kind of thing that you always thought... You know, you have this idea in your head like, oh I bet somebody could come along sometime and they could assume the reins of power and there would be a feeling of, kind of a sigh of relief and this feeling of hopefulness, but you never actually thought that that would be accomplished. But it actually has. I mean, 3 million people went down to the Mall in Washington to watch a guy take an oath on a Bible. I mean it's, it's, it's remarkable.

They actually believe what they're saying. It's like they're cult members.

After Stewart called President Bush a "dick," he and O'Brien talked about being in the physical presence of The One.

STEWART: Have you had a chance to meet him?

O'BRIEN: Yes. Yeah, we... Yes. Very good, very good, very smooth. We had him on our show in Chicago and he just, you know, I thought, 'Why don't you just take over as host of the show?' He's that good. He's a pro. He's excellent.

Good grief.

They worship Obama. Their infatuation is so extreme that it's funny.

What bugs me is that these entertainers are still using President Bush and Vice President Cheney as punching bags.

O'BRIEN: We all saw it in the comedy world. It's the last day of the Bush presidency. Dick Cheney, uh, who is just this character given to us by God, departing Washington suddenly in a wheelchair.

STEWART: I know!

O'BRIEN: And all of us were just... It was too easy. It was crazy.

STEWART: A black fedora... You literally thought he was gonna come out with a little, just a white hairless cat on his lap...

STEWART: This is an interesting fact that I learned about Dick Cheney. We had on President Jimmy Carter the other day... I did not realize this about Cheney... It is 20 to 25 degrees cooler around him. He's apparently like liquid nitrogen.

O'BRIEN: Birds flying near him stop and drop to the ground.

STEWART: He can absorb sunshine. And when he exhales, as we would do with carbon dioxide, he exhales a sort of acid-tinged mist that can burn through space age polymers.

Notice how respectful Stewart is when he mentions Carter.

Both Stewart and O'Brien go after Vice President Cheney with such intense disdain.

They are deranged.

They remind me of Joe Biden.