Superfund? Super Fun!
Berkeley Pit to Be Funnified on The Daily Show
By Courtney Lowery, 6-19-06
In Butte, Superfund is about to get Super Funny.
Butte and its Berkeley Pit are scheduled to be the main characters of a segment this week on Jon Stewart's Daily Show about the move to charge admission to the Superfund site. Roberta Forsell Stauffer gives the full local report in the Montana Standard, talking to interviewees and producers about what to expect when it airs this Wednesday.
Andrea Stierle, who has been researching microbes in the pit, is one of the interviewees for the spot. She says, "We wanted to make sure that a Butte story was told with respect as well as humor." But as Stauffer reports, the show is more likely going to be whatever the Daily Show thinks is funny -- including correspondent Jason Jones dropping his pants. Says Stierle, “Their goal was to make this thing edgy, but I thought they went a little beyond the edge. That was truly not what I anticipated.”
Producer Miles Kahn says not to worry though: "If Butte has a good sense of humor about the things that are good and bad about Butte, they shouldn’t be scared."
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