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Some of the pass-offs from Jon Stewart to Stephen Colbert are real gems, even when they manage to flub it. This one from a couple of weeks ago I couldn’t find on Comedy Central, so I’ll resort to posting it myself. Colbert provides some bedtime reading from Ayn (A is A) Rand.
I went through an Ayn Rand period in college, when I read both “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged”. Like the science-fiction writings of L. Ron Hubbard, I genuinely enjoyed Ayn Rand’s novels. If nothing else, they’re solid romantic soap operas. But as I did with Hubbard’s Dianetics, I decided Rand’s Objectivism wasn’t for me.
It’s pronounced EYE-Ann. There are interviews with Rand on YouTube. Mike Wallace from ’59, and another with Phil Donahue from I would guess 1979, because the Shah of Iran’s exile sounds current.
Also, I love the expression you caught on Stephen’s face. Makes you want to pinch his cheeks (if you’re a mother).
So it’s prounced AIN Rand, not INE Rand?