The problem with trying not to take anything seriously

Here's a fresh, home-typed transcript of what Jon Stewart, who a bit more than five and a half years ago said the most sincere and moving thing I've ever seen on television, said to open his program this evening (after the usual cheery welcome and guest plug):

Obviously for anybody who's been tuned to the television today, a horrible, horrible day. Uh, I have absolutely nothing to add that is insightful or anything. I will just do what I always do when faced with something, uh, that, uh, is that powerfully damaging to the emotional core; I will begin to repress it, and I will swallow it, uh, and I imagine that thirty years from now, someone will spill juice, and I will freak the f*ck out. So, uh, to that end, let's move on as though the world is okay.

That's pretty much all I can do on days like this. That, and pray, and every now and then start to cry and freak out just a little bit. But mostly that.