The Daily Illini has learned that The Daily Show will broadcast a segment that was filmed at the University of Illinois last week.

The segment deals with the Chief Illiniwek controversey and features Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi along with several U of I students.

The Daily Illini was lucky enough to send a photographer to It’s Brothers! where part of the segment was filmed. The bar will be holding a special viewing session tonight. You can view photos from the shoot here.

Once the segment airs, I will post the Comedy Central Motherload clip if it becomes available. Otherwise, get your YouTube on. If you’ve got a reaction to the show, send your thoughts to opinions@dailyillini.com and I will post them up here if I can’t fit them in the two print issues I have left.

Update: Comedy Central has the video up. Yes, that’s former DI columnist Jack McMillan.

Update #2: Motherload is notoriously difficult to work with. But luckily, it got posted on Youtube today. It will probably get taken down soon due to ongoing disagreements between Viacom (Comedy Central’s parent company) and Google (which bought YouTube this year) If you want to grab it before it’s gone, there are ways. Google is your friend.

Update #3: Youtube is now down and motherload still won’t embed properly, so here’s the direct link.

Oh, America. Oh you.

In Washington D.C. where there are more law degrees than phonebooks, a local judge has filed a personal lawsuit against a Korean-operated dry cleaning business over a pair of missing trousers. He is seeking damages in excess of 67 MILLION dollars. You can read about it from ABC news here. I HIGHLY recommend it. The jokes write themselves. My favorite excerpts:

The civil trial, set for June, has the scope of a John Grisham courtroom thriller and the societal importance of a traffic ticket.

The ABC News Law & Justice Unit has calculated that for $67 million dollars Pearson could buy 84,115 new pairs of pants at the $800 value he placed on the missing trousers in court documents. If you stacked those pants up they would be taller than eight Mount Everests. If you laid them side by side they would stretch for 48 miles.

It was May, 2005 and Pearson was about to begin his new job as an administrative judge. Naturally, he wanted to wear a nice outfit to his first day of work. He said in court papers that he tried on five Hickey Freeman suits from his closet, but found them all to be ‘too tight,’ according to the Washington Post.

He believes he is entitled to $1,500 for each violation, each day during which the “Satisfaction Guaranteed'’ sign, and another sign promising “Same Day Service'’ was up in the store — more than 1200 days. And he’s multiplying each violation by three because he’s suing Jin and Soo Chung and their son. He also wants $500,000 in ‘emotional damages’ and another $542, 500 in legal fees, even though he is representing himself in court. He wants $15,000 for ten years worth of weekend car rentals as well (Note: So he can take his business elsewhere.)

It goes on and on like that in some starch-filled odyssey. Obivously, 67 million dollars for a pair of pants is a little much. I would’ve been satisfied to get reimbursed on the pants and 50 percent off on my next winter coat job, but I digress.

Surely, this will give plenty of ammunition for comedy shows and the tort-reform lobby. However, this story has also conveniently reminded me that I need to do some laundry of my own.

Other headlines that were in the running for this blog post:

Now HERE’S your activist judge!

Citizen sues scrubbers for slip-up over slacks

That’s what I call pressing a (law)suit!

Lack of laundry leads to legal limbo

Lawsuit gives whole new meaning to ’spin’ cycle

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Somebody, help me. Please.