Our end goal -- I'll stop the show and die a happy man -- is if we could get Larry J. Sabato and Jon Stewart on the show simultaneously.

By the later episodes, the spontaneity was partly a function of school work kicking in. We couldn't sit down and plan every segment [in detail] like we did with the first couple of episodes.

It just goes to show, if you have the drive and the desire, we have the resources here at the University.

You can get people interested and involved in ways far beyond the capabilities of normal TV.

The first couple of episodes, there are tapes and tapes of us laughing because we couldn't get the line down.

Now we faced a greater challenge -- keeping it up, maintaining the humor and professionalism we started with, during the typically very rough third year.

After weeks -- weeks being minutes -- we had a location.

There was this one line, 'fresh succulent first years,' that we taped literally 22 times.

They've yet to return our phone calls, e-mails, pigeon carriers.