I like The Daily Show, but putting Stewart on a pedestal as someone who is "razor sharp" frankly doesn't impress me much. It's a relative concept. Most of the intelligent people I hang out with would be considered, in terms of vocabulary, verbal acuity, and debate skills, far better than a group of television talking heads. Put Stewart up against someone like Christopher Hitchens, Camille Paglia, or any other random public intellectual and I don't think you'd find them shaking in their boots at the prospect of a "war of words."