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‘Rally to Restore Sanity’ Fast Facts

The low down on Jon Stewart's October Rally in Washington, D.C.

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‘Rally to Restore Sanity’ Fast Facts

Poster for Jon Stewart's 'Rally to Restore Sanity', a Daily Show event in Washington, D.C.

The Daily Show

Who: Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show is playing host. Expect many of the show's correspondents, like John Oliver and Samantha Bee to be on hand.

What: The Rally to Restore Sanity is, in Stewart's words, "A million moderate march! Where we take to the streets to send a message to our leaders and our national media that says, 'We're here! We are ... only here until 6 p.m. because we have a sitter."

Where: Washington, D.C., on the National Mall.

When: October 30 from mid- to late-afternoon.

Why: The rally is meant as a temper to more polarizing rallies, like Fox News pundit Glenn Beck's August 2010 "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, D.C. Stewart has labeled it a "Call to Reasonableness" and says he hopes moderates from the left and right will attend. Recently, he has even courted Fox News' Bill O'Reilly as a potential guest.

"Ours is a rally for the people who've been too busy to go to rallies, who actually have lives and families and jobs (or are looking for jobs) - not so much the Silent Majority as the Busy Majority. If we had to sum up the political view of our participants in a single sentence... we couldn't. That's sort of the point," reads the official website.

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