Christopher Buckley on reality trumping satire

We've previously discussed Christopher Buckley's new novel "Supreme Courtship," about a popular but unqualified (but pretty and charismatic) TV judge getting picked to join the Supreme Court and finding a nemesis in a long-winded Senator, got high-jacked by reality when Sarah Palin and Joe Biden became Vice-Presidential candidates. Buckley appeared on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" last night to contemplate what happens when the real world trumps satire, and also what happened when his endorsement of Barack Obama alienated and angered his fellow conservatives:

And here's a bonus: Jason Jones' report Monday on the good people of Wasilla. His interview with the current Mayor Dianne Keller is priceless: She insists that serving as Mayor of Wasilla would "unequivocally" prepare her to serve as Vice President of the United States, then when Jones asks her what she does, exactly, she's sort of hard-pressed to come up with much more than signing checks.

By the way, despite his tapping into a Zeitgeist he couldn't possibly have predicted, Buckley's book thereafter gets really stupid, with the Biden character starring in his own TV show and the President running a re-election campaign whose principal theme is how he doesn't want to be President anymore.