I just put a bullet in an episode of The Daily Show — with guest Matt Groening, from Wednesday, July 18, in advance of a screening of The Simpsons Movie — and I found it interesting that he told Jon Stewart the hit animated show (broadcast on Fox) was expressly forbidden from making fun of Fox News, after using a faux-news crawl that tweaked Rupert Murdoch and also read, “Brad Pitt + Albert Einstein = Dick Cheney.” The reason he said he was given? “We were told viewers might confuse it with real news,” Groening says. I don’t know whether to laugh, or shake my head at the synergistic conspiratorial wonderment of it all.