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Jon Stewart and the jokesters behind The Daily Show have arrived in town and will begin a week’s worth of tapings of the popular late night program this afternoon at Sidney Harman Hall. If you were one of the lucky few to get tickets, you’ll get the chance to see interviews with Council Of Economic Advisors Chairman Austan Goolsbee today and Senator Ted Kaufman (D-DE) on Tuesday. Oh, right and some Obama guy on Wednesday. (Nah, your DCist editor isn’t bitter at all about having to listen to some guy from Delaware instead of one of the most important figures of the 21st century. Not at all.)

But there are some restrictions on the highly-sought-after tickets. Tickets are apparently non-transferable, and “cannot be sold.” You need to be at least 18 to enter the taping (I assume because Stewart occasionally works blue). Also, you can apparently only go to one Daily Show taping every six months — though show producers handle that on the front end of the ticketing process. Groups of more than four are also a big no-no, and those who don’t bring their confirmation email with them to the taping are going to be out of luck. But there’s nothing that frightened the iPhone addicts among us like this bit of language in the ticket email:

Please do not bring any electronics (including cell phones, cameras, or other recording devices.) Anyone carrying electronics or excessive baggage may be refused entry.

Wait, no smart phones? How in the world am I supposed to annoy all of my Twitter followers by constantly updating with boring reports from the line? Well, no worries: the Examiner notes that the email didn’t really mean “no cell phones” — even though it clearly says “cell phones” are prohibited:

Comedy Central spokeswoman Renata Luczak said guests can bring their phones to the show, they just need to turn them off when inside the studio. “They just don’t want devices on during the taping. If a device goes off, then they have to retape,” she explained.

Yeah, so just turn your cell phones off before you go into the theater. (Don’t worry — since you’ll need to get to the taping early to queue up, you’ll have plenty of time to play some Angry Birds before you go in.) Besides, I’m a little more concerned about the general release for admission, which states that the producers of the show may use my “biographical material…in any and all media now known or hereafter defined in perpetuity throughout the universe.”