At the Time shindig

Jon Stewart's Time Line

Jon Stewart wowed 'em at the Time shindig celebrating the mag's 100 most influential people Tuesday night in Manhattan.

Chosen as the entertainer for the evening, the acerbic wit charmed the crowd -- which included Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters, Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Wolfe and Melissa Etheridge -- by pointing out this small detail: "To be named as one of the Time 100, it must have made us all feel pretty good, pretty proud of ourselves, and then to see Time magazine the very next week put Ann Coulter on the cover, um, it kind of knocked us back down to Earth a little bit, didn't it?"