"Lady, listen, I'm smoking, I'm in one slipper and an open bathrobe," Beth Littleford protests over the phone one morning when I suggest she's an unusually perky showbusiness earlybird.

She's not, but it wouldn't be out of character with the contrast between the way she looks and the way she acts. Hers is a deadly, funny combination -- a face that no jury could convict and a mouth and mind that no mother could believe.

"Frankly, I'm not that nasty a person," says Littleford, who has developed a following as a correspondent for The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, available in Canada as of this week on the Comedy Network, which is airing it weeknights at 9. (Tonight's episode is a Canadian theme night with guest Tom Green.) Her favourite Daily Show stories include The Old Lady Condom Taste Test. "That was just adorable and precious and she came to the show to watch the piece -- it was such a feel-good thing," she says.

The Comedy Network also plans to schedule Littleford's two celebrity interview specials, sort of faux Barbara Walters tete-a-tetes characterized by soft focus, ladylike suits, a charming smile and throat-slitting inquiries. In those, she called Gary Coleman America's "pet black child," played a Chopsticks duet with white supremacist David Duke and asked Boy George, "Have you ever thought of settling down, marrying Nicole Kidman and adopting a couple of kids?"

"For whatever reason, I can say it and I can get away with it and I think that's why they chose me to do this show," she says. "They found me doing a one-woman show off-Broadway where I was wielding a dildo -- but with my dimples."

Celebrity subjects have gotten harder to book as she's become better known, although it's not as if she ever hid her agenda.

"I like to tell people, 'Look, we're parodying a format here. Have some fun with me.' "

Fun? Wow! Fabio dropped his pants when she asked, "If you were meat, what kind of meat would you be?"

David Cassidy didn't get the joke and gave a memorably bitter, angry interview, complete with a threatened walkoff after she told him, "Rumour has it you're hung like a Clydesdale."

Since she admits to a penis obsession -- She also asked Jesse Ventura why he doesn't wear underwear (Answer: Not enough room) -- I ask for her thoughts on the Daily Show's most infamous off-air incident, when executive producer Lizz Winstead quit after then-host Craig Kilborn told a magazine interviewer that Winstead would service him orally if he only asked.

"NO one would give the man a blowjob! NO one who was in their right mind who was not on drugs or under coercion would give the man a blowjob! That's my opinion," she says of the man she remembers affectionately as "dumb as wood."

Off the Daily Show, Littleford plays a bitchy New York reporter in David E. Kelley's upcoming feature film Mystery, Alaska, and in November she'll be back on TV's Spin City as Deirdre, Alan Ruck's psycho girlfriend.

To The Daily Show's new Canadian viewers, she expresses regrets that they'll never see one of her favourite field pieces ever.

"It can't be rerun, so it's bootleg TV -- I masturbated a pig."

That was on an Iowa boar semen farm and it was the story Littleford likes to say convinced then-Daily Show producer Rob Fox that she was the woman for him. They married last summer.

"Our show, although pretending to be rude and nasty, is really kind of a romantic place. We've had 12 marriages in a very small staff. Ninety people."

Twelve marriages. Poor Craig Kilborn.