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Celebrate ‘Star Wars Day’ with this collection of video homages

Saturday marks an unofficial holiday for many sci-fi fans, and the staff at the Geek & Sundry YouTube channel commemorated “Star Wars Day” with their own fanfilm, much to the chagrin of its founder, actress Felicia Day, who missed out on the creative process. “I don’t even know what to…

Maher: Boston bombers f*cked with the wrong ‘peace-loving Christian people’

Friday night on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher dedicated a portion of his weekly “New Rules” segment to admonishing the people who believe that the U.S. civilian justice system isn’t adequate to adjudicate the cases of terrorism suspects. “New Rule,” he said, displaying a photo of Boston…

Colbert: Summer blockbuster movies are ‘destroying America’

Thursday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert warned that certain summer blockbuster movies could be harboring secret anti-American themes. The new “Superman” film stars an Englishman and parts of “Iron Man 3″ were edited for a special Chinese-only edition. Colbert began the segment by confessing his love of…

Jon Stewart: Veterans Affairs is the Guantanamo Bay of benefit claims

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart again ripped the Veterans Affairs on Thursday night over its massive benefits backlog. He joked the federal agency had declared paper to be an “enemy combatant” and therefore had detained it indefinitely. Stewart called Veterans Affairs “a kind of paper Gitmo.” Watch video, via…

Megyn Kelly’s first experience with Google Glass is an awkward one

Fox News host Megyn Kelly ran into a bit of trouble when attempting to demonstrate Google’s new Internet-connected eyewear on Thursday afternoon. The conservative host encountered an awkward problem after attempting to search for the German word for hot dog. The Google glasses included some of her earlier phrases in…

Colbert: Rand Paul’s feelings are the real victims of Newtown

Wednesday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert presented a new edition of his recurring segment “The Word.” Wednesday night’s word was “N.R.A.-vana,” the blissful state of peace and acceptance that comes to a politician after they sell their soul to the gun lobby. “On the very first episode…

Jon Stewart mocks Ted Cruz: He is nothing but a dirty syrup-guzzler

On his show Wednesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart savagely mocked “wacko-bird” Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Noting Cruz was now considered the most hated legislator in the Senate, Stewart joked “that’s like being the lowest rated show on NBC.” “He’s American as apple pie that the…

Chinese animators rip NYPD with video of cop crawling up a black man’s rear

If the racial disparities of New York City’s arrest statistics don’t shock you, maybe this will: Chinese animators known for creating bizarre parodies of U.S. news have released a new video ripping the NYPD’s “stop and frisk” policy that shows a cop literally crawling up a black man’s rear end.…

Colbert: ‘Let’s end poverty by flying the poor to sub-Saharan Africa’

Hearing about the practice of “medical repatriation” — hospitals shipping undocumented patients back to their countries of origin, often while unconscious — didn’t bother Stephen Colbert. Since, unbeknownst to him, immigrants get sick “just like normal people” (and it’s hard to buy lottery tickets while dealing with a catheter) this…

Jon Stewart: Republicans think ‘freedom magic’ is key to U.S. adventure in Syria

On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart slammed Republicans for offering a convoluted plan to intervene in the two-year-old Syrian civil war. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) has insisted the United States needs to intervene because the country had never sat back and allowed innocent civilians to…