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Daily Show blames Manti Te’o: Pope questioned ‘relationship with someone he talks to all the time, but has never actually met’
Like most of the world, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart expressed shock Monday night that Pope Benedict the XVI was resigning at the end of February. “I assumed the Papacy was a lifetime commitment …like being in the mob or a correspondent on 60 Minutes. I just assumed you were…
Daily Show’s Samantha Bee investigates women’s disruption of military bro-hesion
Monday night on The Daily Show, correspondent Samantha Bee investigated how women disturbed the fragile “guy-namics” of warfare. The Department of Defense lifted the ban on women serving in combat last week, a proposal that was decried by some men. Among them was military expert Kingsley Browne, who informed Bee…
‘Daily Show’ crew dissects the art of the stump speech
Political stump speeches, The Daily Show‘s Jessica Williams said, are like those stories your dad tells all the time; sometimes he leaves out details, and sometimes he adds them to suit the situation. “Or maybe he just forgot because Dad’s getting old,” she explained, in one of a series of…
Full episodes of ‘The Daily Show,’ ‘Colbert Report’ vanish from the Internet
Full episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are no longer available on Comedy Central’s websites thanks to a fight between parent company Viacom and satellite TV provider DirectTV. The Los Angeles Times reported that Viacom has opted to cut back on the number of full television episodes…
Daily Show takes ‘Racist Timeout’ for Trayvon Martin coverage
Wednesday night’s edition of “The Daily Show” featured a discussion in which correspondent Larry Wilmore produced a home kitchen timer and declared a “Racist Timeout.” “For the next five minutes,” he announced, “No one is a racist.” Accusations of racism and reaction to those charges have caused the debate over…
Stewart likens SOPA to ‘filling penises with cement’
On Wednesday night’s The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart sought to unravel the mysteries of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). His first stop was WikiPedia, which, like many websites including this one, went dark yesterday to protest the pending legislation. Jon then attempted to explain exactly what the proposed…
Daily Show: Newt ‘condescending and d**kish’ to blacks, everyone
Last night on The Daily Show, viewers were treated to an in-depth look at why Newt Gingrich should never discuss racial issues, ever. The candidate has a long and colorful history of tin-eared statements on race, gender, and policy, but recent indicating his willingness to go to “the inner city”…
Jon Stewart: Santorum is the guy Romney is pretending to be
Last night’s last night’s The Daily Show featured a two-part recap of the results of the Iowa caucuses. It explored the anachronistic thrill of watching people stuff handwritten ballots into boxes, weighed the value of winning the presidency versus the pleasure of little dogs in sunglasses, and then arrived at…
Daily Show presents ‘Lowe’s Balls of the Week’
On Wednesday’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart debuted a new segment entitled “Lowe’s: Balls of the Week”, in which he catalogs some of the most outrageous, guffaw-inducing statements recently made by public figures. Watch in the clip embedded via Comedy Central, in which Herman Cain makes Barbara Walters’ ears bleed, Mitt…
Stewart: Indefinite detention bill ‘one-way ticket to Gitmo’
Last night’s The Daily Show featured a two-part examination of the new bill passed by the Senate that allows the government to detain American citizens without a trial for indefinite amounts of time. Watch segment one, embedded via Comedy Central, below: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show…
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