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Stewart names Vatican sex scandal spy thriller: ‘Nopussy’
On Wednesday night, Jon Stewart, host of the “The Daily Show,” talked about difficulties currently facing the Italian peninsula, including the disruption of recent elections and the resignation of Pope Benedict under a cloud of scandal. Italy has had its fair share of national woes over the centuries, said Stewart,…
Rice tells Stewart: GOP wasting time probing origin of Benghazi talking points
On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart interviewed Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., about the controversy surrounding the Benghazi attack. Rice noted that Congress had already received ten hearings on the deadly attacks, along with thousands of documents. She told Stewart that Republicans…
Stewart nearly quit The Daily Show in 1999 due to ‘a**holes’
The current incarnation of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show almost never was, its host Jon Stewart revealed late last week during a fundraising event at New Jersey’s Wellmont Theatre. Stewart told his former colleague and friend Stephen Colbert that he nearly quit the show after taking over for Craig Kilborn…
O’Reilly responds to Stewart: Unfettered abortions not traditional
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly shot back at Comedy Central host Jon Stewart on Monday night, after Stewart mocked O’Reilly for lamenting the decline of “traditional America.” During his show on Thursday night, Stewart argued that so-called “traditional” Americans were perpetually being usurped as the country’s demographics and beliefs changed.…
Stewart mocks O’Reilly’s fear of loss of ‘white America’
On the Nov. 15 Daily Show, Jon Stewart criticized Mitt Romney, “retired pensioner,” and Bill O’Reilly on assertions each made in recent days. Stewart hit Romney’s recent argument that Obama won the election by offering “gifts” to young women, minorities and Latinos. “How on earth did Mitt Romney find out…
Daily Show takes on Chick-fil-A’s ‘million mouth march’
Thursday night on “The Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart examined the controversy around “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.” The national day of fast food consumption, which Stewart called a “million mouth march,” was inspired by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s decision to support the controversial chicken chain’s stance on LGBT issues. “What…
Stewart: ‘Mr. President, we can hear you capitulating to the Russians’
On Wednesday night’s edition of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart played back the now-infamous “hot mic” incident from President Obama’s trip to South Korea for a nuclear summit earlier this week. While Republicans were quick to attack the president for what they perceived as electoral hubris, Stewart sees another…
Letterman on Romney: Putting dog on car roof ‘not a good idea’
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart explained to CBS host David Letterman on Wednesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s problem was that at close examination, he was just “pixels” instead of a real person. “The guy I feel worse for is Romney,” Stewart remarked. “Mitt?” Letterman asked. “Not just for that,”…
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