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March 26, 2013Yesterday, rather than discuss the Supreme Court hearing that demonstrates just how out of touch conservatives are from the rest of America, the gang at Bill O'Reilly's Retirement-Home Fist-Shaking Hour took up the news that mattered most to their audience: the hurt feelings of denim enthusiast and ... More >>
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March 11, 2013Hope you caught Tom Coughlin on The Daily Show last night, plugging his new book, Earn the Right to Win: How Success in Any Field Starts with Superior Preparation before a beaming Jon Stewart (obviously a Big Blue fan). The clip is at the bottom of the post.
One particular comment intrigued me: Coa ... More >>
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February 27, 2013When pictures of Assembly member Dov Hikind dressed up in blackface as a "basketball player" for his annual Purim party hit Facebook this week, it prompted a predictable media firestorm.
Predictable, apparently, to everyone except Hikind, who spent the last two days explaining to anyone who would l ... More >>
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February 27, 2013Lena Dunham teams up with UCBT for a fundraiser
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February 14, 2013Nothing seems to make Jon Stewart happier than being face-to-face with a New York Met, whether he be past or present. Hope you tuned in Tuesday night to see him talk to future Hall of Famer--yeah, that's right, I said it--Mike Piazza.
The greatest hitting catcher in baseball history was plugging h ... More >>
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December 26, 2012Class is in Session with professor Questlove
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November 28, 2012When bankrupt food manufacturer Hostess announced its plans to shut down and sell assets after a series of nationwide employee strikes, fans wondered what the future might hold for Hostess products like Ding Dongs, Wonder Bread, and Twinkies.
On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart had a go at t ... More >>
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June 6, 2012Mets fans are still basking in the afterglow of Johan Santana's no-hitter, among them Jon Stewart, who began Monday night's Daily Show with camera phone videos of him and his family celebrating in the stands at Citifield (see video embedded below).
About 45 minutes later David Letterman celeb ... More >>
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May 16, 2012David Rees gets the lead out
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May 1, 2012The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video ArchiveTwitter was abuzz last night about Diane Keaton's appearance on the Colbert Report, with people wondering if the Annie Hall and Godfather star was drunk, high, or just plain nuts. Watching it, we wond ... More >>
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April 16, 2012True story.
In his book Truth Be Told, ex CNN host Larry King remembers going on The Colbert Report, and since he feels Colbert basically does a parody of Bill O'Reilly, Larry purposely did a parody of himself and shticked it up to high heaven.
"We had fun," he recalls. Especially afterwards!
Af ... More >>
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April 11, 2012Working outside the Hollywood bubble, the stand-up vet is making comedies in his own register. God Bless!
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March 14, 2012Seth Meyers wants to _____ you
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October 19, 2011raybdbomb/FlickrHands off our tots!On last night's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert weighed in on plans to reduce the potato presence in school lunches. Specifically, officials want to get rid of deep-fried potatoes, such as crunchy, salty tater tots. To put it mildly, Colbert does not approve ... More >>
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August 18, 2011Middle East Media Research InstituteAre jihadists becoming a bit out of touch? Their latest target is David Letterman, of all people, because he made a joke about the deaths of Osama bin Laden and OBL's successor Ilyas Kashmiri. On the al-Qaeda forum Shumoukh al-Islam, someone by the name of ... More >>
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July 21, 2011Poor RupyOn The Colbert Report last night, a case was made for being humanized by pie. When Rupert Murdoch, under investigation for wiretapping victims' phones, was attacked with a foam pie on Tuesday, it caused his stock to spike. Is there anything pie can't do?
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July 14, 2011waferboard/flickrHappy French Fry Day, fatties!Earlier this week, we brought you a recipe from Food Fest 365, a cookbook that features recipes for each of the year's 365 food days. Monday was Blueberry Muffin Day, and yesterday was National French Fry Day. On The Daily Show last night, Jon St ... More >>
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June 22, 2011Esther ZuckermanThe New York Post reported Monday that "law and order" has returned to Union Square Park by way of tough love from the NYPD. Because the claim seemed a little hyperbolic, we went to the park around 7 p.m. Tuesday to check things out. Although the park's stretch known as "Metha ... More >>
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June 2, 2011Someone needs a lesson in slices.Yes, we all love to make fun of The Donald. But Jon Stewart's nearly-eight-minute-long tirade on last night's episode of The Daily Show takes the cake (um, pie?) when it comes to Trump dressing-downs. What sparked the epic rant was Donald Trump's mysteriously ... More >>
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May 11, 2011Fallon loves being gracious
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April 27, 2011On last night's Daily Show, host Jon Stewart absolutely eviscerated the amendment proposed to the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Law, which says that before first responders receive medical benefits, they must first be screened by the F.B.I. to assure they're not terrorists.
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March 3, 2011
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.
If Roast Beef Could Fly and Leading With My Chin
Date: 2004; 1996
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February 3, 2011The biggest problem in the House of Representatives at the moment is Chris Smith's "No Taxpayer for Abortion" Act, which seeks to limit women's choices in reproductive matters by doing things like banning federal funding for abortions in rape cases. Also an issue, though, was the bill's langu ... More >>
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February 2, 2011Black sees red over taco filler.No taco chain scandal is complete without a frothing-at-the-mouth rant from Lewis Black. At first, he seemed unfazed (well, for him) at the lawsuit claiming the taco meat filling is mostly filler on his 'Back in Black' segment on The Daily Show last night. Afte ... More >>
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January 11, 2011The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c
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January 4, 2011The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c
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November 24, 2010 Screenshot by Sir Itzkoff, just to give credit where credit's dueSo friend-of-SOTC and general sweet Internet dude Rich Juzwiak recently co-engineered a fantastic montage of Taylor Swift feigning shock when she is given awards; hatched alongside his online cohort Kate Spencer, the clip attra ... More >>
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September 3, 2010You remember Pavement, right? That band whose Central Park reunion shows you bought tickets for a solid year ago? Who then pranced around the country for most of 2010 while you patiently waited and ruefully read fawning concert recaps from other cities and very possibly lost said tickets? (Se ... More >>
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August 27, 2010The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c
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August 11, 2010Jim Gaffigan jokes around with the folks of The Daily Show
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July 8, 2010We will never own one of these. Whee, the 62nd Annual (Primetime!) Emmys have been announced. There aren't that many surprises: As usual, HBO rocks, as does Mad Men, True Blood, 30 Rock, Glee, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tina Fey. Losties may get another chance to see the objects of their affect ... More >>
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May 4, 2010Lazio needed health care in 2000 when he fell and busted his lip in front of everyone on the first day of his futile Senate campaign. See Jon Stewart's clip.By Scott Greenberg
Gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio's "Stop Obamacare" campaign sounds suspiciously like one of his fearmongering strategies ... More >>
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April 5, 2010
Liquid Liquid's first ever performance on national television--so, thirty years in the making, pretty much. Way looser and more slithery than your average evening on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon which, given that the Roots tend to be involved, is saying something. Can you spot the rock critic in t ... More >>
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April 2, 2010The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c
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March 11, 2010
That's one way to announce your return--with two secret shows tonight and tomorrow in Brooklyn, a new album due in May and, last night, a live premiere of that record's first track, "Terrible Love," on Jimmy Fallon's TV show. The song is as paradoxically melancholy and galvanizing as every Nationa ... More >>
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January 26, 2010Laughing for a good cause
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January 23, 2010At first blush, it looks like a pretty damn edgy move for the White House Correspondents' Association to choose Jay Leno, the current supervillain of late night, to speak at their dinner this year. They even announced it on the day of Conan's last show.
You forget, this is the White House C ... More >>
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January 21, 2010
Well, that's that. According to the terms of the contract, Conan gets $44 million and has to lay low for eight months, and then can go back to TV, unless he's wised up by then and taken our career advice. In the meantime, America's Sweetheart, Jay Leno, will take over The Tonight Show (insert ran ... More >>
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November 3, 2009Fallon's team gets some face time
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August 18, 2009A double bill of correspondents from The Daily Show
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April 22, 2008That exercise video you tossed is here
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July 25, 2006Does 'The Daily Show' really make college students apathetic?
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October 5, 2004Jon and Bill: The hosts who make us laugh when we'd rather cry
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