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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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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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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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May 11, 2011Food NetworkLook at that flawless makeup on Sandra Lee!Daytime Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and, of course, James Franco helped lead General Hospital to a whopping 21 nominations, heading the pack. But those more culinarily-inclined were also honored.
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May 11, 2011Fallon loves being gracious
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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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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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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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February 2, 2010Dudes hug it out with Paul Rudd
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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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January 14, 2010via Tonight ShowBy now the smoke has cleared on Conan O'Brien's decision to turn down that later slot, and the screams of despair from his staff, who'd transplanted their entire lives in hopes of a long-term career, have been downscaled to muffled sobs and knotted foreheads.
So did he do the ... More >>
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January 12, 2010In an alternately funny and maudlin statement, Conan O'Brien announces he will not accept the pushed-back time slot into which NBC wants to shove him to accommodate the new 11 p.m. Jay Leno show.
"I currently have no other offer and honestly have no idea what happens next," says O'Brien, but desp ... More >>
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December 22, 2009
Watching the live taping of the Jawbox episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon the other week, we were reminded of the utter weirdness of the late night TV variety show format. On TV, because Letterman et al have done it for so long and so well, it's come to seem normal, but make no mistake: thes ... More >>
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November 13, 2009
In an already legendary fit, Carrie Prejean took her mic off and waltzed off the set on Larry King Live the other night, upset about Larry's questioning and the fact that he was allowing call-ins whereas she'd supposedly made a deal forbidding that to happen.
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October 29, 2009
Photo courtesy Alberto Tolot/HBO
Way back during the Clinton Administration, Bill Maher had the wonderful idea of letting a comedian -- himself -- talk regularly with politicians and political commentators about current events on TV. Politically Incorrect turned poli-chat into something non-wonks ... More >>
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August 26, 2009
Gordon Ramsay made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, during which he defended his eating of a still-beating puffin heart and tasted Kimmel's homemade marinara sauce. The heart, said Gordon, was hard to swallow. But the sauce was "fucking delicious."
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August 18, 2009A double bill of correspondents from The Daily Show
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May 15, 2009Fabolous, the Brooklyn rapper whose Loso's Way is forthcoming in June, maintains a Twitter feed of such complicated brilliance and wisdom that we felt the need to interview it.
What up Fab?
Morning my twiggas.
As the rooster crows. What's on the docket?
hav a show n Niagara Falls 2day..
Ah, ... More >>
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May 6, 2009That coupon Oprah was offering for free chicken at KFC was never a good idea. For one thing, it ain't too enlightened a choice: as PETA Europe says, "KFC is the world's largest killer of chickens... nearly 800 million chickens are killed every year in the cruellest ways imaginable." The guy in this ... More >>
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