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Bill de Blasio Responds to Jon Stewart's Adoption Plea: "We'd Be Honored"

When the election night broadcast cut to Bill de Blasio's victory party late Tuesday, some watching from home had the chance to see what could very well be the next first family of New York City in action for the first time. Daily Show host Jon Stewart, for one, was smitten.

Even Weiner's Alleged Sexting Partner Loves Anthony Weiner Jokes

Who doesn't love a good Weiner joke? They're simple, yet effective, and since Tuesday--the day New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner publicly confessed that "some" of the explicit photos and chat logs unearthed by TheDirty.com were legitimate--comedians (and people who just think they are c ... More >>

"NY Middle Finger Texas" Is Now Online, Just In Case You Really Hate Texas

On last night's Daily Show, Lewis Black decimated Texas Governor Rick Perry's series of radio ads, which are aimed at luring companies away from all those shitty, freedom-hating states and down to Texas.

Five Disastrous Musician Interviews

Most interviews are pretty by the numbers. Nothing special.But sometimes interviews live on in infamy because they're so damn crazy, weird, or otherwise awkward that they provide entertainment long after everyone has forgotten why the celebrity was being interviewed in the first place. Those special ... More >>

Count All the Hilarious Ways Bernard Goldberg Contradicts Himself in Just One O'Reilly Factor Segment

Yesterday, 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 >>

Tom Coughlin Boasts of the "Superior Preparation" of His 9-7 Team

Hope 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 >>

Dov Hikind's Blackface Episode Gets the Daily Show Treatment

When 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 >>

GIRLS POWER

Lena Dunham teams up with UCBT for a fundraiser

'Bowl Train' w/ Biz Markie

Johan No-Shows Letterman

Mets 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 >>

Bobcat Goldthwait's Voice Has Changed

Working outside the Hollywood bubble, the stand-up vet is making comedies in his own register. God Bless!

The Daily Show Live: Stand-Up Comedy from The Daily Show's Staff

?uestlove

The Roots

Am I Supporting the Mexican Drug Cartels if I Smoke Pot?

Daytime Emmy Nominations Out, Include Several Food Figures

Food 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.

NO, JIMMY, THANK YOU!

Fallon loves being gracious

Special Report: Jay Leno has always destroyed what he wants in the process of acquiring it

​ 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 Publisher: ... More >>

"Forcible Rape" Back to Just Regular "Rape" in House Bill

​The 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 >>

Watch Lewis Black Go Bat-Shit Over Taco Bell's Lack of Meat

Black 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 >>

Jon Stewart Addresses Arizona Shooting Like a Human Being

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Following San Francisco's Happy Meal Ban: The Crappy Meal

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c

Jay Leno Rips Off Taylor Swift Montage, Semi-Apologizes

Screenshot by Sir Itzkoff, just to give credit where credit's due​So 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 >>

Bloomberg Vows to Fight Sliced Bagel Tax

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c

PARTY CRASHER

Jim Gaffigan jokes around with the folks of The Daily Show

Emmy Nominations Announced; HBO Maintains Primetime Stranglehold

We 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 >>

Watch Liquid Liquid Perform "Cavern" on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

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 >>

The Daily Show on Foie Gras

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c

JUST BETWEEN BROS

Dudes hug it out with Paul Rudd

RESCUE HAITI

Laughing for a good cause

No, seriously? Jay Leno to host White House Correspondent's Dinner

​At 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 >>

NBC Confirms Conan Out, Jay Leno Expected to Return

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 >>

Did Conan Do The Right Thing?

via Tonight Show​By 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 >>

Conan O'Brien Won't Move; Change of Career Imminent?

In 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 >>

Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz Do a Pretty Good Julian Casablancas Impression, It Turns Out (And Casablancas Does a Great "I Wish It Was Christmas Today")

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 >>

Olbermann and I Discuss Prejean's Latest Hijinx

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.

Q&A: Bill Maher on Catholicism, Obama, Gore Vidal, Polanski, and Never Making Another Movie

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 >>

Fabolous: The Twitterview

Fabolous, 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 >>

Oprah KFC Deal Leads to Snafus, Delays, Riot

That 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 >>

Big Girls Don't Cry, Oprah

The Best Late-Night Jokes of the Campaign

'Meet the Press' Moderator Tim Russert Dead at Age 58

Hillary Clinton is My MySpace Friend

Friday 8/4

Ludacris Beefs With Oprah Winfrey

'NewsFakers/Filmmakers'

Queen for a Night

Gay Hosts Undermine Talk Show Macho

The Reform Party's hostess

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