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Jon Stewart Is Not Thankful for the Congressional Recess

Matt Tobey — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:08:12 +0000

Congress is taking a break for Thanksgiving, and as Jon Stewart pointed out on last night's Daily Show, it's bad news for everyone. After all, without Congress in session, who will warn us that the terrorists are going to kill us all, who will offer detailed plans for killing us all to the terrorists, and, perhaps most importantly, who will make the founders perpetually spin in their graves? That's where they get electricity for heaven, you know?

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

Colbert Protects His Assets from the Senate's Healthcare Bill

Matt Tobey — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:45:11 +0000

According to the newly released Senate healthcare bill, Democrats want to pay for reform by taxing so-called "Cadillac insurance plans." Which sounds good, until you remember GM filed for bankruptcy this year. "Cadillac" doesn't exactly mean what it used to. In fact, I'm pretty sure this means they're paying for healthcare reform by taxing Medicaid. Either way, Stephen Colbert has a fool-proof plan to protect his money from the socialist taxocrats.

The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30pm / 10:30c.

Colbert and The Daily Show Catch Sarah Palin Fever

Matt Tobey — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:08:19 +0000

This week marked the highly anticipated release of Sarah Palin's book Going Rogue. With the book, Palin has once and for set the record straight and cocksuredly answered those pundits and critics who said she couldn't read or write. You can see Stephen Colbert's defense of Palin after the jump, but first a one-two punch from The Daily Show.

Next up, John Oliver visits a New York bookstore to cover all of the hardcore Paliniacs who came out to get the book.

The Daily Show and Colbert Report air Monday through Thursday starting at 11pm / 10c.

Jon Stewart's Extended Interview with Lou Dobbs

Matt Tobey — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:59:29 +0000

You love Lou Dobbs so much. He's your favorite, and you've been simply beside yourself since he abruptly left CNN. You've tried recreating the show at home using makeshift puppets, but the puppets were frankly too coherent for it to be believable. No, it seems only the man himself can fill the Lou Dobbs-shaped hole in your TV. Fortunately, he was on The Daily Show last night. And if that still didn't satisfying your Dobbsian hunger, we now have an extended and uncensored version of the interview.

The interview continues below.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

Colbert Better Knows California's 12th District

Matt Tobey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:16:21 +0000

Anyone who knows anything about politics knows the true measure of a legislator isn't his or her voting record, it's how well he or she can gleam the cube (ask your parents). So last night, after grilling California Congresswoman Jackie Speier about her district's plans to cure gayness, Stephen Colbert took to the halls of Congress armed with his board and a hunger for shredding.

The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30pm / 10:30c.

Jon Stewart Interviews Vice President Joe Biden

Matt Tobey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:18:52 +0000

Last night, Joe Biden made his first appearance on The Daily Show since being elected Vice President of these United States of A, and I have to say I was thoroughly disappointed. The interview lasted 14 minutes and there weren't any of the hilarious gaffes I've come to expect from the Veep. He didn't call Khalid Sheikh Mohammed "a pretty okay guy once you get to know him." He didn't accidentally blurt out missile codes. Hell, it didn't even look like his shoelaces were tied together. What a let down.

The interview continues below.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

Colbert Warns Against Gay Zombies

Matt Tobey — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:11:15 +0000

We knew this was going to happen. We were warned. Gay rights opponents have all along told us that treating gays like normal people was a slippery slope, and they were right. No sooner have we started to tolerate people living the gay lifestyle, now they want to die the gay lifestyle. It's like they say, you give the gays an inch, they ask for basic human dignity!

The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30pm / 10:30c.

Jon Stewart Pits Rudy Giuliani Against Rudy Giuliani

Matt Tobey — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:12:44 +0000

On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart covered the media brouhaha surrounding the upcoming trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, revealing Nancy Grace as the cause of boner cancer and counteracting the arguments of Rudy Giuliani with those of none other than Rudy Giuliani from 2006. Both Giulianis made such strong points, I think we need a third opinion. Maybe from 1997 cross-dressing Giuliani or 1999 paying-for-his-mistresses-security-detail-with-misappropriated-city-funds Giuliani.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

Outgoing Obama Aide Dunn Lauds Jon Stewart and The Daily Show

Matt Tobey — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:49:58 +0000

Of course we think The Daily Show is the only trustworthy news-source in America, but we work for Comedy Central, so we're hardly objective. We also think South Park should have won the Nobel Prize for Economics, and Just Shoot Me reruns cure rickets. But it turns out we're not the only ones singing the praises of Jon Stewart and the Best Fucking News Team Ever.

At the recent Bloomberg Washington Summit, President Obama's outgoing Communications Director Anita Dunn continued the ridicules of Fox News that marked her time with the administration:

She criticized Fox for using edited footage of a rally to make it appear that opposition to the president’s health-care plan was bigger than it was.

“The people who exposed this: Jon Stewart of the Daily Show on Comedy Central… That’s where you are getting fact-checking and investigative journalism these days.”

To see what real fact-checking and investigative journalism looks like, you can watch the segment in question below, followed by Jon Stewart's response to Sean Hannity's apology.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

Colbert and The Daily Show on Lou Dobbs's Departure

Matt Tobey — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:27:53 +0000

When anchor Lou Dobbs abruptly left CNN this week, it dealt a huge blow to the cable news network. After all, Dobbs's prideful bigotry and paranoia has consistently provided a balance to CNN's trademark vapidness and ineptitude. How they will maintain that balance without Dobbs remains to be seen, but in the meantime Stephen Colbert has called dibs on Dobbs's followers.

For more Dobbs coverage, The Daily Show's take on the news is after the jump.

The Daily Show and Colbert Report air Monday through Thursday starting at 11pm / 10c.