This past weekend of course saw The Super Bowl as well as the big Tea Party convention in Tennessee. But as Jon Stewart pointed out on last night's Daily Show, it was also Ronald Reagan's birthday. The only way it could have been a more patriotastic weekend is if a bald eagle had waterboarded some...
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On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart played tape of President Obama taking a question at a New Hampshire town hall meeting from a man named Dick Swett. Obviously that's a funny name, but before we get too carried away, it's important to understand that Dick Swett is just the gentleman's professional name. His birth...
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Four years ago, John McCain was open to repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell, and now he's not. A flip-flop perhaps, but as a decorated military man, his perspective is extremely valuable in this debate. I mean, for all we know, if gays had been allowed to serve openly when McCain was in the Navy, we...
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Brian Williams, Jon Stewart, first responders, The Jersey Shore: Season 2, canteen full of urine, nachas, etc. Do you really need to be sold on this? $(document).ready(function(){ MTVNPlayerPreload.attachToWrappers("embedWrapper",300,400); }); The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.
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On last night's Colbert Report, Eliot Spitzer made his first appearance on the show since the prostitution scandal that ended his Governorship. Now, obviously, there's an impulse to make cheap hooker jokes. After all, he's now a banking expert; the fucking-people-for-money zingers practically make themselves. But come on, there's a lot more to Eliot Spitzer...
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After naming him last week's Alpha Dog, Stephen Colbert had Harold Ford Jr. on last night to defend some apparent changes in his positions. It turns out transforming from a pro-life, anti-gay right-of-center Tennessean Blue Dog into a dyed in the wool liberal New Yorker doesn't make Ford a flip-flopper after all. It's just like...
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