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Celebrity Lookalikes: Jon Stewart And Punk Bassist Alford Faulkner
A photo has been going around the internet that’s supposedly of The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart diving into the pit at a Dead Kennedys show in Richmond, VA in 1982. While the guy in the photo does look a great deal like a young Jon Stewart, it’s actually bassist Alford Faulkner, of Red Cross and The Prevaricators. More »
Five Things I Watched in High School Less Educational Than The Daily Show
This week a teacher in Illinois was suspended for showing her government class some clips of The Daily Show. There are a lot of reasons that showing a bunch of high school kids clips of the show in class could be problematic. They’ll get an opinionated slant on the news instead of unbiased facts, they might feel uncomfortable with the humor, and they’ll have less time to memorize things the Preamble to the Constitution. But suspending her seems a little extreme.
Even if most of the students disagreed with Stewart’s slant on the day’s events, it could have been a good way to spark an impassioned class debate, and as anyone who’s gone to high school can attest to, there’s a lot worse being shown to students today. More »
Video: The Daily Show Mocks Occupy Wall Street On The Eve Of Its Destruction
Insult, meet injury. More »
Video: Jason Bateman Charms On ‘The Daily Show’, Admits ‘The Change-Up’ Is Crap
Everyone’s favorite party animal Jason Bateman went on The Daily Show last night, ostensibly to promote his new movie The Change-Up. He was as funny and charming as ever, and his banter with John Stewart was just adorable. But when it came time to discuss the movie, he cut right to the chase and said this: More »
How Many Female Writers Are There On Late Night Shows?
Statette compiled this depressing infographic about the number of women working as writers on late night comedy shows. Not surprisingly, the show with the highest percentage of female writers is also the only one hosted by a woman, Chelsea Handler. More »
Video: Justin Bieber Takes Over For Jon Stewart On ‘The Daily Show’
Sure, why not, right? Two nights ago The Daily Show tackled rape-rape, last night Justin Bieber opened up the segment, pretending to be Jon Stewart. Just FYI: This is why your dad called last night at 10 and was like “I’m in bed right now and there’s this little boy on my news.” Because that’s what your dad calls The Daily Show. “His news.” More »
Video: ‘Daily Show’ Audience Loses Collective Mind Over Grad School, James Franco
If you ever wanted to see the power of celebrity in action, look no further than James “Maybe I’m Just Gay” Franco‘s appearance on The Daily Show last night. Have you ever seen an audience more excited about anything than when James starts talking about his PhD program in poetry? It’s like he was announcing he was going to nail each individual audience member during the commercial break. More »
James “Maybe I’m Just Gay” Franco Will Be On The Daily Show Tonight - During which he will talk at length about the current political climate in Afghanistan. Just kidding, he’ll be singing about his asshole or something. (USA Today)
How I Sort Of Attended The “Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear.”
I had planned to attend Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert‘s rally on Saturday. I boarded a bus in New York at 7 a.m. and stepped off it in D.C. five hours later. I walked down the streets of our capitol city and towards the National Mall. But then I hit a human traffic jam of wackily costumed citizens carrying giant, sharp signs while smashing beach balls into one another’s faces and nearly had a panic attack.
The thing was just so darn crowded. Forget actually making it to stage, there was no possibility of even cramming my way to the monitors showing the event. After ten minutes of stumbling around and half-hearing Sam Waterston read some sort of poem, Crushable Barbie correspondent Tyler Coates and I bailed on the rally and took a little walking tour of D.C. More »
Video: Auto-Tuned ‘Rally To Restore Sanity’
Of course this exists. And we can’t believe it took a whole day to happen. Someone has auto-tuned Jon Stewart‘s speech from Saturday’s “Rally to Restore Sanity.” We were actually at the super crowded rally but we couldn’t hear anything all day — so maybe this is just what Jon sounded like? More »
Jon Stewart Hangs Out At the Bunny Ranch
This is why forums like Reddit really exist, people: not to expose college girls doing porn, or start threads about Peaches Geldof doing heroin, but to serve as a community for people who happen to catch celebrities at bunny farms. Could this be a new meme? Jon Stewart looking annoyed around rabbits, then Sad Keanu shows up, and then maybe Russell Brand in a crazy outfit… More »
Gallery: ‘Night of Too Many Stars’ Guests Open Up On the Red Carpet
When we attended Saturday’s Comedy Central’s Night of Too Many Stars: A Benefit for Autism Education, we probably should have taken a hint from the name. Instead, as we stood on the red carpet, flanked by Comedy Central’s own pre-event coverage host (who we swear to god was Ryan Seacrest‘s twin brother) and something called Punchline Magazine, we found ourselves overwhelmed at the sheer number of comedians who passed our way and gladly smiled for a picture and answered our questions. Below, a gallery of the night’s biggest names, and what they told us. More »
Comedy Central’s ‘Night of Too Many Stars’: 6 Parts (Probably) Too Controversial to Air
Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Benefit for Autism Education, hosted by Jon Stewart. We got some awesome quotes from celebs on the red carpet (including Lewis Black, John Oliver, Jim Gaffigan, Tracy Morgan, Olivia Munn, Ricky Gervais, and Tay Zonday) and then got to watch a live screening of the show that will be shown on Comedy Central on October 21st at 9 p.m. Watching a 3-hour special that will probably be edited down to an hour, we definitely were shown some stuff that is not going to make it to the episode but were friggin’ amazing. Here are our top 6 favorite moments from the show you probably won’t see. More »
Olivia Munn Sounds Off On Her Critics, Her Career And ‘Getting Dipped’
Is Olivia Munn the new Ryan Seacrest? Her ability to multi-task seems comparable: The Daily Show correspondent is juggling a role on the upcoming NBC sitcom Perfect Couples, a guest spot on the spy series Chuck and a tour for her new book, Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures Of A Hollywood Geek.
“I really want to do it all,” she says. “I love it all so much. I don’t have a personal life. I don’t have a boyfriend. And I… More »
Jezebel Is Best Women’s Site Ever, Claims Company That Advertises On Jezebel - Can’t wait to see what Jon Stewart does with this little number. (via New York Times)
Is The Daily Show anti-female? – Employees don’t say so! This is the best analysis of the Jezebel versus Jon Stewart back-and-forth ever (via Lemondrop)
Olivia Munn joins The Daily Show – The Internet celeb says she won over Jon Stewart with a Holocaust joke. Edgy, that Olivia! (via The Daily Beast)
Dance Off! — At his performance last night in New York City, Conan O’Brien was challenged by Stephen Colbert to a dance off — with pretty hilarious results. And you’ll be surprised who steps in on Stephen’s behalf when he can’t complete his dancing duties. (via Team Coco)
Video Of The Day: Tracy Morgan Cracks Us Up
Last night on The Daily Show, Tracy Jordan Morgan had Jon Stewart — and us — peeing our pants with comments about his hair cut (“Hold on to your women, I can take your girl with my hair cut”) and dream to one day open a strip club called Chickendales.
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Crazy video of the week: Jon Stewart’s Top 7
Jon Stewart, the host of The Daily Show, has had some EPIC takedowns of political blowhards, and some hardy soul put together the top seven best in this video. Includes the Chris Matthews debate, which is particularly good. Enjoy!
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