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There are a lot of people a President Obama would be bad for. Racists, John McCain, The Joker, other racists. But black people? Could a black president be bad for black people? [SPOILER ALERT] No. But CNN is ontop of the story anyway. They're ontop of it so hard and good. And on last night's Daily Show, Larry Wilmore gave them the credit they deserve.
Is it still racist to wish Michael Richards a happy birthday? I can never tell. Either way, he's 59 today and I am not a racist.
I should probably just play it safe and wish Anna Paquin a happy
birthday. She may not be known for comedy (although The Piano was
hilarious), but she is my girlfriend, so
please indulge me while I take this opportunity to wish her a happy
26th.
Other girlfriends of mine celebrating a birthday today include, but are not limited to, Jennifer Lopez, Lynda Carter, Kadeem Hardison and Amelia Earhart. I love you guys!
As scheduled, Will Ferrell was last night's guest on The Daily Show. However, as not scheduled, John C. Reilly came out as his surprise co-guest. Those two are so funny together. Someone should really consider putting them in a movie.
After the jump, you can have your way with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly's combined eight previous appearances.
After Ed Helms showed up on last night's Daily Show, it got me thinking. What if there was a car that got a million miles per gallon, but it ran on eyelids? Then, after that, I started thinking about past Daily Show reunions, so I decided to make a list of the best ones. Enjoy.
Is Barack Obama magic or what? Not only does his message of hope reach across socioeconomic, racial, religious and party lines, but he can also inspire Ed Helms to hilariously and unannouncedly pop into The Daily Show. If that doesn't make up for Obama's FISA vote, I don't know what does.
If there's not a t-shirt that says "Obama Kinda Gives Me a Boner" by the end of the day, my faith in humanity, the Internet and t-shirts will simply whither and die.
Is it bad blog etiquette to do consecutive posts about comedians named Kristen with whom I want to be boyfriend/girlfriend? Is it also bad blog etiquette to eat my weight in gummi worms for breakfast? I guess that one doesn't really have much to do with blogs or etiquette per se, but I saw an opportunity and I went for it. That's how I roll. The point is, Kristen Schaal was funny on The Daily Show last night.
The Colbert Report received nominations in the categories of Outstanding Musical, Variety or Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Musical, Variety or Comedy Program, Outstanding Directing for a Musical, Variety or Comedy Program and Outstanding Individual Performance in a Musical, Variety or Comedy Program.
The Daily Show was nominated for Outstanding Musical, Variety or Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for
a Musical, Variety or Comedy Program and Outstanding Directing for a
Musical, Variety or Comedy Program.
South Park's Imaginationland was recognized in the category of Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour Or More).
Meanwhile, Jon Stewart was nominated for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Musical, Variety or Comedy Program for hosting The Oscars, and Sarah Silverman was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series for her work on Monk.
Thoughtlessly neglected? This blogger's tour de force performance on To Catch a Predator. Nonetheless, sincere congratulations go out to all the nominees.
After the jump, Stephen Colbert talks about last year's Emmys.
After delivering LULZ on a national level for 13 years now, Will Ferrell has one of the best hit-to-miss ratios of any comedy superstar. I mean, you've already started laughing at Step Brothers and it isn't even out yet. You're pre-laughing in hilariticipation. Will Ferrell is 41 today, so here's a classic SNL sketch followed by all six of his Daily Show appearances.
I suppose the really clever thing to do now would be for me to write something satirical about The Daily Show being satirical about satire. And then you could post a satirical comment about my satire about satire about satire. Like, I could recommend we solve social ills by feeding Daily Show correspondents to rich people. Unfortunately, I don't actually know what satire is. I don't really care for humor really. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a boner to fart on.
In the wake of the New Yorker's hilarious cover image
of black Muslim insurgents Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, the New
York Times interviewed a bunch of comedy writers from a number of talk
shows and stuff to talk about the proper way to make fun of the
Democratic presidential candidate.
Why? The reason cited by most of those involved in the
shows is that a fundamental factor is so far missing in Mr. Obama:
There is no comedic "take" on him, nothing easy to turn to for an easy
laugh, like allegations of Bill Clinton's womanizing, or President
Bush's goofy bumbling or Al Gore's robotic persona.
"The thing is, he's not buffoonish in any way," said Mike Barry, who
started writing political jokes for Johnny Carson's monologues in the
waning days of the Johnson administration and has lambasted every
presidential candidate since, most recently for Mr. Letterman. "He's
not a comical figure," Mr. Barry said.
Tell me about it! What's funny about a guy who travels across the
country making vague promises of "hope" and "change" and then turns
around and supports a bill designed to rob us our 4th Amendment rights at the behest of the least popular president in the Earth's history?
I just can't think of anything! Gah! It's so hard being a comedy writer these days!
Jon Stewart -- popular host of a little show you may have heard of called You Wrote It, You Watch It
(amongst other less popular shows) -- says that audiences seem less
than inclined to laugh at the self-important, Christ-like savior of
liberal idealism...
Despite audience resistance, Mr. Stewart contended, his
show had been able to develop a distinctive angle on Mr. Obama. Noting
that the senator seems to emphasize the historic nature of his quest,
Mr. Stewart said, "So far, our take is that he's positioning himself to
be on a coin."
A lot of people think Citizen Kane is better than Undercover Brother. And I'll agree that there's a debate to be had there; I'm nothing if not a realist. However, I'd like to point out that, contrary to popular belief, Neil Patrick Harris was not in Citizen Kane. The prosecution rests. The prosecution would also like the record to reflect that today is Eddie Griffin's 40th birthday.
The Daily Show returned last night after hibernating for two weeks, and they emerged from their cave rested and ready for LULZ. Case in point, this segment from John Oliver, who handily employs a certain Internet meme and uses the Iranian nuclear Photoshop scandal to produce a Jon Stewart crotch-slip that would have bested many entries on the 25 Sexiest TDS Moments list.
How about some breaking news to sweeten your Monday afternoon?
Actor John Stamos is jumping into bed with COMEDY CENTRAL as Roast Master for this year's "COMEDY CENTRAL Roast of Bob Saget." The event tapes in Los Angeles at the Warner Brothers Studio lot on Sunday, August 3. The "COMEDY CENTRAL Roast of Bob Saget" will air on Sunday, August 17 at 10:00 p.m.
This year's Roasters include Susie Essman, Greg Giraldo, Artie Lange, Tracy Morgan, Jeffrey Ross, among many others to be announced.
Have mercy!
Don't touch the hair!
Where's the beef?!
Still no word on the status of Kimmy Gibbler and that kid who played Duck Face, but you can rest assured when those unknowns become knowns, you'll know it before you can say, "There's a car in the kitchen!"
After the jump, some hot, foxy Stamos-on-Stewart action.
We've had quite a sexy week together, you and I. It's hard to believe that in ten years, we'll grow so
passionless and distant. More roommates than lovers, really. Until then though, we've
still got #5-1 of the sexiest Daily Show moments. And that's
something. Isn't it?
If you missed #25 through #6, there are links at the bottom of this post.
#5 Battle of the Bulge
We always knew Ed Helms was sexy. We always knew he'd look great in a Speedo. But it wasn't until his employment of a state-of-the-art nut-cam that we knew it was love.
These are two things I know about Tom Hanks: 1. He hasn't won an Oscar in 14 years. 2. He hasn't made Money Pit 2 yet. If those things are unrelated, then I didn't earn my degree from Harvard Blog School. Anyway, Tom Hanks is 52 today. Happy Birthday, Uncle Ned.
We're almost to the climax of the list. Are you getting close? Or are you getting skeeved by all the excessive sexual innuendo I keep using? Me too. Luckily all that discomfort is about to get masked by some hot throbbing horniness.
#15 Moment of Zen: Jeff Gannon Naked
Remember that socially-awkward gay-prostitute-turned-right-wing-shill who occasionally showed up in the White House briefing room? No, not President Bush, Jeff Gannon.
Remember that show in the 80s where Jeffrey Tambor played a blind curmudgeon? Yeah, me neither. But I do remember The Larry Sanders Show and Arrested Development, which are two of the funniest TV shows ever. Ergo Jeffrey Tambor is the best. In the math biz, we call that a proof, and an air-tight one at that. Jeffrey Tambor is 64 today, so here he is on The Daily Show in 1999, followed by a classic AD clip.
I'm sure your genitals are still chaffed raw after watching The 25 Sexiest Daily Show Moments: #25-21 yesterday, but we're back with more hot and horny fake-news action anyway. See if you can handle it.
#20 Saving Pat O'Brien
This segment is so fucking hot. I just wanna take this clip and get crazy. Get some coke, hire a hooker. Also, if Pat O'Brien and Dr. Phil's mustache rides are 5-cents, I've got a finsky with their names on it.
Comedy, journalistic integrity, in-depth interviews; The Daily Show is known for a lot of things. But let's face it, the real reason we watch it is for the white-hot sexiness. With that in mind, we've compiled the 25 most panty-drenching and boner-bursting Daily Show bits ever to sizzle onto your TV screen. Each day this week, we'll count down five more moments, all leading up to the top-five on Friday. Be warned: Watching these videos will probably get you pregnant. But you can be sure the resultant baby will be sexy as shit.
#25 Moment of Zen: Healthy Penis Massage
There are going to be a few Moments of Zen on the list. Why? Because zen is hot. That's why Buddha invented it. He also invented the halter top.
David Alan Grier's new show Chocolate News will be coming to a Comedy Central near you in a few months, but today he turns 53. Here he is in a Daily Show clip, brought to you in living Jumanji.
If Google's any indication it's not likely I'll ever usurp Tobey Maguire as the world's foremost Tobey. But that's okay, I'm still the top result for "farting over Gmail." I'd just like to see Spider-Man try and take that away from me. Anyway, happy 32nd birthday, Tobey Maguire!
A pre-Spidey Tobey Maguire Daily Show interview is after the jump.
Did you know Mark McKinney starred in a critically-acclaimed Canadian sitcom called Slings and Arrows? It just aired a couple years ago and supposedly was shown in the US on The Sundance Channel, but I only ever heard about it two months ago. I'm so out of touch. I'm the John McCain of corporate comedy bloggers. Anyway, Mark McKinney is hilarious and turns 49 today. Here he is with Bruce McCulloch on The Daily Show.
Last night, Coldplay joined a very exclusive club. Not The North American Society for the Appreciation and Preservation of Matt LeBlanc--I'm afraid I had to reject their application. No, Coldplay became only the third musical act to perform in an official capacity on The Daily Show. After the jump, check out past performances by The White Stripes and Tom Waits, but first, here's Coldplay doing "43" and "Lost."
How great is Ricky Gervais? His cat's pajamas have bee's knees on them, that's how great. He's got a special new podcast out today. It's also his 47th birthday, so here are his three Daily Show appearances. Prepare to laugh your boobs off.
By now you're pretty much in love with the newest Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac, right? Of course you are; he's hilarious. Well, you'll be pleased to learn that on tomorrow night's show, he'll become a full-fledged member of the team with his very first field piece.
We had a number of our own posts dedicated to George Carlin yesterday, and you can find a run-down of all of them here. But you, the readers, also had plenty to say about the comedy giant's passing. So here's The Daily Show's tribute to Carlin, followed by just a few of the most memorable comments you were all kind enough to share.
I actually wore a shirt to 8th grade after buying it at his show the night
before. It read "Simon Says Go Fuck Yourself!". I got suspended but it was so
worth it!!!
Posted by JD
Seeing George's most recent special, I was afraid that he would not be with
us for much longer. So here we are. My brother-in-law introduced me to the album
"Class Clown" when I was a wee lad of 13, and I've been an admirer ever since.
Even though his comedy style changed over the years, his "voice", the nature of
his comedy, commenting on our societal and political absurdities, never changed.
I hope he is remembered for a long time, and that future generations continue to
"discover" George Carlin for themselves.
With all the mourning of George Carlin you've been doing today, you've probably completely forgotten about Randy Jackson's birthday. It's okay; I've got your back, dawg. Did you know Randy Jackson and George Carlin were both on The Daily Show a total of three times? That's some Lincoln/Kennedy-style uncanny shit there. Anyway, Randy Jackson is 52 today. Happy birthday, dawg!
As you've no doubt heard, the legendary George Carlin died yesterday at 71. A lot of people in the comments on my first post have asked for a tribute, and I think it's only appropriate. You can expect several more Carlin-centric posts to follow this one, but I thought we should start with a video retrospective.
So sit back, pour out some of your 40oz and have yourself a bittersweet laugh.
Holy shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits, I did not see this coming. George Carlin died yesterday after being admitted to an LA hospital for chest pains. He was 71 and leaves behind an unrivaled comedic legacy. His stand-up shattered taboos, paving the way for countless comedians who followed. He'll also be remembered as the host of the first ever Saturday Night Live.
Carlin appeared on The Daily Show three times. Here are those interviews.
UPDATE: We've put together a video tribute to George Carlin. You can see it here.
UPDATE II: For some of the most famous George Carlin quotes and misquotes, check out this post.
UPDATE III: Here are two more Carlin posts from today...
Jon Stewart's Bush impression is almost better than pancakes, right? It's great. Marrying that impression with a superhero comic book about the Bush presidency? Well, that's officially reaching pancakes-level awesomeness.
Also on last night's show was Mike Myers, who's promoting The Love Guru. That interview is after the jump.
It's not marked on my calendar, but this must be Wet Hot American Summer week. First there was that AV Club re-review, then it was Michael Showalter's birthday, and then last night, there was this Daily Show segment about the Midwest floods called Wet Hot American Bummer.
If this WHAS-centricity keeps up, by the end of today, I expect to receive sage advice from a talking can of vegetables. Though, that's just a typical Thursday for me.
Last night also featured the return of Steve Carell to the show. That clip is after the jump.
You know Roger Ebert as the best film critic in the biz, but did you also know he co-wrote the revered 70s cult classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls? Oh, you did? Well, did you know he's the exact same age as Paul McCartney? He is. But Macca's never been on The Daily Show, so happy birthday, Roger Ebert!
We've all got irrational fears. I'm afraid the day I don't practice my moves will be the one time I'll be asked to join a ragtag street-dancing team, and it'll be my fault that the community center isn't saved from the greedy land-developers. I'm also afraid of pooping the bed, but, as my wife will tell you, that fear is all-too rational. But to be afraid of hope? Why, that's audacious!
According to Reuters, another actor is spreading those genetically enviable wings. Jason Bateman has inked a deal with 20th Century Fox TV to develop a new series. This is fresh off the good buzz Bateman received from his work on Do Not Disturb, a show Fox picked up as a pilot for next season. All development work for the one year deal will go through Bateman's studio, F+A Prods, as well as Fox studios.
If there's one thing I've always said about Jon Stewart, it's that he's slightly less powerful than Carrie Underwood and a little more powerful than Justine Henin. And it's weird that I've always said that, since I have no idea who Justine Henin is. Nonetheless, Forbes seems to agree with my assessment, as they've named Jon Stewart #80 on their list of the 100 most powerful celebrities, sandwiched between Underwood and Henin. Here's what they say makes him so powerful:
Host of Comedy Central fake news hit The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. Started out as a stand-up comedian; had bit parts in several movies, hosted a few MTV shows. Joined The Daily Show
in 1999; now many young Americans get their news from him instead of
Brian Williams or Katie Couric. His Busboy Productions spawned popular
spinoff The Colbert Report. Co-author of best-selling America (The Book) and hosted the 2007 Academy Awards.
I don't mean to toot my own horn, but Jon Stewart and Justine Henin (seriously, who?) aren't the only people to recently make a prestigious list. Whether you know it or not, you're reading a blogpost written by #37 on Oatmeal Aficionado's Top 40 Amateur Oatmeal Bingers Under 40 list. So what if my uncle is on the editorial board? You can't take this moment away from me!
SPOILER ALERT! I'm working on a post of the sexiest Daily Show moments. It should be up sometime next week, but this clip simply cannot wait. It was the Moment of Zen from October 11, 2001, a time long ago when Jon Stewart, Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert were nubile, hungry and willing to take it off for the camera.
For some context, you need to go earlier into the episode for a sketch Jon, Stephen and Steve did about a fake reality show called Pitch. It's as hilarious as the above clip is hairy and can be found after the jump.
Indecision2008 has passed along the sad news that MSNBC's Tim Russert has died of a heart attack at age 58. Here he is on The Daily Show about one year ago:
On the recent MTV Movie Awards show, sometime-couch-hopper and manic Scientologist Tom Cruise presented Adam Sandler with a Generation Award for his body of work. "Ladies and gentlemen" Cruise said, "I present to you, the Sandman." All hail the Sandman.
The SNL veteran is known for an off-beat, often brutal form of comedy that pokes fun at stereotypes. His movies however, mostly dissect the internal issues of his characters. His latest, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, has many slapstick and caustic jokes, but the Sandman has something to say about that. "My intention is never to hurt anybody." Sandler told NewsOK.com in a recent interview. "I'm happy when people are having a good time, and I've got to tell you, if someone comes up to me and is offended by anything I've done in the past, I listen to them."
After the jump, check out Sandler's recent Daily Show appearance.
If you thought Rob Corddry left The Daily Show in 2006, you're sadly mistaken. As it turns out, he was just sent to Slovenia to cover the Lipizzaners (no, Spell-Check, I do not mean "pizzeria"), and as luck would have it for Rob and all of us Corddryphiliacs, Slovenian Lipizzaners are finally in the news with President Bush's visit to the former chunk of Yugoslavia.
Also reporting on Bush's visit was John Oliver, who explained the nuances of President Bush's claim that he regrets his war rhetoric without regretting the actual war. That clip is after the jump.
Could this be the sexiest election season ever? I mean, it's only June and McCain's already talking dirty to his wife. Meanwhile Obama's fisting his. Or did he fist a terrorist? I'm hazy on the details. Anyway, here's what The Daily Show had to say about it last night:
Yesterday, Gawker posted a funny thing called 50 TV Reporters Give You Their Best 'O Face.' And offering further proof that The Daily Show and Colbert Report are full-fledged members of the mainstream media, they included Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert among the moneyshot screenshots.
Is Virginia Senator Jim Webb the next Vice President of these States United? That I can't say. But I will say this: He could probably beat you in an arm-wrestling match. With both arms tied behind his back. Like, if it was Jim Webb's zero arms against your two arms, you'd probably still walk away looking like that dude in The Fly. Anyway, here he is on The Daily Show last night.
Those full episodes of The Daily Show and Colbert Report you've been hearing about lately? They're finally live and ready for your dirty lying eyes to penetrate!
That's right, complete episode of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report in full-screen right on your computer. Is this the future or what? It's like Planet of the Apes ate The Matrix and pooped out Star Trek!
Hey, whatever happened to Ken Ober? He hosted Remote Control all those years, and then he played the Rick Moranis character on the Parenthood TV show, and then poof, nothing. Somebody get on that one for me. Meanwhile, let's all celebrate the birth of Colin Quinn, who started out as the announcer on Remote Control before anchoring Weekend Update and hosting Tough Crowd. He's 49 today, so happy birthday, Colin Quinn!
Horny nerds rejoice! On last night's Daily Show, Kristen Schaal stripped off her clothes while covering the media's most misogynistic moments of Hillary Clinton's campaign. But it wasn't just hot for comedy nerds. The twist at the end is sure to make the comic-book nerd community pop a collective boner too. Seriously, I haven't seen anything this nerdily titillating since that time Weird Al frenched a Pokemon.
Did you know Jeff Garlin has been on The Daily Show a whopping four times? After his next appearance, I'm pretty sure he gets a free car-wash. Either way, he's an hilarious stand-up and awesome on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and today Jeff Garlin turns 46 years old. In reverse chronological order, here are all four of those aforementioned TDS interviews.
I'm no doctor, but I'm pretty confident with my diagnosis that Terry McAuliffe has bats in his belfry. Where else would all the bat shit up there come from? As Jon Stewart said, "Your strategy right now appears to be: If we act deranged enough, maybe they'll just give us the country."
It's official. Wikipedia is a failure. The most noteworthy person they list as having been born on June 3rd is Anderson Cooper, when in fact none other than John Hodgman was born on this day in 1971. Thank god Facebook told me or I would have surely been fired. That's right, Wikipedia, did you hear that? Facebook! Celebrity birthdays and Scrabulous. Consider yourself obsolete. Anyway, happy 37th to John Hodgman.
When I was in junior high, we had this thing called Channel One in our school. Every classroom got a free TV, and all we had to do was watch a kid-friendly quasi-news show every day that was 60% Mountain Dew commercials. The anchors were all wannabe actors, but there was a tenacious 20-year-old prematurely-gray reporter who routinely dodged shrapnel in Kosovo to bring some actual news to us uninformed 12-year-olds. His name was Anderson Cooper and today he's 41.
Anderson Cooper's last Daily Show appearance is after the jump.
Did you see it? Scotty "The Body" McClellan made his hotly anticipated second Daily Show appearance last night to promote his new tell-all book about the Bush Administration. It's pretty much all you're going to be talking about today, so if you missed it, now's the time to catch up. First, before the interview, attention must be paid to Fred Schneider's dramatic reading of the tome.
Jon Stewart's full interview with McClellan can be found after the jump along with the former White House Press Secretary's first TDS appearance from 2007. Compare and contrast.
Everyone's talking about Scotty McClellan this week, and he'll be on The Daily Show Monday, but he's sort of the Dave Clark Five of Bush Administration whistle-blowers. Richard Clarke, now that guy is The Beatles. Last night he made his fourth appearance on The Daily Show, and it was another insightful and funny interview.
After the jump, check out the last TDS appearances by both McClellan and Clarke.
On Tuesday's Daily Show, writer Matt Taibbi came on to discuss his new book, which is basically about all the different brands of crazy people currently inhabiting these United States. Most of the interview was about Pastor John Hagee's demon-vomit church, but toward the end, Matt and Jon took a minute to make fun of a 9/11 conspiracy group. Naturally, this has caused outrage amongst the tinfoil-hatted basement-dwellers, and they're planning to fight back:
Just saw it, Jon Stewart's guest joined a Truthers group in Texas to report on it in his new book. They laughed at the "outlandish" goals of the group which were: 1) movie night 2) replace media with new media
We will replace the media, and I believe to a large extent we already have.
Perhaps
we can get a mass movement going to hassle the siht[sic] out of Jon
Stewart? Fax, email, crash his corporate news show whatever it takes.
Lets wake up Jon Stewart or take his ill-deserved credibility away
from him.
You heard it here first: By this time next week, the "9/11 Truthers'" plan will be in full swing and The Daily Show will rue the day they cracked wise at the expense of these Cheeto-stained keyboard warriors. They'll rue the shit out of it. That is, if they can get that movie night off the ground first.
Earlier today, when I was putting together that Phil Hartman post, I was looking through a bunch of old NewsRadio clips. I used to watch that show pretty regularly, but I have zero recollection of Jon Stewart guest-starring as Andy Dick's twin brother. Nonetheless, the proof is in the pudding and the pudding is right here:
So, there's an ultra-conservative website called Country Above Self that allows users to vote on the country's most patriotic patriots and traitorous traitors. To get the gist, know that Alberto Gonzales and George W. Bush are the top two patriots, while Ron Paul and Hillary Clinton are the top two traitors. Also on the patriots list, about midway between John Gibson and Mitt Romney? Stephen Colbert, of course. Here's what the site has to say about the Colbert Report host:
Colbert, a native southerner, is the conservative counterbalance to
Comedy Central's resident liberal Jon Stewart. Colbert is best known
for his furious defense of President George Bush and sharp criticism of
the Main Stream Media at the 2006 White House Correspondent's Dinner.
He is well known for his undying admiration of Bill O'Reilly and his
scathing parodies of homosexuals (the ambiguously gay duo) and
blame-america-firsters (you know who you are). The best part is that
liberals often mindlessly mistake his genuine outrage for sarcasm and
believe he's on their side while he's quite effectively evicerating
them. Stephen Colbert... a true patriot in every sense.
Well, I think the task at hand is pretty obvious. We must all go now and vote Stephen Colbert to the top of the Patriots list. Simply click on his name and add your vote. Or just click this link. It's your patriotic duty.
Entertainment Weekly has crunched the numbers, done the lab work and spliced the genes to come up with the definitive list of the 25 funniest people in America. Topping the bottom-24 of the top-25? None other than Stephen Colbert and the Colbert Report team:
The once (and, we're sure, future) presidential nominee, author, and dedicated windbag also happens to be one of the smartest satirists working today. Heck, if all the dude had on his resume was the legendary 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner, he'd go down in comedy history. But week-in and week-out, Colbert takes aim at the political-industrial complex — and I don't care if there's no such term — and spins the facts into truth. Or truthiness. Whichever's easier.
Former SNL writer, liberal wisenheimer and US Senate candidate Al Franken turns 57 today. Here's Franken's most recent Daily Show appearance, followed by two interesting facts about his SNL career:
1. He was supposed to take over for Lorne Michaels in 1980, but lost the job after calling NBC president Fred Silverman "a total unequivocal failure" in a Weekend Update editorial.
2. He almost became WU anchor, but was passed over for Norm MacDonald and subsequently quit the show.
Wikipedia reminded me of both these things, but I first learned them in the book Live from New York. If you haven't read it, well, I just don't even want to know you.
What do Mindy Cohn, Jack Kevorkian, Dave Thomas and Busta Rhymes have in common? They all turned down the role of Hermione in the Harry Potter series before it was offered to Emma Watson. Also, they were all born today. But only one of them has been on The Daily Show, so happy 36th, Busta Rhymes!
When John McCain appeared on The Daily Show last week, he fumbled his way through an odd joke about Dwight Schrute being his running mate. Well, Rainn Wilson was on The Tonight Show a few nights later and accepted the offer:
Tucker Carlson is 39 today, and so is Tracy Gold from Growing Pains. Somehow that doesn't mesh right in my brain. Must be the bow-tie. Or the eating-disorder. Anyway, here's a loving tribute 236 made for Tucker when he got canned by MSNBC. Jon Stewart's classic Crossfire appearance is just one of the highlights.
I know Kevin James isn't like the foxiest dude in all of Foxyville, but is he really the go-to guy when you need an image to accompany a story about ugly guys?
After the jump, Jon Stewart interviews Kevin James and somehow doesn't turn to stone.
Hillary Clinton was pretty confident going into today's West Virginia primary, but apparently not confident enough to let The Daily Show into her press bubble (sounds like my honeymoon!). From Politico:
The crew at Clinton's Sunday night rally, which included Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones, shot footage of Jim Axelrod, CBS News' White House correspondent.
A member of the crew told Politico that the Clinton campaign at first
offered Jones et al a ride on its traveling press bus from the Eleanor
rally to the Charleston hotel where the press and campaign staff is
staying. But the campaign later reneged, according to the crew member.
Well it makes sense. The Clinton people know what's up. You let Jones in there and he'll be blowing the lid off her socks with the ruffles in no time.
Is it any surprise that Stephen Colbert's birthday, May 13, is exactly halfway to Christmas (don't do the math, just trust me)? The Colbert Report host turns 44 years patriotic today, so let's celebrate with a video retrospective of his awesomeness. First up, a clip from Stephen's first series, the Comedy Central sketch show Exit 57:
Our trip down Colbert-Memory Lane continues after the jump.
Last night's interview with Iraq war mastermind Douglas Feith was a doozy. In fact, some of it was simply too hot for TV. And by "hot," I mean long. The interview ran long, but nothing is too long for the Internet (Fact: The Internet has an endless vaginal barrel), so here is the segment in its entirety:
George Carlin turns 71 today. Make sure you honor him by using the words shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits as often as possible. Just sprinkle them into normal conversations. For example, instead of saying, "Good morning, Monsignor," try, "Good morning, Monsignor shitty tits."
[I]nstead of making fun of bloggers as geeks and freaks Stewart himself stated that many talented people blog and that blogs were no longer a fringe phenomenon. That’s a significant leap from the past. Lets spin back to when that was not so. Bloggers recall the March 2004 segment of The Daily Show that made fun of blogs and blogging via a satirical segment on “$ecret$ of New Journalism $ucce$$.” Jay Rosen, an NYU professor and one of the early academic proponents of blogging was roundly skewered by a TDS correspondent.
To compare and contrast, here's the Rob Corddry segment in question (it was actually March, 2005), followed by last night's interview with Perlmutter after the jump.
Whether he's causing cancer or knowing Daves, The Kids in the Hall's Bruce McCulloch is equal parts hilarious and awesome. Today he turns 47, so why not wish him well with a gift of sausages and a pen? Or you could just watch his 1999 appearance on The Daily Show:
After a poll found Americans trust Jon Stewart as much as they trust Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, The Pew Research Center conducted a year-long study of The Daily Show to find out how the fake news show held up as an actual news source. Here's some of what they found:
The program’s clearest focus is politics, especially in Washington.
U.S. foreign affairs, largely dominated by the Bush Administration’s
policies in Iraq, Washington politics and government accounted for
nearly half (47%) of the time spent on the program. Overall, The Daily
Show news agenda is quite close to those of cable news talk shows.
The press itself is another significant focus on The Daily Show. In
all, 8% of the time was made up of segments about the press and news
media. That is more than double the amount of coverage of media in the
mainstream press overall during the same period.
A good deal of the news, however, is also absent from The Daily
Show. In 2007, for example, major events such as the tragic Minneapolis
bridge collapse were never discussed. And the shootings at Virginia
Tech, the most covered story within a given week in 2007 by the overall
press, received only a cursory mention.
Now, I know TDS probably skips over events like Virginia Tech and the bridge collapse because they're sad and sensitive and are difficult to turn into good comedy, but when CNN and Fox take stories like that and turn them into 24-hour tragedy-porn, can you really call that good journalism?
Legendary stand-up Don Rickles might turn 82 today, but he'll still call you a hockey puck like he wasn't a day over 67! Here he is on The Daily Show last year:
Listen, I'm not completely un-nerdy. I send tens of IMs per day. I've played both Mine Sweeper and FreeCell before. I've even seen Hamster Dance. But there are some things that are simply nerdy beyond my comprehension. Second Life is one of those things. Nonetheless, one of the Second Life robots has issued some sort of cyber-challenge to Stephen Colbert, because Jon Stewart and Rob Riggle made fun of one of the other Second Life gizmo's stupid name. What the hell am I talking about?!
It was announced today that Steve Carell will be hosting the season finale of SNL a week from Saturday with musical guest Usher. That probably won't suck. What does suck is that I couldn't find clips from Carell's first hosting stint on Hulu or NBC.com, but here's a really old, really hilarious clip of him on The Daily Show:
When you're a non-coastal city, you've got to pull out all the stops to get the country's attention. For example, out here in Detroit, we can't just have a mayor who fucks around. No, if we want people to take notice, we've got to have a mayor who turns fucking around into a city-wide conspiracy with police cover-ups, whistle-blowers, perjury and hilariously incriminating text-messages. It's hard work, but last night, it all paid off:
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) will be a guest on "The
Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on Wednesday, May 7 at 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT).
This appearance will mark the Senator's 13th time on the show, more
than any other guest, but his first since becoming the presumptive Republican
nominee for President of the United States. Senator McCain's last appearance
was on August 16, 2007. Prior to that he appeared on April 24, 2007, the eve of his official announcement that he
was running for the Republican nomination.
I always wondered what would happen when a guest hit the 13th interview. Like, would they just skip over it and call it the 14th interview, like they do with tall buildings? One thing's for sure though, Jon and John would be wise not to spend the interview skinny-dipping in Crystal Lake. Again.
Check out Senator McCain's last Daily Show appearance after the jump.
With no mention of Jon Stewart on the list yet, I can only assume he'll
be somewhere in the top-10, which will be unveiled tomorrow.
Well, look for my name near the top of The Telegraph's upcoming Most Skillful List-Results Assumption Makers list, because the top-10 is out today and Jon Stewart is in it:
8. JON STEWART
The liberal host of the Daily Show on Comedy Central mixes comedy and
political satire, but it is his serious moments that have carried him into
the realm of punditry. A frequent of critic of George W Bush, he also
embarrassed his friend John McCain for speaking at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty
University, having previously denounced the preacher and his ilk as “agents
of intolerance”. McCain was forced to concede that he was descending into
the “crazy base world” of politics.
His show gets more serious as it endures, with guests such as Howard Dean and
Harry Reid in the space of a week. A relentless critic of combative pundits,
he is widely judged to have humiliated Tucker Carlson, formerly of CNN and
MSNBC, and Chris Matthews during on-air jousts.
Speaking of Howard Dean, his Daily Show appearance from last night is after the jump.
Willie Nelson wrote "Crazy" for Patsy Cline. He was also in Half Baked. Which of those is the greater contribution to American culture remains unclear, but today the Red-Headed Stranger turns 75. Here he is on The Daily Show in 2006.
If you're a fan of Grand Theft Auto, be it the video game or the actual crime, chances are you were too busy to watch The Daily Show last night. If so, you didn't see Aasif Mandvi's report on GTA IV direct from Liberty City:
...Shigeru Miyamoto! I'm sure whoever he or she is, he or she must be thrilled to be so very influential.
Stephen Colbert finished in third place, right behind his nemesis, Korean pop-singer Rain. Further down the list, Jon Stewart ended up in 26th, and Sarah Silverman landed at 88th.
What is the deal with Jerry Seinfeld? He's not a sign and he didn't fall or fold or whatever "feld" is supposed to be the past-tense of. He is, however, 54 today. Here he is on The Daily Show last year:
Stewart is a funnyman first and may never be
taken seriously as a journalist. But the journalistic portion of his
show is done better than most of those offered by many of the
blatherheads on television today.
He
interviews fascinating people in the news. He goes toe-to-toe with
individuals who have been at or near the seats of power in the world,
from Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf to Ralph Nader to former U.S.
presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and many others.
Each
time out he is often funny, but always prepared. He’ll gently needle
Lynne Cheney about her husband, but he’ll also get some straight
answers. He’ll crack jokes with Obama, but he’ll also zero in on topics
that Gibson and Stephanopoulos would miss because they’re focused on
juicy campaign tidbits and personal foibles rather than issues people
care about.
Ventre goes on to suggest that the next presidential debate be moderated by Stewart and Colbert. I, on the other hand, think that if a debate is going to be moderated by two Comedy Central personalities it should be Mr. Hankey and that Scrubs rerun where the guy dies. Those two are sharp as a tack!
After the jump, check out The Daily Show's coverage of ABC's recent Democratic debate.
While discussing waterboarding in a speech this week, former US Attorney General John Ashcroft compared the controversial interrogation tactic to his appearance on The Daily Show. From Think Progress:
Going to a high school dance, having to listen to loud music, to me that’s torture. I was on the Daily Show once. I was interviewed by Jon Stewart. That was torture.
Say what you will about Ashcroft, but he has a point. When I was in eleventh grade, I went to the homecoming dance and the music was so loud, I revealed the location of an illegal weapons cache.
Here's video of John Ashcroft being tortured by Jon Stewart.
The epic battle between Stephen Colbert and good-for-nothing Korean pop star Rain for the title of Time Magazine's Most Influential Person continues, and last night Stephen once again took the fight to the airwaves coaxial cables:
As of this morning, Rain is no longer in first place, but neither is Stephen. The new numero uno is Shigeru Miyamoto, who, to the best of my knowledge, is best known for playing Joey on TV's Friends.
To vote for Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman, click the following links:
In a new interview, Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead talks about her acclaimed new show Shoot the Messenger, working with Jon Stewart and getting Stephen Colbert and Lewis Black on TDS:
WW: You mentioned Stephen Colbert. Were you part of the team that brought him and Lewis Black aboard?
LW: Yes, indeed. I am definitely that team. Lewis
and I have been really, really dear friends, and he was the first call
I made when the show went up. I said, “Dude, do you want to do a weekly
segment where you just rant about whatever’s on your mind,” and he
said, “Yes.” And Stephen also. Oddly enough, we saw Stephen – he was
doing bits on Good Morning America. He was kind of doing funny stuff on there.
WW: Do you take pride in what’s happened with those two, as well as with the show as a whole?
LW: Totally. What’s great about it is, it
reinforces that my instincts are pretty good. These people are geniuses
all on their own, and I happened to see them and go, “Wow. I think what
you do would fit really well with what I’m doing.” When you see people
now coming up, I feel like I can get a pretty good sense of picking
talent, which makes me feel pretty good. When your instincts have paid
off, it’s good, because you don’t have to do a whole lot of second
guessing.
With all the comments on my first post about Time Magazine's Most Influential list, I figured I should probably update everyone on the voting. A week ago, Indecision 2008 pointed out that Stephen Colbert had usurped Rain and was finally in the top spot, with Jon Stewart just two places behind in third. But as of 10:45am today, Rain has retaken the lead, and Stephen is now in third-place behind Shigeru Miyamoto.
Meanwhile, Jon Stewart now holds the 30th spot, and Sarah Silverman is holding strong at 83, well ahead of both Hillary Clinton and Kim Jong-Il.
Come on, people! This isn't over yet. We can still crush Rain as God himself wants us to! To vote for Colbert, Stewart and Silverman, click the following links:
You know, a lot of people like to point out that if Barack Obama is elected in November, he'll be our nation's first black president. But don't forget that Obama is biracial, so he'd also be our first white president. Here he is on last night's TDS:
The second half of the interview is after the jump.
[Via Indecision 2008, who will be liveblogging the PArimary tonight.]
Today Daily Show correspondent Rob Riggle turns 38. Why not celebrate by watching some of Rob's greatest TDS hits? I know, great idea, right? And there's no better place to start than with the Marines in Berkley segment, which I'm told has now been streamed online more times than Jesus Christ.
As far as redheaded talk-show hosts go, there's really no topping Conan O'Brien. At least as long as Tilda Swinton stays out of the late night game, and even then it'd be close. Today Conan turns 45, so let's celebrate his life with this video retrospective of the epic O'Brien/Colbert/Stewart feud:
In light of The Meter Is Running and Chris Matthews telling The NYT that his interview with Jon Stewart was "a painful experience," I headed down to the Comedy Central Archive Dungeon with one of those coal miner flashlight helmets on to dig up some classic cable-news-centric Daily Show clips. Along with a case of black-lung, here's what I came back with:
Secular Central: This piece on Bill O'Reilly's war on the war on Christmas is funny for a lot of reasons, but the best part has to be the introduction of Osama's Homobortion Pot and Commie Jizzporium into the zeitgeist.
You watched Night of Too Many Stars live on Comedy Central Sunday night. Then you watched it again, streaming on the Internet. And now you can just skip right to the best parts. There are a bunch of highlight clips online, like this one of Sarah Silverman:
I can't make any promises, but don't be surprised if this time next week you'll be able to digitally inject clips from NOMTS via USB suppository. The future is now!
Peterson sees more value in the satirical comedy of Stewart, Colbert
and Maher, whose shows give them more time to develop comedy based on
issues rather than personalities
Meanwhile, No Fact Zone points to an interview on The Moderate Voice, where another professor sings the praises of TDS and Colbert in greater detail. There's really no denying it, brainiacs love Stewart and Colbert.
Hosted by Jon Stewart, this star packed special will be televised LIVE
from The Beacon Theatre in New York City on Sunday, April 13th, 8:00PM
EST. Scheduled to appear are Matthew Broderick, Stephen Colbert, Tina
Fey, Jonah Hill, Conan O'Brien, Adam Sandler, Sarah Silverman, Jon
Stewart, Maroon 5, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog AND MORE!
Scheduled To Appear:
Fred Armisan
Will Arnett
Matthew Broderick
Tom Brokaw
Steve Carell
Stephen Colbert
Susie Essman
Will Ferrell
Tina Fey
Will Forte
Kelsey Grammer
Jonah Hill
Kevin James
Maroon 5
Conan O'Brien
Rosie O'Donnell
Amy Poehler
Chris Rock
Roots
Adam Sandler
Sarah Silverman
Ben Stiller
Triumph
And don't forget to check out CC Insider during the show. We'll be liveblogging the whole big hootenanny!
You can also catch the liveblog on your mobile phone at m.cclol.com.
Did you see The Daily Show last night? If not, you better have a good excuse. If you weren't rescuing orphaned kittens from Al Qaeda's brutal puppy, kitten and piglet labor camps, yet you still didn't make time to watch, I'll be pretty disappointed in you. Not mad, just disappointed. I still love you, baby. We'll talk about it at counseling tonight, okay?
Anyway, you should check out these destined-to-be-classic clips of John Oliver giving Fox News whatfor:
In a preview of this week's upcoming New York Times Magazine, writer Mark Leibovich penetrates deep into the life and skull of "Hardball" host Chris "Tweety" Matthews. Of particular note was a reference to this particular interview:
Says Leibovich: "Matthews’s bombast is radically at odds with the wry, antipolitical style fashioned by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert . . . [he] told me that the interview was a painful experience. Not only did Stewart humiliate him, but the interview exposed an essential truth that people by and large don’t want to hear advice from politicians, a breed that, in many ways, has defined Matthews’s value system. 'I think Stewart was right in that he caught the drift of antipolitics.'"
Watch out, pundits to be. Jon Stewart may destroy everything you love one day.
What's better than watching Night of Too Many Stars this Sunday? How about watching it and reading a blog written by people who are also watching it? Well it just so happens that this very space will feature live-blogging of the big show. So you can look at the TV and see Jon Stewart say something funny and then look at the blog and see someone write something funny about the funny thing Jon Stewart just said. Now that's what I call technology!
Stephen Colbert: Hands down the nimblest satirist on TV or in print (I Am America!
(And So Can You!)) has spent more than 23 weeks atop the New York
Times Best Sellers list), Colbert can take any catastrophe — a
rejection from the South Carolina primary, a crippling writer's strike — and spin it into comedy gold.
Jon Stewart: He shepherded us through a dud of an Oscarcast with nary an awkward
moment — and he had less than two weeks to prepare, thanks to the
writer's strike.
Sarah Silverman: Silverman — the girl-next-door with the baby voice and dirty mouth
— manages to kick up some dust every few months or so: the viral-video
comedy economy seems custom designed for her Tourettic outbursts of outré hilarity. Consider the "I'm F—ing Matt
Damon" video she made for boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel's show, or her
much-talked about dig
at Paris Hilton while hosting the MTV Movie Awards.
The people behind the upcoming Tina Fey/Amy Poehler comedy Baby Mama have taken the If They Mated concept from Late Night with Conan O'Brien and given it a DIY twist. You can upload photos of any two people and the elves inside your computer will make a picture of their potential baby. For example, here's what happens when you cross Jon Stewart with Stephen Colbert:
And here's what it would look like if Melissa Rivers and a pastrami sandwich had a baby:
Have you heard? REM are going to be on The Colbert Report tonight. All the kids are talking about it! And by "kids," I mean Gen-X adults clinging fruitlessly to the halcyon days of yore in hopes of staving off the pending darkness of death that looms greater with every passing moment. I don't know about you, but sometimes if I sing "Stand" loud enough it blocks out the realization that I'm turning into my parents.
Anyway, while you wait for 11:30pm and/or mortality to roll around, why not enjoy this pair of Michael Stipe interviews from The Daily Show?
Comedian Matt Ruby, the fine gentleman who operates Sandpaper Suit, has done you a favor, and you didn't even have to ask. He combed through the video archives of The Charlie Rose Show and compiled almost every comedian interview from the show, spanning more than a decade. Four Jon Stewart interviews, a pre-Curb Larry David interview, Steve Martin in 96, 98 and 08, they're all right in one place along with a couple dozen other interviews with great comics. Like who? Like Stephen Colbert, seen here in December, 2006:
After the jump, check out the first Jon Stewart appearance on the show, from August, 2001.
RD: What pleases you more, applause or laughter? Fey: Laughter. You can prompt applause with a sign. My friend, SNL writer Seth Meyers, coined the term clapter, which is when you do a political joke and people go, "Woo-hoo." It means they sort of approve but didn't really like it that much. You hear a lot of that on [whispers] The Daily Show.
Keith Olbermann tried to stir a little controversy by comparing Jon Stewart's "Adolf Titler" joke at the Oscars to an Ann Coulter routine, as well as chiming in on SNL's Barack Obama casting. Good thing the talking head to address all topics was none other than level-headed favorite comic of the CC Insider Patton Oswalt. Here's Patton's perspectives:
Hey gang, did you see the Oscars last night hosted by our very own Jon Stewart? If you didn't, you're not alone - the 80th Academy Awards was the Least Watched Ceremony Evar (we assume in the Nielsen era). Blame it on the writers' strike, the gloom of No Country for Grandma/There Will Be Milkshake Memes as the frontrunning pictures . . . but you can't say ol' Jonnie Stew didn't give it a good try. Reactions range from the New Orleans Time-Picayune's ("Stewart delivered a confident, frisky — elegant, almost — performance that echoed and at times rivaled Oscar’s best-ever hosts, from Bob Hope to Johnny Carson to Billy Crystal") and BBC's ("this time he was sparkling") gushing to Salon.com's snipe that "Jon Stewart didn't get a laugh all evening long."
We'll just leave a couple of our favorites Jon quips so you can judge for yourself:
On the current political climate and how it relates to Hollywood reality: "Normally when you see a black man or a woman president, an asteroid is
about to hit the Statue of Liberty."
On in-house entertainment: "In case you're wondering what we all do here during the commercial
breaks, mostly we just sit around making catty remarks about the
outfits you're wearing at home."
Summarizing the plot of "Away From Her" starring Julie Christie: "It was a moving story of a woman who forgets her own husband. Hillary Clinton called it the feel-good movie of the year."
Especially considering the shortened work schedule, I thought it was a job well done. Perhaps the Academy will consider Stephen Colbert for follow-up duties next year . . .
Jon Stewart, newly unburdened from his one-man script-writing duties at A The Daily Show, has an interview in today's edition of The Gray Lady about his next trick - prepping for Oscar hosting duties in eight days. Besides making the requisite basic cable joke, J.S. confesses that he was ready to turn down the gig if the WGA strike hadn't ended and comes across as practically nonchalant about the task at hand:
“And afterward you go: Wow, put it to bed. Let’s enjoy having
done it. I have a good job, I have a good life. I’m not looking to do
something that would eat me up inside. But I do like the process. It’s
fun putting on a show.”
If you're looking for a heartwarming story of embarrassing fandom gone horribly, horribly right, check out TV Squad blogger Annie Wu's account of her trip to Monday's Colbert Report taping:
"I blame the hours of extreme cold for causing my naturally Floridian
brain to short out and malfunction. My hand shot in the air and Colbert
politely gestured to me. 'Yes, young lady?' That's when the verbal
diarrhea started. I told him about my bad luck with the show and made
an incredibly stupid and self-indulgent request, asking Colbert to
dance, Strangers with Candy credits-style, with me.
Yes, I asked that. As soon as the words tumbled out of my mouth, I
thought, 'Well. That was remarkably dumb, Annie. What in the hell is
wrong with you?' I swear, I have absolutely no idea why I thought it
would be okay for me to make that request. What Colbert should have
done was tell me, "No. Go die in a fire" and then have several burly
guards promptly carry me away. But he didn't. Instead he (along with
all the audience members and horrified crew members) stared at me for a
moment and then asked the guy in the sound booth, 'Do we have anything?
Get me a dance mix.'"
Find out what happened in the full blow-by-blow here.
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon came out with a big announcement: there's a chance the name of the show is changing back to "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." Check it out:
And, oh yeah, I guess there was some other news as well, but we'll keep you up to date with groundbreaking, name-changing updates as they happen.
As a satisfying coda to the Conan O'Brien/Stephen Colbert/Jon Stewart fight from last week, enjoy Late Night Underground's footage of behind-the-scenes choreography and outtakes. It's the kind of shoot you wish you could have with all your aspiring comedy buddies. Botched nunchaku! Endless bottle-smashing! Giddiness!
Last night, the comedy feud between Conan O'Brien and Stephen Colbert finally came to a head in a thrilling, multi-show, multi-network, pulse-pounding murderthon, so newsworthy even the Real News is talking about it. For anyone who missed the drama, we've gathered all the segments from The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and Late Night With Conan O'Brien and gathered them all in one place, for your blood-thirsty pleasure.
Check out how the evening started, right here:
After the jump, see how the rest of the night unfolded.
Conan and Colbert have been arguing over which one of them "made" Mike Huckabee. On last night's Colbert Report, Jon Stewart stopped by with the smoking Zapruder tape - footage from his old MTV show - that proves that HE made CONAN:
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report returned to the air last night, albeit writerless. (if you missed them, you can watch everything on their respective sites: The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.)
Remember Jon's birthday last year, when he said he would "fight anyone over 60 in the audience"? Or the year before, when he talked about sharing a birthday with Anna Nicole Smith? If not, here are the videos:
No Fact Zone reminded us that yesterday was Jon's 45th birthday, and since we miss the show as much as anyone, we hope it was a very happy one!
While you fellow Americans were still digesting that third iteration of Turkey over the wekend, The Guardian Unlimited (think of it as the British counterpart of The New York Times) ran a dispatch from Iraq. Reporter David Smith captured the atmosphere of what it's like to watch the following Daily Show clip over Thanksgiving dinner in Baghdad's Camp Striker.
Thanks to DB at No Fact Zone for alerting us to this - if you look up "Mensch" on Wikipedia ("a good person" in Yiddish), there's a picture of Jon Stewart. Awww!
How do we know that The Daily Show is gay? Because someone from Comedy Central's sibling network Logo took the trouble to sift through our new archives for an insider's Top Ten Gay Moments post. And we're not just talking about "Trapped in the Closet." Find out what else made the list (hint: Colbert + banana).
"You give me nothing. I work tirelessly. I'm a parasite that attacks artifice. I eat at the foundation of false sincerity, and you give me bubkes." - J.S. toasting T.K.
In case you missed Jon Stewart's toast to veteran anchor Ted Koppel at the 28th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards,* The Raw Story has the full video and transcript, including some clever jabs at other members of the mainstream media.
Incidentally, Ted (sans giant head) will be a guest on the Daily Show this Wednesday.
*Seriously, it was on CSPAN2. You'd have better ratings with caber tossing repeats on ESPN2 than on any given CSPAN2 evening.
Well, no, and probably never, but J-Stew and S-Co have joined the league that includes Bill O'Reilly, Al Franken and more: PunditFight: The Political Arena. After ten minutes, I still don't know if it's a game or what, but these avatars are adorable. Jon:
Comedians clean up good sometimes! All day today we'll be posting photos from last night's Comedy Central Emmy party. First up: Tracey Stewart, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and wife Evelyn McGee.
If you bought America: The Book from Amazon, then chances are you woke up to a peculiar email this morning, just as I did. The folks at Amazon want to let us know that Kierkegaard and His German Contemporaries: Theology is available for pre-order at the low, low price of $99.95. Why? Because it was edited by Jon Stewart, of course.
I know what you're thinking: "That book sounds hilarious; where's my 99.95-dollar bill?" But, I'm going to go out on a limb and predict it's a less-funny non-Daily-Show-hosting Jon Stewart that edited the tome. Then again, maybe he's trying to take the wind out of Colbert's sails in light of the upcoming release of I Am America (And So Can You!).
Which is better, really? Winning an award or being universally considered to have provided the only funny moment of an otherwise boring award show? In case you missed it NoFactZone runs down the coverage and shows us the best moments of last night's Daily show host/correspondent onstage reunion.
And congratulations to the staff of The Daily Show for their Emmy win for Outstanding Variety Music or Comedy Series!
In a most unexpected turn of events, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is bringing ol' Jonnie Stew back to host the Oscars in 2008, the 80th iteration of Hollywood's self-love fest. I suspect it's because it's an Indecision year. Get ready to play the "Death to Smoochy" reference drinking game, it's go-time, baby.
Here at the CC Insider, we get a lot of email from our users with valuable feedback on how we can stop f**king around and start giving the people what they really want to see. And let's be honest, we can't read every one, but every week we get some gems that we have to pass on to Executive Insider, our beloved leader for his thoughts. Every week on Thursday he'll be greenlighting some of your ideas*, so who knows, this could be your big shot!
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I LIKED WATCHING HIS SHOW . I'M FROM NEW ORLEANS BUT I THINK HE WENT WAY TO FAR IN SAYING BEANERS BLACKS AND WHITES AND OR OTHER PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THIS GREAT CITY.SHOULD NOT STAY HERE HE CARLOS IS AN (ed. Language!) REPETE (ed. Again, with the language!) LET HIM KNOWE I SIAD THAT PLEASE ..WHERE DID HIS MOM OR DAD BEANERS COME FROM THIS IS A FREE COUNTRY WHERE ELES CAN THEY HAVE MADE ALL THAT MONEY TO TURN YOU INTO AN (AMERICAN) LOTS OF PEOPEL FREINDS LOST LIVE IN KARTINA. THE WAY YOU TALKED I WISH YOU OR ONE OF YOUR FREINDS WHERE ONE OF THEM U R AN (ed. I think you get it) IF YOU TO CONTAT ME PLEASE COME TO NEW ORLEANS (ed. Actual street address redacted) SO I CAN TELL YOU SOME MORE" -- John
‘Sup John. Summer is winding to an end, and like all great seasons, I like to end each summer with a quiet weekend spent in my library, smoking my pipe and catching up on my Chaucer. I like to think of it as getting ready for the rigorous mental season ahead. It’s an old habit from boarding school.
In that great tradition, I want to thank you, John, for your reasonable and intelligent criticism. And thanks, as well, for leaving your contact info for Carlos, I’ll make sure that he’s dispatched post-haste so you can continue your conversation in rarified surroundings of your home. Thanks!
The list of guest-voices for the upcoming season of The Simpsons has been announced and two names in particular stick out:
The voice guest list, as reported by ComingSoon, includes Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Steve Buscemi, Jack Black, Lionel Richie, Matt Dillon, Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, John Mahoney, Weird Al Yankovic, Dan Rather, Placido Domingo, Maya Rudolph, Kurt Loder, Beverly D'Angelo and Topher Grace.
From the writers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart...
After being deserted all week, the streets of the Gaza Strip were soon alive with the celebration of death. Militants and citizens marched in victory, random buildings were blown up because they could be, guys in hoods carrying guns rode on cars, and, for the youngsters, the Bullwinkle float drifted victoriously down main street. That's the thing about Hamas -- just when you start to think they're pure evil, they break out the Bullwinkle float. Those guys.
Even in the midst of Hamas' takeover, President Mahmoud Abbas attempted to cling to power, declaring a state of emergency in Gaza. Or as it's known locally, a "State of Gaza."
The home of Fatah's founder, Yasser Arafat, was also ransacked. Among the personal belongings seized by Hamas was Arafat's 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, so apparently, Hamas now literally has a Nobel Peace Prize. Granted, they didn't get it the usual way... but it probably still counts.
The struggle for power between the two factions actually began a year ago when Hamas won parliamentary elections and reluctantly brought Fatah into a coalition government. This began an uneasy partnership that crumbled last month when Hamas threw a dinner party and Fatah showed up empty handed. And to think, this all could have been avoided with one box of water crackers.
Following his ouster from Gaza, President Abbas dissolved the Palestinian government and "fired" Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, a member of Hamas. And in case you're wondering: If you're fired because you helped foment an armed rebellion that culminated in the overthrow of the government, no, you can't collect unemployment.
As pictures of Hamas militants flood the news, it's hard to see past the uniform garb of the black, cloth hoods. It's scary. Intimidating. But did they ever stop to think that maybe wearing a hood over their heads all day in the middle of the summer is what's making them so angry? Sometimes the solution is not only right before your very eyes... It's covering your whole face.
Many Palestinians in the West Bank fear the Hamas takeover of Gaza could deal a major blow to dreams of Palestinian statehood, while others believe that if statehood is still somehow achieved, that state would, quote, "totally blow chunks." Sometimes we forget, Palestinians have teenagers too.
"Jon Stewart's been doing a real fine job filling in for me while I pursued my other projects, but I think it's time for me to take back the reins. Sure, The Daily Show's gotten a little slow, but there's nothing wrong with it that couldn't be fixed with a little of Craiggers' old 'Five Questions' magic."
Now, if we can just get the ghost of Johnny Carson back on the Tonight Show.
From the writers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart...
Senators from both parties have joined together on a sweeping immigration bill that offers something for both sides. For the right, tougher border security. For the left, legal status for most of the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants. And healthy, guilt-free lawns for everyone!
This an odd confluence of interests, reflected in the bill's title: the "Welcome to America, Let Me Show You Where We Keep the Cleaning Supplies" act of 2007.
The bill would create two new types of visas for foreigners hoping to work in America: the "Y" visa would allow new immigrants to serve as a guest worker for two years, while the "Z" visa, for illegal immigrants already in the country, would allow them to work on a probationary basis for four years, with the hope of eventually gaining citizenship. There's also the American airlines "advantage" visa, which would grant immigrants 100 frequent flier miles for every mile walked across the Arizona desert.
The bill doesn't make getting citizenship easy: even immigrants who get one of the "Z" visas would have to wait up to eight years to become permanent lawful residents, and even then, would have to pay $5,000 and make a "touch back" trip to their home country. And roll a pair of sevens. And name every #1 single Elvis ever had.
In case that's still not enough, immigrants would also be ranked on a "point" system to determine their desirability. One proposal awards eight points for science, technology and health care workers, and fifteen points for training in fields that are expected to experience the fastest growth. Among those in-demand jobs: illegal immigrant point counter.
Despite the bipartisan support, the bill has also received vocal opposition from both sides. Still, President Bush views this bill positively, telling reporters, "As I reflect upon this important accomplishment, it reminds me of how much the Americans appreciate the fact that we can work together - when we work together we see positive things." He continued, "Like, f'rinstance, I see me actually being able to accomplish something before I leave office. Tried war, tried Social Security. Now I wanna be the immigration president. After that, I got nothing."
Anyway, Jon was, like, supercool and sh*t, and the old guy seemed kinda nice. I think I bought that same tie he was wearing for my dad's birthday a couple years ago. He liked it. My dad's a nice guy, too.
From the writers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart...
France is a country seldom talked about on the Daily Show unless it falls between "seeing London" and "someone's underpants." But that's about to change, as this past weekend was round one - yes, round "one" - of the French Presidential election, narrowing down a pool of twelve - yes, "twelve" - candidates.
Voter turnout in round one was a whopping 84.6%, though admittedly, you have a lot more time to vote when you only work four hours a day.
The two remaining candidates now are conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and socialist Segolene Royal. By the way, in English, Royal's last name means "Quarter Pounder", so even if she loses, she'll always have a career in fast food endorsements.
Many compare royal to Hillary Clinton, in that both are leftists seeking to become the country's first woman president, and are taking up some conservative positions to get there. Most notably, Royal once waged a high-profile battle against the wearing of visible g-string underwear in school. This may not sound like much to Americans, but in France, coming out anti-lingerie is the equivalent of telling the troops to go screw themselves.
Also running this year is France's 2002 Presidential runner-up, Jean-Marie le Pen, a racist extremist who warned France to "beware" of Muslim immigrants. Unfortunately, Lepen's views didn't win as many supporters this time, with the candidate finishing in fourth place. Still, his attitude has positioned him well for a job at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Sarkozy and Royal will face each other in a runoff election to be held on May 6th, after which, one of them will be named the new President of France. That is, unless, they're distracted from the job by an enchanting pixie named Amelie, or killed by a female assassin named Nikita.
"Q. What do you think of political comedians like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert? - Crystal Bruneau, LOS ANGELES
A. I think we need it. My ego tends to think that, you know, I started it with my Weekend Update. But things are eclectic and come together from people without you ever knowing it."
Well played, Chevy's left brain. The rest of the Q&A reveals other great mysteries, such as Chevy's favorite Chevy Chase movie [spoiler] (Fletch) [/spoiler], the reason why he left SNL (he claims it was for a girl) and rebuttals of his portryal in Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live on behalf of Will Ferrell and Colin Quinn.
From the writers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart...
Usually, when Iran surprises the world, it involves the delightful treat of enriched uranium and a nuclear-capable missile. It's the gift that keeps on giving night terrors.
But last week, Iran had a different surprise in store, releasing 15 British sailors captured two weeks earlier after being accused of trespassing in Iranian waters. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the gesture an "Easter gift," a sentiment underscored by the captives' return in a basket surrounded by fake grass and marshmallow peeps.
The situation poses a bit of a sticky wicket for the British, as before release, the sailors were forced the write letters condemning the West's foreign policy. One even stated on Iranian TV, quote, "I'd like to apologize for entering your waters without any permission. I know it happened back in 2004 and our government promised it wouldn't happen again, and again I deeply apologize for entering your waters." This marks the most vehement apology for "water-entering" since high school sophomore Doug Hinkle slept with his town sheriff's 16-year-old daughter.
To make matters more embarrassing to the British, video showed the sailors enjoying games of chess and ping-pong while they were captive. Though it should be noted, the ping-pong table is tremendous torture for those who "got next."
British naval officer Faye Turney best summed up the ordeal as, "There were times when it got a bit much. And when I thought of my family and what they must be going through, that was the hardest part." She continued, "Like, how they don't even have table tennis back at home, and must make do with knock-hockey. It honestly breaks my heart."
From the writers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart...
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is under fire again as the White House continues its struggle to not explain the decision to fire eight U.S. attorneys for what appear to be politically motivated reasons.
Over three-thousand pages of e-mails were released this week, most of them linking the White House directly to the case, several of them linking Betty in ad sales to Frank in accounting, and one of them simply a link to the video of Billy Ray Cyrus accidentally yanking his partner's wig off on "Dancing With the Stars."
The emails contain some startling revelations about the attorney firings. For instance: Initially, white house counsel Harriet Miers - you may remember her, nice lady, wrote lots of thank-you notes, was nearly a Supreme Court justice for no apparent reason - well, she wanted to fire all 93 U.S. attorneys. Odder still? Her plan was to outsource their jobs to Bangalore.
The emails also give insight into the decision-making process on which attorneys to let go, as Gonzales and his deputy initially said things like, "All the changes that were made were for performance reasons." But now, it's becoming clear that many of the attorneys were fired for other reasons. For instance, one was fired to make room for a former aide to Karl Rove, another was fired the day after she indicted a Republican congressman, and one attorney simply cut in front of Rove in the lunch line.
If it's not bad enough that the attorneys may have been fired for political or even no apparent reasons, their replacements could be worse.
Senator Patrick Leahy pointed out, "one of the most respected U.S. Attorneys, Mr. McKay out in Washington State, he was replaced and who is their replacement? It's a little bit embarrassing for them because the man is, technically, disbarred." He continued, "Uh, also, apparently, the new U.S. attorney for San Diego is an eight-year-old girl. Her dad's a big contributor, and it's what she wanted for her birthday."
With these revelations, what does the future hold for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales? White House Press Secretary Tony Snow offered, "The president said he's got confidence in Al Gonzales," and that "We hope he stays." Snow added, "I mean, he can go if he wants to. That's not for us to say. We hope he stays. But say I was to close my eyes, and when I opened them... Al wasn't there? That's cool too."
Over at our sister network TV Land it's not just M*A*S*H* and Three's Company re-runs. No sirree, they've got cutting edge stuff too, like a blog for Kelly Ripa. Even better, David Steinberg's Sit Down Comedy, where the Tonight Show mainstay (Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, not Leno's) interviews luminaries like Larry David, Jerry "Not Michael Richards" Seinfeld and our own Jonnie Stew.
Yep, you can now watch the entire Jon Stewart interview on the official website or buy it off iTunes for two bones. The Apiary posted a rundown all the way back of June 2006. Now you can see the final product for yourself, wherein Jon:
. . . compares the shelf life of the show to Mexican food.
. . . shares what he likes and dislikes about the show.
. . . explains his name change.
. . . clears the air about a political agenda.
. . . AND MUCH MORE!
22 minutes of razor-sharp wit and self-deprecation. Check it out now.
From the writers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart...
With the quagmire in Iraq even further mired in quag, last week President Bush flew to the one part of the world he thought he hadn't pissed off: Latin America, or as bush calls it, "Left Africa." His message to the region's many poor people? "You're welcome."
Addressing the people of Brazil, the president said, "I don't think America gets enough credit for trying to improve people's lives. My trip is to explain as clearly as possible that our nation is generous and compassionate." He added, "And if you don't believe me, then I'll explain it to ya again. Only louder."
In Colombia, the president continued his effort to get people to see America his way, telling them, "It is very important for the people of South America and Central America to know that the United States cares deeply about the human condition." Then continuing, "Humans, not so much. But their condition? That's way up there on our list of 'things to care deeply about.'"
Despite his insistence that America is good and loveable, in each country the president was greeted by protesters and burning effigies. Fortunately though, aides convinced Mr. Bush that they were simply under-dressed well-wishers who had to keep burning things to stay warm.
From the writers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart...
Prepare yourself, because this might be a shock to the system: apparently, a high-ranking White House official... told an untruth.
Yes, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice-President Cheney's former Chief-of-Staff, was found guilty on four counts arising from the outing of Valerie Plame. As a CIA agent, that is. Not a lesbian. Well, pretty sure she's not. Shoot, this is how rumors get started.
No sooner had Libby been convicted, than Democrats began calling on President Bush not to pardon him. Although Libby's camp has responded that it would honestly just prefer Bush officially change his nickname to "something more like Rambo."
However, it wasn't just Libby who was unhappy. A juror in the case spoke with reporters following the verdict and he said that while Libby is certainly guilty, the jury was convinced others in the administration were even more culpable, stating, "I wish we weren't judging Libby, you know? This sucks... Where's Rove? Where's, you know, all these other guys?" The juror was then informed they're all at the orgy, celebrating the conviction of "anyone but them."
Comedy Central Germany launched in January (and is apparently a big hit), but I'm just getting around to checking out the website, and it's awesome in a bizarro-world kind of way (and also in a "just plain awesome" way.) I HIGHLY suggest surfing the site on your own (I've been on there for 20 minutes already, and the only German I know is how to say "can I use your lighter". Also, unfortunately the videos don't work in the US.), but here are some things I love about it:
2. One of the most popular video categories is "terror."
3. They have a popular show called "Para Comedy", where disabled people play pranks on bystanders. (Can we get an American version, overlords?)
And then there's the fact that using Babelfish to auto-translate descriptions of Comedy Central shows is sort of addictive (I think I know what 'sarkastischen' is!)
"vehicle controls, energetic determination work and each quantity of private problems keep the colleagues completely beautiful around the gay lieutenant Jim Dangle always appearing in short trousers to the service trab."
"It is the TV Ruepelrocker on high level and at the same time tendency barometer of a whole generation. ' The DAILY one show with Jon Stewart ' is the most popular newscast of the young adults in the USA. It unites skillfully Entertainment with critical, sarkastischen, winged or humorous statements to the situation of the nation. In addition come interviews with world star, which can be looked with the most popular Late Night Talker Jon Stewart regularly."
"Dave Chappelle belongs to the completely large American Comedians... in which the kahlkoepfige superstar takes human in his completely own kind and to allhuman merciless on the schippe. US critics welcomed this Comedy-Sketch-show as phaenomenales TV event. Dave Chappelle provides also in the cinema regularly for sensation."
Most of our reader mail consists of entreaties to Stephen and/or Jon to cover local scandals, or suggestions for jokes or guests for the show. We kind of delete them immediately because this isn't the right place (sorry, some of the ideas are really good).
But sometimes a gem like this comes in and the reader must be rewarded.
Mr. Colbert - I have been a steady admirer of yours since the days of your enhancement of the Jon Stewart Show and have admired your non sense of color and truthiness. I find that I too am color blind to race and have been stressing on how to help you find a new black friend after the unexplained loss of yours.
Recently I have made a new black friend and therefore find myself with more riches than I can find time for and am therefore willing to donate my spare black friend (people tell me he is black. I hope it isn't a cruel joke at my expense) to you.
He is friendly, has a fine sense of humor, hard working and loyal. I think that you would enjoy his companionship in those late hours when you find yourself alone.
Here's his picture should you wish to examine the donation before accepting it.
You can watch a preview of Jon Stewart on TV Land's Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg here.
For my tastes, this five-minute preview of the interview is a little too much Jon Stewart talking about how cute his kids are and too little Jon Stewart talking about the destruction of Western Civilization, but whatever. Maybe you're not a cynical bastard.
The entire episode of Jerry Seinfeld's appearance is also on the site now. And he also spends a bunch of time talking about his kids. I don't know. Maybe middle-aged comedians are campaigning to be the new official "Dad" comedian when Bill Cosby dies.
We're not going to speculate that Kurt McNally--the co-host of Fox News' incredibly not-terribly non-un-funny fake news comedy show, The 1/2 Hour News Hour (see previous post)--is embarrassed to be associated with his own show. No, we would never do that.
However, if we were, say, a fair and balanced 24-hour news channel, we might feel honor-bound to postulate on such possibilities given the fact that he changed his name for the show. His actual professional name isKurt Long.
While many comedians (including Jon Stewart) change their names for professional reasons, Kurt McNally (or Long or "gassy" or whatever) has been Kurt Long at practically every point in his career until now.
IMDB's page for Kurt McNally has one credit listed, while its page for Kurt Long has eight (one of which is This Just In, a working title for The 1/2 Hour News Hour). And Kurt Long's own resume lists 6 movies, 13 TV shows and 5 theater credits. Clearly the guy is used to using Long as a professional name.
Hi, I'm contributor chucklef**ker, and welcome to the new Comedy Central Insider blog. Here's some of what we'll be bringing you from now on:
* More contributors! We scoured the internet to find the dorkiest, nerdiest, most able-to-spell-Galifianakis-on-the-first-try comedy-obsessed freaks and asked them to help us make the Ultimate Comedy Blog. We hope that this site will bear a slight resemblance to that. Find out more about out T-Bob, Raleigh, Kitten and the rest on the Contributors page.
* More audience participation. Yes, we're jumping on the "oh, people on the internet don't just like to be talked at?" bandwagon: think of us as the guy who arrives late to the party...with five kegs of beer. Or something. No matter how you think of us: send us emails! Here are some ideas:
1. Comedy news, gossip, tips. Did you see David Cross and Larry the Cable Guy sitting next to each other in harmony on the jumbotron at the Superbowl? Send us a screencap!
2. Listings for upcoming live comedy events, and (especially), PHOTOGRAPHS and stories from live comedy events you attended!
3. Links to your comedy-related blog entries, myspace pages, and f**ked up crazy stuff you find on the tubes.
4. COMMENTS! Even if they're of the "you suck" variety.
5. Ideas for things Jon Stewart and/or Stephen Colbert should cover on their shows. No. Totally different department. But you can send us bear sightings, Daily Show poetry, and applications to be Stephen's new black friend! Basically anything related to the world of comedy, we want to know about (and share.)
* More Regular Features -- In addition to popular columns like Felber's Features, we'll be introducing more comedy event listings, gossip roundups, "The Comedy Central Mailbag", more comedian guest bloggers and tour reports, and more behind-the-scenes-of-the-comedy world stuff. If you have an idea of stuff you want to see, send it to us!
Oh, fan fiction! You live at the top of the nerd pyramid. You have special access to a VIP room of dorkness that nobody else will ever see. If geek is a planet, you are an entire galaxy. I salute you with today's post: Excerpts from the very best in Daily Show Fan Fiction.
Best out-of-place IM shorthand: Jon signs his suicide note "-J.S. <3" Reference to other works of fiction: Both Jon and Stephen are written as hardcore Lord of the Rings fans Best line: "Run faster you pieces of [crap]!" he yelled to his legs.
Best repeated typo: "Buttsex" Reference to other works of fiction: The entire cast of Old School weighs in on Rob's dilemma Best line: Luke Wilson was probably full of [crap]. Worse than his [!]damn crooked nose brother.
Mwah writes: To Serve Your Country, in which our heroes Jon and Stephen are called to duty by the Secretary of State. (More like called to Booty by the Sexretary of Sex!)
Best product placement: "Jon just sighed. “Did you bring the Gatorade?”" Best line: THE SECRETARY OF STATE IS USING A DOUBLE NEGATIVE WHILE TRYING TO GET ME TO BONE HER! Even Best-er line: Stephen suddenly grinned and Jon felt it go all the way to his toes. “Me too.” He winked again before swinging open the door. “Your boytoys have arrived!” he announced, spreading his arms wide to the darkened room before him.
(Each week, comedian Susie Felber interviews a different star of the comedy world for the CC Insider. You can read more of Susie on her blog, Felber's Frolics. After an introduction, this week Susie interviews Colbert Report writer Eric Drysdale.)
In my continuing quest to introduce you to talented comedians who ply their funny in many wondrous ways, I bring you a scintillating interview with Eric Drysdale. Eric Drysdale is a writer and comedian who spent years at The Daily Show, scooping up Emmy awards and contributing to the long time bestseller, America, The Book. In 2005, Eric joined The Colbert Report, where he sometimes appears on-screen as Stephen's beseiged stage manager, Bobby.
He’s also written and produced three live shows, the latest of which was an official selection at the 2005 HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. Eric has also appeared on TV doing his original comedy and continues to make comedy outside of work hours, performing, doing readings, and presenting short films or whatever (and stuff) at venues around the city. His schedule can always be found at his homepage
Oh,and most of what you just read was brazenly stolen from his bio page, which has way more info and can be found here .
Read on to find out how Eric got his big break at 19, and what you don’t know about Stephen Colbert...
In what may be one of his all-time career highlights, Jon Stewart is set to appear on sister network Noggin's song n' dance extravaganza Jack's Big Music Show. According to Maureen Ryan's Watcher Blog (which also has a glowing preview of The Naked Trucker & T-Bones Show):
"Stewart 'is a huge fan of the show,' says Adam Rudman of Highland Park’s Spiffy Pictures, which created 'Jack’s.' 'He watches the show with his kids every day.' Indeed, Stewart flew to Chicago a few months ago and spent an entire day at Spiffy’s studio filming his 'Groundhog Day' episode.
Look for Jon to jam with singing sock puppets and set your DVRs for Friday, February 2 at noon. Rock!
What makes this piece different than every other attempt to support/refute The Daily Show's "pull": It's written by David Obst, the man who brought you Pointdexter, Booger and the rest of the Tri-Lambs as Executive Producer o' the original Revenge of the Nerds.
"Can Jon Stewart make the Krauts (sic) laugh?" That's the question posed by Spiegel Online's David Gordon Smith as he profiles Comedy Central's entry into the German market. Lucky denizens of Deutschland will now be able to watch crudely animated schulkinder and marvel at the ineptitude of our local police forces.
Most of the lineup will be dubbed save for The Daily Show, which will have the benefit of subtitles. Given that your average Jon Stewart fan, y'know, READS, this may be the ideal format. Our main concern: Will it play in Bremen?
*This picture of Zach Galifianakis and a cat came up after typing "germany comedy central" in our image search. No foolin'.
Even though Stephen wasn't cover boy for People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue, but he take the title of "Sexiest Man Living" over at Salon.
From the fawning tribute: "Colbert's allure comes from the physical comedy that's always threatening to take over his body. From the prankish, mismatched ears to the cowlick that stands up no matter how much he gels his hair, he looks like he just can't contain himself. That slightly feminine face in perpetual motion -- eyebrows up, lips curled, eyes alight with a crazy joy that every once in a while seems to break character, for a split-second of intimacy, to say (only to me?): Yes, I know how hilarious this is! Plus, those large but graceful ever-moving hands!"
Meanwhile, also on the list: Head Honcho of Busboy Productions Jon Stewart.
In the latest installment of Joystiq's "The Political Game" (a column dedicated to "the collusion of politics and video games"), Dennis McCauley asks, "Who will save gamers from [the] nonsense" of elected officials and the culture police?
Why, our very own "Jonnie Stew." Fake news anchor. Hero to the bespectacled/button-mashing masses:
"The Daily Show host, of course, is not and will never be part of the video game industry. But he is a gamer. And his early-summer skewering of game-legislating Congressmen was a thousand times more effective than any political move I've ever seen the ESA [ed. - Entertainment Software Association] make in public."
Read on for more detailed analyses of The Daily Show's twitch culture coverage, if you are so inclined.
Radar: And then there's The Daily Show. Talk about a sweet gig. JH: It is so incredibly unexpected and providential as to be frightening to even discuss with you now.
Radar: Is Jon Stewart as Waspy in person as he appears on television? JH: I'm not going to get into ethnic phrenology with you. He's a very handsome man who is of average height.
We loved the interview (be sure to read the rest), but there was one thing we were dying to know that they didn't ask John. So we asked him ourselves:
CC Insider: Do you get stopped on the street, and what is that like for you?
John Hodgman: The stopping on the street has calmed down of late, perhaps because I have been a) in the rural north, driving around, largely along; or b) in Australia.
During the spring, however, I would say that it was a 50% chance anytime I left the house that someone would mention either the Daily Show or the Mac ads. The other 50% of the time I would be riding the subway screaming "Don't you people have televisions?!"
Thanks, John! John's bestselling humor book, The Areas of My Expertise, is now out in paperback.
(Comedian Liam McEneaney will be sharing the secrets of comedy with us here all week. You can read more Liam on his daily blog, and find out about where to see his shows (including his weekly free show in NYC, Tell Your Friends), here.)
Blogging here at Comedy Central isn’t just about hanging with some of my favorite Comedy Central celebrities, it’s about my duty as an American citizen to responsibly promote Comedy Central’s fine schedule of programming.
With that in mind, sat down with my Uncle Brian – 93 years old and mostly deaf, but still feisty as ever, bless ‘im – and had him watch some Comedy Central shows and give me his immediate, uncensored reviews of them. Below are the shows we watched, and my transcriptions of his thoughts on them:
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: “What am I watching, the news? Liam, I thought we were watching the Comedy TV.”
• Mind of Mencia: “Wait a second, he just used the word ‘beaner’. You told me I wasn’t allowed to call them that anymore!”
• Drawn Together: “Cartoons? What am I – good Lord, what is that woman doing with her – that’s another woman she’s doing that to! It reminds me o those French postcards I saw in the war. Never you mind which war, dagnabbit.”
• Reno 911: “Why can that Carlo Mensa say ‘beaner’ but I can’t? No, I will not calm down. I’m ninety-three years old, and I’ve lived long enough to earn the right to say what I want!”
• The Colbert Report: “Finally, someone on the teevee who talks loud enough for me to hear. And I like what he’s saying. Time to teach young layabouts like you a thing or two about what it’s like to live in the real world.”
Ten F#@king Years (The Concert), a live comedy/music event at NYC's Irving Plaza on November 16th, celebrating 10 years of The Daily Show and to benefit 826NYC.
The benefit will feature Daily Show correspondents and writers, as well as live performances by Superchunk, Clem Snide and The Upper Crust!
Tickets On Sale Now At www.irvingplaza.com Or At The Irving Plaza Box Office
From the Fire and Brimstone Desk: Westboro Baptist Church Pastor Fred "Kooky" Phelps, also known as the man who single-handedly keeps the "God Hates Fags" sign industry in business, has set his sites on hellbound Jon Stewart and "hooligan sidekick" Stephen Colbert for their little Emmy skit.
Phelps gets the ball rolling in his latest video sermon with this little gem:
"Comedian Jon Stewart and his hooligan sidekick Stephen Colbert of the Comedy Central TV network are two mockers and scoffers that like to blaspheme God and Westboro Baptist Church. At the Emmy Awards nonsense last week, Colbert began his silliness by bellowing out at the audience, 'Good evening, Godless sodomites.' America has become a nation of Godless sodomites, who mock and scoff about their Sodomite sins, thereby demonstrating that America is a nation of fag-enabling fools, because only fools make a mock at sin. Prov. 14:9"
While we don't condone directing bandwith to the Church's URLs, we were lucky enough to find the rant on YouTube:
Dear Steve Anderson and Huffington Post. You love Jon Stewart. With apologies to 50 Cent, we love Jon Stewart too, "like a fat kid loves cake." But this whole "Stewart(/Colbert) '08 petition drive has got to stop. The last thing we need to do is encourage a write-in candidacy that has more potential destructive power than Nader and Perot combined. Besides, you're going to put the Shakespearean analogists out of business if you start electing your Falstaffs and Fools to higher office.
If you must continue this exercise, please, for the love of Corddry, can you at least hire a professional graphic designer for your bootleg campaign merchandise?
Congrats to Jon Stewart and the rest of the Daily Show production team for their Emmy wins in the categories of Best Variety, Music or Comedy Series and Best Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program. Huzzah!
And leave it to Stephen Colbert to turn the Nation's defeat into hilarious grist for the comedy mill. Watch Jon and Stephen's intro to Best Reality Series.
Forget the Emmys, the real action last night was at the official Comedy Central Emmy after-party. We asked comedian Michelle Biloon to take her camera and her partner in crime Sari Karplus to the party and report back -- our only rule was that Michelle send us her report while still tipsy. The carb-tastic results after the jump.
The week of Monday, October 30-Thursday, November 2nd, the Daily Show will travel to the heart of America’s most hotly contested swing state to cover the Mid-term elections.
In Addition, there will be LIVE Election Night Specials From New York City on both The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report on November 7th.
Former Defense Secretary William Cohen will be talking with Jon about his brand-new thriller, Dragon Fire. From an online description: "The plot revolves around a secretary of defense who contends with a potential nuclear threat from a foreign country."
Tonight on The Colbert Report: NY Times Columnist Paul Krugman 11:30p / 10:30c
Stephen will be talking with Paul Krugman about his op-ed columns in the New York Times and his book, "Macroeconomics".
Stephen will be arguing with Geoffrey Nunberg about his new book, Talking Right:How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show.
PLAY BALL! Comedy Central and The Daily Show host Jon Stewart's Busboy Productions, Inc. have announced a new half-hour comedy pilot called Three Strikes, set in the world of minor league baseball.
The show comes from Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory, who have written for Letterman, The Larry Sanders Show, King of the Hill and more. Gregory is also a cartoonist for The New Yorker -- check out this interview from last year about the "zingery" of cartoon versus TV sitcom punchlines.
As mentioned in the comments, this list of observations apparently came from Mad Magazine (issue 467, apparently.) Our publishing it was the result of a misunderstanding - when a coworker emailed this as a drinking game to everyone (just for fun) and said ("made with heavy, and I stress heavy contribution from Mad Magazine"), we thought he meant that Mad Magazine had invented TV show drinking games or something, not that he actually got this list from Mad! We are very sorry. We hope you believe that we would never actually steal.We promise to be less retarded in the future.
We know others have made Daily Show Drinking Games, but have they done it on the official Comedy Central Blog? No, they have not.
And have they solicited their readers to send in suggestions for completing the game? Maybe they have, we don't know because we didn't want to read other versions before we made ours.
So, in the interest of making a comprehensive Daily Show Drinking Game, let's start with some suggestions for Jon Stewart. Take a drink every time Jon:
Says "Ehhhh… Not so much."
Says "Awk-ward."
Says "Nicely done."
Does his "Heh-heh-heh" Bush impression.
Shouts "Damn you!" at ceiling camera.
Says "You just blew my mind."
Makes an out-of-nowhere Jewish reference.
Says in a Foghorn Leghorne voice, "I said good DAY, suh"
Does some exaggerated chin stroking.
Does some exaggerated circular nipple stroking.
Pretends to mop his brow with his tie.
Imitates a comedian who 96% of Comedy Central’s audience has never actually seen, whether it’s his B-minus Jerry Lewis, his C-minus Woody Allen or his D-plus Johnny Carson.
Mentions his kids in an interview with someone who also has kids.
Now, it's your turn: send an email to ccinsider@comedycentral.com with your suggestions for the entire show - Jon, the correspondents, field pieces, interviews, everything. With your help, we can make the best Daily Show Drinking Game ever. It's what the world needs now.
Hey indie rock/NPR/Daily Show/McSweeney's fans! Jon Stewart, John Hodgman, Dave Eggers, Sarah Vowell, Sufjan Stevens and John Roderick are set to perform at New York City's Beacon Theater on August 23. The show's a benefit for 826NYC, a nonprofit organization that supports kids' creative and expository writing skills. Neglect this evening of intelligent entertainment and hipster cred at your own peril, but think of the children. Tickets on sale now!
Anonymous tipsters report that Fox News Channel is working on a comedy pilot styled after Comedy Central's own Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Talk show host Laura Ingraham is the anchor apparent, while the program's working title is "Watch This Right Now." One source called the pilot "an absolutely terrible rip off of Daily Show" with added bits such as "music and video montage" and "mouth replacement of known news figures" (possibly in the vein of Robert Smigel's Clutch Cargo-esque "interviews" on Late Night With Conan O'Brien). Because if it's one thing the world needs, it's a fake news show on an ostensibly real news network.
What do you get when you put Jon Stewart, Janeane Garafolo, Chris Kattan, Denis Leary, Rob Van Winkle (nee Vanilla Ice), blunt weaponry and a tape of "Ice Ice Baby" in the same room? Comedy mayhem.
Heard a rumor that Jon Stewart was doing some sort of "Comedy Sit Down" thing this week. A little Google research uncovered this link to On Camera Audiences, the E-Harmony for live audiences desperately searching for shows to see.
The rumor is true: Jon Stewart is going to talk to THAT GUY RIGHT THERE ABOVE, living legend David Steinberg, for TV Land's, Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg.
Last night, Jon Stewart hosted the ceremony, presenting Trey Parker and Matt Stone (who must have chose not to walk the red carpet - those bastards!) with the prestigious award honoring distinguished acheivement in media. Congratulations South Park!
Many of today's comedy megastars spend years honing thier craft studying improv and performance. One of the nation's premiere locations for learning the comedic arts is The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. It has recently been announced that the UCBT is opening a 7500 SQUARE FOOT training center. 7500 square feet might not sound like much to you people who have things like garages and backyards, but here in NYC, it's comparable in size to a Super Wal-Mart. (Which we also don't have in New York.)
Is Jon Stewart hurting America? That's the question posited by this Toronto Star article and a study conducted at East Carolina Universitiy in Greenville, N.C.
"The questionnaires, including from those students who didn't watch either video, showed that The Daily Show's negative influence was much greater than that of other popular late-night programs, such as Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
Jon Stewart: Threat to democracy or greatest threat to democracy? Discuss.
Congratulations to Jon Stewart and his wife, who gave birth to a healthy baby girl this weekend. Mom, dad, baby and big brother are all doing great.
The Daily Show won't be running a new episode tonight (Monday, February 6), as Jon is taking everyone home from the hospital today, but will be back in the studio tomorrow. Otherwise, Jon's goin' to Disneyland . . .
This just in: An editor at the New York Daily News dedicated an entire column pondering why Jon Stewart is hosting the Academy Awards and the appeal of the Daily Show in general.
Jon Stewart scores a goooooooooooooaaaal of an interview after helping present honors to All-American soccer players. Read the transcript of his press conference courtesy of Soccer America Magazine.
The New York Post's Page Six overheard Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly (seen here calling Jon Stewart a "pinhead") telling friends he's a fan of The Colbert Report. If this Mutual Appreciation Society keeps up, perhaps he'll take "Secular Central" off his "Naughty" list during the '06 War on Christmas.
In Oscar Watch news, reports are in that Daily Show host Jon Stewart is set to host the 78th Academy Awards on March 5th. Speculation had been running rife over recent picks as such Steve Martin, Whoopi Goldberg and Chris Rock. The question remains: Will Debbie Allen choreograph a jazz dance paen to Brokeback Mountain? Stay tuned.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I just want to say I feel your scorn and accept it."
Proving that there's no award he CAN'T win, The Daily Show's own Jon Stewart is being honored by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America with the Honorary All-America Award for 2005. Jon is being singled out for "(bringing) particular distinction to the sport of soccer through (his) efforts within and beyond the boundaries of the sport."
But all we have to say is: how cute is he in that uniform?
The Best Moments of Last Laugh '05: Behind-the-Scenes QUIZ!
Who said: "I've b**** more black guys than Katrina."
A) Lewis Black B) Lisa Lampanelli C) Sarah Silverman D) Andy Dick
Answer: Lisa Lampanelli, who also dwelled on her recent breakup with a guy named Darryl. (Watch a clip of Lisa's lovably offensive comedy on MotherLoad)
Whose short film included repeated mentions of the word "douchec***"?
A) David Cross B) William Shatner C) Jon Stewart D) Andy Dick
Answer: Andy Dick, playing TomKat's wedding planner (with a special appearance by The Children of the Corn!) Watch Andy's film from last year's Last Laugh, The Speechalist, on MotherLoad)
Who said "I spend quality time being jealous of Angelina Jolie's kid."
A) Stephen Colbert B) Patton Oswalt C) Lewis Black D) David Spade
Answer: David Spade, who compared the future Maddox Pitt's (first) adoption to Willy Wonka's golden ticket. Watch a preview of David's performance on MotherLoad.
Why is David Cross against abortion?
A) Because it stops a beating heart. B) Because the population is too low. C) Because there aren't enough teenage prostitutes.
Answer: C! Watch a preview of David's performance on MotherLoad.
What was the biggest surprise of the show?
A) William Shatner's moustache NOT catching fire. B) Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard throwing his acoustic guitar onstage. C) Two cute little old ladies in the tenth row. D) A two-and-a-half minute preview for SEASON THREE OF CHAPPELLE'S SHOW!
Answer: CHAPPELLE of course! (But all the other things are also true!) Look for the Chappelle's Show Season 3 preview during Last Laugh and watch it again on MotherLoad immediately after the show!
Last Laugh '05 premieres this Sunday at 9p / 8c. Watch this site this week and next for exclusive previews, afterparty and red carpet interviews, and guest-posts by your favorite comedians!
The full press release is below, but all you really need to know is: this Sunday, tune-in to Last Laugh '05 and watch NEVER BEFORE SEEN footage from the un-aired Season 3 of Chappelle's Show! Comedy Central will air the unseen episodes in 2006.
Watch Last Laugh '05 this Sunday at 9p / 10c to see the Chappelle's Show video, and watch it again right after the show on MotherLoad.
(Holy f**kin sh*t, right?)
COMEDY CENTRAL® TO PREMIERE THIRD SEASON OF "CHAPPELLE'S SHOW" DURING 2Q 2006
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Viewers Get Last Laugh As COMEDY CENTRAL Offers Sneak Peek Of
Never-Before-Seen Sketches From "Chappelle's Show's" Third Season
During Network's Year-End Blow Out, "COMEDY CENTRAL's Last Laugh '05"
Premiering Sunday, December 11 at 9:00 P.M.*
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Third Season Sneak Peek To Make Its Broadband Debut Monday, December 12
NEW YORK, December 5, 2005 -- At long last viewers will have a chance to see for themselves exactly what Dave Chappelle was working on just before his departure from production of the third season of the critically-acclaimed and Emmy-nominated hit series, "Chappelle's Show."COMEDY CENTRAL will premiere the unaired third season episodes during 2Q 2006.
In advance of the 2006 premiere, COMEDY CENTRAL will offer a sneak peek into the mind of the master by airing never-before-seen footage from third season sketches during the broadcast of "COMEDY CENTRAL's Last Laugh '05" which premieres Sunday, December 11 at 9:00 p.m.The sneak peek will also be available for viewing the following day on COMEDY CENTRAL's broadband channel, "MotherLoad" (www.comedycentral.com/motherload).
"COMEDY CENTRAL's Last Laugh '05" offers an edgy, alternative year-in-review as leading comics Lewis Black, David Cross, Greg Giraldo, Lisa Lampanelli, Carlos Mencia, Sarah Silverman and David Spade rifle through the headlines to bring you the most spectacular highlights.Also included are star-packed short films and comic segments from Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Dave Attell, Andy Dick, Dave Koechner and Earthquake that bring the year into focus and skewer the world of politics, sports, celebrity, movies and much more.In addition, the 90-minute spectacular will feature musical performances from Death Cab For Cutie and Yellowcard.
"COMEDY CENTRAL's Last Laugh '05" is sponsored by AOL and Honda Pilot.
Once again, we've asked an all-star team of comedians to dish about what made 2005 so very, very screwed up. This year's Last Laugh will feature Lewis Black, David Cross, Greg Giraldo, Lisa Lampanelli, Carlos Mencia, Sarah Silverman and David Spade, with special appearances by Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Andy Dick. Musical performers will be Death Cab for Cutie and Yellowcard.
In a previous post, we told you about a group of Daily Show fans who won part of the old set in a charity auction and are taking it across the country, organizing fan events with the slogan "You know you want to touch it." Well, the tour is in full swing and you can watch video from the events here.
A few weeks ago, parts of The Daily Show's old set were auctioned off for charity. The winners have decided to take it on tour around the country and are setting up unofficial events for fans. We think this is extremely cool! Right now the organizers are looking for Daily Show Correspondent lookalikes and authors/organizers for events in New York City, Washington DC, Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Nashville, Cincinnati, Chicago, Denver, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and everywhere in between. More info. at their website. (Comedy Central isn't affiliated with this - it's totally fan-driven, which is pretty awesome!)
In a press release, Jon said: "We've never had a musical performance on the show before -- not because we haven't wanted one -- but because we were holding out for a reunited Spandau Ballet. This will have to suffice."
"NewsFakers/Filmmakers" is a unique set of nine short films created by or starring writers on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The show premiered last night at the IFC Center . Our own Nick Poppy directed one of the best-reviewed shorts in the program, "Zombie-American," which stars Ed Helms (above) as a regular guy who happens to be a zombie. The program runs through October 4th, with all proceeds benefiting charity.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is auctioning off two pieces of the old set for charity (one of them, above.) Each auction includes a signed photo of Jon Stewart and proceeds go to 826NYC, a tutoring center for young writers begun by author Dave Eggers. Learn more here, or visit the auction site.
In addition to these outstanding honors, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart was also named Comedy Central's "only program of merit" by the Washington Post today.
The CC Insider begs to differ, and would like to submit for the Washington Post's further consideration some of Comedy Central's more notable programming.
The Showbiz Show with David Spade will do for Hollywood what The Daily Show with Jon Stewart does for the news. Starting September 15, David Spade will skewer the world of entertainment every Thursday at 10:30p / 9:30c. Links:
This week, Comedy Central announced an upcoming show called The Comedians of Comedy, which will take viewers on the road with four of Comedy Central's most popular comedians: Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, Maria Bamford and Zach Galifianakis.
The show follows the four on their recent multi-city rock club tour. From the press release:
"Viewers will see them both on stage and behind-the-scenes (in the van, the hotels, horsing around, trying out new material on each other, etc.)"
We sent our intern, Alvy Johnson, to the Comedians of Comedy show at Irving Plaza in New York a few weeks ago. Here she is with Maria Bamford:
Heartbroken by not being kidnapped, "Almost Famous"-style by the Comedians of Comedy, Alvy swallowed her pain and filed this report:
"I'm Alvy your friendly neighborhood intern. I interned at Comedy Central this summer and when I'm not IMing Trey Parker, trading witty barbs with Jon Stewart or racing swivel chairs with Paul Mooney I get to go to comedy events. I got the chance to see a taping of the Comedians of Comedy at Irving Plaza a few weeks ago.
Now who wants to touch me?
When I got this assignment I thought "I hope I don't suck. And if I do I hope I don't get caught."
The Comedians of Comedy, Maria Bamford, Zach Galifianakis, Patton Oswalt and Brian Posehn were in full form. Zach played piano and mused "Is the 'Amazing Race' about White people?" Patton made sure to do some of his fans favorite bits including "Nick Nolte". Score. Brian compared the new Star Wars movies to being molested by your uncle while you're an adult. The Special guests included Jon Glaser and Jon Benjamin as the Fuh-get-a-buddies. Friggin' unbuhlievable! I can't wait to see the behind-the-scenes stuff from the tour bus."
Thanks, Alvy!
Along with comedy fans everywhere, we're pretty excited about this particular show. In fact, if we were the type of website to say "stoked", we would say we were "stoked." Oh, what the hell? We're stoked as can be. Here are some links to tide you over until The Comedians of Comedy premieres in early 2006:
Penn Jillette, Sarah Silverman, Billy the Mime and Paul Provenza at the premiere of The Aristocrats.
The most anticipated comedy movie of the summer opens nationwide this week, and if the publicity-coup ban of the movie by AMC Theaters is any indication, it's going to be hilarious. The movie is just a bunch of comedians (including Sarah Silverman, Bob Saget, Jon Stewart, a mime, and the South Park boys) telling the same dirty joke over and over, each one telling their own twisted version. Penn Jillette (of Penn and Teller) and comic Paul Provenza made the movie, using digital footage taken over several years.
If you're like us, you experience excruciating pain every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 11 pm. Why? Because The Daily Show With Jon Stewart isn't on. We try to fill the void with social activities, time with family, and sobbing quietly alone in a corner, but nothing works. Until now.
Starting Friday, July 29, DL Hughley will fill your weekends with a new kind of late-night show. Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 11, he'll have special guests, surprise drop-bys from his celebrity friends, a house band, and a bunch of other stuff we promise is funny. (The CC Insider will never lie to you.)
Watch a preview of Weekends at the DL, find out more about the show, or get tickets to a taping, here.
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Oh, fan fiction! You live at the top of the nerd pyramid. You have special access to a VIP room of dorkness that nobody else will ever see. If geek is a planet, you are an entire galaxy. I salute you with today's post: Excerpts from the very best in Daily Show Fan Fiction.
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If you're like us, you experience excruciating pain every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 11 pm. Why? Because The Daily Show With Jon Stewart isn't on. We try to fill the void with social activities, time with family, and sobbing quietly alone in a corner, but nothing works. Until now. 
