Via the New York Times: In December, Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian, made his debut as an on-air contributor on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” offering his outsider’s perspective, as a biracial South African, on the United States. “I never thought I’d be more afraid of police in America than in South Africa,” he said with a smile. “It …
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Jon Stewart On Ted Cruz 2016
As good as you’d expect.
Read More »Jon Stewart On Kansas Gov. Brownback: There’s No Place Like Home…ophobia
Jon Stewart Breaks The News
Jon Stewart To Leave The Daily Show
Stewart made the announcement during this afternoon’s taping of his show.
Read More »Jon Stewart On Eric Garner
Via Gothamist: Sharing the same outrage that many felt after an NYPD officer was not indicted for choking Eric Garner to death, a disgusted Jon Stewart appeared on The Daily Show last night. He said, “I honestly don’t know what to say. If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more fucking time. But I would really settle for less …
Read More »Jon Stewart Recaps CPAC
“It’s like Burning Man for people who don’t do drugs and are afraid of fire.” Many more gems within.
Read More »Jon Stewart Rips Fox News Over President Obama’s Super Bowl Interview
Josh Feldman has the recap: Jon Stewart thinks Fox News is maybe a little too sensitive about President Obama taking a few swipes at them during his Super Bowl interview with Bill O’Reilly, and mocked the idea that the leader of the free world went out of his way to deflect from the major scandals plaguing his administration by doing …
Read More »Daily Show Mocks Sean Hannity’s Vow To Move Out Of New York State
Mediaite provides the recap: Noting that Fox host Sean Hannity pledged to leave the state as a result of those comments, Stewart worked out an innovative way to convince the conservative broadcaster to stay in New York. The Daily Show talked to gay couples pledging to marry people of the opposite gender, cab drivers pledging to abandon their accents, food …
Read More »Jon Stewart On Marriage In Red States
Josh Feldman recaps: Jon Stewart was admittedly surprised Thursday night at the gains gay marriage is making even in strongly red states like Utah and Oklahoma, even if in one of those cases people are stuck in a complex Schrodinger’s marriage paradox. Utah officially recognized gay marriage, except that it then decided not to, but then the federal government stepped …
Read More »Jon Stewart Vs Fox News On Duck Flap
Another recap from Mediaite: The Daily Show host took the opportunity to deliver a scathing take down of the “free speech absolutists” at Fox News. “Look, I think what the guy said is ignorant,” Stewart said, “but I also have an inclination to support a world where saying ignorant shit on television doesn’t get you kicked off that medium.” But …
Read More »Jon Stewart Vs Megyn Kelly
Stewart To Media: Go Fuck Yourselves
Jon Stewart Rips Obamacare Site Fiasco
Typically dead-on.
Read More »Jon Stewart On The “March Of Dumbs”
Jon Stewart Shreds GOP
Must watch.
Read More »Jon Stewart Rips Ted Cruz
“You’re fucking with us, right?” Another line: “So to express your opposition to Obamacare, you go to the book about a stubborn jerk who decides he hates something before he’s tried it, and when he finally gets a taste, he has to admit after he’s tasted it, ‘This is pretty fucking good.’”
Read More »Jon Stewart Vs The Three Tea Stooges
Obama Visits The Daily Show
Jon Stewart Vs Bill O’Reilly
Andrew Belonsky reports at Towleroad: Move over Mitt and Barack, because there’s a far more rambunctious, exciting debate duo in town: Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly. The men met at George Washington University in DC last night for “O’Reilly v Stewart 2012: the Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium,” an event moderated by CNN’s ED Hill and that featured the men …
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