Tag Archives: Daily Show

Pew Ranks “Trusted” News Outlets

From the Pew Research report: Those with consistently conservative political values are oriented around a single outlet—Fox News—to a much greater degree than those in any other ideological group: Nearly half (47%) of those who are consistently conservative name Fox News as their main source for government and political news. Far fewer choose any other single source: Local radio ranks …

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The Daily Show Takes On Skype Exorcist

Via Jezebel: First Williams talked to the Reverend Bob Larson, an evangelical who’s amassed enough notoriety he’s got a fairly fat Wikipedia entry. And now, he is ready and willing to cast out your demons via Skype exorcism. All he asks is a $295 donation to his ministry! “Skype is a great technology to stare down the devil, to go …

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Hashtag Debbie Harry

Last night Debbie Harry held up the above sign at the end of a Daily Show “celebrity elevator violence” PSA.  Watch the clip here.

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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 …

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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 …

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Daily Show: Which State Will Be The Last To Approve Same-Sex Marriage?

The Birmingham News has a recap: Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” put its satirical eye on Alabama Tuesday night, asking what people in Alabama – a state the show noted “still has segregated sororities” – and our cousins in Mississippi really think about gay rights. One segment of the show, “Last Gay Standing,” was built around a prediction made by …

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The Daily Show On Pope Francis

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The Daily Show On “Judgment Gay”

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John Oliver’s GayWatch

Mediaite weighs on John Oliver, who is subbing for Jon Stewart: Daily Show guest host John Oliver tonight took on the social progress (or lack thereof) towards gay marriage rights in the United States and around the world. Between mocking Pat Robertson‘s odd phrasing and the rumors of a “gay lobby” at the Vatican, Oliver saved his sharpest barbs for …

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Obama Visits The Daily Show

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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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At Charlotte’s CarolinaFest

Today I spent a few hours wandering around CarolinaFest, where concert stages, Southern cooking, issue advocacy, and lots and lots of Obama/Biden swag abounded. I ran into the Daily Show crew doing street interviews, as were Fox News, the loathsome Americans For Prosperity, and Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, the last of whom I snippily turned down when they asked for …

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Kellogg’s To Catholic League: Drop Dead

Last month I reported that Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue is chasing down every Daily Show advertiser to demand they cease sponsoring Jon Stewart’s “anti-Catholic bigotry.” (Donohue is furious because Stewart superimposed a manger scene over a nude woman’s crotch.) Here’s the response Donohue just got from Kellogg’s: “We understand that our customers come from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, …

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Young Turks Interviews Bill Donohue About His Boycott Of Jon Stewart’s Show

Bill Donohue: “I have the determination and I have the money. This is going to go on for months.”

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Hackers Hit Catholic League

Bill Donohue is raving that Daily Show fans have hacked the Catholic League site because of his demand that Jon Stewart apologize for insulting the BVM. “A letter was delivered to Steve Albani at Comedy Central notifying him that Jon Stewart has to apologize today or suffer the consequences.”UPDATE: Here’s the photo that blew Donohue’s fuse.

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Chris Meloni As Tony Boloney

Chris Meloni helped out the Daily Show last night by starring in their clip mocking NYPD Officer Anthony Bologna, the man videotaped pepper-spraying helpless Wall Street protesters. And there’s a website for The Vigilogna.

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Minneapolis Vs. San Francisco

Last night’s Daily Show included the below segment comparing the gay scene in San Francisco to that of Minneapolis, which recently topped a survey as the country’s “gayest city.” The clip includes a visit to San Francisco’s legendary kink emporium, Mr. S. Leather.

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Jon Stewart Mocks “Pink Toenails” Story

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Lizz Winstead On Phyllis Schlafly

Daily Show co-creator (and JMG reader) Lizz Winstead rips into Phyliss Schlafly. Lizz appears at Comix NY tomorrow night (Thursday) at 8pm. Get tickets here.

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Jon Stewart On Lindsey Graham

With a shot at GetEQUAL too.

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