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America has Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Egypt has Dr. Bassem Youssef. Big difference. Especially since the latter nation doesn’t have as much of a sense of humor about political satire, or satire, or jokes of any kind, for that matter. Sunday’s 60 Minutes profiled Youssef, calling …
Stephen Colbert must keep up appearances as blowhard mouthpiece “Stephen Colbert” on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, but at the tail end of Monday night’s episode, “Stephen Colbert” offered that if he, in fact, were a comedian…”as a young, bookish man with glasses looking for a role model, I might …
When Jay Leno took over The Tonight Show from Johnny Carson in 1992, there was no visible late-night TV war to be waged. At 11:30 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, there was The Tonight Show, or there was Arsenio Hall. Leno’s ascension over David Letterman, however, revealed a civil war within NBC that …
If you saw Bill Cosby on last night’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, then you heard them reminisce about the very recent past — earlier this month, Cos performed on the Stand-Up For Heroes benefit Stewart hosted for Wounded Warriors during the New York Comedy Festival. Cosby being Cosby, …
John Oliver did such a stellar job substituting this summer as host of The Daily Show, everyone just naturally assumed Oliver had become the de facto successor to Jon Stewart whenever he’d decide to step down from his role atop Comedy Central’s late-night talk show. Did they think nobody else …
Can you outbid $910 to win and wear the “Sexy Vagina” costume this Halloween? That’s where things stood at 11:30 a.m. Eastern today, with a day and a few hours remaining in the eBay auction for the vagina, er, vulva, displayed by The Daily Show‘s correspondent Kristen Schaal during her …
This summer may be all about John Oliver substitute hosting The Daily Show on behalf of Jon Stewart, or about Louis C.K. racking up more individual Emmy nominations in a single year than anyone previously…but it’s Throwback Thursday. So let’s go back in time. A time when Jon Stewart was hosting …
If Jon Stewart looks and sounds a bit more British this summer, that’s because John Oliver will be playing the role of “Jon Stewart” in Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Stewart is taking eight weeks off from the show this summer (plus the additional four weeks the show …
Chris Matthews of MSNBC appeared onstage in a bit for Comedy Central’s 2012 edition of “Night of Too Many Stars” to raise money for programs helping children with autism. Matthews “debated” Bill O’Reilly from FOX News as both men sucked on helium balloons. Before the event’s taping, I asked Matthews …
The biennial Night of Too Many Stars benefit, hosted by Jon Stewart and organized by Robert Smigel, has reached new heights in 2012 for Comedy Central and for raising money toward autism research. The benefit show premieres Oct. 21, 2012, on Comedy Central, with a live phone bank taking your …
