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Rick Perry, you’re on notice! Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart will head to Austin, Texas, for a week of shows leading up to Election Day 2014, broadcasting in the capital city where the indicted Texas governor still …
“Mazel Tina!” That’s an appropriate title for the episode that won Bob’s Burgers its first Emmy Award over the weekend. Harry Shearer, long known but never properly celebrated for his voice work on The Simpsons, also earned his first individual …
Michael Che made his debut Wednesday night as a new correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and they gave him a title befitting his status: “New Correspondent.” Of course, if Che’s reports like this one from …
The Arab Spring helped give rise to political satire that allowed a former heart surgeon to speak to millions throughout Egypt over the past three years. Last week, Egyptians elected former Army General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as their new president …
Friday after business hours: That’s usually when the powers-that-be quietly dump bad news in the media’s lap, so it cannot be followed up and quickly gets lost in the shuffle toward the weekend’s more leisurely pursuits. And yet. And yet! …
Craig Robinson kicked off the revived American Comedy Awards with a musical introduction of the first presenter of the night. Wonder who that might be? And here are your winners of the revived American Comedy Awards, as broadcast May 8, …
When Michael Che abruptly cancelled his planned Edinburgh run for this summer, he told fans he had good reason for it. That reason? Che will start work in June as the newest correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with …
Most everyone has the conventional wisdom backward on John Oliver. If anyone is wishing they could turn back time by about six months, it’s Comedy Central, because Sir John Oliver — I’ll knight him as an honorable servant of Comedy …
Stephen Colbert made his triumphant appearance Tuesday on Late Show with David Letterman as Letterman’s heir-in-waiting. On Wednesday, “Stephen Colbert” returned to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to say goodbye once more. “It’s become clear I won television. At …
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 …
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