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GQ’s Fall fashion spread for 2015 features newly incoming host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, South African stand-up comedian Trevor Noah. Just like any comedian, Noah hates most of the jokes he told a few years ago, so all of the backlash surrounding his old Twitter posts was …
Hasan Minhaj describes and reflects upon his winning audition for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in a scene from his one-man show, Homecoming King, as seen here in Jessica Pilot’s webseries, “This is Stand-Up.” See more of “This is Stand-Up” in The Village Voice.
Comedy Central kicks off #JonVoyage, aka “Your Month of Zen,” today as an epic tribute to Jon Stewart’s 16-year reign supreme in late-night TV as host of The Daily Show, which he’ll close out on Aug. 6, 2015. It covers multiple platforms — online streaming, satellite radio, cable TV and mobile …
Comedy Central is letting us know at the unofficial start of summer that The Daily Show will pass the reins to Trevor Noah at summer’s end, with a Sept. 28, 2015, launch date for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. See? Yeah. It’s happening. Even Jon Stewart is unamused.
Mark your calendars: Aug. 6, 2015, will end Jon Stewart’s mighty reign as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Stewart announced his final date at the close of Monday’s episode. Roll the clip! Stewart had told Catie Lazarus two months ago that he wanted to leave the show …
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart happened to be on vacation last week when the network announced correspondent Trevor Noah would replace Stewart as anchor later this year. So Monday night’s episode was Stewart’s first chance to address the upcoming transition, as well as the backlash and the …
“Listen, I don’t care how this goes tonight, because tomorrow it’s going to say Muslim Bombs or Muslim Kills. It’s bad for me, either way.” That was Aasif Mandvi, speaking at the Congressional Radio and Television Correspondents’ Dinner last weekend in Washington, D.C. Mandvi, 49, was born in India, grew up …
Are you ready for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah? Comedy Central made it official this morning, naming Noah — a new correspondent on The Daily Show — to replace Jon Stewart as the show’s host after Stewart steps down later this year. Noah, a South African stand-up comedian who hosted …
Jason Jones, 43, joined The Daily Show in September 2005, and as Jon Stewart joked while feting Jones on Thursday night — his last as a correspondent — he was the “show’s beefcake” in the beginning. Here’s the show’s tribute to Jones, as broadcast last night on Comedy Central: But …
Bill Murray and Will Ferrell are two funny men too funny for Twitter — and don’t you dare support those joke thieves who continue to cybersquat on their Twitter presences, because they’re frauds. Suffice it to say, you won’t see Murray or Ferrell promoting their fashion senses on Twitter. But …
