Posted 05.02.2012
"The Daily Show" has been a launching pad for many celebrated careers. All of which happen to belong to men.
Posted 05.01.2012
Remember that great ShamWow infomercial? The guy in the headset, the bare studio, the font, the devil-may-care attitude? It left you feeling like th...
Regina Weinreich | Posted 04.12.2012
Recipients are asked to adhere to only one caveat: they must speak about a woman who has influenced or inspired them, not their mother. An act of rebellion, this rule was immediately violated.
Posted 11.26.2011
Comedian Lizz Winstead -- recently named HuffPost's "Greatest Person Of The Day" -- has spent her summer performing benefit shows all over the country...
Posted 09.21.2011
If you're like us, you have all kinds of funny people in your Twitter stream. One type that is a continuing source of both laughs and information are ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 08.31.2011
Lizz Winstead, comedian and co-creator of "The Daily Show," has been selling out comedy shows across the country for the past few years. With her shar...
Posted 08.28.2011
Comedian and co-creator of "The Daily Show" Lizz Winstead is embarking on a tour to raise money for Planned Parenthood, and she kicked things off rece...
HuffingtonPost.com | Carol Hartsell | Posted 07.02.2011
As news broke late Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. military forces in Pakistan, twitter streams began rolling by faster than...
The Huffington Post | Carol Hartsell | Posted 06.14.2011
First of all, you should know we're going to revisit this topic frequently. There are so many great female comedy writers on Twitter now, you can't f...
Posted 05.25.2011
In honor of International Women's Day and the upcoming Women In Comedy Festival in Boston, we wanted to put together a list of some of our favorite fe...
Posted 05.25.2011
The reviews are in on this year's Oscars ceremony. Well, they were actually coming in all night on Twitter, and from the beginning the verdict was un...
The Huffington Post | Carol Hartsell | Posted 05.25.2011
South By Southwest released its 2011 comedy lineup yesterday and it features an impressive list of professional as well as up-and-coming comedians, al...
Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011
When Jon Stewart replaced Craig Kilborn on "The Daily Show" in 1999, the show was still a "startup cable show on a cheap set in a tiny studio," says T...
Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011
Arianna and "Daily Show" co-creator Lizz Winstead joined Joy Behar Wednesday on "The Joy Behar Show" to discuss turmoil at the RNC in the wake of "Bon...
Catie Lazarus | Posted 05.25.2011
My lady sensibility is limited to menstruation (hilarious), babies (adorable), and unicorns mating (adorably hilarious).
Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 05.25.2011
The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a rare and endangered species. Only seven of the 81 writers were women.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011
On Tuesday evening, several organizers of the Teaparty Movement and of the ultraconservative website 73wire.com hosted a telephone conference call for Teaparty activists to receive talking points directly.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 05.25.2011
There's been an awful lot of negative press aimed at the House of Gawker over the past year or so, and even the most unctuous of Nick Denton apologists would have to admit that quite a bit of it is well-deserved.
Ben Harvey | Posted 05.18.2012