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The Awards Will Not Be Televised: Lucille Lortel Awards for Off-Broadway and On: Trip to Bountiful

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.12.2013 | Entertainment
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Regina Weinreich

The sight of two men in giant clown shoes and oversized pants shuffling on a commuter platform lingers in the mind. From the Signature Theater's produ...

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'The Daily Show' Skewers NCAA's 'Perfectly Fair Rules'

Posted 04.12.2013 | Sports
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"The Daily Show" took aim at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Thursday night when Aasif Mandvi criticized the organization's image as "ste...

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It Could Happen

Posted 03.08.2013 | Comedy
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Jon Stewart kicked off "The Daily Show's" rundown of how the new pope gets elected with a couple of suggestions. First and foremost, if any male catho...

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WHAT???

Posted 02.22.2013 | Comedy
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Jon Stewart took Obama to task on Thursday for his continued lack of transparency on U.S. drone policy and the mysterious memos justifying it. The...

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Brooke Shields To Join 'Army Wives'

Posted 01.24.2013 | TV
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Brooke Shields will join Lifetime's "Army Wives" for Season 7, the network announced Thursday. She'll star alongside other new faces for the upcomi...

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Theater: Disgraced Tries to Provoke But Only Puzzles

Michael Giltz | Posted 04.17.2013 | Arts
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Michael Giltz

t's when the playwright tries to push our buttons too readily that the show goes off the rails. It's easy to disguise a person's prejudice with social niceties and then reveal with coded words and increasingly brutal language the prejudice that simmers underneath.

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From 'Daily Show' Comic To Serious Actor

AP | JOCELYN NOVECK | Posted 10.23.2012 | Arts
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NEW YORK -- It's an oft-used device in theater: The doomed dinner party, a gathering that starts out politely, with house gifts of wine or pastries an...

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WATCH: 'The Daily Show' Explains Every Political Speech

Posted 09.10.2012 | Comedy
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Now that the conventions are over it's time for the candidates to take their messages of "hope and change" or "other hope and change" directly to the ...

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Critical Musings on the RNC From a Tampa Resident

Gary Stein | Posted 11.04.2012 | Politics
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Gary Stein

The buses have finally left, the barricades are being sent to wherever they came from, and Tampa is getting back to normal, whatever that is. I took ...

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Daily Show Comedian Offers RNC Advice

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay | Posted 08.28.2012 | Politics
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BY ARIELLE STEVENSON, CREATIVE LOAFING TAMPA BAY The last time I saw The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi in Tampa Bay, he was losing miserably in a wing-...

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'Daily Show' Correspondent Goes Back To His Roots

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 07.26.2012 | Home
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NEW YORK -- Aasif Mandvi, a regular correspondent for "The Daily Show," is going back to the stage. The comedian and actor will star in "Disgraced," ...

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Popcorn Preview: Dark Horse

Leslie Sisman | Posted 08.12.2012 | Entertainment
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Leslie Sisman

This isn't just a story about a couple of misfits who find happiness by finding each other. Deep down, Abe -- and Miranda, for that matter -- have issues that can't be resolved by finding love.

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'Daily Show' Correspondent Hosting New Cooking Channel Show

AP | MICHELE KAYAL | Posted 06.07.2012 | Comedy
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-- He's played a charming chef in a feature film that he also co-wrote, and had his breakthrough role in an off-Broadway play about a restaurant. Yet...

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WATCH: Aasif Mandvi Talks Being The Daily Show's Senior Muslim Correspondent

Posted 04.20.2012 | Comedy
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"The Daily Show's" Senior Muslim Correspondent, Aasif Mandvi, talks his role on the show and how he uses humor to open minds....

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Rick Scott Asked To Pee In Cup During Budget Presentation

Posted 02.06.2012 | Miami
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Florida Governor Rick Scott just can't catch a break. As if asking for $1 billion more in education funding while trying to close a $2 billion budget ...

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WATCH: Jon Stewart Cautions GOP Candidates Against Facts, Sanity

Posted 11.15.2011 | Comedy
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Jon Stewart was taken aback during the latest GOP debate when Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum & Jon Huntsman seemed to display a few sane ideas. With ...

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WATCH: 'The Daily Show' Explains The Tea Party

The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 10.24.2011 | Comedy
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While "The Daily Show" is on hiatus this week, the "Best F#@king News Team Ever" is providing us with some hilarious looks at American politics via a ...

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WATCH: A Muslim 'Cosby Show?'

The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
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UPDATE: Scroll down for the full pilot! Could a lovable Muslim sit-com family change America's perception of Muslims? Perhaps, but probably not the...

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The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi Opens Up On Sanity, Specials, And Stewart

Dan Lybarger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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Dan Lybarger

On August 9, 2006, actor-comic Aasif Mandvi started a job that he had auditioned for only five hours before. It was the first of the New York performe...

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Aasif Mandvi: From Daily Show to Today's Special

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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Marshall Fine

"They did not know what to make of me in Tampa," Aasif Mandvi says. Small wonder. Mandvi, the cowriter and star of Today's Special, moved to Florida with his family from India when he was a teen. "Talk about being an outsider."

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HuffPost Review: Today's Special

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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Marshall Fine

There's not a lot new about David Kaplan's Today's Special -- yet this comedy, from a script by Aasif Mandvi and Jonathan Bines, finds ways to take an old formula and give it new life.

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A Chaotic Cornucopia of Culinary Cinema (VIDEOS)

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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George Heymont

The connection between food and passion finds its way into all kinds of movies: Robert Morley, George Segal, and Jacqueline Bisset starred in 1978's ...

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'The Daily Show' Takes On O'Donnell's 'Not A Witch' Ad & Delaware's North Vs. South Battle (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
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Last night on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart and Aasif Mandvi continued their midterm election coverage by weighing the Democrats' chances of losing th...

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Jon Stewart Takes On The G-20 Summit (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
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With so many world leaders in one place, Jon Stewart had some fun breaking down the key moments of the G-20 summit. Acknowledging the presence of swin...

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Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi Tossed From AHIP Conference, Returns As Batman (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
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Last week, our own Sam Stein reported that a crew from "The Daily Show" was out at the Ritz Carlton hotel, interviewing attendees of last week's AHIP ...

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