"Welcome to 'The Daily Show'. Craig Kilborn is on assignment in Kuala Lumpur, I'm Jon Stewart." And so began Jon Stewart's tenure as host of what h...
Hey, what's funnier than a good joke? Deconstructing that joke, of course. Well, not usually. But since every rule needs an exception to prove it, the world needs "Writers' Bloc" -- a podcast about how our favorite comedies are made.
Presidential Debate Watch 2012 took place at 92YTribeca on October 3, 2012. The event featured Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead moderating a panel...
Two pro-Democratic super PACs, the Jewish Council for Education and Research and American Bridge 21st Century, released a new video Thursday with come...
Jerry Seinfeld is a few episodes deep into his new web series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," but he has yet to get coffee, in a car, with a funny...
The second episode of "Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell" featured Rachel Maddow, a fellow liberal and Bay Area native of Bell. Almost as soon as ...
Worse than Swift Boating and worse than Willie Horton, Mitt Romney is running the most craven, dishonest, and hypocritical campaign we've seen in contemporary American politics.
When one male comic makes an over-the-line sexist, racist or homophobic joke, all the other male comics, their male producers and their male audiences laugh and defend him. They ignore the hostile climate that their "humor" creates.
"The Daily Show" has been a launching pad for many celebrated careers. All of which happen to belong to men.
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...
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.
Comedian Lizz Winstead -- recently named HuffPost's "Greatest Person Of The Day" -- has spent her summer performing benefit shows all over the country...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
