The Daily Show shows how its team is getting ready for the 2008 election: ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
I've had a good feeling about newly minted Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac, whose vaguely-louche-yet-endearing charm has been on display ever sin...
Steve Wasik | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green
The Conference Board, which has tracked Americans mood swings since 1967, released figures showing that consumer confidence has reached an all time low. Sobering, but in light of the latest media coverage, hardly surprising news.
Bruce Kluger | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
Who can blame viewers for wanting a little cavorting with their reporting? Today's voters toggle easily between sober op-eds and faux-news analysts squirting seltzer down the candidates' pants.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media
Jon Friedman disagrees with Lara Logan: American news shows are great, he says! He watches 'em and has no desire to blow his brains out, like Lara Log...
Posted 06.26.2008 | Entertainment
Coldplay appeared on "The Daily Show" Wednesday night. In between performing two songs from their #1 album Vivia la Vida, Chris Martin chatted with ho...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.24.2008 | Entertainment
James McAvoy is busy promoting his new movie "Wanted" in New York City. The 29-year-old Scot spoke to Parade about preparing for the film and went on ...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.19.2008 | Entertainment
Steve Carell returned to his old stomping ground when he guested on "The Daily Show" Wednesday night to promote "Get Smart." Carell played off his suc...
The Daily Show | Posted 06.18.2008 | Media
On last night's Daily Show, Lara Logan, CBS's Chief Foreign Correspondent, spoke out against the coverage of the Iraq War by the American press. At a...
The Daily Show | Posted 06.18.2008 | Media
Jon Stewart kicked off Tuesday's show talking about the California's introduction of gay marriage. What does the ruling mean for George Takei? Watch:...
Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 05.31.2008 | Media
Almost as interesting to me as McClellan's book is the way in which the anchors have handled their interviews. In this regard, Olbermann and Cooper represented the two distant ends of the spectrum.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.13.2008 | Media
Doug Feith, a key neo-con architect of the miserable bloodbath in Iraq, appeared on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart to hawk his fabricated revision ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
John Oliver goes where few journalists dare: the Pollies. Yes, there really is an award show for political ads, and it is a scary world. [Part 1] ...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media
Tom Brokaw gave The Daily Iowan an interview, and one of the subjects they discussed was the role of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in disseminating ...
Posted 05.02.2008 | Business
On Thursday night's "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart and crew covered the economy as only they can. All the media talks about gas prices and foreclosures...
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.01.2008 | Entertainment
Did you groan when David Letterman told Monica jokes? Do you Tivo The Daily Show ? If your answer is yes, then Strange Bedfellows: How Late Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke may be the book for you.
Huffington Post | Posted 04.25.2008 | Entertainment
British actor Colin Firth appeared on The Daily Show Thursday night to promote his film "Then She Found Me." He told host Jon Stewart about his time i...
The Huffington Post | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama appeared on The Daily Show on Monday, and Jon Stewart asked a doozy: "The Rev. Wright controversy, the flag pin controversy... Will you p...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
Comedy Central's Jon Stewart was in Washington, DC Tuesday night for the USO-Metro Awards Dinner, where the Daily Show host was honored with a Merit A...
Jennifer 8. Lee | Posted 03.06.2008 | Media
Appearing on The Colbert Report as an author can be a double-edged sword, because while it's high-profile, you are also a punching bag in his bombastic red-blooded American act.
Radar | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
In case there was any doubt about the desperation of the Clinton campaign, Hillary books an appearance on The Daily Show to air Monday. It's her secon...
Ben Karlin | Posted 02.12.2008 | Entertainment
Ben: Why do a book? Why not another television show, or a gross-out buddy comedy -- where the real money is? Karlin: Studies show that 1,400 people in this country still read books. It's important that I impress them. Ben: No other offers, eh?
Steve Young | Posted 02.12.2008 | Media
It's getting pretty ugly on the cable news-works. MSNBC's David Shuster found out that he wasn't ready for prime time when he "pimped out" Chelsea C...
Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 02.07.2008 | Media
Last night was Super Hump Day on Jon Stewart's 'A Daily Show' as he dissected Super Tuesday coverage: "You might be thinking that just the very natu...
Huffington Post | Posted 01.18.2008 | Media
The Daily Show's John Oliver looked back at Jon Stewart's coverage of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky on last night's show to mark the scandal's 10th...
John McCain was widely ridiculed several weeks ago for fielding reporter's questions...
With just ninety days left in the election it's come down to...
The Justice Department investigation into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys has...
A federal grand jury has subpoenaed several former senior...
Love her or hate her, you've gotta hand it to Paris...
Senator Obama on Tuesday said of the McBush...
BEIJING — A charter airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for...
NEW YORK — Scarlett Johansson can laugh about it now,...
**UPDATE** The "I Am Rich" app has been removed from the app store. Silicon...
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart takes a look at offshore drilling...
Only the wildly hypocritical McCain could have made...
I'm not going to...
Q: Most people are really thrilled when they announce their daughter's engagement.
Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics