Topic: Daily Show

Jon Stewart Takes on the Entire Internet Over the New Monopoly Cat

Daily Show

The Daily Show host couldn't believe that the Internet elected its unofficial mascot to be the next Monopoly token.

By J.K. Trotter

Feb 7, 2013

Jon Stewart Has a Gay-Marriage Strategy for the GOP: Be More British

Parliament thus far has managed to push forward legislation without comparing gay marriage to bestiality, or incest, or polygamy. That was a sign of hope to the Daily Show host last night.

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By J.K. Trotter

Feb 1, 2013

Jon Stewart Is Unimpressed with the Obama Skeet-Shooting Conspiracy

The Daily Show host wasn't very sympathetic to the speculation that the president has never actually operated a firearm. "Since when did the ability a fire a weapon become a badge of honor, a patriotic achievement?" he asked. "All you need is a finger!"

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By J.K. Trotter

Jan 31, 2013

Jon Stewart on the GOP's Romney-esque Immigration Game

Not much has changed since Mitt Romney's suggestion that undocumented immigrants "self-deport."

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By J.K. Trotter

Jan 23, 2013

Jon Stewart Destroys Cable Networks Over Breathless Inaugural Coverage

The Daily Show host reveled in the caricature MSNBC, Fox, and CNN made of themselves during the meme-worthy second inaugural.

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By J.K. Trotter

Jan 22, 2013

Jon Stewart on George Stephanopoulos's Morgan Freeman Mix-up

Stewart revealed his explanation for why the ABC anchor mistook Bill Russell for Morgan Freeman.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Dec 13, 2012

United Nation Fights the 'Asshole Factor'

In this time of great partisan fighting, there is one arena in which we are seeing a great breakthrough: Leaders inside and outside government, on both the right and the left, are publicly saying they refuse to work with "assholes."

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By Elspeth Reeve

Dec 11, 2012

Why Jon Stewart Really Almost Quit 'The Daily Show'

Thirteen years of history might not have happened, because of jerks, the host revealed at a recent fundraiser.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 7, 2012

The Royal Fetus Is Giving Jon Stewart Morning Sickness

There's a reason that we've become all too familiar and obsessed with hyperemesis gravidarum and the royal primogeniture. And, no, Jon Stewart does not approve. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 6, 2012

John Kerry's McCain Joke Just Got the Jon Stewart Seal of Approval

As Stewart points out, the only good thing to come of the UN disability vote was the moment when we got to see Senate rivals John McCain and John Kerry troll each other and maybe go a little too far with the jokes.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 4, 2012

Jon Stewart vs. Bill O'Reilly and His War on Christmas: It's On

"Christianity is not an organized religion." Yes, Bill O'Reilly said this. And yes, you just knew Jon Stewart was waiting to tackle it.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 30, 2012

Jon Stewart and the Fiscal-Cliff Asteroid

We didn't need Jon Stewart to tell us how silly it is for Washington to threaten our economy with another downgrade. We need him to show us how silly this whole thing is making the rest of us.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 29, 2012

The Daily Show John McCain and Lindsey Graham Don't Want You to See

For the past few weeks, we've seen Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham fall over one another trying to point out just how wrong Susan Rice was. Don't think Jon Stewart and his team haven't been eagerly watching, too.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 28, 2012

How Walmart Employees Ruined Jon Stewart's Black Friday

You know what, Walmart employees? Things could be worse. You could be working in, say, a flammable factory in Bangladesh.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 16, 2012

Mitt Romney Is the Jon Stewart Gift That Keeps on Giving

Oh Mitt Romney. We really thought we and Jon Stewart were through with you and vice versa. Thankfully you and we are not. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 14, 2012

Go Ahead and Secede, Jon Stewart Won't Stop You

Jon Stewart knew you were keeping that Confederate flag close by for a reason. 

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By Elspeth Reeve

Oct 12, 2012

Obama to Appear on The Daily Show

President Obama will go on The Daily Show on October 18, continuing his tour of friendly chat shows like The View and Nickelodeon.

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By Eric Randall

Jul 17, 2012

Can't Funny and Serious Get Along?

Steve Almond's take-down of Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart in The Baffler further proves that serious people seem to like when funny people are serious, but funny people aren't much in the market for serious people to join their ranks. And serious people hate that.

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By Eric Randall

May 7, 2012

Catholic League's Porn-Mailing Protest Is Sort of Working

The Catholic League has taken to mailing "a color photo of a naked woman with her legs spread" to executives at companies that advertise with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to get them to leave the program, and the apparently, they're having some success.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 22, 2011

The Long Quest for a Conservative Daily Show

The latest conservative Daily Show wannabe, B.S. of A from Glenn Beck, follows a lengthy list of failure in the right's attempt to mint a Jon Stewart of their own.

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By Erik Hayden

Oct 7, 2011

Jon Stewart Wonders About Sarah Palin's Fundraising Scheme

The real losers, he points out, are those who gave her money thinking she'd run

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By Erik Hayden

Aug 10, 2011

Jon Stewart Defends Michele Bachmann Against Newsweek

He becomes the latest to criticize the magazine's bizarre cover

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By Elspeth Reeve

Jun 7, 2011

Why The Daily Show Wasn't Very Funny Last Night

They had about an hour to write jokes on Monday, so expect a better segment tonight

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By Erik Hayden

Jun 1, 2011

Jon Stewart: Roger Ailes Won't Let Palin Talk to Media

The Daily Show host aired his semi-sarcastic theory about Palin's bus tour

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By Elspeth Reeve

May 3, 2011

Trumpdate: A Single Advertiser Fires The Donald

And it turns out Obama got some help with his Trump zings from a Daily Show writer

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By Erik Hayden

May 3, 2011

Stewart and Colbert Say Goodbye to Bin Laden

"I hope I'm never again this happy over someone's death," admitted Colbert

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