The Daily Show host couldn't believe that the Internet elected its unofficial mascot to be the next Monopoly token.
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.
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!"
Not much has changed since Mitt Romney's suggestion that undocumented immigrants "self-deport."
The Daily Show host reveled in the caricature MSNBC, Fox, and CNN made of themselves during the meme-worthy second inaugural.
Stewart revealed his explanation for why the ABC anchor mistook Bill Russell for Morgan Freeman.
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."
Thirteen years of history might not have happened, because of jerks, the host revealed at a recent fundraiser.
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.
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.
"Christianity is not an organized religion." Yes, Bill O'Reilly said this. And yes, you just knew Jon Stewart was waiting to tackle it.
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.
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.
You know what, Walmart employees? Things could be worse. You could be working in, say, a flammable factory in Bangladesh.
Oh Mitt Romney. We really thought we and Jon Stewart were through with you and vice versa. Thankfully you and we are not.
Jon Stewart knew you were keeping that Confederate flag close by for a reason.
President Obama will go on The Daily Show on October 18, continuing his tour of friendly chat shows like The View and Nickelodeon.
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.
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.
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.
The real losers, he points out, are those who gave her money thinking she'd run
He becomes the latest to criticize the magazine's bizarre cover
They had about an hour to write jokes on Monday, so expect a better segment tonight
The Daily Show host aired his semi-sarcastic theory about Palin's bus tour
And it turns out Obama got some help with his Trump zings from a Daily Show writer
"I hope I'm never again this happy over someone's death," admitted Colbert
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