Today in show business news: Jennifer Hudson might become an American Idol judge, Jon Stewart finds a leading man for his risky directing debut, and Tom Cruise walks away from a movie.
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart explained that the Department of Justice is going after people whose crimes seem minor — especially when you look at them in comparison to what Wall Street executives did to create the financial crisis. To which Stewart asked: "What, none of them bought pot?"
Jon Stewart last night turned his attention to Reagan "fan fiction" author (and, you know, Wall Street Journal columnist) Peggy Noonan, who is angry at President Obama for his recent scandals, but gives her former boss a pass for a little thing like Iran-Contra.
In the wake of what he is calling "Hurricane Scandy," Jon Stewart last night looked at Obama's defense strategy: sending out a random guy to Sunday morning talk shows.
Jon Stewart mocked the media's eagerness to predict the 2016 presidential race last night, saying that it has the "attention span of a concussed goldfish," and caught one reporter in an embarrassing gaffe.
In continuing to address "Hurricane Scandy," Stewart had to admit that Republicans has something with the IRS and Benghazi dust-ups. He even proposed teaming up with Fox News! But you know who still doesn't get to take a GOP victory lap? Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.
Jon Stewart brought on Senior White House Correspondent John Oliver to break down just what went wrong for President Obama at his first major press conference since the scorecard of scandals broke out in Washington. Turns out, Obama had the wrong British wingman.
On last night's Daily Show, Stewart took on the legitimate scandal at the IRS, and explained how it gives conspiracy theorists a leg to stand on. After having a good laugh, Stewart went straight to the top.
Stewart had some interesting ways to describe Grace and the perverse joy she seems to get from tawdry crime stories like the Jodi Arias trial: "That's not rouge on her cheeks," he said. "She draws youth and vitality from human tragedy."
With Fox News continuing its all-out coverage of the ongoing Benghazi hearings in Congress, it was only natural that Stewart go after his least favorite cable-news network on The Daily Show last night.
On last night's Daily Show, Stewart wondered about all the reports that said that Christie underwent lap-band surgery just to run for president. "Can't a guy get healthy, without the prognosticators?" Stewart wondered. But Stewart requires some other skills in a 2016 candidate.
On last night's Daily Show, Stewart tried to make sense of the NRA convention speakers' convoluted logic. In conclusion: "Stop pretending that background checks are the last barrier standing between a free America and Obama-sponsored government mom-rape."
In taking on the backlog of benefits claims at the VA, Jon Stewart's team engaged in the "greatest paper hunt of all time."
After exploring the various insults lobbed by Cruz toward his fellow Senators, and then the insults thrown by everyone else toward the junior Senator from Texas ("wacko bird"), Stewart explained why, exactly, Cruz has been called "the most hated man in the Senate."
Even though the administration has said that a "red line" would involve chemical weapons, there remain a lot of questions about the Assad regime. "For instance, did he use them in a boat? Did he use them with a goat? Did he use them in a house? Did he use them with a mouse?"
Jon Stewart turned to Urban Dictionary to help him tell the story of how Congress jumped to action when federal budget cuts were getting in the way of their travel plans.
On last night's Daily Show, he got so excited that George W. Bush is back in the news that he had to breathe into a paper bag. Then he moved on to the new presidential library, also known as "the Hard Rock Café of catastrophic policy decisions."
On The Daily Show last night, he explained how Fox has gone all willy nilly on the Constitution at the beginning of the controversial prosecution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He also peppered his entire opening segment with spot-on pop culture references, Star Wars included.
Jon Stewart is pretty great at skewering Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is pretty good at typing on an electronic device in order to post a short message on Twitter. Trump struggles in this asymmetrical warfare.
Fun with vulgar acronyms and Congressional insider trading with "the Midas of profanity."
Senior Terror Analyst Aasif Mandvi joined Jon Stewart from "Boston" on last night's Daily Show to explain just how difficult it has been to pin down the brothers Tsarnaev.
Last night Jon Stewart went on familiar tirade against CNN on a good day to pick on CNN. While he spent almost six minutes ranting on how they botched their Boston bomber reporting, building up to a disgusting Human Centipede punchline, he only spent a few seconds on what seemed to set him off.
The Daily Show host has a really gross analogy to describe CNN's on-air meltdown in Boston.
About that "gang of eight," which includes Chuck Schumer and John McCain: It isn't really much of a "gang," Stewart said on last night's Daily Show.
Jon Stewart used a famous Seinfeld joke to explain how Republicans are approaching trying to woo black voters.
On last night's Daily Show Jon Stewart explained how the Senate blocked the U.S. from signing on to a UN arms treaty — a treaty that is decidedly anti-Bond villain.
State lawmakers have it in their minds to regulate all kinds of things, which means last night Jon Stewart played a new Daily Show game he likes to call "Sodomy! Zygotes! Welfare!"
On The Daily Show last night, Stewart went after Jeff Zucker's newfangled approach at CNN, taking aim at hologram goats, vegetarians who eat bacon, and horrifying murder recreations.
Stewart compared the process of getting genetically modified foods legislation passed to buying porno, then hiding it under a bigger purchase that might include, say, Mountain Dew and Funyuns. And then came the "flatulent grandpa."
At the outset of his show last night Jon Stewart decided to poke fun at North Korea — you know, until North Korea actually started to scare him.
Following recent news that Egypt's Jon Stewart Bassem Youssef was arrested for insulting Islam and president Mohamed Morsi, Stewart himself came out on the offensive for Youssef on his Monday night show.
Jon Stewart took on the RNC plan to remedy the Republican party, and — in the spirit of the thing — decided to say things how Reince Priebus says things. You know, like a "drunk Muppet."
On the first night of Passover, Stewart took it upon himself to offer some free advice following the President's trip to Israel. And first off, it's not necessary for anyone to compliment the matzah.
No, Jon Stewart didn't deliver one of his signature rants against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Rather, the Daily Show host's advice is set to appear in Rumsfeld's forthcoming tome of advice, Rumsfeld's Rules.
To demonstrate just how divided we are politically, the Daily Show host took Republicans to task over their resistance to spending on universal preschool — and their desire for more spending on the military.
Jon Stewart last night riffed on the conflict over the element of the Voting Rights Act that makes sure there is oversight of voting laws in states that historically discriminate.
He can't host The Daily Show forever. We'll get our first taste of extended life without the 14-year Comedy Central anchor this summer when he takes an unprecedented 12 weeks off to direct his first movie. Even Stewart himself called it "a little scary."
Jon Stewart pointed out in his show last night because of sequester-related stress both Barack Obama and John Boehner slipped up in public remarks.
The Daily Show host and the rest of the media finally have something in common: they are offended. Just not by the same thing.
After contemplating the country's recent woes — the recent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI plus the meltdown of Italy's election for Prime Minister — the Daily Show host offered some advice, and condemnation, to Italians, a third of whom voted for Silvio Berlusconi, the perpetually scandalized politician.
The Daily Show knows a thing or two about Purim. Hence the outrage, shared by nearly everyone who read about New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who applied blackface and dressed up as a "basketball player" for the Jewish holiday.
Remember the President's secluded golf outing with Tiger Woods? Or the White House hosting the Miami Heat? Or the First Lady appearing during the Oscars? Or dancing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon? All while wearing those bangs? Watch Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee connects the dots.
Is there a way to calm Republican obsession with the attacks in Libya? If so, the Daily Show host hasn't found one.
Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart returned last night to grasp for the true meaning of the Russian Meteor of 2013 — the 10,000-ton, 17-meter rock from outer space that exploded over the sky last Friday in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
It wasn't exactly a McCainian grilling, but Stewart did get rather obsessed with Washington's obsession with her talk-show explanation. He also tried — and failed — to do the Harlem Shake.
President Obama spoke of many issues and challenges facing the nation in his State of the Union, but, having grown up among the bridge-and-tunnel crowd in Central Jersey, there was one crisis that stood out for Daily Show host Jon Stewart's: the crumbling infrastructure of those bridges and tunnels.
When former vice president Dick Cheney made the TV rounds yesterday, in anticipation of the State of the Union, to criticize President Obama's foreign policy strategy, you could guess how Jon Stewart felt.
The Daily Show host connects hoaxer extraordinaire Ronaiah Tuiasosopo — the guy who invented the Manti Te'o fake girlfriend — to the swarm of questions surrounding the Pope's resignation.
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.
Jon Stewart got into some questions of linguistics on last night's show, since the Republican Party has decided that "messaging" is its problem.
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