Jon Stewart vs. the War on Women in Combat
The Daily Show host addressed head-on the most strenuous objections — "little" women carrying big injured men and, you know, the potential embarrassment of public defecation.
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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.
The Daily Show host addressed head-on the most strenuous objections — "little" women carrying big injured men and, you know, the potential embarrassment of public defecation.
While exploring some of the absurdities of surrounding her Benghazi testimony, the Daily Show host took the opportunity to explain how Clinton is like X-Men's Magneto.
The 2012 Republican meme gets the Daily Show treatment.
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.
Jessica Chastain is totally the new Lennay Kekua.
"Or a false-flag operation run by Michael Moore in an attempt to discredit responsible gun owners."
The Daily Show host confronts the epic meltdown of the once-beloved cyclist — and how he's trying to dig himself out of his own lies.
Stewart did not like being called "lazy" by the gray-bearded übermensch, and said so last night on The Daily Show, unicorns and all:
He's not so sure about the campaign to mint a platinum coin to save the country from insolvency, but he was very willing to play along.
At the tail end of a rant on the accountability of financial institutions, the Daily Show host held up a (fake) book on ex-AIG CEO Hank Greenberg's grudge against the federal government.
Because, as anyone with half a functioning brain knows, the real threat in our midst is the secret rise of sharia law.
It's been three weeks since The Daily Show last aired, and Stewart was clearly hankering to address one of the most frustrating of many moments of inter- and intra-party squabbling of the new year.
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."
In the past few days a North Korean rocket launch and a giant asteroid both caught America by surprise — and obviously this means the end of the world is nigh.
Thirteen years of history might not have happened, because of jerks, the host revealed at a recent fundraiser.
As Jon Stewart sees it, the only thing worse than Bob Costas's awkward sermon on Jevon Belcher and gun control are Fox News talking heads talking about how terrible Bob Costas is.
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.
In Bill O'Reilly's mind, Christmas doesn't exclude people from other faiths because Christianity isn't a religion. Jon Stewart tore that argument to shreds, but one commenter notes that Stewart alone can't end it.
"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.
Last week's election remains on the minds of Fox News correspondents who still can't figure out why Republicans lost. Now, it seems, they're looking for someone to blame ways to broaden their base. Jon Stewart is here to help them figure out how to woo single women.
Paying more in taxes, a safe sex-mandate, rejecting the abolishment of the death penalty—what is going in California?
We've all been waiting four years that special night in November—no, not the election. We're talking about The Daily Show's morning (well, evening if you want to be specific) after show: the night when we get to watch Jon Stewart watch Fox News implode: it's here, and it's delicious.
It's finally Election Day! And last night Jon Stewart checked in on the home stretch on The Daily Show.
Things are improving in New York, and all things said, conditions could be worse, Jon Stewart mused last on The Daily Show. Just look at what life is like in the Swing State Hell that is Ohio.
The Daily Show returned last night, and Jon Stewart looked to his news team to compare Hurricane Sandy damage in lower Manhattan versus upper Manhattan.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan doesn't like that Obama uses the government to pick which industries win and which industries lose, and Jon Stewart looked at just why it's a problem last night on The Daily Show.
People in America agree on two things, Jon Stewart said last night on The Daily Show: popcorn is corn and counts as a vegetable and we should help veterans.
Jon Stewart looked at Monday's foreign policy presidential debate last night on The Daily Show and reached a conclusion: Mitt Romney is leaning toward voting for Barack Obama.
In an investigation into the "Barack-tose Intolerance" that afflicts Fox News, Jon Stewart examined four years of ridiculous hyperboles last night on The Daily Show.
Before chatting with Barack Obama last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart took a look at how pundits explored an important topic: What "turns on" women in the election.
President Obama sat down with Jon Stewart for an interview that will air on The Daily Show tonight. According to White House pool reports, they talked for a little less than 15 minutes, and while some questions were light-hearted, others weren't.
Jon Stewart reviewed Tuesday's debate last night on The Daily Show, and with Libya attack, the one spot Mitt Romney could've had "an ace in the hole," Romney flubbed and ended up looking like Wile E. the Coyote to Barack Obama's roadrunner.
Jon Stewart is sick of the campaign. Case in point? The Paul Ryan dish washing scandal, as he explained last night on The Daily Show.
While liberal pundits reprimanded Barack Obama for his ghost-like debate performance against Mitt Romney a couple weeks ago, Fox News took a different tactic after the VP debate. Jon Stewart examined it last night on The Daily Show.
The candidates for president and vice president are actually the cream of the crop compared to the awful candidates for House and Senate, as Jon Stewart examines last night on The Daily Show.
Now that Mitt Romney has an "insurmountable, unblowable lead" in the election, Jon Stewart decided to actually look at what he's been saying about policy last night on The Daily Show.
After Mitt Romney said he'd end Sesame Street in last week's debate, conservatives started railing on the Public Broadcasting Network. Why do they hate it so much? Jon Stewart checked it out last night on The Daily Show.
If you had better things to do with your Saturday night than stay in and order a $5 online pay-per-view, be thankful that you didn't miss much by skipping the debate between Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly.
The consensus among pundits was that Obama did poorly in the debate Wednesday night, so Democrats had to find a way to "polish that turd," as Jon Stewart explained last night on The Daily Show.
Jon Stewart was not impressed with Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson "racially charged" video of Barack Obama from 2007 that turned out to be a widely reported speech. In fact, Stewart pointed out last night on The Daily Show that Obama sounded just like a "notorious black liberation theologist": George W. Bush.
The Pennsylvania court ruled that its controversial voter ID law would not go into effect this year, and Jon Stewart looked at why last night on The Daily Show.
The first debate airs this Wednesday, and last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart looked at how the two camps are prepping.
Students are protesting their lunches. What's exactly the problem? Jon Stewart looked into it last night on The Daily Show.
Barack Obama must be the luckiest dude on the planet, Jon Stewart said last night on The Daily Show, because something is happening to Mitt Romney: He is getting dumber and dumber as the election goes on.
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