Jon Stewart Gets to the Bottom of What's Wrong with School Lunches
Students are protesting their lunches. What's exactly the problem? Jon Stewart looked into it last night on The Daily Show.
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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.
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.
During his epic rant about Fox News titled "Chaos "Bulls**t Mountain," Jon Stewart used the words bulls**t or s**t 14 times, which got us wondering, just what is Comedy Central's limit on profanity for the Daily Show?
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart dug into how the "Romney campaign headquarters" at Fox has covered Mitt Romney's really bad 47-percent gaffe. Four words: "Chaos on Bulls**t Mountain."
Mitt Romney might have made things too easy for Jon Stewart with the video where he says the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income tax will vote for Obama.
When the U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens was killed by protesters last week, conservative pundits took the opportunity to condemn Obama's attempts to encourage Muslim nations to embrace democratic change.
In three short weeks, America's favorite frenemies Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart will trade insults and intellectual niceties once again in a 90-minute debate.
When Bill Clinton gave his speech at the DNC Wednesday night he ran long, ad-libbed, and totally ruined that Cowboys-Giants game. He also, as Jon Stewart points out, used an amazing thing missing from the entire Republican National Convention: Math.
Jon Stewart knows the Democratic Party is super tolerant and sent his news team to the convention to find out just how inclusive and tolerant they really are last night on The Daily Show. The result: Democrats want to include everybody! Sort of.
Jon Stewart and The Daily Show team head to Charlotte for the DNC, and Stewart's appalled at the Democrat's poor response to the question "Are we better off?"
Jon Stewart doesn't normally work on Fridays, but the Republican Convention is a special circumstance, and thanks to Clint Eastwood's special conversation "with the President," he doesn't regret working the overtime.
Before the RNC aired Mitt Romney's biography video, Jon Stewart had an "advanced copy" that he showed last night on The Daily Show: "Mitt Romney: A Human Who Built That."
Herman Cain visits Jon Stewart on The Daily Show's Tampa set, and Stewart asks: Why are some of these delegates still more enthusiastic about Herman Cain than Mitt Romney?
The Daily Show returned last night, live from Tampa, and Jon Stewart checked in with the correspondents—discovering that Tampa was the perfect place for the Republican National Convention.
In a welcome back to college video for mtvU, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart reminds first-time voting college freshmen that Mitt Romney's running mate Paul Ryan is a different person entirely from Ron Paul, according to a video exclusive to Vulture.com.
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart broke down states with rules that prevented some people from voting in the best way he knows how.
After Joe Biden used a crass slavery analogy, some said the campaign season had reached a new low, but Jon Stewart had news for those people last night on The Daily Show: If you really think that's low, you clearly haven't been following the campaign.
Is paying extra for pizza worth the rising healthcare costs? Jon Stewart answered Papa John's claim that Obamacare will raise pizza costs last night on The Daily Show: Uh, yeah, it's worth it.
Jon Stewart went after media coverage of the Paul Ryan vice presidential announcement, last night on The Daily Show.
Jon Stewart checked in with campaign attacks last night on The Daily Show, and his take: Come on, guys. Try harder.
These are troubled times, Jon Stewart said last night on The Daily Show, and one big problem is apparently voter fraud.
Jon Stewart went after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid again last night on The Daily Show for the senator's accusation that Mitt Romney hasn't paid taxes. But wait: Reid is the one who put the word out in the first place, Stewart said. "What are you, a one man Mormon Blabbernacle Choir?"
Harry Reid's just like those birthers who hounded Barack Obama into proving he was an American citizen. At least that’s what commentators as diverse as Jon Stewart, Ann Coulter and Frank Bruni all told us, after Reid said that an unnamed Bain investor informed him that Mitt Romney hadn't paid his taxes for ten years. But this is arguable.
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart went after Fox News contributor Judith Miller, who said recent Obama administration leaks hurt national security. But hold on, Judy: Weren't you the recipient of some leaks yourself back in the day?
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart pointed out all the ways news channels spoil Olympics results for viewers, even when they say they won't.
Some comments Mitt Romney made in Israel about culture's influence on economic growth have come under fire. Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart interpreted what exactly Romney may have been implying.
Jon Stewart looked at Americans abroad last night on The Daily Show, particularly, Mitt Romney's critique of how ready London was for the Olympics.
Are you angry about the LIBOR scandal? If not, allow Jon Stewart to get outraged for you about how the London Interbank Offered Rate interest rate that was manipulated by banks.
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.
Louis C.K. blamed unfortunate timing to explain why he appeared to defend Daniel Tosh's rape humor and subsequently got branded a rape apologist.
The Daily Show's back after a lengthy break, and Jon Stewart welcomed back viewers--that is, except for the DirecTV subscribers that lost Comedy Central over a dispute between DirecTV and Comedy Central owner Viacom.
CNN and Fox News screwed up royally yesterday, initially reporting that the individual mandate had been struck down by the Supreme Court when in fact the exact opposite happened. Sure, that's embarrassing, but who should be more embarrassed?
Bummed that the New York State Senate isn't as down with reefer as Gov. Mario Cuomo, Jon Stewart looked across the Hudson on The Daily Show las night to see if he could find his marijuana fix in the Garden State.
What do Solyndra, the BP oil spill, leaks to The New York Times, and now Fast and Furious all have in common? As Jon Stewart notes on last night's Daily Show, they're all Obama's personal Watergates, at least as far as Fox News is concerned.
Following the Supreme Court's immigration decision, what better time for Jon Stewart and his Daily Show team to examine the presidential candidates' Latino pandering skills?
You know President Obama is on the wrong side of an issue when Jon Stewart he starts comparing him to his predecessor.
Like Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night, we were a little disheartened to see CNN and MSNBC skip real coverage of the G20 summit in order to focus on the "chilly" body language between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin.
Jon Stewart finds that Sean Hannity's show selectively edited footage of Obama saying that "it's just not true" that he can pass comprehensive immigration reform by myself, cutting the clip just before Obama details the steps he can take to do it.
Call it a match made in news parody heaven: Michigan lawmaker Lisa Brown being banned for saying "vagina" during a house debate on abortion, and Jon Stewart waiting with open arms.
As Jon Stewart notes on last night's Daily Show, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon wasn't suppose to have a good time talking before the Senate on Wednesday.
Last week, it was reported that Mitt Romney raised more money in May than Barack Obama. This has Jon Stewart a little worried for the president.
"We at The Daily Show, we poke a decent amount of fun at politicians," Jon Stewart said starting off yesterday's show. "But every now and then a politician comes along who is just truly terrible, and really deserving of more scorn than even we can dole out in our nightly 22-minute-and-30-second wiseass-athon."
With too many blunders to even remember from the Mitt Romney campaign it's about time a big one was pulled by sitting president.
Jon Stewart, ever observant of cable news networks' antics, has seen this game of asking what parts of the presidential candidates' lives are "fair game" for the other side to attack before.
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin survived his recall election and Jon Stewart, being Jon Stewart, runs down the networks' spins on the results.
The Daily Show, like the cable news programming it mocks, got local last night and took a close look at the Wisconsin recall election.
Jon Stewart makes a good point: After the wall-to-wall coverage of Prince William's wedding last year, shouldn't we in America be a little royal'd out by now? Well, not yet at CNN.
Yesterday, the Daily Show host put aside national politics to to adress a much more pressing issue.
On yesterday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart was begging Donald Trump to reenter the presidential race, since it's just so easy to make fun of him—especially compared to the two real candidates.
Fresh off of a two-week vacation, Jon Stewart must've decided that he wanted his return to The Daily Show to be big. So why not an interview with the First Lady of the United States?
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