Last night John Oliver, pointing out that he was an immigrant himself, took on the Senate's attempt to pass an immigration reform bill. But he knows that the bill, with its sad looking Schoolhouse Rock face, will have a pretty hard time becoming a law.
On last night's Daily Show, John Oliver nearly fell into temptation. You see, Palin returned to Fox, and he almost didn't know where to start, but then he realized something: "We can respond to her obvious trolling with a series of insulting jokes," he said, "or we can just f--king ignore her."
For the first night since starting his tenure as temporary Daily Show anchor, John Oliver moved away from the topic of the NSA scandal to address gay rights across the world. There was old news.
And on his third day as temporary anchor, John Oliver was unequivocally funny.
Did Oliver ruin a potentially great bit — some good new-fashioned Siri-meets-NSA American humor — by making yet another British joke? Because his second night substituting as host for Jon Stewart had a lot of the same "I'm British" schtick as the first one.
John Oliver officially started his summer gig subbing in as host for Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night, and right up front, on Night No. 1, he wanted everybody involved to admit that it was "weird." And then he admitted that he could do without the huge frickin' NSA news.
Tonight is the first night of Jon Stewart's movie-making hiatus, which means it will be John Oliver's first shot at The Daily Show's anchor desk. And he's lucked out: He couldn't have picked a better news cycle for his brand of humor that is at its best when calling out American hypocrisy in his made-for-BBC accent.
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.
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."
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.
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.
Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams tries to capture the root anxiety driving the most recent attempt at secession in Texas, where she documented — and, in a few cases, encouraged — several citizens' ongoing struggle to win independence from the U.S.
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.
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 knows why the monkey Iran launched in space looks nothing like the monkey who returned to Earth.
The Daily Show host pointed out how "Independence, USA" isn't, well, very independent.
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.
The 2012 Republican meme gets the Daily Show treatment.
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.
Paying more in taxes, a safe sex-mandate, rejecting the abolishment of the death penalty—what is going in California?
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.
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.
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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