Hasan Minhaj makes his latest appearance on The Daily Show as the “Senior Senate Intelligence Report Correspondent” to remark on the recently released CIA Torture Report.
Minhaj makes an “awesome” case, albeit a paradoxical one, for us to not feel so down on ourselves as a nation. Watch it here.
The TV legend Norman Lear stopped by for a nice long chat with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show to promote his new memoir Even This I Get to Experience.
Stewart goes through Lear’s unbelievable career and also finds that All In The Family probably wouldn’t make it to air today. You’re going to want to watch this for brush up on your sitcom history.
Jon Stewart makes fun of how the news is reported four nights a week on The Daily Show on Comedy Central. As The Daily Show does routinely grill various newscasters, pundits, etc. on a nightly basis, it would be natural for them to want to grill Stewart on anything that they can.
So, when a District Attorney from San Bernardino County pointed out one factual error by Stewart on a segment on Ferguson, Fox News and the like had a field day.
Last night, Stewart admitted, on air, that he was wrong, but also pointed out that the field day that pundits were having on Stewart steered the conversation away from questioning the methods of the police and the lack of oversight on that,
When reporting on the events in Ferguson, Missouri, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show looked to their Senior Black Correspondent, soon to be host of The Nightly Show, Larry Wilmore.
Here are his very poignant, well spoken thoughts on the issue, which, very easily, could be applied to the decision to not indict the NYPD officer who choked Eric Garner to death.
Last night on The Daily Show, the newest correspondent to the best f*cking news team ever, the wonderful Hasan Minhaj, made his very first appearance on the show.
Hasan was in a debate segment regarding treatment of pigs used for meat against Jordan Klepper and brought a great sense of gravitas to contrast Jordan. We cannot wait to see more from Hasan very soon.
Jon Stewart’s directorial debut with Rosewater opens today and, as you could imagine, he used last night’s episode of The Daily Show to promote it.
With that being the case, Stewart felt it would be tasteless to be also promoting while hosting. So, he was just in luck that one John Oliver, who has had filled in for him before, had just wrapped season one of Last Week Tonight at HBO and was free to fill in.
Watch Oliver sit once more at The Daily Show desk right here.
In promotion of his new book So, Anyway…, the legendary John Cleese sat down with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show and talked about the prospect of caring and how to give it up
All in all, it was delightful. Give it a watch here.
The confusion and rush of a midterm election can rival that one of a presidential one, you shouldn’t worry about what mudslinging ad campaign you’ll side on this year.
The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are set to air live on Nov. 4th, the fateful day of this latest midterm election to make, at the very least, you laugh and hopefully understand some of what’s happening along with a chat between Jon Stewart and Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus.
Also, the aptly titled “Democalypse 2014: America Remembers It Forgot to Vote” and “Midterms ‘014: Detour to Gridlock: An Exciting Thing That I Am Totally Interested In—Wait! Don’t Change the Channel. Look at this Video of a Duckling Following a Cat Dressed Like a Shark Riding a Roomba! ‘014!” should be enough to already make you feel good about the 4th that has no fireworks.
This year’s NYC Podfest shows that the festival is only getting bigger and better.
From Jan. 9th-11th, they’ve got The Daily Show Podcast without Jon Stewart, Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast!, The Todd Barry Podcast, Ding-Donger with Matt Braunger, Tell Your Friends! History’s Greatest Podcast!, Podcast Panel with Julie Klausner and Dave Hill, Moderated by The New York Times’ Jason Zinoman, RISK!, Writers’ Bloc with J.R. Havlan, The Dork Forest with Jackie Kashian, and plenty more.
If the LA Podcast Festival is any indicator on how fun going to a festival of live podcast tapings can be, then make sure you catch this in NYC next year.
Get your tickets for the NYC Podfest here.
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While Michael Che’s tenure at The Daily Show was brief, The Daily Show has not wasted any time in finding a replacement.
In fact, they’ve just hired two really good replacements in Hasan Minhaj, who we would hope you would know from his stand-up and hosting Stand Up Planet, and internationally touring comedian Trevor Noah.
Be absolutely sure to check out their segments in November and December, respectively. We don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
Jon Stewart fell ill last night to the point where he could, for the night, not fulfill his duties as host of The Daily Show. So, filling in for him, was Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones who tussled back and forth with another Daily Show correspondent/his wife Samantha Bee.
On top of all of those hijinks while Jon’s not at home, Jones and Bee enjoyed a reunion interview with former correspondent Wyatt Cenac and some nice pie.
Who knows what these kids will get into if Jon’s not home again?
This most recent episode of Speakeasy with Paul F. Tompkins features Ed Helms and a journey through his rise from The Daily Show to The Office to The Hangover and more.
In the interview, it’s specifically fascinating on how Helms had to strategize his correspondent work on The Daily Show because he normally is a very nice person.
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In promotion of his new book The Todd Glass Situation, Todd Glass stopped by The Daily Show last night and, of course, was the delightful, free wheelin’, Todd we’ve all come to know and love that does bits left, right, and from the very moment he walks out,.
Watch his full interview here.
Behind the face of The Daily Show and its host Jon Stewart is an entire, well oiled machine that maintains one of the sharpest comedy shows around as a perennial award winning comedy series.
Now, you can hear their story in a podcast called The Daily Show Podcast Without Jon Stewart that follows the folks on the show that are exclusively not Jon Stewart.
They just released their first episode with head writer Elliott Kalan and correspondent Jessica L. Williams, so you’ll probably be adding this to your regular podcast list soon.
Last night on The Daily Show, Elisabeth Moss was the guest as she was promoting her new film The One I Love. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the film, she can’t really talk about it all that much just like so can’t talk about it that much, leaving little to talk about.
So, that leaves Jon Stewart to showcase his marvelous interviewing skills by figuring something else out, seemingly on the spot and doing most of the talking. It’s probably the most undervalued skill set of a TV show host. We would be surprised if this was all covered in a pre-interview.
The Primetime Emmys Announced Their 2014 Nominees
Among the comedy nominees were:
Louie, Silicon Valley, Veep, Modern Family, Orange Is The New Black, Spoils of Babylon, Derek, Episodes, Girls, Parks and Recreation, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, SNL, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Key & Peele, Portlandia, Sarah Silverman, Billy Crystal, Inside Amy Schumer, Between Two Ferns, Children’s Hospital, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, “@midnight”, Archer, Futurama, Bob’s Burgers, South Park, Adventure Time, Phineas & Ferb, Robot Chicken, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Community, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
While not all of these shows got Outstanding Comedy Series, it’s great to see Silicon Valley get nominations in its first season (one of them being Outstanding Comedy Series), Key & Peele get the respect it deserves, and have things like Between Two Ferns also get nominated for an Emmy.
For our money, we’d bet on John Hodgman, the deranged millionaire, to buy The LA Clippers from Donald Sterling, mostly because we’d get a more than triple our money back (right?).
Watch his bid to buy the franchise from last night’s The Daily Show here.
On Leno’s Final Night of Tonight Show, Kimmel, Conan, Letterman, The Daily Show Go Big
Tonight, Feb. 3rd, 2014 will be the final night of Jay Leno’s Tonight Show after well over a score of years. Of course, it’ll be a big celebration at The Tonight Show with Billy Crystal as the guest.
However, Jimmy Kimmel with cast of Monuments Men including Matt Damon and Bill Murray, Conan with the entire cast of The Walking Dead, David Letterman with Michael Keaton/The Flaming Lips w/Sean Lennon, and The Daily Show with NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio are making the 11PM hour fierce.
We wouldn’t be surprised if everyone has a joke about a Leno leaving in their monologue tonight as well.
The Daily Show Promotes Three To Executive Producer
As Rory Albanese and Tim Carvell have left The Daily Show for a development deal and showrunner of John Oliver at HBO respectively, there was room for EPs there.
So, The Daily Show went internally and hired three of their long time staffers in Steve Bodow, Jen Flanz, and Adam Lowitt.
At this point, The Daily Show needs to have a whole special episode dedicated to Jon Stewart’s rage over NY pizza protocol like he’s done with the mayor of Chicago and Donald Trump.
Watch Stewart go off on current NYC mayor Bill De Blasio over how he chooses to eat his pizza.
The hysterical Steve Coogan appeared on The Daily Show this week to talk about his critically acclaimed latest work Philomena, which isn’t really a comedy for the harrowing story it tells. Yet, Coogan put humor into the film to make the weighty topic of coerced adoption more palatable.
Watch him explain the balance during the interview here.
The Most Intentionally Funny Videos of 2013 Part 4
Our final edition of The Most Intentionally Funny Videos for 2013 at The Nerdist was posted yesterday featuring Bill Murray as Liberace on Letterman, Eddie Pepitone rapping on Arsenio Hall, Jon Stewart’s Deep Dish Pizza Rant, and more.
Watching all of those as well as MIFV part one, two, and three should make any day that you have in 2014.
Give them all a watch again like we’re probably going to.
Would you really expect the cast of Anchorman/Anchorman 2 to actually do a legitimate interview while on The Daily Show?
John Oliver Leaving The Daily Show to Star in HBO Show That Sounds a Lot Like The Daily Show
Just like that scene at the beginning of Inception where Cobb impresses Saito at the covert audition, HBO must have been really impressed with the Summer of John Oliver at The Daily Show and are giving him his own show that looks at politics, culture, and more (seemingly much like The Daily Show).
That only leaves us to wonder if there is a heir apparent in mind now for Jon Stewart?
The Daily Show Having Three Showrunners Replace Rory Albanese
After showrunner Rory Albanese has left The Daily Show, three people will take his place as showrunner in what we’re thinking that this could be a running joke on how they get more stuff done than Congress.