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Stewart's Rent-Boy Scandal Fix: Put a Dome on It!
 Stewart's 
 Rent-Boy 
 Scandal Fix: 
 Put a Dome on It! 
feats of engineering
May 7, 2010 9:41 AM CDT

Stewart's Rent-Boy Scandal Fix: Put a Dome on It!

Then finds a way to connect it to George Rekers' penis

(Newser) - So much is going on in the world right now that Jon Stewart didn’t know where to start last night on the Daily Show —so he covered it all, from “wanna-bomber” Faisal Shahzad to Greece’s financial crisis. But the best part of his round-the-news tour comes...

Jon Stewart Savages Oil Spill
 Jon Stewart Savages Oil Spill 
GOLDMAN SACHS DID IT
May 4, 2010 5:43 AM CDT

Jon Stewart Savages Oil Spill

Watch out BP, Mary Landrieu, the media

(Newser) - Jon Stewart tossed a match on the Gulf oil spill mess last night, lambasting everyone from BP (failure to take responsibility) to suddenly meek formerly-pro-drilling politicians (hello, Louisiana's Mary Landrieu!) to the media's crappy coverage (anyone heard the term "Obama's Katrina" much lately?). And he does so,...

Daily Show Jokesters Penned Obama Quips

No wonder he was so funny

(Newser) - No wonder President Obama got all the laughs at the White House Correspondent's Dinner over the weekend: his quips were written by Daily Show jokesters. Obama easily out-quipped Jay Leno with the funniest presidential material in two decades of the event, gushed Lloyd Grove in the Daily Beast , who was...

Stewart Blasts 'Appholes' Over Gizmodo Bust

Handling of iPhone leak 'creepy'

(Newser) - Jon Stewart's a big fan of Apple gadgets but he's starting to find the company "creepy," he told Daily Show viewers last night. "Microsoft is supposed to be the evil one," he said, slamming Apple for the police raid on the home of Gizmodo's editor following...

Stewart Rips Senate on Goldman Grandstanding

'August' chamber uses bad words, but it's all show

(Newser) - If senators are so torn up about Goldman Sachs ripping off consumers, why don't they do something about it instead of whining and airing their "impotent rage" on national TV? In reality, they're too busy "spending every minute kissing the asses of any wrinkled constituent with $20,"...

Arizona the 'Meth Lab of Democracy': Stewart
 Arizona the 'Meth Lab 
 of Democracy': Stewart 
rips immigration bill
Apr 27, 2010 7:33 AM CDT

Arizona the 'Meth Lab of Democracy': Stewart

And how about that birther bill, and the concealed weapons, and the.....

(Newser) - Hey, Arizona, Jon Stewart has news for you: Tom Tancredo thinks your immigration bill goes too far…and that means you have a problem. This is Tom Tancredo, after all—“the guy who called Miami a third world country and said the Minutemen border patrol aren’t vigilantes, they’...

Goldberg: 'Clearly, I Got to' Jon Stewart

Bernie isn't even mad! At all!

(Newser) - As Bernie Goldberg’s nightly war with Jon Stewart continues, let him make one thing clear: “I’m not looking to continue any war with Jon Stewart,” he insisted last night on the O’Reilly Factor …while discussing his war with Jon Stewart. Goldberg doesn’t even...

Stewart— and Choir— Tells Fox to F Itself

Oh, Bernie Goldberg, look what you've started

(Newser) - Pity the man who crosses Jon Stewart. This week that dubious honor goes to Bernie Goldberg, who fired back at Stewart on Monday after Stewart told Fox to go F itself. "It takes a tough man to walk into O'Reilly's lion's den and criticize liberal elites," acknowledged Stewart,...

Fox Pundit to Stewart: 'You're Just Leno With the F-Bomb'

But first, Bernie Goldberg admits Jon 'was right'

(Newser) - Fox News pundit Bernie Goldberg said the unthinkable last night: “I was wrong, Jon Stewart is right.” Goldberg was responding, via the O’Reilly Factor , to Stewart’s claim last week that Fox News makes generalized slams against liberals then hypocritically derides anyone who makes generalized claims about...

Stewart, Colbert Renew Through 2012

Comedy Central desperate to have duo through election

(Newser) - Conan O'Brien may be coming to cable, but Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert aren't going anywhere. Comedy Central has re-signed its late night stars to a new contract that'll keep them on through the next presidential election. “That's a big deal for us,” network exec Doug Herzog tells...

Tracy Gives Jon Ridiculous Nickname
 Tracy Gives 
 Jon Ridiculous 
 Nickname 
plus more crazy antics
Apr 16, 2010 8:20 AM CDT

Tracy Gives Jon Ridiculous Nickname

Morgan can't focus on a topic for more than 30 seconds

(Newser) - If Tracy Morgan’s interview on last night’s Daily Show is any indication, the actor is a lot like his 30 Rock character. His appearance, though ostensibly to promote his new movie, Death at a Funeral, instead centered around a $75 debt owed to him by Tobey Maguire. Morgan,...

Maddow to Stewart: I Could Kill Osama With a Spoon

They also talk about Timothy McVeigh

(Newser) - Rachel Maddow on the Daily Show! That must have been a veritable liberal media wet dream of constant pointedly funny snark! OK, actually, no, it was a pretty staid conversation about Timothy McVeigh—Maddow will host an upcoming special unveiling McVeigh’s final interview tapes. But there were some amusing...

Daily Show Links Pistol-Packers to Gays

'Displays of public protection' rile 'hate groups'

(Newser) - In a particularly deft political comic routine, the Daily Show compares the gun-lovers of the "open carry" movement to those they're not likely to embrace—gays fighting for their rights. "We want gun lovers to come out of the closet," says pistol-packing John Pierce, playing right into...

Jon Stewart Pummels Pope
 Jon Stewart Pummels Pope 
Apr 8, 2010 6:09 AM CDT

Jon Stewart Pummels Pope

Host says Domino's Pizza more contrite than Church

(Newser) - Maureen Dowd has been nipping at Pope Benedict's heels, but you know you're in trouble when Jon Stewart takes aim at you. On last night's Daily Show , Stewart blasted the pontiff's defiance over his handling of sex abuse cases. "If any other organization had done anything close to...

McCain Has Sold His Soul: Jon Stewart
 McCain Has Sold 
 His Soul: Jon Stewart 
NON-MAVERICK DEPT.
Apr 7, 2010 9:29 AM CDT

McCain Has Sold His Soul: Jon Stewart

Disavowing 'maverick' rep like Giuliani pleading 9./11 ignorance

(Newser) - Jon Stewart is flabbergasted at John McCain’s recent assertion that “I never considered myself a maverick.” The Comedy Central host doesn’t “even f---ing need to” toss to a montage showing how often McCain has claimed the maverick label. Despite all of the Arizona senator’s...

Stewart Pokes Fun at 'Iron Man' Obama

March Madness picks are Tenacious O's kryptonite

(Newser) - "It's like health care reform was some kind of intestinal blockage" for President Obama, Jon Stewart joked on last night's Daily Show. Now that it's out of the way, "Is there anything this guy can't do?" Stewart runs down the Herculean feats of "Tenacious O" in the...

Daily Show Proposes Two-State Solution—for US

It's the only way to stop this health care violence

(Newser) - The spate of violence and death threats that erupted in the wake of the health care bill’s passage have left us with only one choice: Let’s just split the country in two, India-Pakistan style. At least, that’s the satirical solution Aasif Mandvi put forth last night, in...

20 Stars Who've Gotten Sexier
 20 Stars Who've Gotten Sexier 
Mar 26, 2010 10:50 AM CDT

20 Stars Who've Gotten Sexier

Age has been kind—really kind—to these hot celebs

(Newser) - We're supposed to get wiser as we get older, but sexier? Not so much. But luck (and a few flat irons, it seems) has been on the side of these celebs, who have gotten hotter with each passing year. Nerve runs down the 20 best transformations:
  1. Mary-Louise Parker: "Cute
...

Stewart Does Another Glenn Beck Takedown

Gawker: 'One of his greatest segments ever'

(Newser) - Jon Stewart took another run at Glenn Beck on the Daily Show last night. In a 13-minute spoof that Gawker 's Matt Cherette calls "probably one of his greatest segments ever," Stewart plays Beck in all his God-fearing, progressive-bashing glory. It was, writes Cherette, a "complete and...

Jon Stewart Slams the Vatican
 Jon Stewart Slams the Vatican 
Mar 17, 2010 7:53 AM CDT

Jon Stewart Slams the Vatican

Catholic Church quick to punish sinners ... just not priests

(Newser) - Jon Stewart ’s latest victim: the Catholic Church. Stewart is unhappy about a few things, among them: the cover-up of a gay sex ring, the pope’s protection of a pedophile priest, and the suspension of two Catholic school students for having lesbian parents. The church is swift,...

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