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John Oliver on Host Gig: 'This Is Weird'

Host begins Daily Show stint with NSA bit

(Newser) - Last night, John Oliver took the Daily Show host's chair for the first time, and he quickly pointed out the elephant in the room. "Let's all just acknowledge for a moment that this is weird," he said. "This looks weird; it feels weird; it even...

11 Weird Things Named After Celebs

The Hasselhoff crab, the Beyonce fly, and more

(Newser) - You know you've made it when you get a house fly named after you , as Beyonce did last year. The Huffington Post rounds up 10 more interesting things dedicated to celebrities:
  • A hairy crab: Scientists discovered a new species of Yeti crab with a hairy chest and thought of
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Stewart to IRS: You Proved Wingnuts Right

Host loses his cool over Tea Party targeting

(Newser) - A furious Jon Stewart gave the Obama administration a piece of his mind last night, Mediaite reports. Just as he was discussing the groundless nature of the right's Benghazi accusations , the Daily Show played a clip describing the IRS Tea Party-targeting scandal, prompting the host to explode in a...

Stewart Rips CNN for Boston 'Exclusive'

It was exclusive 'because it was completely f---ing wrong,' he says

(Newser) - CNN reported yesterday that an arrest had been made in the Boston Marathon bombing, with Wolf Blitzer touting the network's "dramatic, exclusive reporting." Just one problem: There was no arrest, and the network eventually backtracked . Cue Jon Stewart: "There was a very good reason why this...

Colbert: Bomber Picked the Wrong City to Attack

Offers tribute to Boston after marathon bombings

(Newser) - Stephen Colbert interrupted his normal Colbert Report opening last night in order to offer a moving and, of course, amusing tribute to the people of Boston. Whoever bombed the city's marathon "obviously did not know s--t about the people of Boston," he said. "'Cause nothing...

US Embassy in Cairo Scrubs Daily Show Tweet

Link to Stewart monologue prompted feud with Egypt

(Newser) - Egyptian officials weren't happy with a recent tweet from the US embassy in Cairo—so the embassy pulled its Twitter feed, at least initially. The tweet in question: A link to Jon Stewart's recent monologue defending Bassem Youssef, the so-called "Jon Stewart of Egypt," in which...

Jon Stewart Sticks Up for 'Jon Stewart of Egypt'

Daily Show devotes segment to calling for Bassem Yousef's freedom

(Newser) - Jon Stewart devoted the Daily Show 's lead-off segment last night to the plight of the man who's been called " Egypt's Jon Stewart ." While Stewart never mentioned that moniker, he did say he was good friends with Bassem Youssef, and noted the similarities between them....

Jon Stewart Will Take Break to Direct Movie

He'll be away from 'Daily Show' 12 weeks to work on drama

(Newser) - Jon Stewart plans to take a 12-week hiatus from the Daily Show in June to, surprise, surprise, direct a serious movie, reports the New York Times . What's more, Stewart adapted the screenplay for Rosewater himself. It's based on a book by Maziar Bahari, a journalist who was detained...

Stewart: Sequester Is Like Sexy Choking

Congress screws up, but 'we're the ones blacking out'

(Newser) - Jon Stewart last night took Washington to task over sequestration—which pundits once assured us would never happen. "It's as likely as Dennis Rodman being our chief envoy to North Korea ," Stewart quipped on the Daily Show . The sequester, he says, is a bit like autoerotic asphyxiation:...

Stewart, Fox Mock Sequester Panic

Get ready for the end of life as we know it: hosts

(Newser) - It's not often that the Daily Show and Fox News are on the same page—but it seems the sequester is bringing them together. Both shows are ridiculing the current automatic-budget-cut obsession, Mediaite reports, with Jon Stewart last night donning a hazmat suit. We're "four days away...

Obama Only Transparent About &#39;the Last Guy&#39;: Stewart
Obama Only Transparent About 'the Last Guy': Stewart
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Feb 7, 2013 9:16 AM CST

Obama Only Transparent About 'the Last Guy': Stewart

Jon Stewart takes on leaked DOJ memo, drone killings

(Newser) - Jon Stewart is pretty freaked out by the leaked DOJ memo authorizing the US government to kill American citizens, he confessed last night on the Daily Show . First of all, there's the fact that those citizens must be determined to be an "imminent threat"—but the government'...

Stewart Blasts Beck's 'Freedom Towns'

Jon Stewart rails on so-called freedom lovers

(Newser) - A group of ultra-right-wingers in Idaho who want to start their own community and live "in accordance with Thomas Jefferson's ideal of rightful liberty"? That's like catnip for Jon Stewart, who spent more than 10 minutes on last night's Daily Show focused on the idea....

Stewart Fact-Checks Obama's 'Tyranny'

Calls out right on gun-control fury

(Newser) - The GOP is in a tizzy over President Obama's gun-control plan, with some on the right accusing him of tyranny. Well, that's going a little far, said Jon Stewart on last night's Daily Show : "When tyrants want something done, they generally don't ask their legislative...

Jon Stewart: NRA Is Punking Us
 Jon Stewart: NRA Is Punking Us 
Jan 17, 2013 10:31 AM CST

Jon Stewart: NRA Is Punking Us

'Daily Show' host thinks ad is a Joaquin Phoenix-style hoax

(Newser) - Jon Stewart took one look at yesterday's NRA ad calling President Obama a hypocrite over armed guards at his daughters' school, and thought, "If I didn't know any better, after seeing that ad, I would think the NRA is either an elaborate, avant garde, Joaquin Phoenix-style joke...

Stewart: Lance Was Doping?! Um, Obviously

'Daily Show' host reacts to Armstrong confession

(Newser) - Jon Stewart took on the Lance Armstrong doping confession last night in a hilarious segment that also included a bit of riffing on Oprah Winfrey. "Lance Armstrong was doping? Of course he was doping! It's so obvious," Stewart said. "You can beat testicular cancer. You can...

Stewart to Krugman: $1T Coin Makes Me Look Bad?

Host hits back at ticked-off economist

(Newser) - Jon Stewart last week swiped at Paul Krugman's $1 trillion coin idea , eliciting a somewhat thin-skinned response from the economist, who told ABC News that "Obviously neither he nor his staff did even five minutes of looking at the financial blogs" and blasted Stewart for "ruining his...

Stewart on Current TV Sale: Fox Has a Point

But Fox News is also a massive hypocrite, says 'Daily Show' host

(Newser) - Jon Stewart took a moment on last night's Daily Show to weigh in on Al Gore's deal to sell Current TV to Al Jazeera—or, more specifically, Fox News' reaction to it. "Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our first Fox boner alert of 2013,"...

Jon Stewart Rips House GOP Over Sandy Relief

Republican House majority is our other major disaster

(Newser) - Jon Stewart unloaded on the House Republican majority in an epic segment last night about the Sandy relief bill debacle . Even when the House eventually approved $9.7 billion in aid for storm victims, that was far from the $60 billion the Senate approved. It's voting on all those...

Things Walmart Deems Less Acceptable Than Guns

The Bushmaster AR-15 can stay, but pregnant barbie has to go

(Newser) - Despite a public outcry, Walmart is still selling "modern sporting rifles" (read: assault rifles), reportedly including the Bushmaster AR-15, the model used in the Newtown shooting. But there are some items too controversial for Walmart. The Huffington Post helpfully compiled a few of the things that Walmart apparently believes...

Hugh Grant: Yep, I Was a Jerk on Daily Show

Jon Stewart was right to 'give me kicking'

(Newser) - Hugh Grant knows a diva when he sees one, even it's himself. He issued an apology via Twitter yesterday after Jon Stewart called him out for being a jerk during an appearance a few years ago, reports the Daily News . "Turns out my inner crab got the better...

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