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Willy Wonkey
1:00AM Brian Moylan | [Jon Stewart plays candy man backstage after winning two Emmy awards last night. Image via Getty]
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2:34PM Andrew Belonsky | The world’s absolutely abuzz over news about the Emmy Awards, which are kind of like television’s Oscars and very important. In case you missed them, here are some things you should know about the winners, the losers and the critics. More »
Things The Emmys Taught Us
2:34PM Andrew Belonsky | The world’s absolutely abuzz over news about the Emmy Awards, which are kind of like television’s Oscars and very important. In case you missed them, here are some things you should know about the winners, the losers and the critics. More »
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The Daily Show Lampoons The Sotomayor Confirmation Circlejerk
8:51PM the cajun boy | Have you been watching the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings? Us either! It’s all just so damn—Boring! But the Daily Show has been watching and Jon Stewart had fun with some of the clips last night. More »
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The Daily Show Exposes Bernie Madoff’s Prison Handjob Ponzi Scheme
8:10PM the cajun boy | So Bernie Madoff was sentenced yesterday to 150 years in prison, but he’s already been locked up for a few months, where, according to the Daily Show’s John Oliver, he’s been running another Ponzi scheme! More »
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Bill Keller Will Go Wherever He Wants, Suckas
4:02AM Hamilton Nolan | In your waterlogged Thursday US media column: Bill Keller defends his Iran trip, Jon Stewart is cruelly eviscerated, the Weather Channel wants the success to fail like other TV networks, and the internet reigns supreme. More »
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The Daily Show Investigates Iran’s Hatred For Americans
8:30PM the cajun boy | Ever since we first heard that The Daily Show was sending Jason Jones to Iran to cover the election there, we’ve been anxious to see if they’d be able to find comedy in what was happening there. They did. More »
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Jon Stewart To Larry King: ‘You’re A Degenerate!’
8:56PM the cajun boy | Larry King was the guest on the Daily Show last night promoting his book, My Remarkable Journey. The entire segment consisted mainly of King and Jon Stewart jostling back and forth over whether or not King is truly a degenerate or not. It was great. More »
Jon Stewart Misses Viacom Memo To Not Openly Hate On ‘Benjamin Button’
5:53AM STV | Paramount probably could have lived with Jon Stewart’s slobbering praise for Slumdog Millionaire last night on The Daily Show. If only it had stopped there.
Jon Stewart Lets It Slip He Thinks Denis Leary Is A Raging Asshole
7:58AM Seth | In fact, he says so in this clip. Oh, and Leary defends his theory that most autistic kids are in actuality “stupid. Or lazy. Or both.” Apparently that quote from his book was taken entirely out of context. Correction appended! Kevin Spacey takes a pretty unequivocal stand on Prop 8. Do you have Obama Cabinet Fever? We do! And we can get right behind Health and Human Services appointee Sally Jesse Raphael. Wait—what? Ooh—the claws are really coming out in the ongoing Project Runway fracas. Lifetime is filing a countersuit against Bravo, NBC Universal, and the Weinsteins. Models, this is also a litigious competition for you, as well. Hey—squirrels dancing to Michael Jackson! More »
