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Tinseltown insiders will be buzzing today about who was, or was not, nominated for an Academy Award. Me, I'll still wondering why Jon Stewart was selected to host the Oscarcast March 5 on ABC in the first place. Try as I might - and trust me, I've tried - I just don't get Stewart. I don't think he's all that funny and he's vastly overrated. I realize he's gotten loads of critical acclaim. And I understand my lack of appreciation for Stewart & Co. is sacrilege in TV circles. That's because many of my colleagues fawn over Stewart. A year...

Just hours after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named Comedy Channel news anchor Jon Stewart to host this year’s Academy Awards show, the White House announced that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been tapped to deliver the GOP response. The Oscars Rebuttal Show, part of ABC-TV’s commitment to fairness, will attempt to refute and debunk the anti-Bush administration remarks that naturally flow from Mr. Stewart and his colleagues as they give little golden statues to people who make up stories and who pretend to be other people. The White House expects to receive equal time for Mr....

The long search for an Oscar host is over, with an official announcement from the academy expected to come early Thursday morning. For the moment no one at AMPAS or involved with the production will confirm it, but word is that the job of hosting the 78th Academy Awards will go to Jon Stewart, the Emmy-winning writer-host of "The Daily Show" and a past host of the Grammy Awards in 2001 and 2002.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - An employee of the Comedy Central program "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" has committed suicide, leading the network to suspend production of Monday night's episode of the program, a spokesman confirmed. Bill Clarey, 25, took his own life over the weekend, according to the network. A former "Daily Show" intern, Clarey also worked as a receptionist at the program's offices in New York. "Bill Clarey, a young staff member of 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,' passed away over the weekend. He was a wonderful and dedicated employee and all of us at Comedy...

When U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-1, agreed to be on a Comedy Central news satire program, he knew he would probably come out looking silly. What he didn't realize, however, was that he would come out as an African-American. Kingston appeared Tuesday night in a recorded segment of "The Colbert Report," a spin-off of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," that debuted Monday night on Comedy Central. The show is a parody of pundit shows like "The O'Reilly Factor" and "Hannity and Colmes." Hosted by "Daily Show" veteran Stephen Colbert, the show's guests range from politicians to national journalists, with...

JON STEWART MOCKS MAGAZINE EDITORS AT ADVERTISING WEEK High-Priced Celebrity Speaker Skewers Print Media Hosts at MPA Event NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- An Advertising Week event designed to promote magazine publishing ran off the rails last night, when chosen moderator -- and magazine cover-boy favorite -- Jon Stewart ended up roundly mocking the editors on his panel and telling the assembled burghers of print that the medium now sits at “the children’s table.”

Since mirrors of the video have been dying left and right, I've mirrored both the original Robert Novak bull**** video, as well as the evening's "Daily Show" commentary for your viewing pleasure..... link

Did anyone else see the Daily Show last night? It may have been a repeat. Biden said that he would be honored to run "against or with John McCain in 2008". Stewart asked Biden if he meant to say "with", and he said yes, he would like to have McCain as his running mate. He wasn't joking. I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere.

The libs are completely not going to let this go.....here's tonight's "Daily Show with Jon Stewart" coverage, in your choice of format. Video linkI've got to admit, I've seen a lot of good commentary from both sides on this one. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out....

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To say Jon Stewart enjoys an adoring press is like saying Bill Gates has a few bucks. In story after glowing story, the boyish 42-year-old host of Comedy Central’s hit fake newscast, The Daily Show, and author of the best-selling fake history text America (The Book) comes off as a lighthearted, twenty-first-century Diogenes: a fearless truth teller in an age of shameless pandering. As Newsweek had it in a typically rapturous cover story, Stewart is a man “bravely battling pomposity and misinformation,” his TV show “a fearless social satire” and a “work of genius.” “When future historians come to write...

While all this is certainly heady for Stewart and his fans, what does it mean? After all, the fair-minded viewer might find the half-hour show intermittently humorous, but he won’t detect anything “fearless” or even especially original in it. In truth, Stewart’s elevation to near-iconic status says more about those doing the elevating than about the comedian himself. His “bravery” and much-vaunted grasp of political nuance consists mostly of his embrace of every reflexive assumption shared by every litmus-tested liberal holding forth at every chic Manhattan dinner party

Sure, sure. Saying anything remotely negative about "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart is the modern equivalent of calling Gandhi a mute wimp in need of steroids. So lest I suffer the wrath of the 18-29- year-old crowd (an age range that I am — sadly — soon to leave) let me begin by saying that, like you, I also heart Jon Stewart. "The Daily Show" is the only show I make a point to watch. I've been to a live taping. I've paid to see his stand-up. Hell, I even liked him as a veejay on MTV back in the...

When the George Foster Peabody Awards for excellence in electronic media were announced yesterday, they cited a program that was later accused of basing a report on fake documents, "60 Minutes II" - and a program that gleefully engages in the production of fake news, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." The Peabody given to the Wednesday edition of "60 Minutes" honored an exclusive story, produced by Mary Mapes and reported by Dan Rather, about the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Several months after that journalistic coup, Ms. Mapes was fired and Mr. Rather retired as anchor of...

Until recently, Nancy Soderberg was just another blissfully forgotten face of the Clinton administration, a onetime No. 3 at the National Security Council now biding her days at a think tank. But she gained some notoriety this month during an appearance on "The Daily Show," in which host Jon Stewart was half-marveling, half-despairing at the turn of events in the Middle East after the Iraq elections, which seemed to vindicate President Bush. Stewart: "He is going to be great. . . . Like, my kid's gonna go to a high school named after him, I just know it." Soderberg: "Well,...

Source: Opinion Journal BY JAMES TARANTO Wednesday, March 2, 2005 10:53 a.m. 'But as an American . . .' We hardly ever watch Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," but our TV happened to be tuned to it last night when erstwhile Clinton aide Nancy Soderberg, author of "The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might" (foreword by Bill Clinton, blurb by Madeleine Albright) came on. We're not sure what possessed us to turn on the sound and watch, but we're glad we did, for it was a fascinating interview. Here's a TiVo-assisted transcript of most...

A senior Clinton administration national security official offered a stunning admission this week, confessing during a national television interview that Democrats are secretly rooting for the Bush administration's war of terrorism to fail. In comments largely overlooked by the mainstream press, former Clinton National Security Council member Nancy Soderberg discussed the recent outbreak of democracy in the Middle East with "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart. "As a Democrat, you don't want anything nice to happen to the Republicans, and you don't want them to have progress," Soderberg observed, before quickly adding, "But as an American, you hope good things would...

The Democratic dominoes clearly are beginning to fall when Jon Stewart, the host of "The Daily Show," says, "I haven't seen results like this ever in [the Middle East]." As anyone who watches the Comedy Central "news" show knows, Mr. Stewart isn't a serious political pundit, but he is unabashedly liberal both on and off air. And since he commands a fairly large audience of mostly younger adults, he is perhaps as much an indicator of the liberal mindset as the New York Times. His comments came during a Tuesday night interview with former Clinton aide Nancy Soderberg, who was...

We hardly ever watch Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," but our TV happened to be tuned to it last night when erstwhile Clinton aide Nancy Soderberg, author of "The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might" (foreword by Bill Clinton, blurb by Madeleine Albright) came on. We're not sure what possessed us to turn on the sound and watch, but we're glad we did, for it was a fascinating interview. Here's a TiVo-assisted transcript of most of it: Stewart: This book--it talks about the superpower myth of the United States. There is this idea, the...

The reporter was fake, using a fake name, spoofing alleged fake White House reporter "Jeff Gannon." But the news conference was real serious. A "correspondent" from the fake news show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, was outside City Hall Monday to get some answers from City Council Speaker Gifford Miller. Wearing a badly groomed hair piece, a fake mustache and an ugly 1970s tie, Rob Corddry waited patiently until after the real reporters had posed their questions to ask one about Social Security. Standing awkwardly with his legs far apart as though he were getting ready to sprint, nodding...

Ten Liberals to Watch in 2005 Posted Feb 11, 2005 Evan Bayh Democrat senator from Indiana # Born: Dec. 26, 1955, Shirkieville, Ind. # Resides: Indianapolis # Significance: Son of former liberal Sen. Birch Bayh, he is chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, the "moderate" organization that helped launch Bill Clinton. Served as governor of Indiana. Likely 2008 presidential candidate, who has tried to position himself to the middle (voted for the partial-birth abortion ban), but ultimately delivers for liberals (voted for judicial filibusters). One of 13 senators to vote against confirming Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Also opposed Atty....

"The inked fingers was disgusting," Air America radio talk show host Janeane Garofalo declared on MSNBC in denouncing Republican lawmakers who, before and after the State of the Union, showed off an inked finger meant to demonstrate solidarity with Iraqi voters who dipped a finger in ink when they voted. To mock the display, Garofalo soon held up her hand in a Nazi salute as she predicted: "The inked fingers and the position of them, which is gonna be a Daily Show photo already, of them signaling in this manner [Nazi salute], as if they have solidarity with the Iraqis...

JON STEWART MAY IMPLODE? [Tim Graham] Jon Stewart, late in the Daily Show last night to Newsweek pundit Fareed Zakaria: "I’ve watched this thing unfold from the start and here’s the great fear that I have: What if Bush, the president, ours, has been right about this all along? I feel like my world view will not sustain itself and I may, and again I don’t know if I can physically do this, implode. (Hat tip: David Frum).

Jon Stewart, late in the Daily Show last night to Newsweek pundit Fareed Zakaria: "I’ve watched this thing unfold from the start and here’s the great fear that I have: What if Bush, the president, ours, has been right about this all along? I feel like my world view will not sustain itself and I may, and again I don’t know if I can physically do this, implode. (Hat tip: David Frum).

I just saw Howard Zinn plugging his new book "Voices of a People's History of the United States" with John Stewart on The Daily Show. Holy Cow! What a hate Amerikka lovefest. I know a little about Howard Zinn, Dave Horowitz has fingered him for being an old hardline lefty professor and that he writes regularly for The Nation, Mother Jones, The Progressive, and all the usual suspects, but it's one thing to read about such people and another thing to see and hear them. I am shocked that this hate-crazed Chomskyite's classic tract "A People's History of the United...

When it comes to selling books, who's the man? Comedian Jon Stewart, that's who. His book "America," a parody of U.S. civics, in the vein of his "news" broadcasts performed on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," passed former President Bill Clinton's "My Life" on Barnes & Noble's best-selling book list for 2004. Clinton's book had been No. 1, but sales of Stewart's tome during the Christmas season surpassed the former chief executive's biography, which had been on bookshelves three months longer. Nevertheless, according to the New York Daily News, Clinton's "My Life" most likely will take B & N's top...

Dear Jon, So “America (the Book)” was named Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. More than successful, it’s a cultural phenomenon. I had to see what the shouting’s about. If your goal was money and self-promotion, congratulations. If you had a higher goal, close but no cigar. Begin with the Foreword “by” Thos. Jefferson. Ol’ Tom was one of the greatest political thinkers in history. I’m not going to pick on deliberate falsehoods or fake quotes. Nor brevity, nor attempts at humor. Just flat-out, factual errors. You have Jefferson say “we” composed “the Declaration and the Constitution.” You credit...

The Colorado Springs Independent, an "alternative" weekly, has a series of loopy-left letters complaining that the local cable TV monopoly, Adelphia, has changed the Comedy Central schedule so that Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" will appear at midnight rather than 9 p.m. Among the highlights is this missive from Shelley Moore (first letter): My mother had said, when watching Stewart, whom we both love, "He better watch out. He's way too out front and anti-Bush. Watch them take him off the air." I thought she was way overboard. But when I heard this I realized she was right! For Adelphia...

How biased, clueless and out of touch are Dan Rather and Peter Jennings? This much: A new poll finds that young Americans trust Comedy Central's fake newscaster Jon Stewart more than CBS's and ABC's top propagandists. Global Strategy Group and Luntz Research asked people in their 20s whom they trusted to inform them on politics. NBC's retiring Tom Brokaw bagged 17 percent, Stewart 16, Jennings 15 and Rather a pathetic 10 percent. The big winner was "none of the above," with 26 percent. Most amusing factoid about the survey: It was commissioned by Declare Yourself, a group backed by Rather's...

Our witty editor/commentator was contacted by The Daily Show to discuss a story they are producing involving Canadian conservatives who are sick of the liberal government, and are thinking of moving to the US. Here is his reply...

NEW YORK (AP) - Actors Craig Ferguson and Michael Ian Black, comedian D.L. Hughley and MTV host Damien Fahey [were] invited...for one-week tryouts as host of the CBS late-night talk show...searching for a replacement for Craig Kilborn....Kilborn left at the end of August...catching the network by surprise.

Just watching Jon Stewart on Comedy CentralChuck Schumer just said, "I think we're (meaning the Dems) much closer to the way people feel about the important issues, but we just got out-foxed again" Even Stewart couldn't swallow that and said, "Isn't that what this election showed you? That we're actually the media elite they keep talking about?" Amen to that brother! It was about 20 minutes into the show if you want to catch it when it repeats.

President Bush managed to wipe the smirk off Jon Stewart's face - at least for one night. Having voted for Sen. John Kerry, America's most-trusted name in fake news couldn't conceal his disappointment Tuesday night when he arrived at Comedy Central's "Indecision 2004" party at The Park. "He's in a really bad mood," one "Daily Show" correspondent told a young staffer.

No kidding, Stewart down over vote It was a party but hardly a celebration for Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's 'Daily Show.' President Bush managed to wipe the smirk off Jon Stewart's face - at least for one night. Having voted

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I am a huge fan of the Daily Show from New York, which airs on the Comedy Network at 11:00 p.m., Monday to Friday. It is a first rate, satirical program, poking fun mostly at politicians, but also taking on a variety of other puffed-up targets, like Dr. Phil. Jon Stewart, the host, is clearly an informed and very bright man. In the past year, the show has increased its audience by 22 percent and this year it won an Emmy.The show's writers have produced a best-selling book, America: A Citizens' Guide to Democracy Inaction. That cheeky title gives you...

Television - AP Jon Stewart Talks TV News on '60 Minutes'   NEW YORK - After his outburst on CNN's "Crossfire," "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart will have a few words for "60 Minutes." The comedian will be profiled on this Sunday's broadcast of the CBS news program. Though taped before Stewart's harsh comments of "Crossfire" and one its hosts, Tucker Carlson, he did have the subject of TV news on his mind.  AP Photo   "You know ... what has become rewarded in political discourse is the extremity of viewpoint," Stewart says on the show. "People like the conflict....

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Wal-Mart canceled an order for a best-selling book by Jon Stewart and the writers of "The Daily Show" after executives learned that it contains a photo of nine naked, aged bodies, each with the superimposed head of a Supreme Court justice. "America (The Book)," a mock school text that lampoons the government in much the same way the Comedy Central show spoofs the news, includes cutouts of the justices' robes and a caption asking readers to "restore their dignity by matching each justice with his or her respective robe." Executives for the Bentonville-based retail giant deemed...

All the praise and attention the media have spent the past four years lavishing on The Daily Show has finally gone to Jon Stewart's head. The cover of Newsweek, on-air heart-to-hearts with Bill Moyers, a Number One New York Times bestseller, and old institutional hands like Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather groveling at his feet in every possible forum have all conspired to launch the comedian into a celebrity stratosphere where the air is so thin he forgot it was humor and impeccable comedic timing that opened the door to this particular kingdom, not his political acumen. A sure sign...

Stewart, who announced last week that he plans to support John Kerry.....down 7% from August.

COMEDY CENTRAL's 'DAILY SHOW' has experienced surprise audience erroision -- despite a publicity push by host Jon Stewart. Stewart, who announced last week that he plans to support John Kerry, pulled 1,040,000 total viewers for month of September -- down 7% from August, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. A jumbo push by media writers and a bestselling book apparently has failed to translate into any audience improvement.

A rush transcript of today's Crossfire is now online. A highlight: STEWART: You know, the interesting thing I have is, you have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably. CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think. STEWART: You need to go to one. The thing that I want to say is, when you have people on for just knee-jerk, reactionary talk... CARLSON: Wait. I thought you were going to be funny. Come on. Be funny. STEWART: No. No. I'm not going to be your monkey. > "By the final segment, the...

For anyone watching Crossfire. Jon Stuart (spelling) host of the Daily Show is being deadly serious and is calling the show a lot of crap, that the show is hurting america, the show is bad, the hosts are political hackery, that the show is to debate as much as the WWF is to real wrestling.

'FROM A PURELY comic perspective, you'd want Mr. T to be president. That would be truly fun. But no, I don't cheer for the demise and erosion of the world purely for my own professional standing. I can write jokes about anything!"

NEW YORK (AP) -- The folks at Comedy Central were annoyed when Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly kept referring to "The Daily Show" audience as "stoned slackers." So they did a little research. And guess whose audience is more educated? Viewers of Jon Stewart's show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch "The O'Reilly Factor," according to Nielsen Media Research. O'Reilly's teasing came when Stewart appeared on his show earlier this month. "You know what's really frightening?" O'Reilly said. "You actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it's...

NEW YORK - The folks at Comedy Central were annoyed when Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly kept referring to "The Daily Show" audience as "stoned slackers." So they did a little research. And guess whose audience is more educated? Viewers of Jon Stewart's show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch "The O'Reilly Factor," according to Nielsen Media Research. O'Reilly's teasing came when Stewart appeared on his show earlier this month. "You know what's really frightening?" O'Reilly said. "You actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it's true....

No Joke: Daily Show Viewers Follow Presidential Race Sep 21, 2004 12:20 p.m. PHILADELPHIA -- Viewers of late-night comedy programs, especially The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on the cable channel Comedy Central, are more likely to know the issue positions and backgrounds of presidential candidates than people who do not watch late-night comedy, the University of Pennsylvania’s National Annenberg Election Survey shows. Polling conducted between July 15 and Sept. 19 among 19,013 adults showed that on a six-item political knowledge test people who did not watch any late-night comedy programs in the past week answered 2.62 items correctly, while...

Blame It on Neo: Don't call me a "neocon" unless you are a friend. Last week Pat Buchanan appeared on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," and liberal host Jon Stewart bonded with his paleoconservative guest over their mutual opposition to the liberation of Iraq. Mr. Stewart smiled and nodded while Mr. Buchanan derided "neoconservatives" four times in the course of the six-minute interview. In his efforts to promote his and his guest's common agenda, Mr. Stewart didn't ask Mr. Buchanan what he meant by "neoconservatives." It was clear that the Jewish Mr. Stewart didn't realize that Mr. Buchanan was using...

In the midst of an especially bitter political season, the troublemakers at "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" can be seen regularly on Comedy Central, shamelessly exploiting current events for their own gain. Now this crew carries its mischief even further with a mock textbook that purports to describe American democracy. It tells us, among other things, that the Oval Office has no corners in which the president can be made to sit in if he shames the nation. It also tells us that if "The Daily Show'' had its way, the world would be a vastly funnier place. In...

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