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'The Daily Show' Visits Sorkin's 'Newsroom' (Video)
Jon Stewart and the cast of The Daily Show are fond of saying they’re pretend journalists, even though they often do a better job of delivering actual news stories than the circus that is CNN. In this segment about the loss of investigative journalism -- too expensive, too ratings-c...
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Jon Stewart on The Big Bird Wars
Who would have thought that the possible firing of Big Bird would become a topic of national debate? (Yes, it sometimes takes threatening a puppet to create a political uproar.) After Mitt Romney’s threat to cut funding for PBS, Jon Stewart took a closer look at how Sesame Street is...
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Jimmy Kimmel Hosts the Emmys (UPDATED With New Video)
Jimmy Kimmel was a perfectly smooth host for the Emmys, though not a perfect fit. One of his trademarks, prankish humor – he asked viewers to Tweet that Tracy Morgan had passed out – didn’t translate to an awards show. His other trademark, irreverently taking swipes at the sel...
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The Republican Convention: Colbert and Stewart On Star Wars, Rain Man and Reince Priebus
Each night during the Republican Convention, The Colbert Report has started with an intro that parodies Star Wars, as words scroll into space to introduce the coverage from Tampa: America Strikes Back. Last night’s legend included this:
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'Cosmopolis,' Beyond the RPatz Publicity Tour (Review)
Whatever David Cronenberg thought he was doing while making Cosmopolis, he could never have imagined the most relevent cultural nerve it would hit: the film has become the inadvertent cause of Robert Pattinson’s first post-KStew publicity tour. (If you missed Pattinson’s appearance ...
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Robert Pattinson Visits The Daily Show, Gets Comfort Food
I would love to read a behind-the-scenes account of the pr strategies and manipulations behind the Robert Pattinson - Kristen Stewart scandale and breakup. Who advised Stewart to get ahead of the damage by issuing her profoundly weird public apology? And the flood of information fro...
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Will Ferrell Reduced To Tears By Stewart-Pattinson Breakup
Will Ferrell continues his hilarious promotional tour for The Campaign with this topical but non-Campaign-centered bit on Conan. “She goes by K Stew,” may be all you need to know about his weeping reaction to that high-profile breakup. While the rest of the world hand-wrings about t...
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Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis and Jon Hamm Campaign Against Lame Interviews
Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis and Jon Hamm came together last night to fight a serious cultural blight: lame interview questions. How much longer should we have to endure actors swearing that they had the most fun ever making the movie, or directors who insist that every member of the cast wa...
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Jon Stewart and the Perils of 'Firstiness'
Jon Stewart added a brilliant new word to the vocabulary of media criticism yesterday: firstiness. Looking over the ludicrous flub in which first CNN and then Fox mistakenly reported that the Supreme Court had struck down the essence of the Obama health care plan – instead of, whoops, the...
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Steve Carell, Fake-Author of Many Books, Visits Jon Stewart
What has Steve Carell been doing besides trying to avoid the apocalypse? Promoting his new film Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (it’s a charming romance; you can check out my review here) he joined Jon Stewart to promote the many new books he has written, including a history of ...
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