DailyShow-related stories
Posted Sep 4th 2009 11:16AM by Nick Zaino
Filed under: The Daily Show, Interviews, Reality-Free, The Big Bang Theory
For thirteen years,
Lewis Black has been ranting and raving as a correspondent for
The Daily Show, venting about all things political and pop cultural. For much longer than that, he's been a an actor, a playwright, and stand-up comedian, playing clubs and theaters everywhere around the country.
He taped his latest special,
Stark Raving Black, earlier this month in Detroit for a fall release in theaters October 8th before it heads to a new premium HB cable channel called
Epix, where it will debut December 5. (Black also filmed a documentary about his transition from a writer to a comedian - he's unsure where that will end up). And
Big Bang Theory fans will be happy to know he'll be doing a cameo on the show September 28. I spoke with him by phone last week.
Why release the new special theatrically? In order to... I think... I've got no idea. Everyone around me seemed to think it was a smart idea. Why not? I'm interested in seeing how that works and if it does work. It's another way to reach people.
Continue reading Lewis Black on his new special, The Daily Show, and the Root of All Evil
Posted Mar 11th 2009 10:48AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Late Night, News, The Daily Show, Watercooler Talk, Talk Show, Reality-Free
At least we know one thing about Jim Cramer: He may not have been able to predict the collapse of the Dow, but at least he has the
cajones to face the comedian that's tearing him to pieces.
That's right, folks:
Cramer will be appearing on The Daily Show on Thursday to defend himself in the war of funny he's gotten into with Jon Stewart and his writers. If you didn't see
TDS last night, Stewart shot back at Cramer, who went on various NBC shows to defend himself against
TDS' "turd mining," as Stewart called it. In this case, it was a compilation of clips that showed Cramer sticking with Bear Stearns shortly before its 2008 collapse. That, of course, was after
Stewart and company ripped CNBC as a whole for missing the current crisis. Video of last night's segment, which was dubbed "Cramer vs. Not Cramer: Basic Cable Personality Clash Skirmish '09!"
Continue reading Will Stewart and Cramer get into a slap fight on Thursday? - VIDEO
Posted Jan 24th 2008 12:27PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, Celebrities
Leave it to Stephen Colbert and the Colbert Nation to turn a parody of Lance Armstrong's "LiveStrong" cancer awareness bracelet into a massive donation to a charitable cause. As the AP reports, since Colbert began selling his red "WristStrong" bracelets as part of his "wrist awareness" campaign, begun in response to Colbert breaking his own wrist, he has raised an incredible $171,525. And, on last night's broadcast, he presented the proceeds to The Yellow Ribbon Fund, a real organization that helps injured service members.
Stephen Colbert continues to find ways to turn his mock commentator into a true industry leader, all the while keeping tongue firmly in cheek. Is it any wonder that he's surpassed Jon Stewart as the buzz du jour of the teen and college set? Personally I really hope we get a Democrat in office in this next election, even if only to see how the decidedly right-winged Colbert persona is able to respond to everything he or she does.
[
via Yahoo!]
Posted Jan 9th 2008 4:37PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Celebrities
The
Daily Show correspondents and analysts and very busy and important, so viewers will probably never get a chance to see the everyone show off their comedic chops at the same time. So, pore over this his
GQ blog post, because it's probably going to be the closest thing we'll get to a display of their group genius.
In the article, the correspondents share their thoughts on various presidential candidates and some of their strangely hot wives. They also seem to have spent quite a bit of time thinking about the magic weight loss of both Mike Huckabee and Subway's Jared (Samantha Bee: "They've both got one pair of giant pants somewhere in their closet that they pull out every so often:
Now three of me can fit in these pants!"). I don't think this is an excerpt from a larger, soon to be in-print piece, but I'm still holding out a little hope.
Continue reading Daily Show correspondents love candidates and costumes
Posted Jul 14th 2007 1:04PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Video, The Daily Show, Web
Last year, I mentioned a site called RejectedJokes in which comedy writer Ben Schwartz performed all the jokes he wrote that were rejected by the likes of Letterman and SNL's Weekend Update (he's a freelancer for both).
Ben's latest gig is creating videos for the Web site Super Deluxe. Below is a video he made featuring Rob Riggle (The Daily Show) as the coach for the Washington Colonels, a basketball team that has lost 125 matches in a row. Could it be that Riggle's team is that bad, or is it because their rival, the Bronx World Travelers, always bring things like stools and mini trampolines onto the court?
Continue reading Rob Riggle just wants a fair basketball game - VIDEO
Posted Jun 17th 2007 1:40PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Web, Celebrities
A while back, I showcased some blogs that celebrities were (at the time) keeping. David Duchovny had one for a while, but it was just to promote one of his movies and he stopped it. Zach Braff had one for Garden State, but doesn't update it as much as he used to at his new site (though it's still pretty entertaining). And of course we know that Rosie O'Donnell updates hers, a little too much probably.
But there are other TV celebs who blog too, so it's time for an update. After the jump, a list of some of the better blogs out there.
Continue reading Celebrity blogs you should be reading
Posted Jun 8th 2007 2:41PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Awards
That's the Television Critics Association, the organization that represents over 200 TV critics nationwide and in Canada. They've revealed their nominees for their annual awards, and while a lot of the usual shows make the list, there are a few surprises as well. Some of that has to do with their choices, and some of it has to do with the categories they have and the way they nominate (for example, there aren't separate categories for "Best Performance in a Drama - Male" and "Best Performance in a Drama - Female," it's all under "Individual Achievement in Drama."
The list is after the jump.
Continue reading Here are the nominees for the 2007 TCA Awards
Posted Apr 20th 2007 4:03PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, PVR Wire, The Daily Show, Web, Hardware
On the heels of news of Stephen Colbert's "Tek Jansen" cartoons being made available on Xbox Live Marketplace comes even gooder* news: both The Colbert Report and The Daily Show will have full episodes made available on the download service just a few hours after they air on television. The cost is 160 points (I don't have Xbox, but if you do, then I assume you know what that means), or two bucks per episode.
Continue reading The Colbert Report and Daily Show on Xbox Live Marketplace
Posted Mar 22nd 2007 4:44PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: PVR Wire, The Daily Show, Web, The Colbert Report
Remember how Viacom asked YouTube to remove 100,000 videos? Then after Google takes down as many videos as it can, Viacom sues the company for $1 billion, saying Google is profiting from Viacom content including clips from
The Daily Show and
The Colbert Report?
Right, so now, about a week later, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has turned around and
sued Viacom, claiming that one of the videos in question was actually a parody of
The Colbert Report, and protected under fair use. The video, produced by MoveOn parodies both Stephen Colbert's schtick, and MoveOn's strategy of using online petitions to effect social change.
I'd embed the video, but as I've pointed out, it's no longer up on YouTube. You can, however, still check it out at
Falsiness.org.
Posted Oct 21st 2006 6:01PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, The Daily Show, Celebrities, Comedy Central
If you caught Thursday's
Daily Show, you saw host Jon Stewart mock the Jimmy Dean/Sara Lee breakfast treat that provides a sausage wrapped in a chocolate chip pancake and skewered on a convenient wooden stick. While I think that particular breakfast item belongs in the pharmacy section as an ipecac to induce vomiting in case you accidentally ingest poison rather than in the freezer section next to the Eggo toaster waffles, Chicago-based Sara Lee said they received calls and e-mails asking where they could find the snack. Apparently people will listen to Jon Stewart when he attacks the current administration, but they prefer to make up their own mind when it comes to what pancake-wrapped meat they shove down their gullet. Stewart may have inadvertently kicked off a whole new trend of complete meals on a stick: I imagine we can expect to see a block of cheese wrapped in bologna and bread with a mayonnaise dipping cup soon, as well as a giant meatball wound in spaghetti.
Posted Jun 30th 2006 6:00PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, Programming, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
During some election years,
The Daily Show takes the program on the road for some out-of-town tapings. Although the plans haven't been finalized yet, the show is in talks
to hang out at Ohio State University (in Columbus) before this year's mid-term elections. The episodes would be taped during the week of October 30, probably in the Roy Bowen Theatre.
Hmm... I have a friend that will be attending that school in the Fall. Note to self: Force friend to give frequent updates about Jon Stewart's whereabouts; stalk vicariously.
Posted Jun 5th 2006 5:50PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Talent, Celebrities, Comedy Central
The Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert gave the
2006 commencement address at Knox College over the weekend. At the start of it, he acknowledges that he is a man named Stephen Colbert, but he also plays a man on TV with the same name, and he's not sure which one they invited to speak:
"On a beautiful day like this, I'm reminded of my own graduation 20 years ago, at Northwestern University. I didn't start there, I finished there. On the graduation day, a beautiful day like this. We're all in our gowns. I go up to the podium to get my leather folder with my diploma in it. And as I get it from the Dean, she leans in close to me and she smiles and the Dean leans into me, shakes my hand, and says "I'm sorry." I have no idea what she means. So I go back to my seat and I open it up. And, instead of having a diploma inside, there's a scrap - a torn scrap of paper - that has scrawled on it, "See me." I kid you not.
Evidently I had an incomplete in an independent study that I had failed to complete. And I did not have enough credits. And, let me tell you, when your whole family shows up and you get to have your picture taken with them - and instead of holding up your diploma, you hold the torn corner of a yellow legal pad - that is a humbling experience."
[via
TV Tattle]
Posted Apr 13th 2006 3:09PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, TV Royalty, Talent, Celebrities
How could
this possibly have happened?
A
school in Utah thought they booked Jon Stewart, host of
The Daily Show and a fairly well known guy, but
instead they got Jon A. Stewart, a motivational speaker and part-time pro wrestler.
The odd thing is that
this wasn't just a quick mistake, that actual discussions and negotiations went on for months and the school
still didn't realize they had the wrong Jon Stewart. Instead of having the other Stewart speak, they decided
to cancel the event.
Maybe the
Daily Show host will hear about this and decide to go. That would be
funny.
Posted Apr 10th 2006 2:29PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Talent, The Daily Show, Web, Celebrities
Bopping around online I came across two very
interesting interviews with comedian Demetri Martin.
In the first one at
The Believer, he talks juggling, Conan
O'Brien, doing standup for old guys in London, and how riding a unicycle with never get you laid. In the
second interview, at Brian Palmer's site, he describes going
from law school to comedy, skateboarding, and how he ended up on
The Daily Show.
And why'll we're
at it, check out some of his standup and
Daily Show bits at
YouTube.
Posted Feb 6th 2006 5:29PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, TV Royalty, Talent, OpEd, The Daily Show, Celebrities
Over the weekend, Jon Stewart welcomed a
new baby daughter into the world. Former
Daily Show correspondent, Bob Wiltfong (is he a contributor now? I'm not really sure what to call him), also
became the father of a baby boy on the 5th (Superbowl Sunday baby).
The Jon news was posted in
The Daily Show LiveJournal
community so it may or may not be true... However, there is reason to believe because tonight's episode was meant to
be guested by Torie Clark and it has now been switched to an Anthony Hopkins repeat. Plus, Jon's wife was expecting baby
sometime early 2006... and it
is early 2006. With a new baby
and the Oscars, this is shaping up to be
quite a nice year for Jon.
And... Wow, two
Daily Show births in one weekend? And Samantha Bee and
Jason Jones
just had their
child last month? And Rob Corddry and his wife are expecting? There's seriously something crazy going on in that
studio. I predict the announcement of Ed Helm's pregnancy (like in that Arnold Schwarzenegger movie!) sometime in the
next week.
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