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Posted May 25th 2007 2:18AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews

"
Gas Pains": Senior Petroleum Expert Rob Riggle, decked out in his best
Mad Max wear, talked about the absurd, record-setting gas prices. If Riggle dresses like that for all of his reports from now on, I promise I'll like him more.
Promise.
"
Illegally Blonde": The Alberto Gonzalez craziness briefly turned into Monica Goodling craziness. Aaand then it turned back into Gonzalez craziness. I swear, this stuff is never going to end. "Miracle virgin firing" indeed. By the way, Jesus Trump was a little too creepy for me.
Continue reading The Daily Show: May 24, 2007
Posted Jul 1st 2006 6:35PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Video, Animation, Web, Futurama

Sorry, I know this has been up on YouTube for awhile, but a few days ago as I was walking to my computer to do a post about it, I tripped on my shoelace and knocked myself unconscious for five days. Yeah, that sounds like a good excuse. Anyway, Al Gore's new movie
An Inconvenient Truth is getting a lot of attention, and a video recently surfaced on YouTube featuring Al Gore trying to convince Bender that he should be concerned with global warming. Of course, Bender's a robot, so why the heck should he care about that? It's a funny spot, though the sound track appears to kind of messed up. Of course, our
Futurama fans know all about Gore's involvement with the show in the past; his daughter did write for it, after all. See it after the jump:
Continue reading Gore and Bender discuss global warming - VIDEO
Posted Jun 29th 2006 10:11AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show, Comedy Central

"Ward of the Word": Goodness, the folks on Capitol Hill just won't let go of the phrase "
cut-and-run". Can exit strategies really be broken down to just two verbs and a conjunction? It's gone as far as "
cut-and-jog". Coming next: cut-and-skip, cut-and-mosey... Set it and forget it?!
Continue reading The Daily Show: June 28, 2006