Unless you were asleep all day yesterday – and if you were, we’re jealous – you undoubtedly know about CNN’s massive reporting fuck-up, wherein they assuredly claimed that a suspect in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing had been arrested. CNN anchors John King and Wolf...
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart offered a bit of a love note to the city of Boston, a day after two bombs were detonated near the finish of the Boston Marathon and left three dead and nearly 200 injured. “Thank you for once again, in the face of gross inhumanity,...
On Monday, April 1 at midnight on Comedy Central, comedian Kristen Schaal will debut Live at the Fillmore, her very first hour-long stand-up special. The day after, Comedy Central will release the extended, uncensored version of Schaal's performance at San Francisco's famous...
Jon Stewart will take a 12-week sabbatical from The Daily Show this summer in order to direct a movie about a journalist who was captured and imprisoned by Iranian forces. Longtime Daily Show correspondent John Oliver will take Stewart's place during that time. The movie, a...
Yesterday, President Barack Obama was sworn in for a second term in our nation's capital. And although there were plenty of distractions -- performances from Beyonce and Kelly Clarkson, to name a pair -- the thing Stephen Colbert was most distracted by was the fact that Obama...
After nearly five months of work, which included more than 250 measurements and photographs, the wax version of Stephen Colbert is complete. Calling it "anatomically accurate" and "the greatest American figurine since the Ken doll," Colbert was all smiles and smirks at the...
When the news broke on Friday about Gen. David Petraeus, the now-former CIA Director, due to him having sex with someone who wasn't his wife, we quickly posted Jon Stewart's Jan. 25 interview with said person who isn't Petraeus' wife, Paula Broadwell, the general's biographer....
There's only one man who can generate 16 hours of humorous, insightful and intelligent audio read by the likes of Patton Oswalt, Dick Cavett, Jon Hamm, Paul Rudd, Sarah Vowell, Brooke Shields, Scott Adsit, Robin Goldwasser, Jonathan Coulton, John Roderick and Rachel Maddow. His...
As you surely know by now General David Petraeus has resigned from his post as CIA director today because he cheated on his wife. You may also know that his biographer, Paula Broadwell is the lady he was making love to behind his wife’s back, according to a report on Slate....
