Posts Tagged 'Daily Show'

Jon Stewart Critiques UK Elections, Posts a New "Friendly Fire" Segment, and Chats with Fred Pearce

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This episode of the Daily Show jumps into a present trend about UK elections looking more American, then a new installment of “Friendly Fire Gaywatch Edition,” before Jon Stewart holds a great interview with Fred Pearce. To start things off, The United Kingdom’s general election takes an exciting turn into the world of American-style theatrics. [...]

Daily Show Mocks the Tea-Partying Obama Haters, and Tracy Morgan Gets A Lot of Laughs

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Opening the Daily Show episode, Jon Stewart quotes a member of the tea party movement as stating: “Obama lied: Our country died!” and is reminded of the title of Dr. Seuss’ alleged second-worst book, “Obama lies, our country dies.” He draws attention to how the media is hyper-focusing on the alleged violent side of the [...]

The Daily Show Discusses Nuclear War, Obama's Biography, and Civil-War Related Racism

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Wednesday night’s Daily Show opened with a discussion of Obama’s  ”concrete steps toward a world without nuclear weapons.” John Stewart discovers that it wasn’t a pie in the sky hippie statement, but a precursor to the recent signing of a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. He elaborates on this allegedly historic [...]

Jon Stewart Discusses GOP spending, Palin and McCain, and Robin Williams is Ecstatic

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Jon Stewart starts the daily show with a story that is almost completely without meaning and subsequently hilarious. The story? A scandal about the thousands of dollars spent by the G.O.P at a bondage-themed strip club. In defense of the expenditures, once might argue that Voyeur, located in West Hollywood, isn’t a sleazy go-go bar, [...]

Jon Stewart Debates Global Warming and the Snow Storm

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Heating up the debate about global warming, the best news team on the face of this planet – at least, according to their anchorman – reported on the two faces of the monster. While fox news confronted Al Gore‘s assertions with 18 inches of snow, Jon Stewart and the Daily Show poked fun at one [...]

Obama will talk to Jon Stewart, but Not Stephen Colbert

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Though President Obama is interested in appearing on the Daily Show, he is hesitant to show up for an interview on the Colbert Report. As it turns out, a politician has yet to get the best of news ‘fundit’ Stephen Colbert, and according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Obama doesn’t want to take [...]