Skeezeball leakmeister Julian Assange has squirreled himself away at the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid deportation to Sweden to face sex crimes allegations. According to a tweet by Wikileaks, he's now seeking "political asylum." ENORMOUS SIGH.

Nice to know he and Barack made up. And also that he got to tell the story of saving his neighbor from her house fire.

So what if liberals and conservatives alike have chastised Neil Munro for interrupting President Obama on Friday, Stephen Colbert thought it was a heroic act. It's not like Munro could have known the President wasn't done talking, not with those super long pregnant pauses he's so fond of.

Over the weekend, Greece voted to stay in the European Union and that meant that the Greek drachma, poised to make a return, was put back on the shelf. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart consoled the still-obsolete currency.

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On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert discussed two interesting stories related to the election: whether marijuana initiatives on ballots in swing states will drive Democrats to the polls and the possibility of networks running out of air time to run all the political ads bought with Super PAC money. It's gonna be interesting, that's for sure.

Recently, J.P Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon traveled to Washington DC to explain his company's massive losses to the Senate banking committee. Problem is a lot of those guys are getting campaign donations from J.P. Morgan. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart broke it all down.

As if our nation's military men and women don't have enough to look forward to with low salaries, underfunded V.A. benefits, and our frequent launching of unnecessary wars in which they will die, they all have something else waiting for them when the fighting is done:

On tonight's Late Night, Lena Dunham revealed that she once wrote a play wherein she switched bodies with Jimmy Fallon and then they fell in love, which means that she falls in love with her own image like a mumblecore Narcissus. An additional takeaway: she was at a party with Fallon when she was 17 which in no way has to do with having rich, prominent, well connected parents at all.

Like many other rust belt cities, Niagara Falls is having a hard time these days. Unlike other cities, Niagara Falls is the site of a tremendous waterfall that attracts thousands of tourists a year. On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert examines the city's newest plan to attract even more.

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With the news that a dressage horse co-owned by Ann Romney might be heading to the Olympics, Stephen Colbert has a new favorite sport. He's so committed to what is obviously America's new pastime that he's even whipped up an exciting new anthem which is sure to entice every Joe Sixpack out there.

On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart turned to a source deep inside Guantanamo Bay prison to help explain what's happening down there and why it's, you know, still open. Yes, that's right, the show welcomed back Gitmo and all of his usual insights.

Animal New York's Bucky Turco, NYC's leading digger-in-police-station-trash-cans, has pulled yet another load of internal NYPD training documents out of a police station trash site.

On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert devoted some time to an important new product, one that will surely change the face of this nation: the Banana Bunker. It does exactly what you think it does, yes it protects bananas from bruising and such until you can eat them. The segment, like the product itself, is utterly perfect.

The political gaffe, once something that had the power to ruin careers and destroy campaigns, can now come and go in a single day. Since that's exactly what happened with something President Obama said the other day, Jon Stewart took a moment on tonight's Daily Show to take us through the life cycle of the political gaffe.

Season five of Mad Men ended just as it began: with a question. "When is everything going to get back to normal?" Roger asks Don in the third episode. The presumptive answer was that order, as they knew it, would never be restored—that the characters would instead have to adapt to a new normal as everything changed around them. Season five's thematic through-line was that adaptation. As each character attempted to move forward, they had to find a way to either avoid obsolescence or capitalize on the changing landscape.

I don't know about you, but when I think "People who made the wrong career choice," I think "Albert Einstein." Talk about wasting your smarts! Instead of writing papers on math things that the average consumer doesn't even understand, he could have been writing slogans, for Kit Kats™. Missed opportunities.

I don't know all that much about musical theater, but that was pretty fun. Anyone out there watching the Tonys tonight?

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