Jason Jones took over last night's Daily Show in place of Jon Stewart, who's out sick with the bubons. While Jones was busy making (pretty good) jokes as his own expense, "Senior My Wife Correspondent" Sam Bee handled the actual reporting, delivering a piece on the complete lack of any national statistics on police killings of civilians.

Last week, the Daily Show mocked the town of Bayonne, New Jersey, in a spoof of Sarah Palin's Alaska. Jason Jones' Bayonne featured Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones taking in the city's Russian hookers and industrial wasteland. Bayonne is pissed.

Finally, after months of jostling and competition and speculation, they've gone and cast the lead girl for that buzzed-about Dragon Tattoo movie. Let's never speak of it again. Also today: Clint Eastwood news, X-Men casting, and Angelina Jolie as Marilyn?

Natalie Portman makes a road trip film about drugs. Drugs could null Charlie Sheen's contract. Drew Barrymore is a whalehugger. Zoolander 2 is on the move. Winter storm warning: The Trade roundup is expected to bring 5-10 inches of AWESOME.

The Daily Show's weather team (aka Samantha Bee, Jason Jones, and Assif Mandvi) debates global climate change and discovers global darkening.

Last night The Daily Show assembled correspondents Samantha Bee, John Oliver and Aasif Mandvi for a roundtable discussion about the dreaded Obamacare "Death Panels" issue recently brought to light by that noted teller-of-truths, Sarah Palin. Hilarity ensued.

Newsweek's Maziar Bahari, who has covered Iran for the magazine for a decade, was taken into custody by Iranian officials during an early morning raid of his home. His captors also seized his computer and several videotapes.

Ever since we first heard that The Daily Show was sending Jason Jones to Iran to cover the election there, we've been anxious to see if they'd be able to find comedy in what was happening there. They did.

When the Daily Show sent Jason Jones to viciously mock the defenseless New York Times last week, the universal reaction was: Ouch. Except within the New York Times! They thought they did great.

The New York Times is too prissy to mention to print the word fart on their classy website. But vintage Belgian porn? Mais oui, c'est l'art!

So before airing his hot-knife-in-the-buttocks takedown of the New York Times as old and slow on the Daily Show last night, Jason Jones was forced to give an interview to the NYT. It was not a fair fight.

In what might be the most painfully funny Daily Show skit ever produced, Jason Jones visited the New York Times building in Midtown and interviewed some of the paper's staff, quite uncomfortably.

Arizona State University sparked a bit of controversy recently for refusing to bestow President Obama with an honorary degree at commencement ceremonies later today, so Jason Jones went down to investigate. Hilarity then ensued.