Rupert Murdoch appeared before a British parliamentary committee today to testify about his knowledge of phone hacking at News of the World. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart took the opportunity to poke fun at the 80-year-old media mogul—and praise wife Wendi Deng for defending him against a pie-wielding assailant—before mocking Fox News's efforts to downplay the scandal.
On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart spent all the time he didn't use interviewing Daniel Radcliffe talking about the never-ending debt ceiling negotiations between President Obama and Republican Congressional leaders. So what's the holdup? As Stewart explains in the above video, it's because Republicans hate Obama—but not because he's black. They hate him because he's a tax-hiking crazy person!
Negotiations between President Obama and Republican congressional leaders over the nation's debt ceiling hit a roadblock yesterday with reports of Obama storming out of a meeting and telling House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, "Don't call my bluff." And while many praised Obama for standing up to the Republicans, Jon Stewart had a more critical opinion of the president's actions on tonight's Daily Show.
After tonight's Daily Show, we can add Jon Stewart to the ever-growing list of people who can't help but wonder if Marcus Bachmann, husband to Republican presidential candidate Michele and runner of a pray-the-gay-away facility, may be a little light in the loafers. Video of Stewart's segment this evening is above.
Jon Stewart opened the Daily Show tonight by observing that President Obama once again had to come out yesterday and hold a press conference to shame Congress into agreeing on a solution to the dispute over the U.S. budget. In the process, Stewart realized that Republicans—and House Speaker John Boehner in particular—are trying to get away with having their cake and eating it, too. Video of the segment is above.
On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart returned from vacation feeling a little blue about the problems currently facing the United States, like the battle over the budget in Washington. But before Stewart could expound on his point, correspondent John Oliver presented him with a recap of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World scandal—a friendly reminder that the British will always find a way to out-shame us tepid Americans.
Mark Halperin was suspended indefinitely by MSNBC yesterday for calling President Obama "a dick" during a live episode of Morning Joe. Schadenfreude at its finest! As Jon Stewart pointed out on last night's Daily Show, though, Halperin's actual comment—which Stewart called "one of the greatest things I've ever seen in my life"—paled in comparison to the awkward, Willie Geist-supervised apology that followed it.
On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart opened with a segment about President Obama's press conference earlier today and his fight with Congress over its refusal to reach a compromise that would raise the nation's debt ceiling. How much confidence does Stewart have in our elected officials to put their petty differences aside? He ended the segment with "Armageddon, here we come," so, yeah, not much.
If you thought Jon Stewart was done with his most recent war against Fox News, well, think again. After ripping the network for editing his recent Fox News Sunday interview with Chris Wallace and then reading off a laundry list of Fox News lies, Stewart devoted even more time to Fox and Wallace on tonight's Daily Show. Check out the clip above.
Last night, President Obama preempted regular programming so that we could all hear him talk about his plan to bring back 30,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of next summer. But as Jon Stewart pointed out on tonight's Daily Show, people on both sides of the issue were disappointed with the budding Obama Doctrine.
Presidential candidate Herman Cain is furious at "idiotic reporters" who mocked his line that he wouldn't sign any bills longer than three pages. He was exaggerating! He didn't actually mean three pages when he said, quote, "three pages." Why didn't, say, Jon Stewart understand this? Because he's racist, very very racist.
Last weekend, Sen. John McCain made headlines when he inexplicably accused illegal immigrants of starting the wildfires currently ravaging Arizona. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart pointed out the absurdity of McCain's statements before conducting an interview with a McCain puppet—yes, a real puppet—about all of the other horrible things illegal immigrants have done to him.
Jon Stewart has always been critical of Fox News, but this week, the Daily Show host turned the volume up several notches. After shaming the network for selectively editing his Fox News Sunday interview with Chris Wallace on yesterday's program, Stewart spent several minutes tonight reading off a list of statements by Fox that independent fact-checking organization PolitiFact has proven to be false.
Jon Stewart appeared on Fox News Sunday yesterday for what turned out to be a pretty contentious chat with Chris Wallace. On tonight's Daily Show, Stewart said that Fox News had edited the interview in a way that not only made him appear erratic, but also omitted a statement by Wallace in which Stewart believes he admitted the network's conservative bias. Video of Stewart's rant is above.
Daily Show host Jon Stewart entered the Fox News lion's den for the third time today, appearing on Fox News Sunday opposite Chris Wallace and having the exact same argument about the media that he had with... well, that he tried to have with Tucker Carlson back in 2004. It was infuriating! Not because of Stewart, who is an able if at times frustratingly conciliatory interlocutor, but because of Chris Wallace, who is a huge, silly boob. Above, Stewart tries to make a point, using big words; Wallace responds by showing a clip from Comedy Central's roast of Pamela Anderson. If you have the desire, or the patience, to wach the whole thing, you can find it here.
On Tuesday, President Obama visited Puerto Rico, the first trip of its kind by a sitting US president since John F. Kennedy traveled there in 1961. As it turns out, though, Obama's visit only lasted a few hours. So why even bother going? On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart provided a theory.
Last night, CNN's John King moderated the first Republican primary debate of the 2012 election season. High on theatrics, like King's stupid "This or That" questions for each candidate, the debate had many critics. And as you'll see in the above clip from tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart wasn't all that impressed either.
Even though he expressed a desire last week to move on from the Anthony Weiner scandal, yesterday's release of another set of salacious pictures of the congressman forced Jon Stewart to take up Weinergate once again on tonight's Daily Show. So, what did Stewart think of Weiner's meticulously manscaped body? As he put it, "We're Jews! When you look at our pubic hair, it should look like Ewoks should be in there."
Ever since the Anthony Weiner story broke, Jon Stewart, a longtime friend of the congressman, has struggled with how to cover Weinergate on The Daily Show. Stewart was visibly uncomfortable with the subject right after Weiner admitted to sexting women online, and he even resorted to gimmicky distractions at one point.
