Newt Gingrich is the latest in a host of Republican presidential candidates to savor the "frontrunner" status given by the media. But just as fast as they giveth, they taketh away, as Jon Stewart illustrated on tonight's Daily Show. A clip of the segment is above.

While Occupy Wall Street has had its host of celebrity backers, Jon Stewart has never really been one of them. Aside from a fleeting show of support here and there, the Daily Show host has covered the Occupy movement with a more critical eye. On tonight's program, Stewart continued his track record with the above field piece, which featured Samantha Bee's investigation into how the Occupiers had become what they initially fought against.

In an unbearable phone interview with Bob Costas on last night's Rock Center, accused Penn State child rapist Jerry Sandusky kinda-sorta denied being sexually attracted to young boys. On tonight's Daily Show, an indignant Jon Stewart unloaded on Sandusky: "You can't even bring yourself to lie emphatically!"

On Saturday night, CBS brought us the first hour of a 90-minute debate between the Republican candidates for President (apparently, an NCIS rerun was more important than an extra half-hour of politics). But as Jon Stewart observed on tonight's Daily Show, mixed in with the standard GOP talking points—like the belief that waterboarding isn't torture—were some less crazy ones, and from the unlikeliest of candidates.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi stopped by The Daily Show tonight to chat with Jon Stewart about everything from why Congress sucks so much to... why Congress sucks so much! Here are some highlights of the interview, a full version of which you can find later on the program's official website.

Last week, former New Jersey governor and ex-Goldman Sachs CEO Jon Corzine resigned from MF Global, the financial firm he founded and drove into bankruptcy. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart reviewed Corzine's spectacular downfall step by step to show just how egregious Corzine's actions really were.

Jon Stewart opened tonight's Daily Show with a recap of the latest developments in Herman Cain's sexual harassment scandal, including the news that a fourth accuser had come forward to tell her story. Cain, of course, stuck to his "Blame the media" narrative." But as Stewart then explained, it's hard to make a point when the truth—unlike Fox News—isn't on your side.

Jon Stewart started out on tonight's Daily Show by acknowledging that the Occupy Wall Street movement resonates with many people across the country. Except for "one small caveat." Stewart then replayed footage from a previous episode in which he warned the movement against violence, followed by a clip of protesters in Oakland vandalizing a Whole Foods store.

When Jon Stewart covered Herman Cain's sexual harassment scandal on Monday's Daily Show, the story was in its infancy. As media coverage of the allegations spread, so did the number of inconsistencies in Cain's story, and tonight Stewart took a look at the GOP presidential candidate's ever-evolving statements on the scandal.

Condoleezza Rice was Jon Stewart's guest on the Daily Show this evening. The interview started out friendly enough as Stewart and Rice shared laughs over Muammar Gaddafi's creepy obsession with the former secretary of state. But there was plenty of tension in the room when the subject turned to the decision to invade Iraq. Highlights from the interview are above.

Here's the latest video From The Desk Of Donald Trump, in which our hero shouts about how Jon Stewart "gets away" with a "VERY VERY RACIST RANT about Herman Cain." Trump, who's always been a good friend of "the blacks," finds deep-seated racism in Stewart's Herman Cain impression.

Over the weekend, we learned that Herman Cain faced accusations of sexual harassment while heading the National Restaurant Association in the '90s. We also saw video of a possibly inebriated (and pretty fey) Rick Perry delivering a bizarre speech in New Hampshire. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart poked fun at both Cain and Perry as he weighed what effect these mishaps will have on their presidential aspirations. And while it's still too early to know for sure, there was one thing of which Stewart was certain: "Mitt Romney is the luckiest Motherfudger on Earth."

Mitt Romney has always been a bit wishy-washy. But he seems to have ramped up his say-anything-to-get-support strategy recently, like earlier this week when he totally reversed his position on unions in 24 hours. And yet Romney's GOP presidential poll numbers haven't changed much over the past year. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart put forth a theory as to why.

When the Occupy Wall Street movement began spreading across the U.S., one of its biggest satellite protests took root in Oakland. But after two weeks of peaceful interactions with the city, Occupy Oakland protesters sparred with gas canister-firing police yesterday, leaving an Iraq War veteran in critical condition with a head injury. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart echoed the views of many when he questioned Oakland's handling of the situation.

On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart brought up the increasingly extreme rhetoric being spewed by Republican presidential candidates, noting that even Pat Robertson expressed his concern about it in recent days. Of course, it's not that Robertson really disagrees with the candidates. He just wants them to keep their voices down long enough to win the general election: "The first rule of Right Club? Don't talk about Right Club."

On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart cheered President Obama's announcement last week that he'll withdraw all remaining U.S. soldiers in Iraq by year's end, a date originally set by President Bush in 2008. So it was strange for Stewart to see many big-name Republicans, like John McCain and Michele Bachmann, using their weekend to condemn Obama for sticking to a plan that he hadn't even crafted, one that ends a war, no less.

Jon Stewart began tonight's Daily Show with an evaluation of how people reacted to the death of Muammar Gaddafi. Which was silly, because how could anyone spin the death of an insane, 40-plus year-long dictator in a way that would discredit the United States' integral role in making it happen? And yet.

Al Sharpton joined Jon Stewart on The Daily Show tonight. When the subject turned to Occupy Wall Street, Sharpton expressed his support for the movement, but Stewart wasn't quite as enthusiastic, taking issue with some of the protesters' attention-getting theatrics. Stewart also wondered about where Occupy Wall Street goes from here. "What they've done there is so unusual that it can't be ignored," Stewart started. But now that they've managed to capture the world's attention, we're left asking, "When are you going to change the world for us?"

Jon Stewart sat out part of tonight's Daily Show so correspondent John Oliver could report on Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park. As Oliver wandered around, he encountered some of the protest's stranger characters and customs—"How amongst the 99% did I still feel like I didn't fit in?"—before consulting with "the 98% of Americans who might agree with the protester's message if it weren't for the protesters themselves."

Jon Stewart was on vacation last week, so on tonight's Daily Show, he caught on up on all the important Occupy Wall Street news he missed while he was away, including the spread of the protests across the globe, the movement's recent round of fundraising, and, yes, that photo of a protester defecating on a police car. Stewart's recap—and his advice to protesters—is above.