With "pink slime" producers shutting down and the "lean, finely textured beef" being banned in fast food restaurants and schools alike, it was about time The Daily Show caught up with the story. And so, hot on the heels of their exploration of the miseries of grocery shopping in Park Slope, John Stewart gave Pink Slime its Comedy Central closeup. more ›

Last night, Jon Stewart looked at the rhetoric around Rush Limbaugh's slut shaming and how Limbaugh and other conservative commentators feel wounded because liberal comedians or commentators like Bill Maher and Ed Schultz have called Republican women horrible things with consequence. more ›

Having linfected Stephen Colbert, President Obama and Sarah Palin, Linsanity finally hit Jon Stewart and The Daily Show last night. Stewart ended up having to defend Lin to a bummed out Larry Wilmore, who felt Lin's basketball theatrics were overshadowing Black History Month: “How can it be that in the middle of Black History Month an Asian kid comes in and does this?...Hey, I've got one: you're kil-lin me. This is more painful than a lin-grown toe nail." more ›

If there is one thing Jon Stewart loves, it is to mock Fox News. And boy howdy did he have fun with the network last night regarding contributor Liz Trotta's interesting views on the recently reported 64 percent rise in violent sexual assaults in the military. You will be "horror-tained" as Stewart responds to Trotta's comments—"What did they expect? These people are in close contact."—with zingers like, "You know what they say, you can't make a co-ed omelette without raping a few eggs." more ›

The Daily Show featured not one but two segments on SOPA last night, and with Wikipedia "dark," Jon Stewart had a dickens of a time figuring out just what the hell SOPA means. (What was he supposed to do to learn things, "go to the library like a common masturbator?") And so Stew-Beef reluctantly turned to the "notoriously unreliable news" for answers, discovering, to his horror, that this law could send violators to jail for up to five years for merely streaming copyrighted material. more ›

In case you stepped away from Fox News for a few moments over the Thanksgiving holiday, you may have missed the network's outraged condemnation of President Obama for not mentioning God in his YouTube Thanksgiving address. Ever ready to feed conservative America's insatiable hunger for vapid manufactured controversy, Fox derided the president's secular liberal godlessness with their special blend of sanctimony and contempt. And last night, the circle was completed at last when The Daily Show weighed in on this "Much Ado About Stuffing": more ›

The newly-slimmed down (and cable-ready) Rev. Al Sharpton visited the Daily Show last night, and sat down with Jon Stewart to discuss the Occupy Wall Street protesters who have been nestled in Zuccotti Park for the last month. Among other things, they covered the media bias in reporting on OWS, and Sharpton's full embrace of OWS, including the time he broadcast his radio show live from the park. But the most interesting parts of the interview came when the two criticized the "theatrics" around OWS. Watch below. more ›

Last night The Daily Show and The Colbert Report returned from one of their frequent vacations (hey, you try being funny four days a week!) and dove right into the Occupy Wall Street coverage. Neither segment was as hilaaaairious as one might expect, but each had their moments—particularly when Jon Stewart summoned a protester over to the dreaded "Camera 3" to chastise him for defecating on an NYPD car: more ›

After an initial period of indifference, the media—both professional and amateur—have swarmed Zuccotti Park to cover the Occupy Wall Street protests. Most are sincere, while a few show up with the goal of poking fun at the demonstrators. But yesterday two men brandishing a video camera and a microphone approached attendees in the park for interviews, telling them they were with The New York Daily News. A Daily News employee snapped their photo and confronted the impostors. more ›

Yesterday, Chris Christie confirmed that he was not going to be running for the job of President of the United States (at least not in 2012). But with Christie confirming what he's been saying for ages, where does that leave political pundits? Licking their wounds and reviewing the tape. And luckily, yesterday's press conference had lots of good tape to review! more ›

The 9th District's new representative in Congress, Bob Turner, will be sworn in today, and his fellow Republicans are interpreting his special election victory as A SIGN that Obama is a one term president. Former Mayor Ed Koch, whose endorsement of Turner was pivotal, is also reading the tea leaves, and says Obama would have to be "pretty blind" not to get the message that the Jewish vote is up for grabs. "Now the president knows he cannot take the Jewish vote for granted," Koch told the Post yesterday, suggesting that Democrat David Weprin lost because of Obama's Israel policy. Jon Stewart, on the other hand, blamed Anthony Weiner's "self portrait." more ›

While President Obama draws down troop commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, make no mistake: the War on Terror is still being waged, from heightened airport security measures to the fact that the CIA has turned into a killing machine. But with the death of Osama bin Laden, the (arguably) diminishing influence of Al Qaeda, and the risk of turning the War on Terror into the War on Drugs, should we call it quits? more ›

The phone hacking scandal that shut down media mogul Rupert Murdoch's tabloid The News of the World gave The Daily Show plenty of material last night—and this rotten fruit is hanging so low that Jon Stewart and John Oliver didn't have to do much more than simply go through the revolting facts of the case, as Stewart pretended to throw up in his mouth. Some jokes just write themselves, and if you haven't been following along with this yet, the segment serves as a pretty thorough primer on the whole sordid mess: more ›

Last week, the NY Times published an outrageous article about how GE, with the help of its 975-employee tax department, paid no taxes, in spite of $14.2 billion in profits, over $5 billion made in the U.S. The Times added, "In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion." It's good to be rich, isn't it? You get to avoid paying taxes AND get VIP service from the NYPD. So, last night on the Daily News, Jon Stewart covered the matter in a segment called, "I Give Up," noting how GE has cut 20% of its American workforce while moving jobs overseas. more ›

Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, was named to the board of the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum foundation and said after the board's meeting yesterday, "I’m very humbled. Luckily for me, it appears as if they’ve done 95 percent of the hard labor on this. So I’m hoping to help in any way I can offer... I’m like their intern at this point." more ›

Last night, Jon Stewart dedicated his final Daily Show of 2010 to the languishing James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. It's believed that the bill, which has passed the House (not without shouting) but was filibustered by the GOP in the Senate, has its last shot this year, because next year the House goes to the Republicans. Last week, Republicans Senators complained that tax cuts needed to take precedence; now that the tax cut plan has passed both houses, Republican Senators have objected to the voting on the bill again because the vote might take place between Christmas and New Year's. So Stewart, like he did earlier this week, took lawmakers—and conservative pundits—to task for seemingly abandoning 9/11 first responders. more ›

Last night, the Daily Show took up the Senate's failure to pass the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which would have given $7.4 billion to Ground Zero first responders and their survivors. Jon Stewart asked, "Since when do Republicans make 9/11 first responders stand over in the corner with the gays and Mexicans?" more ›

Daily Show host Jon Stewart appeared on Larry King Live last night to clear up some misconceptions about his big Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. After first congratulating his host on leaving CNN "like the last guy out of a burning building," Stewart declared that his event in Washington on October 30th "is in fact not a political rally." So what is it? more ›

Last night Jon Stewart poked more fun at the "extremely pokeable" Rick Sanchez, who got fired from CNN Friday after he called Jon Stewart a bigot, implied that Jews control the media, and said his bosses discriminated against him because he was Hispanic and were leaving jobs for "the high-profile white guys." In his now-infamous radio interview, Sanchez also derided Stewart for "growing up in a suburban middle class suburban home." Here's Stewart's response, with priceless "vintage photo" of him as a fancy-boy riding a penny farthing to the Cotillion: more ›