Stephen Colbert's Super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, has raised $1,023,121.24, according to documents filed yesterday with the FEC [pdf]. In a letter accompanying the filing, the group's treasurer writes: "Stephen Colbert, President of ABTT, has asked that I quote him as saying, ''Yeah! How you like me now, F.E.C? I'm rolling seven digits deep! I got 99 problems but a non-connected independent-expenditure only committee ain't one!' I would like it noted for the record that I advised Mr. Colbert against including that quote." 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 ›

When Jon Stewart heard that Herman Cain would be suspending his campaign for president, The Daily Show host was despondent, depressed, and "losing all hope" that his job would ever bring him joy again. But then, like God closing a door and then opening a window to reveal "a circus peanut wearing a badger," news broke that Donald Trump would be moderating a Republican debate, with or without Mitt Romney. It goes without saying Stew Beef is stoked: 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 ›

Don't let the clean suits fool you; the Daily Show's John Oliver isn't some millionaire "job creator"—he's part of the 99%, and he went down to Zuccotti Park to join in the historic Occupy Wall Street movement. Well, that was the premise of last night's segment. What Oliver really wanted was to turn on the cameras and let a sampling of protesters make fools of themselves. Like shooting rubber chickens in a barrel: 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 ›

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 ›

Jon Stewart turned his attention to the Occupy Wall Street protests on The Daily Show last night, homing in on infamous pepper spray officer Anthony Bologna, who was caught spraying demonstrators in two videos. After showing the first video, Stewart tried to give the high-ranking officer the benefit of the doubt, speculating that perhaps, since it was a hot day, he was "reaching for his canister of cooling, cucumber mist spray—and grabbed the pepper spray by accident." more ›

We were not the only ones deeply disturbed by the sight of Nancy Grace's nipple on Dancing with the Stars Monday night. Jon Stewart uses his Daily Show platform to vent for fathers everywhere: "Why is the angry lady from Court TV trying to breast feed my children?" 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 ›

Last night, Jon Stewart shared a promo for a very special Daily Show segment, ostensibly airing tonight, on 9/13 (unless this too is a joke). Called simply, "The Daily Show Remembers 9/13/2001: Remembering The Day We Forgot The Lessons Of The Day We Swore We Would Always Remember," the segment promises to look back on all the low points of 9/11 exploitation, which began two days after the attacks, with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson blaming pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays, the ACLU and others for "helping" 9/11 happen. more ›

On September 20th, 2001 The Daily Show returned for the first time after the tragedy on the 11th, and Jon Stewart opened with the below memorable speech, which is worth revisiting. In it, a choked-up Stewart (who says, "luckily we can edit this"), hopes that we'll be able to ride out the storm. more ›

In this mixed-up modern world, the idea of a Post Office charging less than 50 cents to hand-deliver information across America is only "incrementally less crazy" than Urbanfetch, which, according to Jon Stewart, was "basically a service for people who were too high to go out and get things, but not too high to want things." In a funny Daily Show segment last night, Stewart marveled at the possibility that the Postal Service could shut down this winter if it can't make a $5.5 billion payment due later this month. more ›

For those on the right who feel that Michele Bachmann's Newsweek cover photo was a blatant hit job, you have an unlikely supporter with a massive platform: Jon Stewart took to The Daily Show last night to lampoon Newsweek editor Tina Brown for choosing such an unflattering image. After showing a few examples of how photogenic Bachmann is, Stewart asserts, "You gotta go pretty far out of your way to find a crappy photo of Michele Bachmann." more ›

After presenting Birthday Boy President Obama with a gift-wrapped box of horrible stock market news, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart turned to the Culture Wars last night, explaining that we can't let all this Wall Street panic "let us forget that we all hate each other." After noting that Lou Dobbs seemed threatened by the half-black, half-Hispanic Spider-Man (“It’s Lou Dobbs's worst nightmare: a Latino that can climb walls."), Stewart finally weighed in on the American Atheists' lawsuit to remove the so-called 9-11 Cross from the World Trade Center Site. "By the way, atheists, why do you give a s&@?" Stewart asked: more ›

Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart skewered the 9/11 Health Care Bill's failure to help survivors suffering from cancer, with a segment called, "I Thought We Already Took Care of this S@#t." With signature outrage, Stewart marveled at the absurdity of a fund that covers Ground Zero responders with "chronic coughing, laryngitis, and carpal tunnel syndrome—but not cancer." more ›

Yesterday we celebrated National French Fries Day, but it turns out that many Americans are celebrating the almighty frites everyday. So last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart killed our deep fried, oil-saturated buzz by drawing attention to rising obesity rates nationwide. In the below segment you will also learn about something created in the Wendy's laboratory, called the Baconator double meal, which is jam-packed with over 2,500 calories! Everyone eat a salad today! 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 ›