Tag: The Daily Show (81-90 of 119)

Jan 3 2011 03:07 PM ET

'Daily Show,' 'Colbert Report' might be heading back to Hulu

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Stephen-ColbertAre The Daily Show and The Colbert Report heading back to Hulu? Maybe, according to the New York Times. (Hulu and Comedy Central both declined to comment.) So, good news, I guess?

Viacom pulled the shows from Hulu last March, but they’ve remained free and online on Comedy Central’s site. Weirdly, even though I watched the shows all the time on Hulu, I actually almost never watched them elsewhere. As more and more shows go online in various forms — on network sites, say — Hulu’s real strength isn’t that it has whatever specific show you’re looking for. It’s that Hulu is probably the first place you’d look, and once you watched one episode, you might stick around and watch more. Hulu enables a kind of post-cable channel surfing; seeking out TDS on its own is a different thing entirely.

Where do you do most of your online watching, PopWatchers: On Hulu? Individual network and show sites? Or someplace else altogether?

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Viacom removing ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘The Colbert Report’ from Hulu

Dec 16 2010 12:40 PM ET

Paul Rudd and Jon Stewart, 1999 flashback: 'You look like Duckie'

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Paul Rudd was on The Daily Show last night promoting How Do You Know and being all charming and adorable. Rudd style! Also, they showed a clip from 1999, in which Rudd was the guest for a trial run of the show before Stewart took over from Craig Kilborn. Come for the scrubby beard, stay for the absurdly poofy hair: READ FULL STORY »

Dec 9 2010 02:28 PM ET

Comedy Central logo threatens all mankind

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Check it out, check it out: Comedy Central has a new logo. Goodbye globe-with-three-skyscrapers-dwarfed-by-huge-hilarious-words. Hello, simple hieroglyph that you’re sure you’ve seen before somewhere on your keyboard. Alas, it’s not there. It only seems like it should be, a distant cousin to @ and ©. But there’s much much more here, hiding behind their Christopher Nolan-inspired elegance. Clearly, Comedy Central intended to combine the logos of Carolco and Chanel, in an effort to trigger our subliminal craving for sweet-smelling killing machines from the future. Take a look at the new Comedy Central, if you dare!!!! READ FULL STORY »

Nov 24 2010 06:20 PM ET

'The Daily Show' makes us thankful for its great musical (and nude) moments

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It’s a Thanksgiving miracle: Awesome collections of the best moments from The Daily Show. Sure, the “Go F— Yourself” gospel choir is probably the most spectacular musical moment, but I sing the midterm elections song to myself far too often than can be healthy. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 30 2010 08:33 PM ET

Jon Stewart on Rally to Restore Sanity: 'I just wanted to speak a little bit from the heart.'

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A crowd estimated at more than 250,000 turned up in Washington, D.C., today to watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert host the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, but that doesn’t mean the hosts have developed big heads. During a press conference following the event at the National Press Building, Stewart insisted that though they inspired hundreds of thousands to travel to the nation’s capital to engage in rational dialogue, they hardly consider themselves significant political figures. “We’re not running for anything,” Stewart told reporters. “We do television shows for people that like them. And we hope people continue to like them so Comedy Central can continue to sell beer to young people.” Read on for the highlights from the press conference:

  • Stewart and Colbert have been planning the rally since March. Not that they expected it to actually happen. “The number of scripts we generated, the number of ideas, the number of people we talked to — to have it all coalesce and funnel through this three-hour window and for it to happen is just [an] incredible joy,” Colbert said.
  • Many watched the rally — at the Mall and at home. According to a rep from Comedy Central, 4 million streamed the rally on computers from home, while more than 250,000 people were in attendance. And a good chunk of those 250,000 people rode to the rally in one of Arianna Huffington’s free buses: At the press conference, she said she had 200 buses carrying 10,000 people.
  • Stewart wrote his keynote address one night before the rally. “I stayed up late last night until I was done…. I just wanted to speak a little bit from the heart,” Stewart said. Colbert, on the other hand, claimed he took even less time to write his own address: “I improvised everything I did.” READ FULL STORY »
Oct 30 2010 07:10 PM ET

The Rally to Restore Sanity: On the scene at the insane event

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DC-RallyImage Credit: Michael Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty IThe party started in the Metro. Legions of 20-somethings far too chipper for the time of day – 9 a.m. – piled into the already overcrowded train in Washington D.C., surprisingly eager to stand back-to-back (or front-to-back, however they could fit) with perfect strangers. They wore t-shirts that chose sides (Team Stewart vs. Team Colbert), dressed in Halloween costumes (Where’s Waldo? I saw him on the Orange line), and held signs that showed their semi-enthusiasm for our government (“I don’t mind paying taxes, because I went to public school.”). For a group of people headed to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, things were pretty insane. But insane in that kind of this-party-is-off-the-hook kind of way, not insane in the let’s-grab-our-guns-and-draw-Hitler-mustaches-on-things kind of way.

No, the scene on the train was completely controlled insanity – people politely squeezing into the crowd while saying, “Excuse me,” and shrugging their shoulders when the Metro train shut down due to overcrowding, forcing the mob to walk the last few miles to the Mall – together. Indeed, the rally seemed a group effort. Even on the way, one girl, fearing she was lost, broke down crying, leading half a dozen fellow rally-goers nearby to take her under their wing. But her frustration was understandable – what with an estimated 250,000 rally-goers in attendance – according to Comedy Central – it was easy to feel overwhelmed by the scene. (Especially since the city did not seem prepared for the high volume of foot and train traffic. See: aforementioned broken-down Metro.) And if I thought the train theatrics were a sight to behold, the Mall itself was even more of a circus: READ FULL STORY »

Oct 29 2010 03:35 PM ET

Rally to Restore Sanity in D.C. Who's going? (We are!)

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daily-show-jon-stewartAre you packing your windbreakers and gigantic Ahmadinejad heads, PopWatchers? If so, then you, like me, are probably preparing yourself for Saturday’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, hosted by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. (Or you’re a time traveler from the 1990s who once attended a not-so-kid-friendly papier-maché class.) So far, we don’t know too much about the goings-on at the rally — only purported guests from a National Park Service document, and the fact that there will, thankfully, be Porta-Pottys accessible — yet, that hasn’t kept over 200,000 supposedly (hopefully?) sane folks from RSVP-ing via the rally’s Facebook page.

So, are you one of them, PopWatchers? If so, I’ll see you there! If not, then be sure to check EW.com for our on-the-scene and telecast coverage. And for those of you wondering who else might attend, re-watch the Daily Show‘s final “Sanity Bus” segment from last night’s show. (Keep a look out for Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara!) Oh, and one more thing: Don’t be a douche. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 26 2010 04:05 PM ET

Jon Stewart voted most influential man

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Jon-StewartImage Credit: Frank Ockenfels 3/Comedy Central Record 20867981Jon Stewart was voted the “most influential man” in a recent poll, topping Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and Kanye West, who rounded out the top five. Stephen Colbert clocked in at number 11, Conan O’Brien at 12, Matt Weiner at 20, and Barack Obama came in 21st.

O…kay. I mean, I love Jon Stewart, and if this means more dudes are going to try to be politically aware, actively hilarious, and aggressively intelligent, then yay. I for one would like to see more of this influence, please!

But of course, this list isn’t really about influence: It’s about buzz. (And pageviews.) Is JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater an American hero? Of course. Is he influential? Well, only in the sense that we were all influenced to read stories about him. Everyone loves Drew “Breesus” Brees, but would he be so high on this list if he wasn’t wearing a Super Bowl ring? Probably not.

Who do you think is the most influential man, PopWatchers?

Oct 15 2010 09:11 AM ET

Oprah gives away tickets to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's rally

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Need to see Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s upcoming Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, but can’t quite make the logistics work? If you were in the audience for last night’s Daily Show, you were in luck.

First, Colbert dropped by to taunt his sanity-promoting rival. Then Oprah Winfrey herself showed up via video screen. She told everyone in the audience to look under their seats, just like she does on her show. They found tickets to Stewart and Colbert’s Oct. 30 event in Washington, D.C. “You’re going to the rally!” Winfrey cried. “You’re going to the rally! Everyone’s going to the rally!” (Of course, since the event is free, those tickets might or might not be worth anything. Maybe she’s covering transportation costs?)

Check out Oprah’s Daily Show appearance after the jump (she arrives a little after the 6:00 mark). Are you planning on attending the rally? Let us know in the comments. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 13 2010 01:08 PM ET

Stewart and Colbert rallies will be broadcast and streamed live

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rallytorestoresanityIf you were on the fence about traveling to D.C. on Oct. 30 for Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity and Stephen Colbert’s March to Keep Fear Alive, perhaps this will make the decision easier: The events will be streamed online and broadcast live by Comedy Central. A network rep tells EW that the specifics — such as when coverage will begin — are still being ironed out, but as previously announced by Stewart on-air, the actual rallies are set for noon to 3 p.m. ET. Stewart explained on last night’s show that they originally sold the events as rallies for people who are usually too busy to be able to go to rallies. “Well, funny story,” he said, “some very sensible people then said, ‘Uh, I’m too busy to go to your rally.’ Which is a great point.” Watch the clip below.

I think this is a brilliant move by the network, which could get decent ratings on a Saturday afternoon. (It’s a reason for those exhausted busybodies to relax on the sofa, and/or a nice thing to have on in the background as you’re putting the final touches on Halloween costumes). Will this news affect whether you attend the rallies in-person? Poll!

READ FULL STORY »

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