It was assumed that not all ticket holders would get in. The Daily Show always overtickets, and I was turned away once myself a few years ago. It happens. But none of us expected what happened next.
This sudden embracing of all things bipartisan is curious, especially from a party that has been so consistently partisan for the past decade. Where were the cries for inclusion during the Bush reign?
The Republicans are on a dangerous mission to kill real comedy in America. They use words and deeds that are so outlandish that they are obliterating the line between fiction and non-fiction.
I've had a bunch of mail on my recent columns pertaining to the return of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to the airwaves. They tend to fall into one...
"The collapse was a tsunami, and all of us and the American dream had been on the beach, eyes closed, chairs angled at the sun, too close to the water to get away."
Last week a mix of water and sanitation experts gathered for World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden to mull over the world's biggest public health crisis. The problem is that not enough people paid attention.
Do you think that a brown, Muslim comedian avoids facing the political nature of his very being as a performer in post-9/11 America? Can you transcend this by just playing any role by avoiding it?
Obama identified a goal, came up with a plan to attain that goal, and followed it. Not a bad thing for an administration to do, no? And what of McCain's campaign? The only continuity was the consistent lack of it.
Make no mistake, FOX is willing to do whatever it takes to advance their conservative agenda. They will lie, smear, and distort to their hearts' content.
If -- as the New York Times soberly reported -- "straight news programs cannot" tackle the "big issues of the day" while "speaking truth to power," we should ask a key question: Why not?
Tonight I am going on Jon Stewart to talk about my new book. While he has kept us laughing these past eight years, I have spent all my time trying to understand how the American system lost its way.
Pundits missed the two best kept secrets about Appalachia: it is far from homogeneous and has been a burning ground of change for the past 250 years.
The lesson of Rob Kutner's book on the Apocalypse is simple, to show the positive side of post-devastation: "The world coming to an end isn't the end of the world."
As the economy collapses and political scandals keep flaring up like bad rashes, where should America turn for answers? What's going to keep us from falling apart? The answer: laughter.
To add to the confusion, Dems have a surfeit of acceptably PC options to choose among, with a white woman, a black man, and, according to Ann Coulter, a gay man.
Question: Is Chris Matthews the Michael Scott of political talk show hosts? And if so, does that make MSNBC the Dunder Mifflin of cable news? Rememb...
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you know, I love the Daily Show and watch it on a regular basis, but I actually found this one offensive.
People are being held hostage, and I suppose since they aren't American, it doesn't hit home with us, but I thought this one was really inappropriate.
After my initial shock, I switched the channel away.
Just_Toughen_Up_Joe
Pirates by their very nature are going to operate in areas that are lucritive. That narrows the area of operation, so more resorces could be allocated in those areas. You can effectively fight them on the water, history shows this. It is a two fronted war, that actually can be won and the sea is the key.
Dance, Englishman, dance!
It's pretty straightforward Daily Show stuff - presenting an extremely desperate situation in a silly context. It's how a lot of young people manage to stomach receiving actual world news through this venue.
Admit it - most of you found out more about the Somalian piracy situation from watching this clip than from the NYT article, didn't you? I checked out both, and this one was factually more informative, and vastly more fun.