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Daily Show Claims Electoral College Exists to Protect Slavery

October 3rd, 2024 1:12 PM

Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb traveled over to Comedy Central and The Daily Show on Wednesday to promote his new PBS documentary on the Electoral College. As Donald Trump may win the election despite losing the popular vote, Cobb and weekly host Michael Kosta probably felt it was important to delegitimize such a possible outcome.

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Daily Show: GOP Guts Women's Rights, Latinos For Trump Betray Latinos

October 2nd, 2024 3:08 PM

Michael Kosta had the distinction of being in the anchor seat for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show after Tuesday’s vice presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz. Kosta claimed that the debate proves that Republicans only favor diversity when it comes to whether “women should have rights,” while MSNBC’s Paola Ramos continued her book tour and implied that Latinos who support…

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Stewart, Coates Compare Israel To Slave Traders

October 1st, 2024 10:13 AM

With only one week to go until the first anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart thought it would be a good idea to welcome far-left author Ta-Nehisi Coates to Monday’s taping of The Daily Show to promote his new book and compare the besieged nation to slave owners and traders.

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Daily Show Hypes Europeans Telling America 'F***** Up' We Are

September 27th, 2024 10:10 AM

Actress and comedian Leslie Jones stopped by Comedy Central and The Daily Show on Thursday to deliver a monologue about how “[bleep] up” things are in America and how it is so obvious that even Europeans can see it.

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Ahead Of Debate, Daily Show Promotes Walz's 'Sinister Niceness'

September 25th, 2024 12:52 PM

With the vice presidential debate a week away, it was Tim Walz’s turn to get Comedy Central’s The Daily Show to produce a humorous look at his life story. However, instead of looking for jokes in Walz’s life or policies, The Daily Show chose to create a satirical ad mocking Republicans for not falling in love with him and his "sinister niceness."

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After 11 Months Of Rocket Fire, Stewart Asks 'What Did Lebanon Do?'

September 24th, 2024 12:55 PM

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart is not a military or foreign policy genius, but he does play on TV. After 11 months of rocket fire from Hezbollah that has seen 60,000 Israelis become refugees in their own country, Israel has started to hit Hezbollah hard in recent days, leading Stewart to ask, “What did Lebanon do?” on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show.

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The Not-So-'Outstanding' Emmy Comedy Show Winners

September 17th, 2024 12:10 PM

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver came away with Emmy Awards on Sunday for most outstanding talk series and scripted variety show, respectively, for the year spanning June 1, 2023, through May 31, 2024. However, Hollywood’s definition of what makes “outstanding” comedy appears to be different than most people's, as evidenced by the…

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Daily Show Rants That GOP Wants Only White People To Vote

September 13th, 2024 10:00 AM

John Leguizamo is the kind of person who thinks political comedy is just ranting at someone with excessive amounts of swear words. On Thursday, Leguizamo stopped by Comedy Central and The Daily Show to claim that Republicans only want white people to vote by labeling GOP-backed election laws “bullshit.”

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'Holy ****, She Crushed That': Comedians Hail Harris After Debate

September 11th, 2024 10:46 AM

Three of the five regular late night comedy programs were able to react to Tuesday’s debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris and all agreed that Harris was the big winner as they attacked Trump for spreading falsehoods while covering for the falsehoods told by Harris and the ABC moderators.

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Stewart Hearts Harris: 'Doesn't Faintly Resemble The Caricature'

August 23rd, 2024 2:22 PM

Jon Stewart wrapped up The Daily Show’s week of coverage of the Democratic National Convention with a live episode on Comedy Central on Thursday where he promoted the idea that Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech proves “she doesn’t faintly resemble the caricature that's been painted.” Later in the program, actor Jason Bateman would narrate a promo video for Harris, where he argued she…

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Hyping Harris: Late Night Comedy's DNC Coverage Goes Soft

August 23rd, 2024 12:08 PM

For the late night comedy shows, the week of the Democratic National Convention provides the hosts with an opportunity to prove that they can make fun of Democrats in the same way they attack Republicans. However, a new MRC study shows they failed to do so this past week. In terms of quantity, the comedians hold 113 fewer jokes than they did during the RNC and 60 fewer jokes about Kamala…

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Daily Show Asks Dem To Make Sense of Vance's 'Anti-Woman Rhetoric'

August 21st, 2024 12:55 PM

The Daily Show’s temp host of the night, Desi Lydic, sought Democratic Rep. Lauren Underwood’s help on Tuesday’s show from Chicago and night two of the Democratic National Convention as she tried to make sense of GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s supposed “anti-woman rhetoric.”

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'Fearful' Daily Show Implores Whitmer To Have A Strategy Versus Trump

August 20th, 2024 12:30 PM

A self-described “fearful” Michael Kosta welcomed Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to Monday’s edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central on night one of the Democratic National Convention from Chicago to implore her and other Democrats to have a long-term strategy against Donald Trump.

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Daily Show Thankful Harris, Not Haley, May Be First Woman President

August 16th, 2024 10:00 AM

On Thursday, Comedy Central’s Desi Lydic welcomed New York Magazine writer-at-large Rebecca Traister and Rutgers Prof. Brittney Cooper to The Daily Show to gush over Kamala Harris and breathe a sigh of relief that she, and not Republican Nikki Haley, may be the first female president.