Jon Stewart

Last night on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the host did a segment about President-elect Obama's Lincoln-esque 'Team of Rivals' (good topic!), in which he stitched together footage of pundits commenting on the prospect of a Hillary Clinton cabinet appointment.

One of the clips was of ABC News' Sam Donaldson saying, "It's better to have them inside the tent peeing out, then outside the tent peeing in."

This line got a huge laugh from Mr. Stewart's presumably 20- and 30-something studio audience. The host then pretended to call his assistant and say, "Yeah, Carol? It's Mr. S. Cancel this weekend's camping trip Sam Donaldson."  read more »

Last night, Bill O'Reilly of Fox News appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. There, Jon Stewart admitted that on the heels of President-elect Barack Obama's victory, he was worried for Mr. O'Reilly.

"I'm an anarchist," said Mr. O'Reilly.

To soothe him, Mr. Stewart gave the anchor a teddy bear and some hot cocoa.

Before they started "loading people in" to Comedy Central's "Indecision 2008" special with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, 200 people were lined up outside. Network folks were passing out water and popcorn. The first in line, Siobhan McCarthy, 25, and Valerie Addonizio, 25, had set up shop at 2:45 in the afternoon. Ms. McCarthy and her sister, Fiona, 23, an investment banker, was there too, and they went to the same high school as Mr. Colbert's kids, at Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey. Ms. Addonizio is also from the Garden State. Their friend Asher Kaboph, 24, is a grad student at MIT.  read more »

Last night William Kristol, erstwhile brain to Vice President Dan Quayle, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's most ardent admirer, and—when he has some time—editor of The Weekly Standard and once-weekly columnist for The New York Times, appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night.

Mr. Kristol mostly just laughed at his own jokes and squeaked, but he did have a semi-serious point to make about this highly contentious campaign: "It's not a psychodrama; it's just an election." (Just an election. Don't we all feel silly now.)

The editor and columnist maintained that on Election Day there will be an "upset" and that Republican nominee John McCain and Governor Palin will "win huge." (The audience loved that.) Mr. Stewart called that outcome "heartbreaking"; Mr. Kristol countered that it would be "inspiring."

Strangely, Mr. Kristol managed to take a shot at his own paper, telling his host, "You're reading The New York Times too much, Jon." As Mr. Stewart attempted to point out that Mr. Kristol sort of writes for that paper, his guest cut in, "Oh, it's a very fine newspaper." Adding, "On one day of the week."  read more »

How do you cap off a multi-network prime-time special watched by millions? Well, if you're Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, you do a victory lap on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Senator Obama appeared on the Comedy Central show via satellite from Sunrise, Florida to tell Mr. Stewart, "I'm doing great... I think we've got a good shot at this thing."

A few of the Senator's jokes fell flat—a story about his daughter worrying that his "infomercial" will preempt her shows kinda went nowhere—but he showed good humor when he told Mr. Stewart that "There's a certain segment of hardcore Sean Hannity fans that probably wouldn't want to go have a beer with me."

He also deadpanned that he's been "going through therapy" to help him decide whom to vote for on election day.

NBC's Tom Brokaw appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night.

The droll former anchorman made a number of jokes at his own expense and mocked his post-retirement ubiquity on both NBC and MSNBC—which includes acting as interim host of Meet the Press and moderating a presidential debate—by saying, "Medicare payments are dropping off so I've got to do what I can to make them up."

On a more serious note, Mr. Brokaw said, "I had hoped that I would go down into a lower gear, but we lost Tim [Russert], obviously a great personal loss, as well as a great loss for the organization. So I stepped up in Meet the Press. I've always loved doing politics."

Last night, Wall Street Journalist columnist and former presidential speech writer Peggy Noonan appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to talk about the elections and plug her new book, Patriotic Grace.  read more »

Yesterday Media Mob introduced readers to Cristi Adkins, the supposed Hillary Clinton supporter who managed to get her virulent anti-Barack Obama views aired on MSNBC's Hardball and Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.

Little did we know that Ms. Adkins is at the center of several investigative campaigns into her motives, her funding,and her background. Several bloggers and media outlets are trying to determine if Ms. Adkins is more than just an angry Clinton supporter who found her way onto the national stage. Some are even wondering if Ms. Adkins is a Republican dirty tricks operative.

According to the Huffington Post's Off the Bus writer  read more »

 

So last night I was cast as "Angry White Male #3" on The Daily Show.

It was during one of the montage segments they do all the time: Jon Stewart introduces the major news story of the day and then shows several clips of hysterical talking heads from various cable news channels all saying the same hysterical things. Then they cut back to a horrified and smugly amused Stewart.  read more »

In case you didn't see it last night, here's Hillary Clinton's latest Daily Show appearance, where Jon Stewart asks her whether, if her campaign had earned 11 straight victories, they would be asking Bar  read more »

Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report are set to return to Comedy Central, albeit without their writers, who remain out on strike.

And without certain guests, such as Katrina vanden Heuvel and Naomi Klein who recently turned down invitations to appear on the show.

Those authors, actors, and politicians who do accept invitations to be on the shows on Monday will be forced to cross a picket line.  read more »

Now we can truly witness how clever Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are on their cable news satire shows. They'll be returning to their daily recordings on Jan. 7. The announcement arrives just days after their network predecessors announced their return to late-night on Jan. 2.

The New York Times reports:  read more »

There may be no end in sight to the writers strike, but the late-night shows could soon be back on the air anyway.

The Writers Guild said over the weekend that it would be willing to sign individual agreements with media companies, and the independent company that owns The Late Show with David Letterman said it plans to take advantage of that move to work towards a deal, according to several reports.  read more »

On the night of Nov. 16, Jon Stewart gave a rare stand-up performance at the grand opening of the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas. His act was introduced by Planet Hollywood founder Sylvester Stallone ("I would like to introduce the man who taught me how to do one armed pushups,") and was followed by a blues concert by another Planet Hollywood founder Bruce Willis. ("I got to get out that window, I'm too young to die," he sang.)

In between the two action stars, Stewart, dressed casually and free to curse, observed that the junk-cluttered walls of the theater, which is usually the site of the all-things-bangable percussion spectacle "Stomp," looked like they were made out of a magnet.

He riffed on O.J. Simpson's arrest for armed robbery, and joked that since O.J. got off for murder last time, he was probably now thinking to himself, "I should have killed those motherfuckers."  read more »

Ouch!

TV Decoder reports that the writers' strike has already delivered a nasty lashing to Comedy Central’s smirk-some duo, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

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So that thing you heard about Jon Stewart covering the salaries of all his striking writers for the next two weeks. Turns out, not so much.

Stewart may be a mensch, but he's not Mother Teresa.

Somehow we missed the premiere of the Daft Punk’s “Harder Better Faster Stronger” video, which was shot by more than 250 fans at their Coney Island concert on Aug. 9 with handheld cameras. Where’s my glowstick?

Kanye West will unleash his endless wisdom in book form! You can pre-order it already.

Culturegrrl says Jon Stewart’s art humor is irresponsible. How quaint.

Chris Brown, the youngin who sang that “Run It” club hit a couple years ago, says he switched from making music to starring in movies so he can prove he can sing.

Godspell is holding casting calls! You have two weeks to “learn your lessons well,” kids.

You know those people who think they know everything because they watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart?

Maybe they do!

The Pew Research Center recently surveyed viewers of The Daily Show, among some 1,500 subjects, and concluded they were the most knowledgeable audience when it comes to the things the makers of the survey find out about by reading the news the same time Mr. Stewart’s writers do.  read more »

Lizz Winstead was having brunch in the Noho Star on Sunday afternoon, Jan.  read more »

My commenters below are right: the prejudices that Sacha Baron Cohen stokes in Borat are conventional ones, and the film is a form of Red-State blackface. All the juice in his journey happens between the coasts. When he's on the coasts, the jokes feel forced. In the interior the ignorant peasantry are revealed.

It's minstrelsy because Cohen has taken on the the guise of a minority he secretly loathes in order to put them down.

Why did I write my last post on Borat then? Well, I find SBC screamingly funny in this Lenny Bruceish way. And I fell for the message—pogroms in America—because it was so well coded, coated by humor; and I think I was vulnerable to its orthodoxy. I wonder if I see it again if I'll feel the same. I think not; that I'm likely to see the prejudice plainly, and on behalf of fundamentalists, smalltowners and rodeo audiences, my fellow Americans, feel somewhat offended... (in the same way I'm appalled when Larry David and Jon Stewart talk about pogroms as a real possibility here). Thanks for the smart comments.

Here, Howard Dean explains why he won't appear on television alongside the RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, basically using the argument Jon Stewart used to deconstruct Crossfire.

-- Azi Paybarah

Since The Daily Show with Jon Stewart doesn't quite spoof New York politics often enough, Room 8 launched a daily video segment called Lunch Box, featuring some guy named Adam Green.

Green sounds like an equal offender and gets the tone of most of the conversations I imagine are taking place in a lot of other newsrooms.

First, Green (no relation to Mark) compared Andrew Cuomo's endorsement by Charlie King and the New York Post to his own endorsement of a chocolate doughnut. "It stood up to whitey the other day in the projects. It got moxie."

Then, when discussing Jonathan Tasin's latest video ads, Green says:

"We're sorry you don't have the coffers to run a regular promo on the radio, but this little bit of craziness is one crotch-kick away from being the all-time state university frat drinking game."

The premiere episode is here.

-- Azi Paybarah

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When talk-show host Kelly Ripa, and her husband Mark Consuelos purchased a Soho duplex in the same building they already owned a full-floor loft, they needed to make decision that only the wealthy entertain: Do we really need a triplex?

Instead, they put the 5,000-square-foot loft, just below their new duplex, on the market for $7.5 million last October. (The couple had purchased it for only $2.8 million in 2002).  read more »

And it didn't take long to find a buyer.

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You know the drill. Every year it starts a little bit early: the press releases, the articles, the low level buzz—mostly amid the publicists who write the press releases and the reporters who dutifully recap them. Yes, it's Time's 'Person of Year' time again, and if the consensus mongers are to be believed, this year's 'winner' might be that bitch who's been ruining our lives since the new year.

No, not Paris Hilton: 'Mother Nature.'

But do we really want Mother Nature to win? So many past 'Person of the Year' recipients take an immediate turn south as soon as they win: What if the same fate befalls Mother Nature?

We'll selectively recap the last 78 years, accentuating the negative and eliminating the positive and you can decide for yourself:  read more »

· 2004: George W. Bush (Current approval rating: 37%.) · 2003: The American Soldier (American military deaths since Bush's May 1, 2003 "Mission Accomplished" speech: 1,935.) · 1994: Pope John Paul II (Deceased. Portrayed by Jon Voight.) · 1980: Ronald Reagan (Deceased. Portrayed by James Brolin.) · 1975: American Women (Alito boasted of his '85 work against abortion; Maureen Dowd's new book won't help her pick up guys.) · 1972: Nixon and Kissinger (Former: Impeached. Resigned in disgrace. Deceased. Portrayed in an Oliver Stone movie. Latter: Gently mocked by Jon Stewart.) · 1969: The Middle Americans (Post Election U.S. Map; What's the Matter with Kansas?) · 1963: Martin Luther King, Jr. (Assassinated.) · 1961: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Assassinated.) · 1952: Elizabeth II (Queen is target for al-Qaida, security sources confirm.) · 1941/1949: Winston Churchill (Deceased. Is Bush the Churchill of the 21st Century?) · 1939/ 1942: Joseph Stalin (Deceased. Posthumously condemned by Martin Amis.) · 1938: Adolf Hitler (Suicide.) · 1935: Haile Selassie (Deceased. Curiously beloved by fraternity members.) · 1927: Charles Lindbergh (Deceased. Son kidnapped; Philip Roth foil.) —Matt Haber

The Magazine Publishers' Association has decided it's not in its best interest, after all, to get mad at a comedian for cracking jokes. According to an MPA spokesperson, the group will not be trying, as rumored, to recoup comic-cum-media critic Jon Stewart's reported $150,000 appearance fee after Stewart made fun of editors and the industry at last week's "Laughing Matters: Magazines Celebrate Humor" panel.

"We didn't contact lawyers," said Howard Polskin, the MPA's vice president of communications. "It's behind us; we're moving on."

In front of 1,000-plus magazine-industry folks at Lincoln Center, Stewart had given the four editors on the dais—Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter, Cosmopolitan's Kate White, Time's Jim Kelly and Men's Health's David Zinczenko—a barbed, nearly Tucker Carlson-class working over. Among the highlights: "I don't consider print media as relevant" and "I didn't say you don't have your place; it's at the children's table."

That left the association--which has been campaigning tirelessly on the theme that people will still be reading (and, yes, sir, advertising in!) the extremely relevant format of ink on glossy paper for decades and decades and decades into the future--gagging on the toy in its Happy Meal. But with Stewart having been paid in advance, the MPA's most attractive option apparently was to swallow hard and stop fussing.  read more »

--Gabriel Sherman

Like usual, I been a-eyein’ them newspapers and them TV news programs, and I’m a-here to  read more »

Like usual, I been a-eyein’ them newspapers and them TV news programs, and I’m a-here to tell ye  read more »

Is comedian Jon Stewart having second thoughts about parting with his West Village apartment? The Observer reported in mid-May that the Daily Show anchor grabbed a 6,000-square-foot Tribeca loft for $5.8 million, through a corporate entity.

Shortly after that, he put his 2,240-square-foot, West Village pad on the market with Prudential Douglas Elliman for $3.995 million--if he got it, that'd be almost $1.4 million more than he paid for it in April 2002.

When initially listed, the apartment’s description stated that it could not be shown until May 23. (It takes time to pack up all those Emmys).

But recently, according to the company’s website, the owner’s request has now emphatically changed to the following: "Cannot be shown until further notice."  read more »

Presumably, Mr. Stewart will have to start showing his former home, unless he desires to have a pied-à -terre less than two miles away.

- Michael Calderone

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