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*CNN’s John King has taken to Twitter to further explain his erroneous report of an arrest in the Boston Marathon bombing. “Source of that description was a senior government official. And I asked, are you sure? But I’m responsible. What I am not is racist,” the anchor wrote Thursday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A [...]
*Actor-writer-comedian Larry Wilmore, currently the “senior black correspondent” for Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” has booked a series regular role on the NBC comedy pilot “Joe, Joe and Jane,” The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The semi-autobiographical multicamera comedy, from “New Girl” producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman centers on Joe Waxman, a conflict-avoidant children’s book [...]
*Karl Rove’s Election Night argument with Fox News’ own poll statisticians after they projected that Ohio would go for President Obama promptly made its way to Jon Stewart and his writers. “The Daily Show” host Wednesday night said the reporting and disappointed commentary that followed Obama’s victory “will, unlike us, live forever.” Watch below. The [...]
*First Lady Michelle Obama will appear as a guest for a second time on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” on Tuesday, May 29 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT to discuss her first-ever book, “American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America.” The book takes readers inside the White House [...]
*The elderly couple who said they were forced to leave their Florida home after Spike Lee re-tweeted their address as that of the man who shot Trayvon Martin has reached some kind of settlement with the filmmaker – details of which were not disclosed. The couple’s attorney, Matt Morgan, announced the settlement Thursday, as the [...]
*Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” put together a video of CNN’s Don Lemon expressing bewilderment at various on soft-news segments (stuff like how much it would cost to enroll in the fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry or a guy who dresses as a devil to illustrate just how hot it is outside). Below: [...]
*Several weeks after “The Daily Show’s” Jon Stewart first mocked him by using a stereotypical African-American voice, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has finally responded. In a YouTube video posted Wednesday from a speech Cain gave a day prior, he said he wasn’t aware that Stewart made fun of him during a segment on his [...]
*In response to Jon Stewart’s verbal beatdown of Fox News this week for making a big deal over Common’s invitation to the White House, Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly has officially thrown down the gauntlet. On yesterday’s “O’Reilly Factor,” the host had a message for Stewart: “I would like to debate you about the Common situation.” [...]
*Fox News devoted most of its Wednesday airtime discussing Common’s invitation to the Evening of Poetry event at the White House, which offered a ton of material for the folks at Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” During a visit to “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” Wednesday night, Sarah Palin said: “The judgment is [...]
*Tracy Morgan had some fun with potential presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign to convince everyone that President Barack Obama might not have been born in the US. During an appearance on “The Daily Show,” Morgan challenged Trump’s assertions by saying that he, in fact, has a copy of the president’s birth certificate. “I just want [...]
*“Dancing With the Stars” survivor Bristol Palin has offered an apology for comments she and her 16-year-old sister Willow used to attack a schoolmate on Facebook this week. Without mentioning the homophobic slurs specifically, Bristol posted to her Facebook page Wednesday night: “Willow and I shouldn’t have reacted to negative comments about our family. We [...]
*Jon Stewart made a mockery of Fox News yet again during Monday’s broadcast of “The Daily Show.” By now, everyone has heard President Obama’s analogy for a Republican takeover of Congress, saying it’s like they want the keys back after driving the car into a ditch. Obama says the GOP can come along for the [...]
*President Obama’s appearance on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” Wednesday night delivered 2.8 million viewers for Comedy Central, up from its average of 1.9, the New York Times reports. Of those 2.8 million, 1.7 million were in the coveted 18-49 demo. Stewart’s interview with Obama, the first time a sitting U.S. president has appeared on [...]
*Jon Stewart’s Comedy Central show may have a “senior black correspondent” in Larry Wilmore, but it’s the least diverse late night show on television, according to a graphic put together by an artist that examined the race and sex of guests compared to the general population over a six-week period this past August and [...]
*President Barack Obama is headed back to Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart, but will make his first appearance as president. White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer says Obama is taping an appearance on Oct. 27, just days before the Nov. 2 elections. On Oct. 30, Stewart will be in Washington for his “Rally [...]
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