Stewart gives a post-election analysis to âCBS This Morningâ co-host Charlie Rose Wednesday and talks about his new book about the more than 16 years he spent at the Comedy Central program. âWe just went through an election,â Rose said. âWhat?â Stewart joked, laughing. âYes. Your reaction to this election? Surprise?â Rose asked. âIn surprise⊅
âAre you eligible to run if youâre a man-baby, or a baby-man?â Stewart asked David Axelrod during a live taping of Axelrodâs podcast in Chicago. âI donât know if theyâre referred to as man-baby Americans. He is a man-baby. He has the physical countenance of a man and a babyâs temperament and hands.â Stewart recalled…
Trevor Noah, 31-year-old South African comedian is replacing Jon Stewart as host of “The Daily Show,” starting Monday night. “The joke we have in the building is that I’m the Boy King with a lot of responsibility,” he says, “but with a lot of great people who can guide me.” “I’m having nightmares,” Noah told…
From Steve Carell, Trevor Noah to Stephen Colbert, a Springsteen performance, and dick jokes in Jon Stewartâs farewell episode as Daily Show host Thursday night. There was a big group hug of former cast members. There were taped shoutouts to the âjackassâ and âsmartassâ Stewart from big-name politicos. And while nemesis Roger Ailes and Fox…
âI feel like what weâve built here is a monument to evisceration,â Stewart said, adding, âIf youâre still walking around with a belly full of viscera, know this: we didnât forget you. Weâll put it all up on the web.â After showing a plethora of headlines praising him for âeviscerating,â âpummelingâ or âcrushingâ the showâs…
Jon Stewart found it amusing tonight that a few years ago, the RNC acknowledged the GOP needed to be more inclusive and not so out-of-touch, but itâs Donald Trump whoâs leading the polls. Because if the lesson from 2012, Stewart observed was to show the GOP isnât ârich, out-of-touch white men who were alienating Latinos…
Jon Stewart commented on the media furor over his âsecretâ meetings with President Obama in the White House. âIt was a roundtable meeting with the President, Elvis â still alive â Minister [Louis] Farrakhan, and the Area 51 alien,â Stewart quipped. âWe opened with the traditional Saul Alinsky prayer, sucked on the blood of the…
Larry Wilmore wants to know what is like for Jon Stewart and President Obama heading to the end of their jobs. Larry said Obamaâs recent trip to Kenya, where some conspiracy theorists believe the president was born, shows he simply âdonât give a f*ck.â Stewart, whose iconic 17-year run as host of âThe Daily Showâ…
Stewart answered some questions submitted online â with correspondents Jordan Klepper and Hasan Minhaj there to âcoaxâ him into answering truthfully. âIf I wanted jokes, I wouldâve asked someone funnier,â Minhaj snarked after Stewart tried to avoid a question on what he scribbles on his scripts during the show. In response, Klepper subjected the audience…
Jon Stewart literally let Mike Huckabeeâs history of over-the-top rhetoric do all the talking. Stewart kicked off his silent segment by replaying Huckabeeâs accusation that a nuclear agreement between the US and Iran would send Israel to the âdoor of the oven,â a deliberate reference to the Holocaust.
Jon Stewart tried to move on from Donald Trump to more important issues because, he said, âMuch like incessant masturbation, eventually you feel a deep sense of shame. Not enough to stop you from doing it entirely, but enough to slow you down a bit.â Stewart did move on to the Iran deal and how…
President Barack Obama joke with Stewart in his final interview about him departing âI canât believe youâre leaving before me. Iâm going to issue an executive order,â âJon Stewart cannot leave the show. Itâs being challenged in the courts.â The president stopped by to pitch the Iran nuclear deal while also sharing his thoughts on…
âYou donât have that much time to take away Americansâ guns, declare martial law, and put hardworking Americans in FEMA camps,â Stewart joke with Obama. âIf youâre gonna do that, youâd better get started.â Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Stewart asked Obama if the media is âfocused on the wrong thingsâ or âdemanding too much of you.â Obama admitted there are some media outlets that âget on my nerves,â but the real problem with the media is that âit gets distracted by shiny objects.â They also discussed a rebuilding a sense of shared sacrifice…
Jon Stewart is back and didn’t waste any time going after Donald Trump “the patron saint of topical comedians who are just running out the clockâ, referring to his attack on John McCainâs military service. Stewart asked, âWhat the fuck is wrong with him?â He explained that calling someone a war hero doesnât really count…
âIt is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you donât get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo,â Stewart explained. âItâs a monkey. Itâs what they do. In some ways, itâs on you for watching. What does get me angry…
Billy Chasen has created an endearing time-lapse video that splices together talking head shots of the host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart over the yearsâincluding those times John Oliver ran the desk. Iâve been watching The Daily Show ever since Jon Stewart took over for Craig Kilborn and I declared, âthisâll never work!â…
Jon Stewart said of Donald Trump that âHeâs great for the Republicans,â âThe more he talks, the more he appears on television, the more he makes the other Republicansâ crazy seem kind of reasonable by comparison.â For a few seconds, though, Stewart was worried; even though Trump launched his campaign last week, he did not…
Jon Stewart dash Fox News and Sean Hannity for accusing liberals of exhibiting a âsicknessâ in trying to politicize last weekâs terrorist attack in Charleston. âYes. Itâs a sickness, this rush to use tragedy to advance your narrative,â Stewart said, turning to a shot of Hannity. âCombine that with an inability for self-examination, an almost…
Jon Stewart couldnât deal with how impossibly âboringâ the Trans-Pacific Partnership is, so to get through it, he had to inject some raw, unfiltered Donald Trump nonsense (still on a high from last night). Stewart tried to break down the trade agreement and how Congress is fighting over whether to give President Obama fast-track authority…
“It’s especially brave of Caitlyn Jenner to do this, because we all know the media. They’re awful. And now we’re going to have to listen to a lot of people saying awful things about this,” Jon said on The Daily Show Tuesday. In the first set of clips, however, pundits called Caitlyn’s coming out “courageous”…
Jon Stewart tears down Senator Lindsey Graham who announces he is running for president in Central, South Carolina. Graham will become the ninth Republican to enter the 2016 presidential race.
Last night Jon Stewart went after FIFA over the corrupt behavior its top officials have been indicted on. âFinally,â Stewart said, âsoccer is getting its perp walk.â He made some soccer jokes, asked what the hell took so long for people to finally get indicted, and even jokingly asked if âtheir balls were underinflated.â But…
âIt seems like gay marriage looms a lot larger in the minds of certain conservatives than it does in the Bible,â Stewart told the GOP presidential candidate. âAnd the only thing I would say is, donât they sell cakes to sinners all the time, adulterers?â Stewart pointed out that if Paul were to enter a…
âHow f*cking removed from reality is Foxâs perception of their own coverage on poverty? The main defender of your networkâs attitude towards those in poverty is the main offender,â Stewart said âHe does segments that would make Ebenezer Scrooge go, âHey, take it easy, these are people weâre talking about.’â Jon Stewart said to Fox…
Jon Stewart beat 2016 candidates, from Hillary Clinton to Jeb Bush on the Latinos outreach. Stewart talk with correspondent Al Madrigal about the matter, and he admitted he wasnât terribly impressed with Clintonâs, especially considering empty promises made from a certain 2008 Democratic presidential candidate about immigration reform. Madrigal also mocked Ted Cruz and Marco…
Sanjay Gupta used to be against weed, and now, with the release of Weed 3 on CNN, Dr. Gupta seems to be trying to become the new hero for stoners, and medical marijuana proponents alike. I think it’s about time we named some strain of ganja after Dr. Gupta. While you think of a name,…
The Guardian released an extensive profile of Jon Stewart that includes several quotes indicating why he decided to ride off into the sunset. What seems to be the main reason for his departure? As yet another election rolls around, itâs time to find something new. âIâd covered an election four times, and it didnât appear…
Jon Stewart slam the media for its obsession over Hillary Clintonâs so-called âScooby vanâ in Iowa. âWhat are we doing here, people?!â Stewart lamented, just one day after he lampooned the very same media for their fixation on Clintonâs Chipotle visit. Even if those media folks were able to catch up to Clinton, Stewart said,…
Comedy Central has picked 31-year-old South African comedian Trevor Noah to replace Jon Stewart when he ends his 16-year run on âThe Daily Show.â Reached on tour, Noah, who has only appeared on the show three times, said âYou donât believe it for the first few hours.â
