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Departures

Wyatt Cenac Is Filing His Last 'Daily Show' Report Next Month

by | November 27th, 2012

Longtime Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac will be leaving the series at the end of the year, Vulture reports. Cenac, who joined the show as both a correspondent and writer in 2008, will make his last appearance on December 13th, The Daily Show's last new episode of 2012. No word yet on what Wyatt Cenac's post-Daily Show plans are, but the guy's got a lot to keep him busy. Cenac was developing his own Comedy Central series this past year, an 80s-style public affairs show he created and hosted, but the network passed on the project. Since then, he's been working on his stand-up career, appeared in Mike [...]

Interviews

Stephen Colbert Hammers Seth Meyers On The Irresponsibility of Fake News

by | November 9th, 2011

Seth Meyers rolled by The Colbert Report last night and Colbert cut right to the bone! No pussyfooting around. He asked straight-up if Seth feels any remorse for young people's reliance on Weekend Update's "fake news," rather than "mainstream straight news options" like The Colbert Report. Colbert went on to wonder aloud – just speculating, of course – why he's never been asked to host SNL. He's right that the two shows really don't cross paths that much, so the idea of Colbert as a host sounds incredibly fun but also a tiny bit strange. Like eating pop rocks or sitting in a deep-tissue massage chair.

Politics

Leader of the Free World to Return to Basic Cable Comedy Show

by | October 12th, 2012

In the midst of his reelection campaign, President Obama will be stopping by The Daily Show on Thursday, October 18th, marking the commander-in-chief's seventh appearance on the fake news program.  He did the show last October when The Daily Show was filming in Washington. Jon Stewart recently criticized Obama for appearing on The View, so they'll have that to talk about, as well as Stewart probably chastising the President appearing on his show.

Oh Come On

Nation's Gullible Continue Being Alarmed by Onion Headlines

by | February 28th, 2012

"Why r ppl not RT this surely they cannot be that stupid!" writes Michael Robinson on Twitter, in response to this video about the CIA using Facebook via their "Overlord" Mark Zuckerberg. But they can be that stupid, Michael. They can. As evidenced by the fact that tons of people are flipping out over the video even though it's an Onion story from last March. C'mon, humans. We're better than this.

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