Jon Stewart surprised a lot of people in March when he decided to take the summer off from hosting The Daily Show to direct his first movie, a geopolitical drama called Rosewater. Longtime Daily Show correspondent John Oliver will be taking his place as host for the summer, and Comedy Central announced today the exact dates of the transition. Oliver will be hosting new episodes eight of the 12 weeks Stewart is gone for, and reruns will play for those extra four weeks. Oliver is set to take over Monday, June 10th. "Don’t worry, it’s still going to be everything that you love about The Daily Show, just [...]
Al Madrigal is a correspondent on The Daily Show, a longtime stand-up comedian, and the co-creator of the comedy podcast network All Things Comedy with Bill Burr. As the Daily Show’s “Latino correspondent,” Madrigal has covered issues like Arizona’s anti-immigrant legislation and Puerto Rican statehood, and he explores the subject matter of raising a family in a Mexican neighborhood in his new stand-up special Why Is The Rabbit Crying? – which will air this Friday on Comedy Central. We had a chance to catch up with Madrigal about his special, as well as what it’s like to work on The Daily Show during a time of such sobering headlines.
Last night, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report came back from their hurricane-imposed break, and the news team took to the streets to investigate the damage in lower and upper Manhattan. Thing look pretty much the same in both neighborhoods, except folks Downtown are wielding machetes, selling rats, and drinking urine, whereas John Oliver and his Uptown cronies are doing none of those things.
It's a classic story: A young British boy grows up dreaming of one day making it to the new world to open up a bagged pre-digested food company and then one day through the help of a deity-like man, he's able to achieve his dream. And that boy was Ringo Starr. Something similar happened to John Oliver also, it seems.
If this sneak peak is any indication, this season of JONYSUS is going to be crazy fast-paced, with Dana Gould screaming, Marc Maron waving his finger, Hannibal Buress doing a perfect Will Smith joke, Michael Ian Black being Michael Ian Black, and more! The new season premieres on July 20 at 11:00pm. Before that, Matt Braunger's one-hour special Shover Fighter is premiering on July 14 at 11:00pm. If the clip below is any indication, it's going to be sad [...]
In case you missed it, John Oliver did an excellent three-part report on gun control in Australia on The Daily Show that aired over the last couple weeks. Part 3, which aired Thursday, is embedded above and 1 and 2 below. It's a pretty strong argument for stricter gun control in the US, despite containing a man in a kangaroo suit.
Jon Stewart is taking his first-ever hiatus from The Daily Show this summer to direct his first-ever movie, Rosewater, according to Deadline. If that weren't unexpected enough, the movie is a drama about a journalist being tortured in Iran. Stewart's Daily Show hiatus will be twelve weeks long, and longtime correspondent John Oliver will take his place as host for eight weeks of new shows. Oliver getting the gig as Stewart's (temporary) replacement is definitely an indication that he's a frontrunner to succeed Stewart if he ever does leave The Daily Show to, say, direct movies full-time if this new enterprise pans out or to take over CBS's [...]
Getting a little rusty on your Constitutional Amendments? Well, The Daily Show correspondents are stepping in to kick that problem to the curb. The whole news team (aka "The Best Fucking News Team Ever) have teamed up to make this series of online videos, telling you everything you need to know about the Amendments. Here's the group explaining the right to bear arms (2nd Amendment) that should scare you into watching the rest of their videos, which are embedded below.
The best part of this video, other than all the other best parts, is Jimmy half-acting in background. He wavers between fake inspired faces and the blank slate that is customary for late night hosts. It made his "USA! USA! USA!" chant seem almost genuine. It also begged the question: "Why don’t we have more British people give our film and television halftime speeches?" Maybe he'd play a British soccer coach that some midwestern football coach met on a cruise and decided to bring in for some English riling up. Below watch John tell a "Mitt Romney walks into a diner" joke.
"I respect you Cage but get a grip," is the best sentence that anyone has ever said in English. This new segment offers a glimpse into what could've been. Regardless of your politics, you have to admit that no candidate would be better prepared to handle the pressure associated with telling Nicolas Cage fans that the government wrongfully murdered their favorite actor than the Her-Man. Hopefully, next time, Oliver is [...]
Future Daily Show fill-in host John Oliver filed the second part in his three-part series on gun control. All journalistic pieces on topics as frustrating as gun control should conclude with the reporter walking into the ocean.
The first part of John Oliver's gun control series, from last week, is embedded below:
The Daily Show sent correspondent John Oliver to sit down with the Secretary General of the (OIC) Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to fix America's relationship with the Muslim world once and for all. Who ever knew international relations were this easy?
It just so happens that the NFL referee strike is coinciding with a Daily Show correspondents strike, but, unlike the replacement refs, who aren't doing a great job (I'm not a sports fan, but I think I'm right on this), replacement correspondent Patrick Stewart is filling in for striker John Oliver and knocking it out of the park (different sport, I know). Patrick Stewart is such a superior John Oliver that I wouldn't be surprised if John Oliver awakes to find he's no longer needed on his podcast The Bugle or NBC's Community either.
But seriously, what the juice? This is Ben Schwartz in the part he was born to play: an excited teenager. Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja debuts next month on Disney XD, Disney's animated action-orientated kids network that you probably didn't know existed. The show is about Schwartz's character finding an 800-year-old ninja guide called "NinjaNomicon" (I'm not making this stuff up) and using it to fight bad guys and get through high school. The show also features Jim Rash, Tim Curry, Megan Mullally, and John Oliver, so let's all start making babies fast so we don't look weird watching it. Speaking of weird, watch the clip below that explains [...]
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