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Hope you don't like black backdrops because that shit is gone. What isn't gone is B2F's signature brand of frankly mean irreverence and the ferns – there are still two ferns for the two people to sit betwixt. The clips are from the Between Two Ferns: A Fairytale of New York special that is airing before the Comedy Awards at 8:30 this Sunday, May 6th, on Comedy Central. Will Jon Stewart finally set Zach Galifianakis straight? Will we ever learn what's happening in Richard "Ricky" Branson's book (clip below)? How many times will Tina Fey call Zach fat? Three times? Twelve times!? Infinite times!!!!!!!?

Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart compared the fun level of Easter to the fun level of Passover, and, well, the chosen people did not do so well. Come on, Jews! Step up your invented traditions game!

Jon Stewart dug himself into some real collar-yanking awkwardness on Letterman last night. The interview starts out innocently enough with chit-chat about that handsome Mitt Romney, but once Jon Stewart asks if Letterman gives people college credit to hug his groin, things become a little uncomfortable. To his credit, Letterman acknowledges it, saying "I had a little trouble along those lines." Hoo boy.

The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)

In terms of modern poltical satire, there’s no better source than the double-punch of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. [...]

Well, Stephen Colbert's brief campaign for President of the United States of South Carolina has finally come to a close after Herman Cain shockingly didn't win the South Carolina primary. The good news is that Colbert can get his Super PAC back where it belongs once more, in his very own hand-knitted stars-and-stripes billfold. Unless interim supervisor Jon Stewart has anything to say about it. Dun dun dun! Read Stewart's message to PAC members below, in which he advises Colbert to "take a long walk off a short go-f%¢#-yourself." War of the Comedy Central fake news hosts!

How do you want How I Met Your Mother to end? I'm hoping it goes like this: "And that's how I met your brother. We saw him in the window of the orphanage. Oh! Have I been saying, 'mother' this whole time? Ooops. I just met her through friends. No, not those friends. Just friends from work. We got drinks a couple times and on our fourth date we went to that Italian place we took you two to the last time we were in the city. Anyway, your brother is adopted." Jason Segel has a slightly different idea and it may or may not involve machine guns (Hear [...]

The Comedy Awards, which tape in New York on April 28 and will air on Comedy Central on May 6, will honor Don Rickles with "Johnny Carson Award For Comedic Excellence." The award was to David Letterman by Bill Murray last year; Jon Stewart will be handing over to Mr. Rickles this year.

Ricky Gervais' Daily Show appearance last night starts out with a description of a panda as a "big wobbly spunk bomb," and things only get weirder from there. Until Jon calls him out on miming what's either wide-girth masturbation or human-panda rape, that is. It doesn't really weirder than that. That might be the apex of weirdness for us as a species.

Stephen Colbert was all ready to retrieve his Super PAC from Jon Stewart's avuncular, custodial arms when he was shocked to find those same arms greedily hoarding the money – and continuing to do so four days later. In an email to PAC members (below), Stewart admits he's gotten into a bit of a jam vis-à-vis liquid assets. "I didn't mean to spend so much. But you know how it is – you gold-plate one plate, and then you realize you've got to do all the dishes, or else they won't match." Tell me about it, Stewart. I just chipped my tooth on a gilded frying pan. [...]

After Stephen Colbert handed the reins of his Super PAC over to Jon Stewart — and rechristened it the The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC — it didn't take long for the PAC to release a new ad to show us what direction it would be going in. This new ad takes direct aim at Mittens Romney, taking him to task for murdering the very corporations he declared were "people, my friend." And they even got notable thespian John Lithgow to narrate it! You can see the ad above, and read the full Stewart-penned press release below.

"I don’t watch a lot of TV news. I don’t watch cable at all. I like The Daily Show, so sometimes if I’m home late at night, I’ll catch snippets of that. I think Jon Stewart’s brilliant. It’s amazing to me the degree to which he’s able to cut through a bunch of the nonsense – for young people in particular, where I think he ends up having more credibility than a lot of more conventional news programs do." — President Obama to Rolling Stone on what he watches on TV. Between this and his admission on Fallon last night that he likes Key and Peele I'm starting [...]