Longtime Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi attended the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend and turned down the once-in-a-lifetie opportunity to get his picture taken with Sarah Palin. Mandvi tells Vulture:
Somebody asked me if I would like to get my picture taken with Sarah Palin. She was standing a few feet away. She couldn't hear me, but [this guy] was like, "Do you want to get your picture taken with Sarah?" And I was like, "You know, I don't. I really don't."
Sheesh, what's this guy got against Sarah Palin?
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:
Last night, Daily Show corresponent Aasif Mandvi filed this report on the NCAA, which seems like quite an upstanding organization.
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 [...]
Here's deranged millionaire John Hodgman's first appearance on The Daily Show since November 2012. He probably only came back to show how cool he looks with slicked-back hair.
