New Daily Show Host Trevor Noah’s Private Performance Before a Very Tough Crowd
Jul30

New Daily Show Host Trevor Noah’s Private Performance Before a Very Tough Crowd

All eyes were on Trevor Noah Tuesday night at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. But it wasn’t the comedian’s average stand-up gig. Noah, who in less than two months will take over the ultra high profile job as host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” from Jon Stewart, faced a very tough crowd—members of the Television Critics Assn. It was his first in-person appearance before the group, many of whom will go on to report on and dissect...

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JStew on KStew: Kick Her to the Curb
Aug14

JStew on KStew: Kick Her to the Curb

Jon Stewart doesn’t normally find himself smack dab in the middle of a massive tabloid scandal. But that’s exactly what happened when Robert Pattinson was scheduled to appear on “The Daily Show,” ostensibly to promote his new film “Cosmopolis.”   So what did Comedy Central do? Promote the hell out of it, of course. For anyone living under a rock, meaning anyone who hasn’t been in a...

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Stewart’s Late Night Sanchez Snack

Without intending to, Jon Stewart has become quite influential over CNN’s personnel decisions. Before Rick Sanchez, people may forget there was Tucker Carlson, whom Stewart made mincemeat of after a disastrous guest spot on “Crossfire”—a show that was canceled after Stewart lambasted its journalistic ethics. Stewart actually went a bit easy on Sanchez in a 10-minute opening segment on “The Daily Show” Monday night, Oct. 4, 2010, even...

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Jason Jones: Exposing Something Funny in Iran

“How did you make it out of there alive?,” I somewhat seriously and somewhat facetiously asked Daily Show senior investigative foreign correspondent Jason Jones and producer Tim Greenberg about their recent trip to Iran. Their mission, and they chose to accept it, thinking they were going to France, was to somehow find humor “Behind the Veil,” as they’re calling their multi-part series documenting their ten-day journey to the land of...

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