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    March 22, 2012

    Alonzo Bodden

    Brea Improv

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    February 16, 2012
  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Aasif Mandvi, Daily Show Correspondent, Coming to Anaheim to Scoop up CAIR Award

    ​The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) of Greater Los Angeles, which is based in Anaheim, will bestow its 2011 Courage in Media Award to Indian-British actor and comedian Aasif Hakim Mandviwal.He's better known as Aasif Mandvi, the hilarious correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stew ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 22, 2011

    Am I Supporting the Mexican Drug Cartels If I Smoke Pot?

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] And why don't more Mexis appear on television news talk shows?

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Archers of Loaf to Tour

    ​North Carolina's 1990s noise rockers Archers of Loaf are touring, marking the band's first tour since 1998. The band saw significant airplay on alternative radio, and was perhaps best known in indie circles for their 1993 debut album Icky Mettle, which featured fuzzy, guitar-driven rock with squa ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2011

    Boxcar 7

    PCH Lounge

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Watch the Strokes on Letterman!

    ​"Are you alright?" David Letterman asked the Strokes lead singer Julian Casablancas after they performed "Taken for a Fool." He seemed more than alright; the Strokes are back! "Taken for a Fool" is from their latest album, Angles. Watch the performance after the jump.

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Kevin MacDonald, Long Beach State Hate Professor, Claims Jews are Blocking Interview He Did With The Daily Show From Airing

    ​It's been a couple of months since we last paid much attention to Kevin MacDonald, the Long Beach State psychology professor who's an Irvine resident and a bigwig at the white-power, terrorist-inspired American Third Position Party. So we missed his January essay on the white-supremacist Vdare.co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    [UPDATED With Their Performance] Local Natives on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Tonight!

    ​UPDATE, 9 A.M. Jan. 6: Watch the band perform "Wide Eyes" from their debut album, Gorilla Manor. You can buy the album here.ORIGINAL POST, 9 A.M. Jan. 4: It's no surprise that Local Natives are starting off 2011 with even more continued success: The originally Orange-County-based band are pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    The Daily Show on San Francisco's McDonald's Happy Meal® Toy Ban

    The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cSan Francisco's Happy Meal Banwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire Blog</a>The Daily Show on FacebookBelieve or not, gals and germs, there are movements afoot in Orange County to try to ban fast-food chains ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 16, 2010
  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Jack White Releases Conan O'Brien Album and Single!

    ​How'd we miss this?Last week the Hollywood Reporter said that Conan O'Brien is releasing two albums prior to  launching his new TBS talk show. They actually got it wrong, says our sister pub LA Weekly--Jack White's label, Third Man Records, will actually be "releasing a Conan O'Brien album a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Lt. Dan Choi Makes Daily Show Cameo

    ​Last night, in a segment brilliantly titled "Gay Reichs," Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones examined the claims made by one Scott Lively: that the nazis were gay. It includes the invention of the excellent term "glitzkrieg."Towards the second half, Tustin military-man-turned-gay-rights-activis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Daily Show Video on Confucius Classroom Up

    ​We told you here about the Monday night airing of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart segment on the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District's Confucius Classroom (which some have cast as a Red Chinese plot to pollute young American minds).Now, you can feast your eyes on the video. When the fake n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    The Daily Show Fake News Report on Confucius Classroom Apparently Airs Tonight

    ​Jay Chen, a member of the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District Board of Education, informs on his Facebook page that The Daily Show With Jon Stewart segment on a district school's controversial Confucius Classroom airs tonight."My Daily Show interview with Aasif re: our Chinese Class is sch ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2010

    Natasha Leggero

    Irvine Improv

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    The Dirty Heads On Jimmy Kimmel Tonight

    http://www.myspace.com/dirtyheads​The latest from our Huntington Beach's the Dirty Heads: They'll perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight. Catch their two-song set, one of which will be the No. 1  single "Lay Me Down," at 12:05 a.m. on ABC.

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    The Daily Show Snubs Anti-Commie Chinese Activist Kai Chen

    See no Kai Chen.​This post mentioned how cameras from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart were going to be at Thursday night's Hacienda La Puente Unified School District Board of Education meeting, where activists planned to protest a "Confucius Classroom" coming to a middle school.

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Confucius Says, "Be Wary of 'Daily Show'"

    flickr user elkitBreaking the news.​The campaign against a public school's "Confucius Classroom" by the Chinese-American activist who last September organized demonstrations over the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum's Mao Tse-Tung statue is about to get national media exposure--f ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2010
  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Team Coco Alert! Conan O'Brien Stage Show Lands in LA

    ​Conan O'Brien's live comedy/music review, which is aptly titled "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television," lands April 24-25 at Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City Walk, poignantly close to where the tall drink of redhead taped The Tonight Show before NBC fucked him over.

  • Calendar

    March 11, 2010

    Tom Green

    Brea Improv

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Neil Young to Perform "Fuckin' Up" on Conan O'Brien's "Tonight Show" Finale? He Should!

    ​This evening Conan O'Brien fans will have one last chance to catch the funny man with the towering hairdo host the Tonight Show. Sure, O'Brien will likely resurface somewhere--the safe bet is Fox--shortly, and with a 45 million exit deal, he won't exactly be standing in the unemployment line in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2010

    Ian Bagg

    Brea Improv

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Comic: Leno's "Tonight Show" Rise Mirrors Nixon's Political Rise

    ​By the time you read this, the ink may already be dry on a $30 million to $40 million settlement that would allow Conan O'Brien to leave NBC so Jay Leno can reclaim The Tonight Show.Meanwhile, one of the many comedians backing CoCo has compared Leno's late-night TV ascension to the political maki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    2/1 Odds Set Conan Splits "Tonight Show" by June

    ​An Irish bookmaker is offering short odds of 2/1 that Conan O'Brien quits as The Tonight Show host before June 2010.

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    OC's Something Corporate Reunites to Headline Bamboozle

    ​Alt-rockers Something Corporate, one of the biggest band to come out of Orange County in past decade, has confirmed they will reunite following a five-year hiatus to headline Bamboozle California 2010. The festival takes place March 27-28 at Angels Stadium of Anaheim. No offical word yet on what ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 26, 2009

    Loni Love

    Brea Improv

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    See Dick Run . . . Away From Indoctrination Into the Gay Vegan Godless Proletarian Revolution!

    ​Katharine DeBrecht, a Fox News favorite who has already foisted onto young minds Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!, has written a follow-up titled Help! Mom! Radicals Are Ruining My Country!, an anti-Obama screed she boasts is "a hilarious and entertaining way ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2009

    Orny Adams

    Irvine Improv

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Dishney: Disney Profits Drop 26%, Conan O'Brien Laughs

    The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien - Disney CutbacksA few weeks ago, the Walt Disney Company reported a 26 percent drop in profits, thanks to a decline at its many theme parks and media networks like ABC and ESPN.  Conan O'Brien, meanwhile, offered his own suggestions on how Disneyland should ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Shatner Reading Palin vs. Huell Howser Tripping

    Earlier today, Weekly food blogger Lesley McCave forwarded a video from The Tonight Show Starring Conan O'Brien featuring William Shatner reading from Sarah Palin's goodbye, Alaska speech:Its reign as the Greatest Video Ever only lasted a few minutes, however. That's because a scroll through LA Time ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009
  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Jimmy Fallon: Savior of Hip Hop?

      For some reason, when ?uestlove announced in November that The Roots would cease touring and become the house band for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, there was minor outrage. "Black Thought opening for Jimmy Fallon every night is the cultural equivalent of Miles Davis playing his horn on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    Oh, THAT's Why The Army Fired OC Native Dan Choi

    Last night, the Daily Show provided its trademark dose of clarity regarding the case of Lt. Dan Choi, a graduate of Tustin High School and West Point. Choi's an Iraq War veteran and was working for the military as an Arabic translator -- until he announced that he's gay. The ensuing media frenzy has ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2009

    Rob Riggle

    Irvine Improv

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2008

    Stephen Colbert on This Fall's New Albums

    From last night's "Colbert Report": Stephen takes on Evolver by John Legend, That Don't Make Me A Bad Guy by Toby Keith, and of course, the once-elusive, now-ubiquitous Chinese Democracy. Sure, it's just a thinly veiled plug for his Christmas special on Sunday, but it's worth it for the iTunes cover ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 24, 2008

    I Want to Believe

    Lisa Williams

  • Calendar

    March 13, 2008

    Child’s Play

    Gabriel Iglesias

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2008

    Bonus Bobcat Goldthwait

    When you interview a comedian, there are nearly always more good lines than can fit in an article. So go check out my interview with Bobcat Goldthwait first; then come back here and check out the extra stuff that didn't quite fit. Bobcat likes OC "I’ve performed behind the orange curtain a few ti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2007

    Long Beach Colbert-o-scam?

    On the October 16 episode of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, television news anchor and Emmy nominee Stephen Colbert announced that he was "officially considering" whether or not he would announce if he was considering running for President of the United States, and would make that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2007

    Loretta Taking Her Act to HBO

    It's true! According to Dan Chmielewski over at theliberaloc.com blog, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Anaheim), is scheduled to appear as a guest on "Real Time With Bill Maher" Friday at 11 p.m. on HBO. Chmielewski wonders how many "pet the cat" jokes humorist Maher will utter. Perhaps not many ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2006

    Good News from Iraq (Fake news edition)

    Somehow it's fitting that the only good news to come out of Iraq recently is the fake news. The New York Times reports on a satirical news show that debuted on the Iraqi sattelite station Al Sharqiya at the beginning of Ramadan. This being Iraq, the show's title is somewhat darker than "The Daily ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 28, 2006

    Harshing Their Mellows

    Smug host rips counterculture icons in Tom Snyders Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show

  • Culture

    August 31, 2006

    He Thinks You're an Idiot

    Thats why you love Bill Maher

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2006

    How Do You NOT Spell Ethics? K-T-L-A

    Anyone been watching the KTLA Morning News lately? The Los Angeles Times, which like KTLA is owned by Chicago's Tribune media giant, has come down hard on anchors Carlos Amezcua and Michaela Pereira, as well as entertainment reporter Sam Rubin, for receiving free stays in a hotel their "news" show w ... More >>

  • News

    October 2, 2003

    Total Recall

    Schwarzeneggers business scams

  • News

    July 3, 2003

    The Tonys!

    The DAs enemies list? Its an honor!

  • Culture

    June 20, 2002

    Your Soul in a Thimble

    Sledgehammers Valparaiso

  • Music

    November 4, 1999

    Popera

    Dennis Cleveland aint no stinkin Traviata

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