Subject: The Daily Show

• 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 Show"-- it's called "Hurry Up, He's Dead". Nearly every night here for the past month, Iraqis weary of the tumult around them have been turning on the television to watch a wacky-looking man with a gi

  October 25, 2006

• Crazy

  During a May 2004 appearance on The Daily Show, Janeane Garofalo told Jon Stewart, "At this point, I think voting for Bush is a character flaw." Now news from Connecticut suggests she may have been more accurate than she knew. The New Haven Advocate reports: [Christopher] Lohse, a social work master's student at Southern Connecticut State University, says he has proven what many progressives have probably suspected for years: a direct link between mental illness and support for President Bush.

  November 29, 2006

• Does a Bear Shit in the LA Times?

  If you read Monday's Los Angeles "By God" Times Business section (and why would you?), you might've choked on your French Roast when you came on C3's three-quarter page advert announcing the California Bear is missing from the state flag. The gloomy gray gus informed that the Grizzly "grew tired of special elections and old promises," that it "went into hibernation waiting for progress to alleviate high taxes and high business costs," that "changes were too few and too slow." Make no mistake, B

  January 24, 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 was promoting, and Pereira was further demonized for accepting a remodeled living room, including new furniture, as the result of a home makeover segment that never aired. But Clockwork's favorite tal

  March 12, 2006

• A Man of Substance

  Longtime readers of Dan Savage's sex-advice column in the Weekly and scores of other alternative publications (including the one Dan edits, The Stranger of Seattle) may recall the direct hit he took at Sen. Rick Santorum three years ago after the Pennsylvania Republican publicly equated homosexuality and bestiality. For you newbie readers, Savage organized a contest to name a sex act after the Republican senator, and the winning reader response involved a frothy substance produced after anal sex

  October 5, 2006

• Stan in the place where you live

  As much as I've always loved superheroes, I've always felt there was something just a little off-putting about Marvel head honcho Stan Lee, the person. And it isn't a righteous indignation thing about not giving his collaborators their due credit; Stan has relented on that score in later years, and Jack Kirby's dead now. No, there's just something about him that feels really cheeseball, from the way he tends to address audiences as "True Believers" and is prone to exclamations like "Excelsior!"

  May 9, 2008

• Rappers or Republicans?

  In May, we posited that southern hip hop and Fox News share much in common. Possessing both an anti-intellectual streak and a populist one, they’re beloved by red-staters and hated on by the coastal elites, be they liberals, hipsters, Ghostface or Nas. The piece concluded: If you're still not convinced that Southern rap and Fox News are one and the same, consider the countless Southern rap odes to big cars and the wasteful misuse of fossil fuel, an indulgence the global-warming deniers on Fox

  August 5, 2008

• Bitter, Party of One

  March 9, 2000

• Spastic Colon

  April 26, 2001

• Diary of a Mad County

  February 7, 2002

• Strangers With Pokin Sticks

  May 15, 2003

• Zack and Miri Lose a Title

  You can understand ABC Family, Radio Disney and the Christian Science Monitor lopping off the second half of the title to Kevin Smith's new dramatic comedy or comedic drama Zack and Miri Make a Porno. It doesn't make it any more right, but you can understand it. But for it to be done by Comedy Central, a supposedly edgy network that is home to South Park, The Sarah Silverman Program and formerly That's My Bush? It just happened during a commercial break for The Daily Show, with the film's title

  October 28, 2008

• 'Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay' Is a Forced Act Two

  April 24, 2008

• OC Band Entice Get In On Watchmen-mania

  Despite an opening week that fell short of some expectations, it's clear that Watchmen has captured the cultural zeitgeist for the time being (because, what else will? "The Daily Show"/CNBC feud or the latest puzzlingly successful Tyler Perry film?). Even Orange County bands are getting in on the fun, with Entice--who are playing this Saturday as part of the SoCal Rock Fest at Sachi in Long Beach--putting their song, conveniently titled "The Watchman," with a video of clips from the trailers tha

  March 11, 2009

• Obama's Amerika Cracks Down on Butt Cracks!

  The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Baracknophobia - Obey comedycentral.com Daily ShowFull Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor Sure, Jon Stewart can mock those courageous Fox News hounds exposing the wussy Socialist tyrannical ways of the 10-week-old Obama administration, but look what the Chosen One's hyper-P.C-anti-freedom-thug governance just wrought. The Laguna Niguel City Council voted 5-0 last night to crack down on butt cracks

  April 8, 2009

• Not a Coveted Demo, the Young African-American Hipster Gets a Movie With 'Medicine for Melancholy'

  January 29, 2009

• Ricky Gervais Sees Dead People, and They Bring Him to Life in 'Ghost Town'

  September 18, 2008

• The New Hibbleton Gallery in Fullerton Is Off to a Great Start With 'To the Fifth Dimension'

  June 19, 2008

• Semi-Pro Is Only Half-Bad—The Will Ferrell Half

  February 28, 2008

• "Only in New Jersey!"

  And other important "local" stories on Daybreak OC

  October 4, 2007

• Rob Riggle

  April 16, 2009

• Voter Fraud

  October 12, 2006

• Dopey and Sleepy

  October 5, 2006

• Remote Hog

  June 8, 2006

• The Big Setup

  April 20, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  November 3, 2005

• All the Things That Make Us Laugh and Cry

  September 15, 2005

• No Stunt Hair Necessary

  August 18, 2005

• Who Wears Short Shorts?

  June 9, 2005

• Letters

  February 17, 2005

• Learning to Live With it

  December 9, 2004

• No, You Shut Up

  Artists are Americans, too, You Jackasses

  August 26, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  July 15, 2004

• Rally Round the Racist

  March 4, 2004

• Deja You

  February 26, 2004

• Barney the Dinosaur? Meet Jan Crouch

  September 4, 2003

• Letters

  August 28, 2003

• Press Clips

  October 3, 2002

• Sucker Punched

  November 22, 2001

• Daily Affirmation

  August 17, 2000

• Blow Hard

  March 2, 2000

• Pissed Corp.

  November 19, 1998

• 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 thrown a lot of heat at the 15-year-old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Luckily, John Oliver is here to remind us of the other side of the argument: The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cDa

  May 15, 2009

• Daily Show's Jon Stewart Eviscerates Birthers, Orly Taitz, Lou Dobbs and Especially Congressman John Campbell

  The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

  July 23, 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 for parents to sit down with their children and teach them the origins of the new Tea Party movement and the importance of standing up for liberty and the American Dream." DeBrecht explains in the pre

  November 11, 2009