Nathan Lane drops by The Daily Show to chat on his new Tony Award nominated performance in “The Nance,” his advice to Bette Midler and a few other things.
Jon Stewart takes down Justice Scalia and the “Three Amigos”
Jon Stewart takes on Supreme Court Justice Scalia and the “Three Amigos” Sens. McCain, Graham and Lieberman regarding marriage equality, threesomes and that “sodomy slippery slope.”
President Obama on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
President Obama got a huge cheer from the audience in the first five minutes of his interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart over his support for LGBT rights.
“You want a president in the Oval Office whose going to say, ‘No, we’re not going to amend the Constitution for the first time to restrict rights for gay and lesbian couples,” Obama said, earning a big round of applause that interrupted his list of contrasts with Mitt Romney.
Obama said his record is “a strong story to tell,” especially on “social issues like ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.'”
The Rumble 2012 – Jon Stewart vs. Bill O’Reilly
Full “mock debate” between Bill O’Reilly (Fox News) and Jon Stewart (The Daily Show).
During the debate, Jon Stewart refers to O’Reilly as “mayor of Bullshit Mountain” while O’Reilly bought signs for props to underline his points and also proposed the idea that if a voter misses an election, they forfeit the privilege of voting in the next election.
At one point, Jon Stewart asks “Why is it if you take advantage of a tax break as a corporation you’re a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of a tax break as a person you’re a moocher?”
Some funny and interesting stuff in here.
The live internet broadcast cost $5 to view and apparently overloaded the servers making it difficult for those who purchased the privilege to view the show.
The funds raised from the broadcast were to go to charity.
Jon Stewart explains why Mitt Romney is losing
Jon Stewart on the Olympic Games “biggest” controversy
For those who missed it, I wrote about this earlier in the week here.
Jon Stewart on Jerry Sandusky/Bob Costas interview
Jon Stewart on Nancy Grace wardrobe malfunction
Chris Meloni as “rogue cop” Tony Baloney in “The Vigilogna”
Jon Stewart turned his attention to the “Occupy Wall Street” protests on The Daily Show last night, homing in on infamous pepper spray officer Anthony Bologna, who was caught spraying demonstrators in two videos.
Once the officer’s name is revealed, the jokes just write themselves. “Anthony Bologna? You and I both know that guy’s name is Tony Baloney. Favorite pasta? Rigatoni. Favorite island? Coney. Favorite southern buffet restaurant? Shoney’s.”
But the segment really catches fire when Stewart decides Bologna deserves his own crime drama, about a rogue cop who loses his badge and spray cans but brings justice to the streets his own way—one spray at a time.
The “show,” called The Vigilogna, stars Fear and Loathing scene-stealer Chris Meloni, who will forever be Law and Order: SVU’s Eliot Stabler.
“In a city gone mad,” the narrator declares, “Tony Baloney was the fine mist of the law. But then… he went too far. This fall, justice has a first name. It’s spelled T-O-N-Y. And it’s gonna burn. Chris Melogna (played by Chris Meloni) IS Tony Balgona in The Vigilogna.”
“Crime doesn’t spray,” Melogna intoneys. “But I do.”
(via The Gothamist)
Jon Stewart campaigns for “endangered millionaires”
Jon Stewart is so hysterically funny. There’s a reason why his show has won 8 Emmy Awards in a row.
On Wednesday, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart asked viewers to help save these “endangered” millionaires.
“Bill [O’Reilly] is just standing up for a shrinking, exploited minority,” the comedy central host noted. “The super rich will go extinct. We’d add them to the endangered species list but you know how much they despise government regulation.”
“Every day America loses more and more millionaires to abusive individual and corporate tax rates. Their habitats are slowly disappearing, their watering holes drying up. If we don’t act quickly, these once plentiful creatures will be relegated to zoos and heartbreaking documentaries… Will you be an angel for a helpless multi-millionaire?”
Watch this video from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, broadcast Sept. 21, 2011.