Comedian Denis Leary is a frequent guest on The Daily Show. It is clear that he and Stewart have a long friendship dating back to before they were famous and their exchanges have the teasing quality of good friends relaxing together, though Leary’s humor has always had a slightly edgier quality. I quite often skip the celebrity interviews but enjoy Leary’s appearances.
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On his show Last Week Tonight, John Oliver describes how the world of sex education in the US is all over the place, rife with misconceptions and harsh moral judgments rather than providing dispassionate factual information.
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On one of his last shows as host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart looked at all the hype directed at him for taking on the big banks, racism, ISIS, and Fox News and asks himself the important question: Did he help in solving these problems at all?
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Comedy Central’s comedy duo Key and Peele show what it might look like if the media treated the teaching profession the way they treat professional sports.
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Yesterday was the last day of Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show and it was an extended program that avoided becoming overly sentimental because it is clear that Stewart does not like to talk about himself. I will definitely miss him but I understand why he is leaving and the timing of his exit.
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While all of us have laughed at the weird things that some of the people in the field pieces (where the correspondents go out and interview them) have said on The Daily Show, the question has been raised as to whether they really could be that crazy or whether there has been some heavy editing done to make them look ridiculous.
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Howard Kurtz on his show on Fox News once again brings up the idea that by going to the White House twice, Jon Stewart has proved that he is a stooge for president Obama. Kurtz should have known better because there is nothing that seems to get Stewart’s energy up than taking Fox News hypocrisy and flinging it back in their faces and he has a grand old time here, showing Kurtz how a takedown should be done and in the process revealing Kurtz’s own hackery.
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So what happened at what is being called the Koch primary, where five of the Republican candidates went to an event hosted by the Koch brothers and tried their best to ingratiate themselves by groveling before them in the hope that they would be the beneficiaries of their largesse?
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On the latest episode of his show Last Week Tonight John Oliver looks at the history of how the residents of the District of Columbia ended up without many of the basic electoral rights that the rest of the nation enjoys, the way that Congress interferes with and overrides its decisions, and the feeble excuses given for maintaining the status quo.
You must listen to the song sung by the children at the end, beginning at the 15:30 mark. It is hilarious.
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The Daily Show examines the state of the Republican party and how well their efforts to change their image as being the party of rich white men and appeal to women and minorities is going. Hint: Not well.
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