Robert Klein, John Oliver and more will perform at a benefit to raise funds for the blind. On Sept. 20, Gotham Comedy Club in New York will host the fifth annual Laugh for Sight benefit, which will be...
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Samantha Bee is the Daily Show's longest-tenured correspondent, having joined the program in 2003. She's also the author of a new memoir, I Know I Am But What Are You? Bee grew up in an unusual tripartite family, splitting time between a matronly grandmother, a conservative, re-married father and a bohemian, Wiccan mother. She met her husband, the Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones, while working in a Sailor Moon-themed stage show at the Canadian National Exposition.
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A few weeks back, TV Squad asked readers to post questions for 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart' executive producer Rory Albanese asking anything you wanted about the inner workings of the popular, subversive faux-news show. Here are his answers.
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Is Jon Stewart sexist? Late last month, feminist pop culture blog Jezebel posted a lengthy piece describing the work environment of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as sexist toward women..
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It's no secret that The Daily Show was recently accused of being a sexist boys' club. Jon even mentioned it briefly on the show last week. Well, today, the women who work on the show relea...
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The new M. Night Shyamalan movie The Last Airbender comes out this week, and one of the film's stars is none other than Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi. In this web-exclusive video, Aasif t...
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Longtime devotees of this blog are well aware that I'm not a fan of comedy. Not since I watched my parents brutally murdered by a joke about airplane food. But if I was the kind of person who lik...
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Her willingness to lay all her cards on the table—to be vulnerable—elevates these already-remarkable stories to hysterical heights.
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"Bee has thoroughly enjoyed the whole writing-a-book experience. She had no problems coming up with entertaining tales about her Wiccan mother, the time spent working at an erectile dysfunction clinic and her crush on Jesus."
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A not very long time from now, in a convention hall in Orlando, Florida, Jon Stewart will interview George Lucas as part of a Star Wards nerd event for Star Wars nerds. Hey, that's you!nThe Dail...
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