Last night on The Daily Show and Colbert Report, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert both hinted and teased about the announcement of announcements that will transform the future of history. [Read More]

Yesterday, we told you about a grassroots movement on Reddit urging Stephen Colbert to put on a Glenn Beck-style rally in Washington DC. The event is still just a magical dream in the twinkle of a baby's eye, but another Redditor has mocked up a promotional poster for it anyway, because this is the internet, and that's the kind of thing that happens here. [Read More]

Stewart's out-of-character bit, complete with manic chalk circling and pandering illogical leaps along the spectrum of history and politics, proved alternately hilarious and chilling – probably because it wasn’t so far off from an actual Beck rant on the evils of progressivism. Colbert offered his own, more nuanced take-down of Beck for what the comedian, who is Catholic, clearly saw as a direct attack on his religion's teachings about social justice. [Read More]

Perhaps you remember Glenn Beck from the talk radio or from CNN Headline News, but now that he's the new darling of FOX News, Beck has a higher profile among media observers. And so it is that I'm learning about his proclivity for performing some sort of folksy one-man show stand-up type routine to conservative theatergoers when he's not on the air. Here's the AP report from Sunday announcing Glenn Beck's June 2009 tour, with shows in Denver, Phoenix, San Diego, Kansas City, Houston and Richmond... [Read More]