Last night, Wall Street Journalist columnist and former presidential speech writer Peggy Noonan appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to talk about the elections and plug her new book, Patriotic Grace.  read more »

Yesterday Media Mob introduced readers to Cristi Adkins, the supposed Hillary Clinton supporter who managed to get her virulent anti-Barack Obama views aired on MSNBC's Hardball and Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.

Little did we know that Ms. Adkins is at the center of several investigative campaigns into her motives, her funding,and her background. Several bloggers and media outlets are trying to determine if Ms. Adkins is more than just an angry Clinton supporter who found her way onto the national stage. Some are even wondering if Ms. Adkins is a Republican dirty tricks operative.

According to the Huffington Post's Off the Bus writer  read more »

So last night I was cast as "Angry White Male #3" on The Daily Show.

It was during one of the montage segments they do all the time: Jon Stewart introduces the major news story of the day and then shows several clips of hysterical talking heads from various cable news channels all saying the same hysterical things. Then they cut back to a horrified and smugly amused Stewart.  read more »

In case you didn't see it last night, here's Hillary Clinton's latest Daily Show appearance, where Jon Stewart asks her whether, if her campaign had earned 11 straight victories, they would be asking Bar  read more »

Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report are set to return to Comedy Central, albeit without their writers, who remain out on strike.

And without certain guests, such as Katrina vanden Heuvel and Naomi Klein who recently turned down invitations to appear on the show.

Those authors, actors, and politicians who do accept invitations to be on the shows on Monday will be forced to cross a picket line.  read more »

Now we can truly witness how clever Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are on their cable news satire shows. They'll be returning to their daily recordings on Jan. 7. The announcement arrives just days after their network predecessors announced their return to late-night on Jan. 2.

The New York Times reports:  read more »

There may be no end in sight to the writers strike, but the late-night shows could soon be back on the air anyway.

The Writers Guild said over the weekend that it would be willing to sign individual agreements with media companies, and the independent company that owns The Late Show with David Letterman said it plans to take advantage of that move to work towards a deal, according to several reports.  read more »

On the night of Nov. 16, Jon Stewart gave a rare stand-up performance at the grand opening of the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas. His act was introduced by Planet Hollywood founder Sylvester Stallone ("I would like to introduce the man who taught me how to do one armed pushups,") and was followed by a blues concert by another Planet Hollywood founder Bruce Willis. ("I got to get out that window, I'm too young to die," he sang.)

In between the two action stars, Stewart, dressed casually and free to curse, observed that the junk-cluttered walls of the theater, which is usually the site of the all-things-bangable percussion spectacle "Stomp," looked like they were made out of a magnet.

He riffed on O.J. Simpson's arrest for armed robbery, and joked that since O.J. got off for murder last time, he was probably now thinking to himself, "I should have killed those motherfuckers."  read more »

Ouch!

TV Decoder reports that the writers' strike has already delivered a nasty lashing to Comedy Central’s smirk-some duo, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

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So that thing you heard about Jon Stewart covering the salaries of all his striking writers for the next two weeks. Turns out, not so much.

Stewart may be a mensch, but he's not Mother Teresa.