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Rhett Felix, a first-year government and law teacher in Eureka, Illinois, has been suspended for six days and reassigned for showing clips of The Daily Show to high school students. The segments shown in class didn't focus on Jason Jones' vasectomy, but sexual harassment allegations against Herman Cain and the issue of health insurance discounts for exercising. Mayor Scott Punke, whose nephew was in the class, protested Felix's lesson because teens in their "conservative community" can't handle the Daily Show's dirty (and liberal) humor. He said: More »
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Ever since we found out about Marcus Bachmann's attempts to cure the gays, there's been a certain... subtext. But as much as Mr. Bachmann's setting off everyone's gaydar is a tempting target for hypocrisy call-outs, what self-respecting progressive is going to make fun of effeminacy? More »
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Tonight The Daily Show discussed how anti-choice groups, and specifically Rick Santorum, have compared the denial of "personhood rights" for fetuses to the enslavement of African-Americans. (Oh, and don't forget ethnic cleansing.) Larry Wilmore and Kristen Schaal studied the issue for their upcoming Discovery Channel show Deadliest Snatch and concluded lawmakers really need to stay out of our wombs — because apparently it isn't safe in there. More »
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Tonight on The Daily Show, Kristen Schaal came out in favor of the House Republicans defunding Planned Parenthood. In fact, she says they aren't going far enough. Nearly every government-funded program can be linked to abortions or the women who get them. (It's almost like it's a legal medical procedure!) Thankfully, Kristen has developed a sure-fire way to ensure not a single one of your tax dollars goes to a policy you don't support. More »
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Last night a rather overdressed January Jones appeared on The Daily Show to promote her movie Unknown, which has some sort of secretive plot she was not at liberty to discuss. Since she had nothing else to talk about, she told Jon all about what it's like to be a South Dakotan, from their petty rivalry with North Dakota to their distaste for her Jewish boyfriend. Her whole family still lives there, so perhaps it was unwise to paint them as a bunch of rubes on national TV. More »
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Comedian John Oliver is engaged to Kate Norley, an Army medic who served in Iraq. "It's the most emasculating thing I could possibly do to go out with someone who has actually done something valuable with their life," says Oliver. More »
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We already know he's an advocate for gay-bashed kids. But wrestling megastar Mick Foley contains even more multitudes: he's an activist on behalf of sexual assault victims — and a die-hard Tori Amos fan. More »
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Meghan McCain didn't get to talk much about her ideas for broadening the Republican Party on the Daily Show last night, but she did get a chance to insult Bristol Palin. More »
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Tim Gunn is a man who no longer needs to please anyone but himself. How else should we read his insanely entertaining shit-talking about Anna Wintour, which last night on The Daily Show extended to all of Condé Nast? More »
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The New York Post was too busy slamming Desiree Rogers to notice that it had confused two black media moguls named Johnson. And one Sikh fan of The Daily Show politely reminds them of the difference between Sikhs and Muslims. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5613806&view=rss&microfeed=true Nearly a month after her introduction as a Daily Show correspondent, Olivia Munn appeared on her first full segment last night. More »
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to The New York Times, adding "On The Daily Show or on a sitcom, that's the character." [NYT] More »
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the new Daily Show correspondent on... we're not sure what exactly. "People making such a big deal about successful women," according to HollywoodLife. [HollywoodLife] More »
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Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart and Betty White joked that they would run for office together, and White revealed what she would never joke about. More »
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On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart made us watch Joe Scarborough pumping his fist and declaring "women power" because of Tuesday's primary results. And Samantha Bee explained why she wasn't all that thrilled about the whole thing. More »
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With her new Daily Show gig, an NBC sitcom, and a book, Suck It, Wonder Woman!, Olivia Munn's carefully-crafted image as geek sex symbol is about to get a bigger audience than ever. Will she win over the ladies too? More »
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"I think you're great, and you write like a man." It was the first audience "question" to a panel of women late-night comedy writers last night, an evening of similarly uncomfortable and (in this case, unintentionally) revealing moments. More »
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Rosalynn Carter once ambushed her husband at a gubernatorial campaign event, demanding he do something about mental-health issues. She's still at it 39 years later, as she told Jon Stewart last night, despite frustration at the pace of change. More »
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But it's fun to joke about performing sedition for your talent anyway! The journalist (and former pageant queen) was on The Daily Show last night to talk about her new memoir of captivity in Iran. More »
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On The Daily Show to promote his animated bromance on HBO, Ricky Gervais got Jon Stewart to engage in some gendered role-play. It got a bit edgy (for basic cable, that is). More »
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Last night, South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford, appearing on the Daily Show to plug her book Staying True, made Jon Stewart awfully uncomfortable. And he said so. More »
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Last night, Jon Stewart called out the 30 Senate Republicans who voted against Al Franken's amendment to bar the government from contracting with companies that force their employees to agree not to sue if they get raped on the job. More »
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On Tuesday, we posted a picture of Pennsylvania mom Katy Abram protesting outside a town hall meeting on health care. Today, the question she asked at that meeting has made her an unlikely — and perhaps unlucky — celebrity. More »
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Jon Stewart, suffering from significant disappointment that Sarah Palin resigned during his week off, had correspondent Samantha Bee attempt to explain it all to him. Because, while Stewart understands "Harvard basketball," Bee said he doesn't know "maverick basketball." More »
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One of the best things about the Daily Show is that Jon Stewart can engage an opponent respectfully and logically without devolving into shouty crackers. Last night, he took Mike Huckabee to task for being against gay marriage. (Reminder: today is Day Without A Gay, when gay workers are encouraged to "call in gay.") Stewart poked holes in Huckabee's rhetoric, arguing that marriage has been constantly redefined in the past 5,000 years. "You write that marriage is the bedrock of our society. Why would you not want more couples to buy into the stability of marriage?" Stewart asked. Huckabee's argument comes down to his conviction that homosexuality is a choice, to which Stewart responded, "I think it's the difference between what you believe gay people are and what I do…I'll tell you this: religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality." Clip above. More »
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• Tina Fey finally dished about her mysterious scar in Vanity Fair and we wondered whether she'd be famous if she hadn't glammed up.
• Speaking of celebrity makeovers, Britney had her umpteenth comeback, and though her weave was clean, the sparkle in her eye was gone.
• Scarlett Johansson never needed a makeover because she's actually a clone.

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Huffington Post ringleader Arianna Huffington was on the Daily Show last night promoting the book on blogging — The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging — that she made her editorial staff write. As Gawker noted, she called for more writers to blog the economic crisis for HuffPo (though she leaves out the part about how she doesn't pay her bloggers), and she also says that that trick to blogging is to "blog your secret passions." Ari's secret love? Cheese. Jon is not particularly impressed by this revelation, and asks, "You're fucking with me about the cheese thing, right?" Clip above. More »
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"She's aliiiiiive!" Jon Stewart yelps at footage of Sarah Palin in the lower 48. As previously noted, Palin was in Georgia earlier this week, helping to get Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss reelected in a runoff. Jon refers to Sarah as the "GOP's BFD" and adds that Palin apparently "loves everything in Alaska but being there." Unfortunately, Democrat Jim Martin's biggest celebrity supporter was Ludacris, and somehow the man who wrote the lyrics, "Can't turn a ho into a housewife/ Hos don't act right," was not as effective as a couple of well-placed "You betchas": Chambliss won reelection by a wide margin. Clip above. More »
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Anne Hathaway was on the Daily Show last night, continuing to promote her Oscar-bait performance in Rachel Getting Married. The usually poised Ms. Hathaway could not keep it together because of her overwhelming crush on Daily Show host Jon Stewart. Stewart reacted with his typical sheepishness, saying that when people see him in real life, they're not so impressed. "I'm decrepit," Jon claims. We beg to differ. More »
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Fox News chief bloviator Bill O'Reilly went deep into enemy territory last night by appearing on the Daily Show. Jon Stewart wanted to make sure Bill felt safe, and so he proffered a stuffed bear named Mr. Snuggles and some cocoa. O'Reilly argued that America is traditionally a conservative, right-center country, but Jon begged to differ. "The progression of individual freedoms, that's the tradition of America. The tradition would say the next step is gay marriage," he explained. To which Bill responded, "That's your Greenwich Village opinion." Even more appalling is the fact that O'Reilly thought Mr. Snuggles was a panda. That bear is white! But I guess it's not surprising that Bill ignores bear identity politics. Clip above. More »
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We have one question for our beloved Jon Stewart: where are all the bitches at? The New York Comedy Festival hosted a Daily Show panel Friday with ten panelists, none of whom were female. "Steve Bodow, the head writer, said the panel was not a good representation of the hundred or so people who work on 'The Daily Show.' Many of the producers and the editors are women, even if the writers themselves at this point are all men. The show’s sole female writer, Rachel Axler, just left for California to work on a spinoff of NBC’s “The Office,” Mr. Bodow said. And Allison Silverman, who had been a writer on 'The Daily Show' for many years, is an executive producer of “The Colbert Report.” [NY Times] More »
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Now that Obama's been elected, we can turn our attention to an even more serious contest: the one for White House pooch. How can we be sure the potential first dog will be resistant to the aggressive Milk Bone lobby? What if they really are palling around with terriers? The Daily Show's John Oliver is on the case, investigating puppy aspirants like Mr. Jingles, who is running on a staunchly "pro-biscuit, anti-barf platform." And unlike a certain Vice Presidential candidate, all of these animals have been thoroughly "Vetted." Heh. Clip above! More »
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Many people have stressed the historical importance of today's election so Jon Stewart decided to discuss Obama and McCain with an actual historian: the Pulitzer Prize winning Doris Kearns Goodwin. Goodwin discussed the negative political slogans of yesteryear, and remarked that McCain's smears are "No where near as dirty as the old campaigns." Apparently Jefferson's opponents claimed that if he won, rape and incest would be taught in schools. Not that Jefferson was so squeaky clean himself: he said John Adams was a "howling hermaphrodite." The worst was reserved for Grover Cleveland, who fathered an illegitimate child. According to Goodwin, people said, "women beware; he's going to have harlots at the White House." To which Jon replied, "Didn't Clinton run on that platform?" Clip above. More »
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NPR darling and essayist Sarah Vowell was on the Daily Show last night and the Oklahoma-born Montana State grad had a bone to pick with Republicans who have been ragging on New York City. Palin et. al. pay lip service to New York's bravery in 9/11 and then call us "elite" and unpatriotic behind our backs. Underminers! "They wrap themselves in our attack and then they leave and talk about what snobs we are," Vowell complained to Jon Stewart. And then she said maybe the most awesome thing I've ever heard on the Daily Show: "If the East Coast Is American enough For Al-Qaeda, It should be American enough for them." Preach! Clip above. More »
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Oh, Jon. You're always there for us during a time of crisis to make lemonade out of life's fiscal lemons! And like that marginally coherent lemon metaphor I just used, Congressmen from both sides of the aisle are making cheesy, nonsensical comparisons when discussing the financial crisis. In the Daily Show clip above, they liken the country's financial woes to cowpies, undertows, bartenders and traffic. Stewart compares their rambling to Chris Farley's sales pitch in Tommy Boy, and the similarity is so apt you don't know whether to laugh or barf. I can't wait for the Spade/Ferrell ticket in 2012! More »
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Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan went on the Daily Show last night to complain about "professional political operatives" who "manipulate" the electorate. Oh, you mean like that time you wrote a column about how "brilliant" and "transformative" Sarah Palin was and then later that day were caught on air saying that Palin was unqualified and choosing her was "bullshit"? Also: Jon gets adorably angry about Republicans bashing New York City constantly. Probably because he's just a biased "Upper West Sider." Clip above. More »
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Happy New Year, fellow Heebs! Last night, Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenak ran footage of his trip to Florida to watch last Friday's Presidential debate with a bunch of elderly Jews. It was awkwardly funny, especially when one dark haired lady who kept screeching, "I watch Fox News! It's fair and balanced!" got shot down by the other biddies in the room. What's not so hilarious, except maybe in a cringing way, is the casual racism displayed, especially by the one woman who says Michelle Obama is built like "a horse" because black women have "big tuchuses." You'll want to bury your head in your arms just like Jon Stewart does. Clip above. More »
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A lot of people complain that all media outlets do is blather on about Palin's Tina Fey glasses and her dreamy first dude instead of talking about the issues. Well you know, it would be a lot easier for everyone to discuss the issues if the candidates did too! The Daily Show compiled McCain, Obama, Biden and Palin talking about our dire financial situation, and all of them said…absolutely nothing concrete about how to fix it. Except for McCain, who claimed that our financial system didn't need fixing and then a few hours backtracked and muttered something about how when he said "financial system" he meant "American workers." Straight talk, indeed! Our beloved Jon Stewart calls this a "Generic Off," and man, is it empty! Clip above. More »
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• Only eight more weeks, people! At least we have hilarious helpers like Sarah Haskins and Samantha Bee to shepherd us through these difficult times.
• I don't know if you'd heard, it's kind of under the radar, but Bristol Palin is pregnant. Some of us think it is a non-issue.
• Others of us want to use it to question Palin's policy on education, abortion, and health care.
• But you know, asking Palin questions about these things is just SEXIST, you pinko media elites!

Our very own media elite, Megan, braved the RNC so we didn't have to. More »
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Barack Obama was on The Daily Show last night, and Jon Stewart managed to make an actually funny joke about the way the primary campaign has dragged on wayyyy too long for anyone to feel capable of joking about anymore. Then he tested Obama's ability to "hope up" simple common phrases, and let's just say that if telemarketers got their training from this guy we'd have a National "Do Call" List. The only missed opportunity was not asking him to try out, "I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know if you know what I mean." Clip above. More »
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