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First lady Michelle Obama will launch her latest media blitz next week with a string of TV appearances to promote her book on gardens. Obama is set to appear Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America" and "The View," and Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," the White House said Wednesday. She'll also tape an interview for "LIVE! with Kelly" while in New York next Wednesday and an ap...

Jon Stewart has interviewed some of the most influential people in news on "The Daily Show," but occasionally, the tables are turned and Stewart is the one in the interview chair. Over the years, Stewart has joined programs on the likes of Fox News, CNN and MSNBC to debate and discuss the most prominent issues in media and politics. Sometimes things can get a little heated (insert "Crossfire" j...

NBC is doubling down on the dads in the fall. In addition to the renewed "Up All Night," with stay-at-home dad Will Arnett, there are new comedies "The New Normal" and "Guys With Kids." "Glee" and "American Horror Story" creator Ryan Murphy is behind "The New Normal," one of NBC's most anticipated new comedies.  The director-screenwriter co-created the series with "Glee" co-executive producer A...

Comedian Jon Stewart is broadcasting his "Daily Show" from Tampa, Fla., during the Republican National Convention.

The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Amidst The Daily Show's Endless Sufferage 2012 coverage, Jon Stewart didn't just poke fun at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, but took a jab at Barack Obama too! The comedian seemed a little baffled as to why our [...]

President Barack Obama's appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon this week was undeniably funny. But was it presidential? Last night, Jon Stewart made crystal clear just where he...

Above, a trailer for a comedy film project for which there's now a Kickstarter fundraising campaign. I LOL'd; I'll be kicking in a few bucks. Description: A group of Muslim-American standup comedians go on the road counter Islamophobia using the only weapon they have: jokes. The Muslims Are Coming! follows these comics as they visit [...]

Catch Kevin Wu’s latest comedy program on YouTube, and you may think he’s nothing more than a young Asian American talking to a camera in his bedroom. But almost each of his shows command at least 2 million views — rivaling the nightly TV audiences of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Read full article >>

In Jon Stewart's words, this week the FCC fined Google "less than you would get for a particularly flashy NFL touchdown dance."

Matt Lauer, now the highest-paid anchor in history, made the cover of The Hollywood Reporter for its list of the most powerful people in media, a roster of 35 key players that also includes Diane Sawyer, Bob Costas and Jon Stewart.

JPost column on hottest Jewish news: Jon Stewart hosts an imaginary Last Supper; UN Security Council on Exodus; Drake's Bar Mitzva.

Bubble or not, the tech world is operating at a level of craziness right now. Google announced they're working on connected augmented reality glasses that might just everything. Then, just a few days later, Mark Zuckerberg actually did change everything for the employees of a tiny but very important photo sharing app. Of course Jon Stewart had to weigh in including making what might be the best...

Bill Clinton and Jon Stewart met with students at George Washington University in the nation's capital over the weekend.

Bloggers have argued that it is inhumane and it is degrading. Jon Stewart was angry because on the guy's t-shirt it said I am a homeless hotspot and it didn't say I am a person. I believe those arguments misunderstood the point.

The reason Shaquille O'Neal is a great TV guest is that he never stops being a surprise. Whether he's talking Hebrew or studying for his Ph. ...

Jon Stewart has interviewed Bruce Springsteen for the cover story in the next issue of Rolling Stone on newsstands March 16th "It’s not at all surreal" Stewart says with heavy sarcasm referring to his friendship with the legendary rocker "It’s very hard to reconcile sitting and fishing in a little pond...

NEW YORK - Coldplay and Mumford and Sons were among the performers here late Sunday at an Amnesty International concert organised in defence of freedom of expression. The show marked the first time that the “Secret Policeman’s Ball” - organised by Amnesty International since 1976 - was held in the United States. Television comedian Jon Stewart was among the performers, sharing ...

In an article in the American Journal of Bioethics, a Loyola bioethicist is calling political satirist Jon Stewart "our greatest public intellectual. This is no joke."

Police revealed that more than 100 letters containing a powdery substance have been dispatched to senators and various media companies, including Jon Stewart (pictured), The New York Times, Fox News and National Public Radio.

COMEDIC news anchors Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart have been targeted along with three US congressional offices by threatening letters containing a powdery substance.  

American comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were among the recipients of a wave of letters threatening biological attacks against US senators.

Brad Pitt appeared on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" to discuss "Moneyball," but not "The Tree of Life" because the host confessed, "I don't know what that was about."

Den Seitenhieb auf den Todesstern aus den Star-Wars-Filmen konnte sich US-Starkomiker Jon Stewart nicht verkneifen. Das Versprechen des republikanischen Bewerbers für das Präsidentenamt, Newt Gingrich, im Fall eines Wahlsiegs bis 2021 eine permanente US-Basis auf dem Mond zu errichten, sorgt seit Mittwoch für Kopfschütteln, aber auch angeregte Diskussionen unter den US-Wählern. Doch Science Fic...

Coldplay, Jon Stewart, Mumford & Sons and Russell Brand are among the acts to sign up for the Secret Policeman's Ball in March.

You know that a news story has broken through, as we like to say in the journalism business, when Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart start playing it for laughs. In the last few weeks, the dynamic duo of Comedy Central has had a field day with the subject of super PACs, those fundraising machines that can raise unlimited donations to fund political ads, provided that they are not officially affili...

Ivan Urgant, the host of several Russian TV programs, speaks Russian super-fast and quick-wittedly, and English pretty well. He loves all the American late-night shows, especially what he calls “the East Coast guys”—David Letterman and Jon Stewart and Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert . . . (Subscription required.)

"First wife, cancer? Second wife, multiple sclerosis? Can Newt Gingrich be reclassified as a pollutant? A carcinogen?" Stewart wondered. "The guy's like the dioxin of husbands."

When Stephen Colbert named his fellow comedian Jon Stewart as head of his “super-PAC”, his joke highlighted how campaign finance rules are upending US politics

President Stephen Colbert?

Stephen Colbert says he legally transferred control of his "super PAC" to Jon Stewart and forms an exploratory bid to run for president "of the ...

All the pre-publicity in the world can't beat a good first-person shooter Source: GamesBeat. Chart: PED It's hard to imagine what more could have been done to drum up interest in Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs. The only biography of Apple's (AAPL) CEO written with Jobs' cooperation hit the bookstores 19 days after his death in a tsunami of publicity, from 60 Minutes to Charlie Rose to Jo...

Jon Stewart might be one of our nation's most beloved satirists but he knows that the business of unpacking the silliness and stupidity of American politics requires the assistance of some very important people Appearing Saturday night at Milwaukee's Riverside Theater for a rare stand-up performance Jon Stewart hushed the...