Hitting the Bars
[The National Mall looks quiet, but wait until all the Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert fans storm D.C. for the "Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear" tomorrow. Enjoy it, and that other thing that happens this weekend. Image via Getty]
Steven Colbert And Jon Stewart In High-Definition Web Video
Good news for fans of Comedy Central's late-night pseudo-pundits: The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are back on the web. The two shows were removed from Google's Youtube when the cable network's owner declared war on the video repository; but now the Viacom-owned shows have reappeared on a management-approved…
Stewart, Colbert Go Back To Work Unibrowed, Biblically Bearded, And Without Writers
While Stewart lamented his program's inability to get the kind of side-deal the WGA made with Worldwide Pants (the Guild, it seems, isn't really embracing the idea of giving corporate monolith Viacom a break), he still dedicated most of the show to the strike; in the above segment—one probably not as improvised as the…
Short Ends: Colbert Vs. The Viacom Cryptkeeper
· Winning a record $370 million lottery emboldens Steven Colbert to finally tell semi-mummified Viacom overlord Sumner Redstone what he thinks of him. Unfortunately for Colbert, Redstone doesn't realize this was all done in character for his show, and has already dispatched a goon to stab him in the kidneys while the…
Media Bubble: Y'All Hear About This 'Radar' Mag?
Maureen Dowd Will Not Be Ignored
Rush & Molloy tip us off to a profile of Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert (because, really, we need another one of those) in this month's Rolling Stone. What makes this one extra-special is that it's written by Maureen Dowd! Yes, MoDo! Here's how it starts:
