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Trevor Noah will have some big shoes to fill when The Daily Show returns to Comedy Central next month, although you wouldn’t know it by watching his introductory promo.

Thursday night’s GOP debates were a ratings juggernaut for the Fox News Channel, leaving liberal darling Jon Stewart’s last Daily Show appearance in the dust.

This week, Jon Stewart broadcast his last episode of The Daily Show. It was perhaps appropriate that his swan song coincided with the first Republican presidential debate of the 2016 election. The Obama era, which Stewart did as much as anyone to create and sustain, is ending.

Incoming Daily Show host Trevor Noah told a roomful of television reporters Wednesday that the Comedy Central staple will take a new approach when he steps in for the outgoing Jon Stewart later this year–it won’t bash Fox News as much.

Late-night funnyman and Daily Show host Jon Stewart reportedly took several secret trips to the White House to consult with President Obama before key moments in the president’s tenure.

Who is the real Jon Stewart? According to a rare look behind the Daily Show curtain, he’s a thin-skinned, prima donna jerk who screams “Fuck you!” at black writers who suggest it might be racist to do an Amos n’

During the July 21 airing of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart told President Barack Obama he needs to act quickly if he’s going to “take away Americans’ guns and declare martial law.”

Obama explained that accusations that they were specifically targeting conservative organizations was false and that IRS employees were simply implementing laws passed by Congress “poorly and stupidly” The taped interview is Obama’s last for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and was covered by the White House press pool, but will air later tonight.

When Jon Stewart announced his retirement earlier this year, he was praised by Obama’s senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer as a person who changed news for a new generation. “Jon Stewart conducted some of the toughest and most insightful interviews of the president,” Pfeiffer said.

If you ever wondered what a Donald Trump Instagram ad would look like for his take-no-prisoners presidential campaign, well–all right, you’ve never wondered that. But he made one anyway!

On Friday evening, July 2, 1999, a crazed young man drove through my Chicago neighborhood looking for Jews to kill. He had already shot half a dozen in a neighboring area (all of whom survived). He saw a black man walking with his family and decided that was good enough. He shot him–and Ricky Byrdsong, former Northwestern University basketball coach, died. The killer led an interstate manhunt, during which he killed a Korean man and attacked a church before shooting himself.

Those little New York Times articles (hit pieces) about Senator Marco Rubio and his main squeeze, Jeanette Rubio, receiving 17 traffic infractions, as well as living a lavish, Miami Vice-style life in West Miami, Florida, continue to be clowned by other members of the media.

Jon Stewart’s Daily Show poked fun at California’s record drought by inviting California correspondent Al Madrigal on the show to take advantage of an East Coast “drought rumspringa.”

On Wednesday’s episode of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” left-leaning host Jon Stewart questioned the merits of New York Times front-page stories taking on Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, and questioning personal financial

By the time you read this, I may well already be on the road, heading to Phoenix for the opening night of my multi-city tour of comedy clubs across America. It’s an arduous and ambitious tour that I really don’t have to be doing. But I feel I need to. Here’s why.

R&B singer John Legend stopped by the Daily Show this week to discuss his new project Southern Rites, an upcoming HBO documentary about systematic racism in Georgia.

Jon Stewart blasted Tom Brady on Thursday night’s episode of the Daily Show, calling him a “cheating f**k” after an NFL investigation concluded that the quarterback likely knew that his footballs were being deflated in last year’s AFC championship game.

After 17 years at the helm, Jon Stewart revealed Monday night he would host The Daily Show for the last time on August 6.

Daily Show successor Trevor Noah has been scrutinized for his joke choices since an announcement he would take over for Jon Stewart later this year, but now he is being accused of stealing his material, altogether. Channel NewsAsia recently sat

After more than six years of having to monitor Jon Stewart (man alive, I can’t wait for this guy to go away), I am gobsmacked to discover that America’s Speech Sheriff has decided to go out defending something he has

Embattled Daily Show successor Trevor Noah’s stepfather once attempted to hunt him down and kill him after shooting his mother in the face.

The Orlando Sentinel reports SeaWorld critic and former trainer John Hargrove is coming under scrutiny for repeatedly using the N-word while possibly intoxicated in a video SeaWorld reportedly released Tuesday.

Trevor Noah had barely endured 12 hours of conservative criticism about his past Twitter comments when the left began to voice its outrage, as well. Liberal critics focused in particular on Noah’s jokes about women. Yet while both left and right seized on Noah’s Twitter feed, the spirit of criticism was not quite the same for each.

The left-wing Comedy Central released a statement Tuesday in defense of Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” replacement Trevor Noah and a series of jokes that the likes of a Comedy Central would immediately condemn as racist if they were told by

Trevor Noah, the newly-named replacement for Jon Steward on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, is still an unknown quantity to many Americans. Curious fans and critics, eager to learn more about the South African comedian, have been combing the Internet for clues, and have turned up troubling comments about Israel and Jews that have some wondering if the new host will, like Stewart (Leibowitz), take to hiding his Jewish-sounding name to avoid controversy. (I kid.)

South African comedian Timothy Noah has been named to succeed Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Noah is talented and funny, and as a fellow native son of South Africa, I wish him well. Unfortunately, Noah is a mismatch for the show. Stewart would be a tough act to follow in any circumstances, but Noah lacks any obvious fluency in American politics or media, and his specialty in racial and ethnic humor suggest that his repertoire will remain limited.

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart spent a portion of Thursday night’s The Daily Show bashing Fox News, which in and of itself is not newsworthy. However, this time the soon-to-be retired host enlisted the help of director George Lucas.

World-renowned author and staunch critic of Islam Ayaan Hirsi Ali appeared on the The Daily Show this week, where host Jon Stewart attempted to challenge her assertion that Islam is different from the world’s three major Abrahamic religions–Judaism, Christianity, and Islam–as Hirsi Ali asserts in her latest book, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now.

Jon Stewart did his level best to minimize the Hillary Clinton email scandal last week, a mess even MSNBC and The New York Times immediately slammed as significant. It’s what he’s done for 16-plus years — smite the right and

Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart mocked Hillary Clinton for her press conference addressing the scandal over her e-mails on Wednesday. Stewart first attacked Clinton’s suggestion that she set up a private server because carrying two devices would be

After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress Tuesday, Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham was right to apologize for a comment he made about House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s “surgeries.” What’s surprising, though, is that this was not the

Last week, pro wrestler Seth Rollins trash-talked “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart, saying his show was “unwatchable,” and bragged he could be a much better host of “Daily Show” than Stewart. Stewart then responded to Rollins with a video saying,

Over at Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, Harry Enten took a look at the science, facts, and numbers surrounding The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and confirmed what Breitbart News has been saying for years: that the elite media way over-hyped Stewart’s influence

The New York Post’s Kyle Smith dissects Jon Stewart’s Daily Show segment defending disgraced NBC New Managing Editor Brian Williams.

Conservative icon and talk radio host Rush Limbaugh believes Jon Stewart may be leaving The Daily Show because he knows that the country is going to get even more fed up with Democrats. Limbaugh said that he was looking at

On Thursday’s broadcast Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” a panel that included host Sean Hannity, Deroy Murdoch, Richard Fowler and Tom Shillue discussed the departure of Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart from his signature program, “The Daily Show.” While all three of