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
Shares of Viacom, the parent company of Comedy Central, slid 1.5% on Wednesday after The Daily Show host Jon Stewart announced he would leave the program later this year.
Jon Stewart announced Tuesday that he will be leaving The Daily Show he has hosted on Comedy Central since 1999. The reaction from the media has been a gushing geyser of praise and, occasionally, an acknowledgement that his comedy mostly appealed to the far left.
Jon Stewart announced Wednesday that he will step down from the his “Daily Show” hosting duties sometime this year or early next. The unbiased, objective, not-at-all liberal media is already deep in mourning. With Stewart gone, the media know they
At the end of his Tuesday broadcast, Comedy Central “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart explained to his studio audience his decision to leave the show at a date that has yet to be determined. “[I]t’s going to be —
Erstwhile comedian Jon Stewart will no longer helm Comedy Central’s flagship late-night program The Daily Show, the network has confirmed.
At the opening of his Monday “The Daily Show” broadcast on Comedy Central reacted to the controversies swirling around embattled NBC “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams. Stewart mocked the increased media scrutiny of Williams and his career, but went on
Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” mocked participants in the 2015 World Economic Forum (WEF) for what he argued was hypocrisy on Thursday. After reporting that around 1,700 private jets will be used to fly WEF participants
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is tired of liberals asserting that somehow only Democrats care about the poor because they unconditionally support more welfare spending. “I think that they’ve gotten away with the argument that they are more compassionate than we are, but I think that we have a very true story to tell about how our policies actually help people who are trying to make it – much more than their policies,” he says.
On Monday’s “The Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart scolded former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) for quitting his Saturday night Fox News show to take another shot at the White House as a Republican candidate. According to Stewart, Huckabee had made
A Palestinian journalist has penned an open letter to French President François Hollande, protesting the fact that France invited Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to participate in last Sunday’s march in Paris against terror and in memory of the slain journalists of Charlie Hebdo. “Abbas is personally responsible for punishing Palestinian journalists who dare to criticize him or express their views in public,” the letter declares.
Sen. Marco Rubio continues his media blitz while promoting his new book, featuring an appearance on the Daily Show last night with Jon Stewart. For a Republican, it’s an important test. Can you face an aggressive liberal host with an audience giving him the upper hand in an argument?
On his Tuesday radio show, conservative talk show host Mark Levin reacted to former President Jimmy Carter’s appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” a night earlier and took aim at Carter and show Jon Stewart. Levin took particular issue
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart became the latest celebrity to climb aboard the anti-Rupert Murdoch bandwagon Monday night by referring to the media magnate as “his excellency from the republic of Media Conglomistad.”
On Monday’s “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, host Jon Stewart used his opening segment to question why no high-ranking official from the United States participated in Sunday’s rally in Paris against Islamic terrorism in the wake of the shooting
On Monday’s episode on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” former President Jimmy Carter suggested there was a link between the Paris terrorist attack on the French magazine Charlie Hedbo and the ongoing dispute involving the Palestinians. According to the former
On Thursday’s broadcast of “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, conservative commentator Mark Steyn admonished satirist reluctant to stand with the slain at Charlie Hebdo and was particularly critical of Comedy Central host Jon Stewart, who offered a statement on
During the opening to his Thursday radio show, conservative host Rush Limbaugh reacted to remarks made by late-night comics Conan O’Brien and Jon Stewart the night before reacting to the killing of 12 the offices of the French magazine Charlie
On Wednesday’s “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, host Jon Stewart opened his program with a tribute to Charlie Hebdo in a statement explaining that those in “comedy” should not have face these sort of attacks and he condemned those
On Thursday’s “The Daily Show,” comedian Chris Rock, star of the movie “Top Five” out now, and would-be competitor to the canceled “The Interview” reacted to the controversy in his interview with host Jon Stewart. Rock said his movie was
On Thursday’s “The Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart reacted to the decision by Sony to cancel the release of next week’s “The Interview” due to apparent hacking and threats that have come from North Korea over the films controversial content.
On his Monday program, Comedy Central “The Daily Show” anchor Jon Stewart apologized for a recent error he had made by including the San Bernardino Co., CA Dante Parker case in a list of incidents of police brutality across the
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “On the Record With Greta van Susteren,” San Bernardino, CA District Attorney Mike Ramos took Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart to task accusing him of getting his facts totally wrong when on
A local district attorney has taken Comedy Central host Jon Stewart to task for his comments in the wake of the Ferguson controversy, in which Stewart implied that police killed black suspects out of racial motives. San Bernadino County D.A.
On Sunday, Vulture.com released an interview between leftist media sycophant Frank Rich and comedian Chris Rock. The interview covered Ferguson, media, President Obama, and Bill Cosby, among other topics. According to Rock, Republicans won in 2014 because they “have no
The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook,Daily Show Video Archive On his Tuesday broadcast, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” anchor Jon Stewart attacked newly-reelected House Minority Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for her insistence that Rep. Tammy
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com On Friday’s “The O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel, host Bill O’Reilly sparred with Comedy Central “The Daily Show” anchor Jon Stewart over the results of the midterm elections earlier this month. Stewart
