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The Daily Show‘s Death Panel Panel

Gabe — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:04:39 +0000

I went out to lunch yesterday (my life is crazy!) with a friend (that’s right, a friend!) who picked me up in his car (“boom” — your mind). He had been listening to NPR on the drive over to pick me up, and he told me that NPR had used the word “delusional” more than a dozen times to describe the country. I had no idea what he was talking about! Well, what he was talking about was the furious debate that is now going on, spurred forward by genuine, clinical coconut Sarah Palin, who, I mean, it is just, like, WHAT? Why does anyone even listen to a single word that comes out of her heavily made-up mouth? It’s 2009, you guys. Her six months of being taken as a legitimate human being are over. But so, she claimed that Barack Obama’s health care reform bill would include forced euthanasia and “death panels”? And she claimed this on HER FACEBOOK PAGE? And now it is a real thing that people in the country are scared of? DID YOU GUYS HEAR THAT “WAR OF THE WORLDS” PROGRAM ON THE TRANSISTOR LAST NIGHT? NOT FOR NOTHING, BUT I REALLY THOUGHT WE WAS BEING TOOK OVER.

Unbelievable. I’m not sure if there is room in my bunker for all of us, but I will try to make some more room! Anyway, this death panel panel from last night’s Daily Show, with John Oliver, Samantha Bee, and Aasif Mandvi is funny.

Jon Stewart Shows Joe Scarborough His Napoleonic Complex

Lindsay Robertson — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:30:59 +0000

If you’ve been watching The Daily Show this week, you’ve noticed a feud is brewing between Jon and Joe Scarborough, whose show, Morning Joe, has a 10 million dollar product placement deal with Starbucks. It all started when Scarborough and his crew did an entire show complimenting Starbucks and interviewing the Starbucks CEO, so Jon made fun of them appropriately, and Scarborough lashed back, claiming he was just being “sarcastic” in flaunting the product placement. The feud continued yesterday when Scarborough basically called Jon an angry little man with “a Napoleonic complex.” Oops, it seems those were the magic words!

Community Actually Does Look Fantastic

Lindsay Robertson — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:36:54 +0000

NBC announced today that they’re picking up the Joel McHale/Chevy Chase/John Oliver comedy Community, about a sleazy lawyer forced to go back to community college, and they released this new long trailer for it, in which it looks, in a word, hilarious. It actually contains at least one laugh out loud moment! (In an NBC TV show trailer!) And don’t miss Derrick Comedy‘s Donald Glover as Troy. “Let’s discuss this creepiness”:

Jon Stewart’s Pirate Coverage May Be Late, But It’s The Best

Lindsay Robertson — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:44:57 +0000

The Daily Show was off Monday night for no reason, so last night, when Jon Stewart launched into the show’s lead story about the big pirate crisis that began last week, we could all be forgiven for thinking “Shit, Jon, everyone’s already made all the jokes about this! Stop!” But once again TDS used their ever-growing timeliness handicap to their advantage with a two-part, hilarious pirate package that literally had something for everyone, including Muppet scat and a high-tech computer simulation of the rescue:

The Daily Show Mocks Glenn Beck, Who Is Crazy

Lindsay Robertson — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:39:10 +0000

Last night’s Daily Show made civic uproar fun again with two segments about outraged Americans: IndigNation! Populist Uprising ’09 – The Enragening, about those who want to “teabag the White House,” and the hilarious internet meme that is Glenn Beck, and Rage In The Streets, John Oliver’s report from the streets of New York, where thousands of green-clad demonstrators were “vomiting in protest” of the AIG scandal yesterday. (Get it?)

Jon Stewart: The George W. Bush To Hugh Jackman’s Obama

Lindsay Robertson — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:27:02 +0000

One (hopefully) last thing concerning the thing everyone’s totally sick of that was The Oscars: last night The Daily Show returned just in time to cover the Academy Awards, which for the past two years has been hosted by Jon Stewart. So, in the guise of Oscar coverage, correspondent John Oliver concluded that Jon didn’t host this year because our country was ready for the change represented by Hugh Jackman (and his “spectacular Australian cock.”) The funniest part, though, is at the end, when Oliver’s impression of Jon’s desperate need for attention and validation as a “sad clown” crosses the line into being kind of true about all performers, even our humble J-Stew.

Wyatt Cenac Calls John Oliver A Jerk

Lindsay Robertson — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:14:18 +0000

In the latest episode of New York Magazine’s surprisingly little-seen web series Going Up With Dave Hill, in which comedian Dave Hill interviews people in the elevator of New York Magazine’s offices while random people ride along with them, Dave talks to The Daily Show‘s Wyatt Cenac about working on TDS, and Wyatt takes the piss out of his coworker John Oliver. Dave also reveals that he was bitten in the face by a dog:

Wyatt’s movie, Medicine For Melancholy, opens this weekend in NY.

There’s An Even More Embarrassing Video Of Evil Pundit Matthew Vadum

Lindsay Robertson — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:42:56 +0000

(This week, we’re highlighting some of our favorite Videogum posts / video-related moments of 2008. So that’s why things look different, and are old, this week. And Happy Almost New Year!)

Originally posted on Videogum on October 31, 2008:

So this morning, when I called for the, um, “further humiliation” of Matthew Vadum, the pundit who appeared on The Daily Show last night and wouldn’t stop saying that all community organizers trade crack cocaine for votes, never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that this video montage (set to “I’m Too Sexy,” of course) of Matthew with celebrities ranging from Condi Rice to Christopher Hitchens, and drunk girls from what’s her face to other drunk girl, existed. Also, embarrassing photos from his youth? And Vadum dressed up for Halloween? Is that Shayne Lamas from The Bachelor? Omg, is that Lara fucking Spencer at 2:05? Maybe not, but BEST HALLOWEEN EVER:

There’s An Even More Embarrassing Video Of Evil Pundit Matthew Vadum

Lindsay Robertson — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:41:09 +0000

Let’s Make Matthew Vadum Bad-Famous

Lindsay Robertson — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:12:00 +0000

Look carefully at this guy’s face, if you can stand it. His name is Matthew Vadum, from the Capital Research Center, and he’s the, excuse my language, M-F who said on last night’s Daily Show: “It’s a straight line from community organizing to crack cocaine dealing. Community organizers exchange crack cocaine for votes.” Study his face carefully. If we see him, we’re going to point at him and say “Matthew Vadum from the Capital Research Center, you are an idiot, sir.” and we’re going to laugh. UNBELIEVABLE clip, and some information on this piece of, excuse my language, z-list pundit garbage, after the jump.