• This Is the Moment Jon Stewart Became ‘Daily Show’ Jon Stewart

    Thank you, Rosie O’Donnell for bailing on a gig at the last minute

  • ‘The Daily Show’: Jon Stewart Calls Out Cable News Networks For How They Cover Donald Trump Amid Hush Money Trial

    Jon Stewart led Monday’s episode of The Daily Show with Donald Trump’s hush money trial and dinged news networks for how they cover it. “This trial will obviously be a test of the fairness of the American legal system, but it’s also a test of the media’s ability to cover Donald Trump in a responsible […]

  • Jon Stewart returns to The Daily Show after a weekend of “AHHHHHHH”

    Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show tonight with stories full of contradictions. After a weekend in which the news was routinely bleak, hyping up World War III following Iran’s missile-guided response to Israel, Stewart stuffed as much as he could into the show’s first 15 minutes. He bounced from the U.S.’s arbitrary gerrymandering of the Middle East to Trump falling asleep in court with a single scream. Stewart often plays the role of audience surrogate, channeling the viewer’s anger and...

  • 'Desire and age-related confusion': Jon Stewart shreds media coverage of Trump's NYC trial

    Did Jon Stewart just call "Fake News?" Stewart made his weekly appearance on the Daily Show the same day of opening statements in Trump's criminal hush money trial, but it was the media's coverage of minute detail that the comedian took to task. "At some point at this trial, something important is going to happenbut none of us are going to notice," Stewart said. "It's your classic 'Boy who called Wolf' — Blitzer!" In his return to political satire, Stewart has skewered Republican Sen....

  • JESSE WATTERS: This is a political show trial that Trump's not allowed to describe

    Fox News host Jesse Watters questions the legal standing of the gag order on former President Trump in the NY vs. Trump trial Tuesday on "Jesse Watters Primetime." JESSE WATTERS: The trial of the century. Day six, the crime the Democrats still haven't named. They call it "hush money." We call it a pawn star shakedown. Nothing in the law calls either illegal.  Trump's free speech went on trial today. Democrat prosecutors want the former president fined for talking – $1,000 a pop. Something tells...

  • Jon Stewart hits out at the media's obsessive Trump trial coverage

    Jon Stewart has taken aim at the media for their obsessive coverage of Trump's trial on "The Daily Show".

  • Jon Stewart Exposes 'Mundane Bulls t' That Could Undermine Trump Trial

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  • Jon Stewart thinks the jury's out on cable news' Trump trial coverage

    It was the first day of Donald Trump’s hush-money trial, and while we don’t have much to say about the allegedly sleepy, flatulent-laden proceedings, Jon Stewart sure did. Appearing on tonight’s Daily Show, Stewart took out his red pen and gave the media a big, fat “F” for its first day of coverage. It turns out that simply saying you’ve learned many lessons over the last eight years doesn’t make it accurate. Stewart set the segment up by reminding his viewers that this was a historic test of...

  • Daily Show Tortures Pinata To Cope With Trump Leading Latino Vote

    Actor and alleged comedian John Leguizamo joined Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central to have a calm and rational, adult-like reaction to polling that shows Donald Trump leading among Latinos. Just kidding, he decided to torture a piñata while going off a profanity-ridden Spanish tirade. Translated into English (hat tip to NewsBusters' Jorge Bonilla), as he mauled the poor piñata, Leguizamo ranted, "Shit, [bleep]dammit, triple son of a [bleep], mother[bleep], [unintelligible]...

  • Daily Show Tortures Pinata To Cope With Trump Leading Latino Vote

    Actor and alleged comedian John Leguizamo joined Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central to have a calm and rational, adult-like reaction to polling that shows Donald Trump leading among Latinos. Just kidding, he decided to torture a piñata while going off a profanity-ridden Spanish tirade. Translated into English (hat tip to NewsBusters' Jorge Bonilla), as he mauled the poor piñata, Leguizamo ranted, "Shit, [bleep]dammit, triple son of a [bleep], mother[bleep], [unintelligible]...

  • Jon Stewart blasts media coverage of Trump trial: ‘Spectacle of the most banal of details’

    Late-night hosts talk about the media coverage of Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial after first day of argumentsLate-night hosts talk Donald Trump’s defense arguments and media coverage of his first criminal trial in New York. Continue reading

  • 'The Daily Show' mocks Trump with 5 minutes of brutal trial jokes

    "The Daily Show" host Dulcé Sloan broke down the key moments from the second day of Trump's trial on Tuesday.