Stephen Colbert teasing South Carolina about a run for the presidency is becoming one of America's great political traditions, right up there with awkward photographs of candidates eating corn dogs at the Iowa State Fair. On Thursday night he said he was setting up an exploratory committee after a Public Policy Polling survey put him ahead of the...
If anyone can make a mockery of the newest campaign finance innovation, the ''super PAC,'' it's Stephen Colbert. Mr. Colbert, the Comedy Central television host, has made jokes at the expense of super PACs for months -- forming his own group, soliciting money for it, then running an ad that featured Buddy Roemer, a long-shot candidate who has...
JIMMY FALLON had them crying in the aisles on July 14 -- and he couldn't have been happier. ''I was so psyched,'' he said. And why not? There were tears of joy flowing not in his studio but in the aisles of his offices at NBC at the big news: His two-year-old show had grabbed one of the Emmy nominations for a variety, music or comedy series in the...
Jon Stewart (født Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz den 28. november 1962) er en amerikansk-jødisk komiker, skuespiller, forfatter og fjernsynsproducer, bedst kendt som vært på talkshowet The Daily Show, som sendes af Comedy Central, der ejes af Viacom. Det er navnlig disse udsendelser, der har gjort Stewart kendt, men har også medvirket i et enkelt afsnit af komedieserien Spin City. Han har desuden vakt en del opmærksomhed som kritiker af de etablerede nyhedsmedier. Han definerer selv sit show som primært komedie, men en undersøgelse i forbindelse med præsidentvalget i 2004 viste, at The Daily Shows seere var bedre orienteret om valgets politiske indhold end seere, der havde fulgt CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox News eller CNNs valgdækning.
Efter i nogle år at have arbejdet sammen med Stewart på The Daily Show har hans kollega Stephen Colbert fået sit eget, "The Colbert Report". De to refererer flittigt og koordineret til hinandens udsendelser. Fold ud