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April 16, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Comedy World Righteously Roasts Trump Over Gettysburg Gaffe
People can’t stop cracking up over the former president’s bizarre, bumbling speech.
January 24, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Conservatives Are Totally Not Mad About Jon Stewart’s Return to The Daily Show
Apparently the political comedian pushes the right’s buttons without even saying a word.
December 27, 2019
Alex Shephard
The Daily Show’s Rally to Restore Sanity Predicted a Decade of Liberal Futility
The pathologies that have plagued the left were all on display one October day in 2010.
April 3, 2017
Jasmine Bager
Egypt’s Jon Stewart Is Not Done Laughing
How Bassem Youssef, a heart doctor from Cairo, turned comedy into a serious mission.
February 9, 2017
Jeet Heer
Comedy Won’t Defeat Trump, But That’s Not the Point
Jokes helped him win the presidency. They will help his opponents survive it.
February 2, 2017
Graham Vyse
The Trump Era Is Al Franken’s Time to Shine
The Minnesota senator has emerged from the shadows to make life hell for Republicans. Now he should do the same to Trump.
August 15, 2016
Eric Kleefeld
Smug liberals have been right all along.
December 11, 2015
Hayley Jones
Watch Jon Stewart channel his inner Trump.
September 26, 2015
David Tobia
Trevor Noah Didn't Come From Nowhere
How being everyone and no one defines the new Daily Show host’s comedy
June 3, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Comedians Are Funny, Not Public Intellectuals
March 31, 2015
Jeet Heer
Andy Borowitz Is the Only Comedian Qualified to Replace Jon Stewart
March 30, 2015
Esther Breger
Trevor Noah Is the Latest Sign of Late Night's International Wave
November 13, 2014
Esther Breger
Jon Stewart's Iranian Drama Only Shines When It Tries to Be Funny
July 16, 2014
Esther Breger
Hillary Clinton Tells Jon Stewart She Wants an Office Without Corners
April 28, 2014
Esther Breger
Some Advice for John Oliver: Stop Imitating 'The Daily Show'
October 30, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Jon Stewart Mocks CNN For All The Wrong Reasons
October 23, 2013
Laura Bennett
Malcolm Gladwell Gets Defensive with Jon Stewart
October 10, 2013
Laura Bennett
Jon Stewart Was Made for Shutdown Jokes
August 13, 2013
Marc Tracy
BuzzFeed Feeds on Anthony Weiner's Diminishing Buzz
June 6, 2013
Laura Bennett
John Oliver is Still an Outsider
And that's just what the increasingly insidery, decreasingly funny 'Daily Show' needs

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