UPDATED WITH VIDEO: “As you can imagine, it’s been a wild day around here. You may remember a few years back there was a gentleman on this program by the name of Stephen Colbert,” Jon Stewart said tonight at the top of his Comedy Central program The Daily Show, addressing CBS‘ hire of Colbert to replace David Letterman…

For years in the 1990s, Comedy Central was considered nothing more than an incubator for late-night talent. Its first notable weeknight late-night show, Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher, originated there and ran for three years — from 1993-96 — before ABC snatched it to get into the late-night talk-show game…

“Today, satellite data seemed to confirm the worst,” Jon Stewart said of the latest missing-plane news. “I think we all feared this story would end in tragedy and so, early on, we turned to the news media for a sense of sober clarity,” Stewart said. Kidding! Watch…

Upright Citizens Brigade’s Jordan Klepper has been tapped as a new regular correspondent on Comedy Central‘s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. He will make his first appearance tonight, reporting “live” from Ukraine. He joins fellow correspondents Samantha Bee, Jason Jones, Aasif Mandvi and Jessica Williams. Daily Show…

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver will premiere on April 27, HBO announced today. The new weekly satire show from the former Daily Show With Jon Stewart correspondent and stand-in host will air at 11 PM.  Last Week Tonight will be produced for HBO by Avalon Television, with Oliver, Tim Carvell, James Taylor and Jon…

It's safe to say that finally losing out on the Emmy last year didn't ruin anyone's career. Quite the contrary. Amid a flurry of promotions on Comedy Central's late-night staple, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart has given three series veterans their executive producer stripes. Steve Bodow, Jen Flanz and Adam Lowitt are…

“As a student of history one of the things we’ve learned is that the mightiest dynasties eventually crumble,” Jon Stewart said last night on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, launching into a report on the “trouble for the preeminent dynasty of our age” after A&E Network put Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil…

“Go fuck yourself,” Jon Stewart told the media — but, mostly, Fox News Channel —  in response to an orchestra of news talking heads having pointed to Stewart’s snarking about the Affordable Care Act as proof of its failure. "If you've lost Jon Stewart you're in trouble," FNC’s Howard Kurtz said at the top of Stewart’s…

The fake news show host took Jeff Zucker's cable news network to the journalistic woodshed last night over their persistent use of the question "is that a good thing or a bad thing?" From politics to the Jody Arias trial to the economy and seemingly everything in-between, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart called CNN out on…

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EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that three veterans of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart — co-executive producers Adam Lowitt, Jennifer Flanz and Steve Bodow — are being tapped as new showrunners for Comedy Central‘s long-running late-night show. They would succeed Rory Albanese, who last week left to move to Los Angeles for…

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart executive producer/showrunner Rory Albanese is leaving Comedy Central’s popular late-night program to pursue a career in primetime comedy. Albanese, who also is a standup comedian, has signed a double blind script development deal with Warner Bros TV and has sold one project…