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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…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »
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,"…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »
(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!)…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »