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Do you approach the so-called "holiday" season with a wary eye and a crate of Pepto Bismol? Then you'll probably enjoy the History Channel's Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black , which debuted yesterday and is being shown again this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

As Politico's Laura Rozen points out , there is a remarkable moment of black comedy in the Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari's personal account of his recent captivity and interrogation in Tehran's Evin prison.

By Ken Ronnan Published Tue, Nov 17 2009 2:11 pm MSNBC's Keith Olberman compliments "The Daily Show" on its catch that Fox News' Sean Hannity used videotape from a Sept.

British comedian John Oliver, who stars on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, is to host his own show on Comedy Central, the US cable channel.

"We wrap him in bacon and deep fry him at a state fair while Lee Greenwood stabs him in the face." - Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" on 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Seriously now, who doesn't agree? You'd have to be defective in your humanity not to.

John Oliver, a correspondent on The Daily Show, is giving a performance at Richardson Auditorium this Saturday at 9 p.m. To prepare you for this here are several of Oliver's clips from The Daily Show.

John Oliver, the lanky-haired Brummie comedian who moved to America to try out his funny accent on the natives and has risen to something near fame as "Senior British Correspondent" on the The Daily Show, is being rewarded in the only way that is appropriate with his own weekly US show.

Comedy Central said Wednesday it has ordered six episodes of "John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show" from Avalon Television.

Visit ComedyCentral.com for more on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, including videos, games and photo galleries.

John Oliver, a correspondent for "The Daily Show with John Stewart" since 2006,is stepping out into his own show.

Vice President Joe Biden is downplaying news the government Web site Recovery.gov reported hundreds of millions of stimulus dollars spent on projects in congressional districts that in fact do not actually exist.

A Nov. 16 NewsReal post by Paul Cooper bashes outgoing White House communications director for noting that "Jon Stewart of the Daily Show on Comedy CentralThat's where you are getting fact-checking, investigative journalism these days," asserting that this statement means "Dunn actually believes The Daily Show is more legitimate journalism than ...

"Daily Show" producer Ramin Hedayati spends his morning flipping back and forth between the "Today Show" and "The Early Show," glancing at major news sites and political blogs and reading The New York Times.

I'm not sure what's more amazing: That Fox News exposed a falsehood spread by conservative darling Sarah Palin , or that the Daily Show dug up footage suggesting the channel should be fact checking its own programs, too.

The "Daily Show" starring Jon Stewart recently featured a piece by Sean Hannity.

When Samantha Bee stands up to do a report on "The Daily Show," she could be in Washington, Baghdad or Moscow, courtesy of the fake backdrops behind her.

Anita Dunn , President Barack Obamaa s outgoing communications director, renewed her attacks against Fox News as she praised the a oeinvestigative journalisma of Comedy Centrala s Jon Stewart and said MSNBC was not a biased cable news network.

Cognitive Daily reports nearly every day on fascinating peer-reviewed developments in cognition from the most respected scientists in the field.

Producers at Fox News either lied about the size of a right-wing protest -- or really screwed up the tape.

Longtime Missouri Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond, a stalwart Republican, has said more than a few things in his lengthy political career to draw the comedic wrath of Daily Show host Jon Stewart.