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I don't know what his ratings are, but The Daily Show regularly pulls in top notch guests.

We all know who Stephen Colbert considers to be his most worthy foe--himself. He tells us so every time he does a Formidable Opponent bit, in which he argues with different versions of himself over the topics of the day.

Jon Stewart devoted a good third of "The Daily Show" Thursday to a topic that's front and center in our national conversation: Glenn Beck's appendix.

The "Daily Show" writer/comedian appears at City Arts & Lectures on Saturday; no word on the ferret.

Following Tuesday's elections, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart focused on the efforts of the losers to "polish that turd" by portraying themselves as having won no matter what the outcome.

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart finds it "very sad" that former Vice President Dick Cheney seems to be suffering from signs of premature senility.

White House communications director Anita Dunn recently claimed that Fox News was "more a wing of the Republican Party." "They take their talking points, put them on the air; take their opposition research, put them on the air.

American author and humorist John Hodgman has appeared as the Resident Expert on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," "PC" on Apple's "Get a Mac" TV ads, and was the headline speaker at the 2009 Radio and Television Correspondents dinner in Washington D.C. After graduating from Yale in 1994, he toiled in the trenches of the publishing industry.

Lewis Black, performing at the BJCC Concert Hall tonight. Tickets $32.50-$55 through Ticketmaster.

How do we characterize rape in the mass media and in legislation, and how do those characterizations differ from how we represent hate crimes? My argument is this: rape is a hate crime.

Anna Baltzer writes: Last night Dr. Barghouti and I were on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart talking about Palestine.

Jon Stewart's comedy news show The Daily Show is reportedly under fire from pro-Israeli groups for giving airtime to two pro-Palestinian figures on Wednesday night.

Anna Baltzer and Mustafa Barghouti advocate a non-violent approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in this complete, unedited interview.

Last week's "30 Rock" lampooned the notion of a critic-driven show watering down its content to appeal to a broader audience.

From left, the panelists Adam Felber, Paula Poundstone and Mo Rocca on "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me" on Thursday.

But one author you won't see on The Daily Show is its executive producer, Josh Lieb, who has written a satirical fantasy for teens, I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President .

"Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" took the long road to Carnegie Hall. In this publicity image released by NPR, Carl Kasell, left, and Peter Sagal from the NPR satirical news quiz show, "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!" are shown.

"The Daily Show" alum Rob Corddry has a deal with Warner Bros. TV to create, exec produce and star in an "unconventional family comedy," Variety reports.

Jon Stewart and his staff are working on a sequel to their 2004 best seller, the textbook parody America .

So far, the list of Al Franken's bills in the U.S. Senate reads more like the stuff of everyday life than legislative legend.