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6 hrs ago | TheCelebrityCafe

'The Daily Show' recap 6/18: Immigration Reform and Jim Gaffigan

The June 18, 2013 episode of The Daily Show focuses on immigration reform, and Jim Gaffigan's new book Dad is Fat .

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, US News

14 hrs ago | OpEdNews

Nowhere Near the Road to Damascus

I Have Seen the Light! Glory Gee to Beezus I Have Seen the Light! And since being filled with this Grand and Glorious Light I feel compelled to share The Good News of my Epiphany to everyone I know.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, US News, Liberal Political News

Tue Jun 18, 2013

The Huffington Post

'Daily Show' Skewers Evangelical's Claim That Gays Bully Christians

In her latest segment for "The Daily Show," comedian Samantha Bee openly mocks an evangelical's claim that Christians are "bullied" by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Gay/Lesbian, The Christians, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Transgender

OregonLive.com

TV Tonight: 'Pretty Little Liars,' 'The Voice' finale, 'The Daily Show'

"Pretty Little Liars": The popular teen soap continues its new season, but what's this? On tonight's episode, "A" almost kills Mona? Noooooooo! "The Voice": Things are pretty lively over on "The Voice," too.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Movies

TV Squad

Linda Cardellini Got Her TV Start On A Game Show

Linda Cardellini is wowing critics and fans alike with her turn as Sylvia Rosen on "Mad Men."

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Mad Men, Freaks and Geeks, Comedy, Linda Cardellini

The American Prospect

John Oliver's Summer Audition

Stewart may be restless enough with his long-standing gig to take the summer off playing movie director, but that doesn't mean he wants a dauphin getting funny ideas.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television

The Sydney Morning Herald

Seven's new chat show cuts up rough

Kris Smith said it best right at the start of Seven's new afternoon panel show, The Daily Edition, yesterday: "The point of difference is that I'm going to speak to you in a completely different language."

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, The View

Free Republic

John Oliver Starts Mocking Palin Returning To Fox, Then Has...

John Oliver began his second week guest-hosting The Daily Show welcoming Sarah Palin back to Fox News.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, US Governors, Sarah Palin

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Daily Kos

John Oliver's Daily Show/Colbert Report Rerun Midnight Teatime 06.17.13

Far from resisting the exploitation of their students, colleges have made academic credit a commodity.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Menlo College, 9, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, New York University

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Gay.com

Antigay Folks Are a Joke

Settling into his stint guest-hosting The Daily Show, John Oliver offered rapid-fire digs at opponents to LGBT equality on a recent episode.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Gay/Lesbian

Fri Jun 14, 2013

Salon

Jon Stewart who?: John Oliver's "Daily Show" is almost too good

Starting this past week, and for the next three months, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" will be "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" with John Oliver.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, In the Loop

Salon

Must-see morning clip: The Boy Scouts of America makes progresssort of

The Boy Scouts of America recently lifted a ban on homosexuality, allowing troupe members to be openly gay - but maintains that scout leaders cannot be gay.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Dining, Short, Music!

Examiner.com

Dunkin' Donuts rant update: IndieGogo effort for Abid Adar nears $10K

People have been livid over the Dunkin' Donuts rant posted by Taylor Chapman on YouTube.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television

National Public Radio

John Oliver: Topical Comedy With A Crisp Accent

With Daily Show host Jon Stewart on leave for the summer, comedian John Oliver has stepped in to host the show that's become his television home base.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, John Oliver, Emmy Awards

Daily Kos

Colbert Report a rerun; his mother died. (Also, TDS & Totally Biased are on) 6.13.13

Thursday night's Colbert Report will be a rerun so that its star, Stephen Colbert, can be with his family after his mother, Lorna Colbert, died Wednesday at the age of 92. This according to Dan Dinello, via Twitter, who has worked with Stephen and whose nephew and son are on staff of the Report.

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Related Topix: The Colbert Report, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, University of South Carolina, Medical University of South Carolina

Thu Jun 13, 2013

Deadline

EMMYS: Category For TV Variety Series

Both Real Time and its predecessor, ABC's Politically Incorrect , have garnered noms every single year they've been on the air, going back to 1995.

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Related Topix: Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Politically Incorrect, Real Time With Bill Maher, Comedy, New York

Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph

"No Spy Should Have That Big a Tell": Daily Show on Clapper's Senate Testimony Lies

"No spy should have that big a tell," notes John Oliver, the temporary host of The Daily Show, in a very funny bit about recent revelations about state surveillance.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Radio Times

The secret of British comedy success in the US

The British are coming! The UK comedy army is storming the US, led in the first wave by General Russell Brand and Ricky Gervais and ably supported by a raft of staff officers, from Simon Pegg to Sacha Baron Cohen.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, World News, United Kingdom

The Spokesman-Review

Late-night TV - Thu, 13 Jun 2013 PST

Fareed Zakaria is scheduled on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart " Usher and She & Him appear on " Conan " Ross Mathews guest-hosts Melissa Joan Hart, Thomas Dale, Loni Love and Ryan Stout on " Chelsea Lately" Kjerstin Gruys sits down on "The Colbert Report" .

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, She & Him, Late Show With David Letterman, Celebrities, David Letterman, The Tonight Show

Mediaite.com

John Oliver Tears Into Media's Superficial Snowden Coverage, Mocks 'Frat House' Joe Scarborough

John Oliver continued his first week guest-hosting The Daily Show tonight by examining how the media has covered the NSA whistleblowing scandal and the superficial way Snowden is being branded either a hero or a traitor by pundits across the spectrum.

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