With President Obama leaving the White House, we also have to say goodbye to one of our favorite bromances of all-time. Yup, you know what we’re talking about. The leader of the free world and his “brother” Vice President Joe Biden. Spring forward A photo posted by Vice President Joe Biden (@vp) on Mar 8,…
Fake news is continuing to make real headlines. On Sunday, 28-year-old Edgar Maddison entered Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington, DC, armed with an assault rifle, on a mission to investigate an online conspiracy theory. According to a statement made by The Metropolitan Police Department, Maddison was there because of “Pizza Gate,” an internet rumor…
It’s not clear why our friends at Digg just re-surfaced this appearance by David Blaine on Jon Stewart’s eponymous MTV show from 1993. Perhaps it’s because this election year has felt like we’ve all been stuffing six inch steel nails up our noses. But on a show (October 27, 1993) filled only with Jewish guests…
On the brink of Thanksgiving, your mind is likely on the holiday – its pleasures and stresses alike – but find some time this week to indulge in great new reads, the long-heralded return of Amy Sherman Palladino’s “Gilmore Girls,” and, if you can drag yourself off your couch, concerts and plays in Chicago, Los…
Jon Stewart may have been a much-missed voice this past election season, but he’s showed up to provide both comfort — see him coloring away his grief in this week’s “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” — and, more recently, some uncompromising observations about understanding the result. Appearing on CBS’s “This Morning” yesterday, Stewart sat down…
There’s plenty of candid tidbits in Megyn Kelly’s new memoir “Settle for More.” The Fox News anchor details the well-publicized sexual harassment scandal with Roger Ailes, her feud with Donald Trump, and chronicles her rise to the top. But one story, a little known anecdote about what happened after Jon Stewart attacked her for a…
Samantha Bee, the host of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” was in a sad mood when she shot her Monday night show. “There’s a lot of blaming going on,” she said. “Bernie supporters blaming Democrats for nominating Hillary, Hillary supporters blaming Bernie supporters for damaging their candidate. The media blaming Hillary for blaming the media.”…
As Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency, scores of celebrities — among them Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham, Chelsea Handler, Jon Stewart and Barbra Streisand — stepped forward to say they’d leave the country if he won. In the days since he did, their responses have varied from silence to a renewed determination to stay and…
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