Harlem Hate Pastor Returns To Daily Show

Obama Jokes On Daily Show: I'm Issuing Executive Order That Stewart Must Stay

The Guardian reports:

Barack Obama mocked foes, talked up his legacy and teased Jon Stewart in a nostalgic final appearance as president on The Daily Show, providing a bittersweet farewell for the old sparring partners. “I can’t believe you’re leaving before me,” Obama told his host, who is due to retire in two weeks after 16 years in the Comedy Central hot seat. “I’m going to issue an executive order: Jon Stewart cannot leave the show. It’s being challenged in the courts.”

The two men bantered on Tuesday night’s show over Iran, Donald Trump, lost opportunities and the “Hope” posters – gentle jabs rather than blows that yielded a fond, affectionate coda to the satirical news show’s prickly relationship with the president. Obama joked that critics of the Iran nuclear deal seemed to think that “if you had brought Dick Cheney to the negotiations everything would be fine”.

Stewart, who reflected liberals’ initial euphoria and later disappointment with the Obama era, noted his guest’s recent run of victories: “It appears that you’re feeling it a little bit right now. Do you feel like seven years in …” “I know what I’m doing,” Obama interrupted. “A lot of the work that we did early starts bearing fruit late. The way I’m feeling right now is, I’ve got 18 months.” He vowed to tackle climate change and fuel-efficiency standards before leaving.

Obama To Appear On Daily Show

Via Reuters:

President Barack Obama will tape his seventh appearance on Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" in New York on Tuesday, the White House said on Friday. Obama has appeared on Comedy Central's satirical news show twice as president and four times prior to that. This is likely to be the last appearance Obama makes since Stewart has announced that he will be leaving the show on Aug. 6. The White House did not announce when the segment with Obama would air.

The final Jon Stewart show is the same night as the first GOP debate on Fox.

The Daily Show Meets SCOTUS Crackpots

"With the Supreme Court preparing to vote on same-sex marriage, Jessica Williams speaks with lingering marriage equality protesters as they fall on the wrong side of history."

South African Comedian Trevor Noah Named As Jon Stewart's Replacement

Via the New York Times:

In December, Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian, made his debut as an on-air contributor on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” offering his outsider’s perspective, as a biracial South African, on the United States. “I never thought I’d be more afraid of police in America than in South Africa,” he said with a smile. “It kind of makes me a little nostalgic for the old days, back home.” Now, after only three appearances on that Comedy Central show, Mr. Noah has gotten a huge and unexpected promotion. On Monday, Comedy Central will announce that Mr. Noah has been chosen as the new host of “The Daily Show,” succeeding Mr. Stewart after he steps down later this year. The network’s selection of Mr. Noah comes less than two months after Mr. Stewart, 52, revealed on Feb. 10 that he was leaving “The Daily Show” after a highly successful 16-year run that transformed the show into authoritative, satirical comedy on current events.

Here is Noah's Daily Show debut from last year.

Jon Stewart On Ted Cruz 2016

As good as you'd expect.

Jon Stewart On Kansas Gov. Brownback: There's No Place Like Home...ophobia

Jon Stewart Breaks The News

Jon Stewart To Leave The Daily Show

Stewart made the announcement during this afternoon's taping of his show.

Jon Stewart On Eric Garner

Via Gothamist:

Sharing the same outrage that many felt after an NYPD officer was not indicted for choking Eric Garner to death, a disgusted Jon Stewart appeared on The Daily Show last night. He said, "I honestly don't know what to say. If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more fucking time. But I would really settle for less fucking tragedy to be honest with you." He also pointed out there's video with Garner's death, whereas with Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri, there were conflicting witness accounts and forensics, "None of the ambiguities of the Ferguson case exist here in the Staten Island case... the guy's not acting threatening, and we know that not through witness testimony, unreliable bystanders, but because we are fucking watching it."

UPDATE: The clip has been pulled. Watch it here.

Pew Ranks "Trusted" News Outlets

From the Pew Research report:

Those with consistently conservative political values are oriented around a single outlet—Fox News—to a much greater degree than those in any other ideological group: Nearly half (47%) of those who are consistently conservative name Fox News as their main source for government and political news. Far fewer choose any other single source: Local radio ranks second, named by 11%, with no other individual source named by more than 5% of consistent conservatives. Those with mostly conservative views also gravitate strongly toward Fox News – 31% name it as their main source, several times the share who name the next most popular sources, including CNN (9%), local television (6%) and radio (6%) and Yahoo News (6%).

On the left of the political spectrum, no single outlet predominates. Among consistent liberals, CNN (15%), NPR (13%), MSNBC (12%) and the New York Times (10%) all rank near the top of the list. CNN is named by just 20% of those with mostly liberal views, but still tops their list, followed by local television (11%) and NPR (9%). Both MSNBC and Fox News are mentioned by 5% of those who are mostly liberal. Those in other ideological groups name the New York Times, NPR and MSNBC less frequently as top news sources.

Respondents with a roughly equal mix of liberal and conservative values also have a diffuse mix of news providers. CNN (20%) and local television (16%) are the most frequently-named top sources, with a long list of other news sources named by fewer than one-in-ten. Fox News (8%) is among the most-named sources in this “long tail,” along with Yahoo News (7%) and Google News (6%), both of which primarily aggregate and highlight news produced by other outlets.

For the record, I highly trust last place Buzzfeed's Chris Geidner.

The Daily Show Takes On Skype Exorcist

Via Jezebel:

First Williams talked to the Reverend Bob Larson, an evangelical who's amassed enough notoriety he's got a fairly fat Wikipedia entry. And now, he is ready and willing to cast out your demons via Skype exorcism. All he asks is a $295 donation to his ministry! "Skype is a great technology to stare down the devil, to go after him and kick him back to hell." But Father Gary Thomas—"America's top exorcist," according to CNN—disapproves. He told Williams that an effective exorcism demands an exorcist's presence. You need the eye contact, the human touch, the old-school IRL methods. But that doesn't mean Father Thomas is totally anti-tech. He informed Williams that he watched a YouTube video of Beyoncé's Super Bowl performance and he's preeetty sure he saw "a lot of demonic symbolism attached" to her dancing and her hand movements.

(Tipped by JMG reader WM)

Hashtag Debbie Harry

Last night Debbie Harry held up the above sign at the end of a Daily Show "celebrity elevator violence" PSA.  Watch the clip here.

Daily Show Mocks Sean Hannity's Vow To Move Out Of New York State

Mediaite provides the recap:

Noting that Fox host Sean Hannity pledged to leave the state as a result of those comments, Stewart worked out an innovative way to convince the conservative broadcaster to stay in New York. The Daily Show talked to gay couples pledging to marry people of the opposite gender, cab drivers pledging to abandon their accents, food vendors promising to stop selling Halal meats, and African-American youths pledging to take off their hoodies if Hannity would stay.

Stick around for the cameos by Nathan Lane and Tim Gunn. Which is followed by a great song-and-dance number by the cast of Jersey Boys. 

Jon Stewart On Marriage In Red States

Josh Feldman recaps:

Jon Stewart was admittedly surprised Thursday night at the gains gay marriage is making even in strongly red states like Utah and Oklahoma, even if in one of those cases people are stuck in a complex Schrodinger’s marriage paradox. Utah officially recognized gay marriage, except that it then decided not to, but then the federal government stepped in, so they’re sort of married, but not fully, and… well, Stewart couldn’t really make heads or tails of it.

Daily Show: Which State Will Be The Last To Approve Same-Sex Marriage?

The Birmingham News has a recap:

Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" put its satirical eye on Alabama Tuesday night, asking what people in Alabama – a state the show noted "still has segregated sororities" – and our cousins in Mississippi really think about gay rights. One segment of the show, "Last Gay Standing," was built around a prediction made by Nate Silver, likely the nation's most famous elections and sports statistician, that a majority of voters in a majority of states would approve gay marriage in a ballot initiative by 2020.  "The states that are probably going to be the slowest to move toward legalization are mostly in the South, particularly in the Deep South," Silver told The Daily Show correspondent Al Madrigal. "In particular, Alabama and Mississippi are maybe the last two." Former U.S. Attorney for North Alabama Doug Jones and Mississippi newspaper columnist Slim Smith told Madrigal the same: each suggested that their respective states would be the last to approve gay marriage in the U.S. But then The Daily Show started pushing real buttons.

(Tipped by JMG reader Zac)

The Daily Show On Pope Francis

The Daily Show On "Judgment Gay"

John Oliver's GayWatch

Mediaite weighs on John Oliver, who is subbing for Jon Stewart:

Daily Show guest host John Oliver tonight took on the social progress (or lack thereof) towards gay marriage rights in the United States and around the world. Between mocking Pat Robertson‘s odd phrasing and the rumors of a “gay lobby” at the Vatican, Oliver saved his sharpest barbs for the violent anti-gay protestors taking to the streets in France, marching in gaudy pink garb, leading Oliver to ask, “How is it that France’s anti-gay protests look so much gayer than our pro-gay protests?”

Some really great bits here.

Obama Visits The Daily Show