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  • ‘Daily Show’ Canceled After Trevor Noah’s ‘Emergency Appendectomy’

    UPDATE: Thankfully, the show will go on Thursday night. Trevor Noah updated just a few hours before the new show aired:


    Original story:

    Send your healing thoughts over to Trevor Noah. The new host of “The Daily Show” had quite a day yesterday — heading to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy, leading to the cancellation of the Wednesday night show. The good news is that he seems to be OK now, and the Comedy Central series should return to business as usual tonight (Thursday, November 5). But keep an eye on “The Daily Show’s” Twitter account in case they decide that’s too quick a turnaround and air a repeat tonight, too.

    Here’s how “The Daily Show” described the situation yesterday:


    They wouldn’t be the “Daily Show” without a cheeky addition like “from his time in an American hospital.” As one commenter requested, “Please post what the American hospital billed you. LOL” Yes! Might as well made lemonades out of lemons. Seriously, though, appendicitis is no joke. Trevor was probably in a lot of pain, and to go from that to a new show tonight is impressive … unless it’s too much. It’s OK to take another sick day, even early in your run, when it’s for emergency surgery!

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  • Jon Stewart Is Headed to HBO to Produce Digital Content

    "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" #JonVoyageDaily Show” hat in August, the comedian is now headed to HBO, where he will produce new TV and film projects, as well as frequently-updated digital content for HBO’s streaming platforms.

    Last Week Tonight”), just with a digital bent. Here’s the scoop from the press release:

    In his first project for HBO under the new deal, Stewart will view current events through his unique prism. Working with the pioneering cloud graphics company OTOY Inc., he is developing new technology that will allow him to produce timely short-form digital content, which will be refreshed on HBO NOW multiple times throughout the day. Additional projects will be announced as they are confirmed.

    The project will also be made available on HBO Go and “other platforms,” though the cabler declined to mention specific details about those logistics.

    In a statement, Stewart said he was “so excited” join HBO, adding, “Appearing on television 22 minutes a night clearly broke me. I’m pretty sure I can produce a few minutes of content every now and again.”

    No word yet on when Stewart’s project will make its debut. Stay tuned.

    [via: HBO PR]

    Photo credit: Getty Images for Comedy Central

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  • How Many People Watched Jon Stewart’s Final ‘The Daily Show’?

    Jon Stewart and Stephen colbert holding handsJon Stewart did not say goodbye on his emotional final episode of “The Daily Show,” he just said he was going out for a drink. But how many people tuned in to see his emotional #JonVoyage after 16 years on Comedy Central?

    According to Deadline, last night’s August 6 finale was watched by 3.5 million viewers, with 1.8 million in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demo. That made it the second most-watched “Daily Show” episode after the 3.6 million who tuned in for a visit from then-presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama on October 28, 2008. The numbers are close, though, and 3.5 million for Jon’s farewell is up from the 2.5 million for “The Colbert Report” finale last year. That was the Stephen Colbert show’s largest audience.

    Stephen returned to “The Daily Show” last night and his touching tribute to Jon was one of the night’s highlights.

    Sniff. Wasn’t that beautiful? The new guy, Trevor Noah, also had a cameo last night when he pretended to measure the furniture and Jon asked him to just wait 20 more minutes and it would all be his. Trevor takes over “The Daily Show” on September 28 and Stephen takes on “The Late Show” on September 8.

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  • ‘The Daily Show’ Correspondents: Where Are They Now?

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    Sure, you’re going to miss The Daily Show” ends this week, but remember, he didn’t do it alone. Not only did he have that Emmy-winning staff of writers, researchers, and video archivists, but he also had an army of correspondents and contributors, comics whose job has been to mock other TV journalists’ pretensions to authority, expertise, and objectivity. Not for nothing, did they call themselves “The Best F#@king News Team Ever.”

    Some of them (particularly Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert) have gone on to become just as famous as Stewart, if not more so. Others, maybe not so much. Still, the current and former fake newscasters have given “The Daily Show” a reputation on a par with only “Saturday Night Live” as a showcase for future comedy stars. Here’s what’s become of some of the funniest “Daily Show” players who’ve bantered with Stewart.

  • Everyone Loves ‘Minions’ Because of Drugs: Let Jon Hamm and Jon Stewart Explain

    “The Daily Show” last night to promote “Minions”— you can see a clip from the movie in his interview video below — and the “Mad Men” alum joked that he was going to get in so much trouble with Universal after his conversation with Jon Stewart.

    The “Despicable Me” spinoff opens July 10, and Jon Stewart started by saying he hoped the movie was about a quorum of Jewish men and maybe they just misspelled “Minyan.” But he said kids really love Minions, including his own kids, joking that they are 18 and 19 and smoke a lot of dope. More seriously, Stewart said not everything can capture his kids’ attention like this, and the Jons discussed the universal appeal of the characters for both children and adults.

    Jon Hamm: “I think these guys, the Minions, are scientifically designed to be appealing to children. And not only children, but adults. I think the reason they’re appealing to adults is they look like capsules, they look like pills. So people are like ‘I’m used to that, I’m into it.’”

    Jon Stewart: “So you think people are at home going, ‘You know what movie I want to see? That Xanax movie.’”

    Jon Hamm: “What is it called? Xanax, Xanax, Xanax, Oxycontin? I forget what it’s called.”

    Jon Stewart said he was onto something. He figured they designed and tested the heck out of the Minions to see what the perfect size and shape would be.

    Jon Stewart: “In many ways, they did design them like children’s crack. Like it is, it’s something that just feels…”

    That’s when Hamm dropped his line about getting in so much trouble with Universal for these jokes.

    Jon Stewart: “You know what they’re doing right now at Universal, you talking like that?” He leaned forward with his fingers together, villain style. “Yessss.”

    Jon Hamm: “‘Talk to me more about this children’s crack.’ ‘Actually, we’d like to work on that other Minyans movie about the Jews.’ ‘No, no, no, no, no, let’s go with that children’s crack story!’”

    Haha. They’re obviously just joking … unless everyone comes out of theaters addicted to little round yellow squishy things. Watch more from the Jons here. They really should go on road trips together.

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  • Watch Jon Stewart’s Powerful 5-Minute Diatribe on the Charleston Church Shooting

    “This one is black and white. There’s no nuance here…”

    “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart was made for times like this. He’s the hero we both need and deserve. So of course he’s leaving. Sigh. When Jon stops joking and gets on a soap box, people listen — and he cut through the BS last night, kicking America a new one for more than five minutes in the wake of the Charleston, South Carolina church massacre. Jon’s speech really hit home and was powerful enough to keep him trending on Twitter the next day.

    Jon launched the diatribe in a way that left the audience unsure of what was happening, but they appreciated the message by the end. Here are highlights:

    I have one job and it’s a pretty simple job. I come in in the morning and we look at the news and we write some jokes about it. And then I make a couple faces and a noise, and then it’s just ka-ching and I’m out the door. But I didn’t do my job today, so I apologize. I got nothing for you in terms of jokes and sounds, because of what happened in South Carolina. And maybe if it wasn’t so near the end of the run, or this wasn’t such a common occurrence, I could have pulled out of the spiral — but I didn’t. So I honestly have nothing, other than just sadness, once again, that we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other, and the nexus of a gaping racial wound that will not heal, yet we pretend doesn’t exist. I’m confident, though, that by acknowledging it, by staring into that and seeing it for what it is, we still won’t do jack sh-t. Yeah. That’s us. And that’s the part that blows my mind.”

    This is the best part:

    What blows my mind is the disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us and us killing ourselves. If this had been what we thought was Islamic terrorism, it would fit into our — we invaded two countries and spent trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives and now fly unmanned death machines over like five or six different countries to keep Americans safe. We’ve got to do whatever we can – we’ll torture people! — we’ve got to do whatever we can to keep Americans safe. Nine people shot in a church! What about that? ‘What are you going to do? Crazy is as crazy is, right?’ That’s the part that I cannot for the life of me wrap my head around. And you know it. You know it’s going to go down the same path: ‘This is a terrible tragedy’. They’re already using the nuanced language of lack of effort for this. […] I heard someone on the news say, ‘Tragedy has visited this church’. This wasn’t a tornado. This was a racist. This was a guy with a Rhodesia badge on his sweater. So I hate to even use this pun, but this one is black and white. There’s no nuance. And we’re going to keep pretending like, ‘I don’t get it, what happened? There’s one guy lost his mind.’ But we are steeped in that culture in this country and we refuse to recognize it, and I cannot believe how hard people are working to discount it…”

    Just watch it all:

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  • Jon Stewart Skewers Media for Caitlyn Jenner Coverage Sexism

    Too true, Jon Stewart, too true. “The Daily Show” host addressed the media’s overwhelmingly positive response to Bruce Jenner’s transition to Caitlyn Jenner, but pointed out the irony of the reactions to her new Vanity Fair photos.

    Here’s Jon’s take:

    It’s really heartening to see that everyone is willing to not only accept Caitlyn Jenner as a woman, but to waste no time in treating her like a woman.”

    Cue clips of reporters going on about Caitlyn’s beauty, and how she looks like a movie star. Jon continued:

    You see, Caitlyn, when you were a man we could talk about your athleticism, your business acumen. Now you’re a woman, and your looks are the only thing we care about. Which brings us to phase two of your transition: your ‘comparative f-ckability.’”

    Cue more clips of reporters comparing Caitlyn to other women, asking if she’s hotter than, say, Kris Jenner or Kim Kardashian. Jon added:

    Look, we want to give a woman a compliment here, we just need to make sure another woman gets taken down a peg in the process. It’s how we maintain the balance. Well we’re almost all the way there. Let’s complete the transition…”

    Cue a male reporter saying “She looks great, especially for her age.” Here’s Jon’s reaction:

    There you go! Wow! That’s the caveat we were missing: Remind her she has an expiration date now. You came out at 65, you have another two years before you become invisible in society, better make the most of ’em.”

    To top it off, Jon threw in some “slut-shaming” clips with reporters commenting on Caitlyn’s cover outfit and questioning whether she’s really that hot without makeup and Photoshop.

    It’s sad, but there’s almost no way to win. Good for most of the media for accepting Caitlyn as she is, but it’s like a knee-jerk reaction to immediately focus on a woman’s appearance — even as a compliment — and further gauge a woman’s worth based on her age, perceived beauty, and “bang” potential. No one really talked about Bruce Jenner as hot-or-not before he started transitioning, everyone just wondered what the heck he was doing in the Kardashian family.
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  • ‘The Daily Show With Trevor Noah’ Sets September Premiere Date

    trevor noah, the daily show, the daily show with trevor noah, comedy centralDaily Show” torch to South African comedian Trevor Noah when the venerable host departs the program later this summer. Now, we know exactly when Trevor is taking over the gig.

    Comedy Central announced this week that “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” is set to debut on September 28. Stewart is vacating his post on August 6.

    The network also released the first promo for the show, with Noah taking a spin in Stewart’s chair, and trying out his hosting chops. But it looks like Stewart may have a hard time letting go of his post.

    Check out the goofy clip below, and get excited for the Noah era (which will apparently be “new and sexy,” according to the promo). The 31-year-old comedian — who was officially announced as Stewart’s replacement back in March — has already made a name for himself in his native South Africa (where he hosted his own late-night talk show) and has impressed in his handful of “Daily Show” appearances to date. We’re eager to see what else he has up his sleeve.

    [via: Comedy Central]

    Photo credit: YouTube

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  • Samantha Bee Is ‘Female As F–k’ in First TBS Late Night Promo

    Samantha Bee, TBS The Daily Show,” is heading up the basic cable dial for her very own late night talk show on TBS, and the network has just unveiled the first promo for the series.

    In the clip, Bee is surveying a wall of photos of all the current crop of late night talk show hosts, who also all happen to be male (and white, though that’s about to change with incoming “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah). The comedienne is then offered a plate of sausages by a passing waiter, who not-so-coincidentally pairs each with a specific host, comparing “The Tonight Show”‘s Jimmy Fallon to a mild link while calling HBO star (and Bee’s former “Daily Show” castmate) John Oliver an “English banger.”

    But Bee decides she’s “done with sausages,” declaring, “I am female as f–k.” It’s a hilarious and succinct nod to the tone her as-yet-untitled show will take, and leaves viewers wanting more. (Okay, and a little hungry, too.)

    Check out the delicious clip below.

    Photo credit: Turner

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  • Jimmy Kimmel Won’t Compete With Letterman’s Final Show, But What About Fallon, Conan?

    Jimmy Kimmel plans to air a repeat episode opposite David Letterman’s farewell, out of “respect” for his hero, but he may be alone in that move.

    Dave is the longest-running late-night talk show host in history, even beyond Johnny Carson, but he retires in just two weeks. He will host the “Late Show” for the last time on May 20. Dave’s show airs on CBS and competes directly with “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC and “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon on NBC, plus Conan O’Brien’s “Conan” on TBS and “The Daily Show” and “The Nightly Show” on Comedy Central.

    Jimmy Kimmel revealed, via e-mail to the New York Times, that he’s airing a repeat on May 20. “I have too much respect for Dave to do anything that would distract viewers from watching his final show,” Kimmel said. “Plus, I’ll probably be crying all day, which makes it hard to work.” Classy move, and a smart one, too. It’s not like he has a ton to lose — the ratings will probably go Dave’s way anyhow — and he has respect and goodwill to gain. (Plus, maybe he’ll stop by Dave’s final episode?)

    What about the other late night shows? As the Times noted, both “The Daily Show” and “Nightly Show” are on repeats that week, but a “Conan” rep said they plan to run a new show on May 20, and a “Tonight Show” rep said they plan to air original episodes that entire week. It would be a surprise if they didn’t reference Letterman’s departure in some way, but they aren’t stepping aside for his farewell.

    Do you plan to watch Letterman’s final show on May 20?

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