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Apple doing China’s bidding ‘The Problem with Jon Stewart’ will not come back to Apple TV+ for a third season, bringing a surprise and sudden end to the increasingly popular show led by the former Daily Show host. … He told staff that the company had concerns about the subject matter Stewart planned for three… Read more.
The end of Jon Stewart’s sixteen-year run as host of The Daily Show on Thursday got relatively little media coverage. The reason for this is that the entire country was tuned in to FOX News for the first Republican presidential debate … featuring Donald J. Trump. The irony, if not the poetic justice, cannot be lost on Stewart. After all, more… Read more.
Brian Williams, America’s top news anchor, became a national laughingstock last week when videos of him telling all manner of self-aggrandizing lies went viral. It spoke volumes, however, that he responded in self-aggrandizing fashion by announcing that he was taking himself off the air “for a few days” – presumably until the next viral scandal… Read more.
The CBS Television Network today announced that Stephen Colbert, the host, writer and executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Colbert Report, will succeed David Letterman as the host of THE LATE SHOW, effective when Mr. Letterman retires from the broadcast. (CBS, April 10, 2014) Folks, Steven Colbert hosting THE LATE SHOW as… Read more.
For comedians Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert, scheduling a political rally on Halloween Eve may have been a deliberate prank. I suspect however that it was an unwitting joke. In any case, I could not resist previewing it in the spirit of the occasion as follows: Happy Halloween! Trick: Comedian Steven Colbert leading a march… Read more.
