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December 27, 2019
The Daily Show’s Rally to Restore Sanity Predicted a Decade of Liberal Futility
The pathologies that have plagued the left were all on display one October day in 2010.
April 3, 2017
Egypt’s Jon Stewart Is Not Done Laughing
How Bassem Youssef, a heart doctor from Cairo, turned comedy into a serious mission.
February 9, 2017
Comedy Won’t Defeat Trump, But That’s Not the Point
Jokes helped him win the presidency. They will help his opponents survive it.
February 2, 2017
The Trump Era Is Al Franken’s Time to Shine
The Minnesota senator has emerged from the shadows to make life hell for Republicans. Now he should do the same to Trump.
August 15, 2016
Smug liberals have been right all along.
December 11, 2015
Watch Jon Stewart channel his inner Trump.
September 26, 2015
Trevor Noah Didn't Come From Nowhere
How being everyone and no one defines the new Daily Show host’s comedy
June 3, 2015
Comedians Are Funny, Not Public Intellectuals
March 31, 2015
Andy Borowitz Is the Only Comedian Qualified to Replace Jon Stewart
March 30, 2015
Trevor Noah Is the Latest Sign of Late Night's International Wave
November 13, 2014
Jon Stewart's Iranian Drama Only Shines When It Tries to Be Funny
July 16, 2014
Hillary Clinton Tells Jon Stewart She Wants an Office Without Corners
April 28, 2014
Some Advice for John Oliver: Stop Imitating 'The Daily Show'
October 30, 2013
Jon Stewart Mocks CNN For All The Wrong Reasons
October 23, 2013
Malcolm Gladwell Gets Defensive with Jon Stewart
October 10, 2013
Jon Stewart Was Made for Shutdown Jokes
August 13, 2013
BuzzFeed Feeds on Anthony Weiner's Diminishing Buzz
June 6, 2013
John Oliver is Still an Outsider
And that's just what the increasingly insidery, decreasingly funny 'Daily Show' needs
January 4, 2013
Why the Anti-SOPA Band Hasn't Gotten Back Together
November 14, 2012
Paula Broadwell, a Hanger-On in King Petraeus’s Court

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