Viacom: 'Daily Show' clips just the beginning
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It's only now that Viacom's rethinking its strategy. In part, the about-face reflects a desire to blunt the impact of YouTube's stunning viral growth.
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By Dave Larsen Staff Writer  Did you miss Katie Couric's heavily hyped CBS Evening News debut or Conan O'Brien's hilarious Emmy Awards opening? They're on YouTube.
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Comedy Central's "South  Park" is available in high definition for the first time  beginning Tuesday as an HD episode offered via the Xbox Live  Marketplace.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf   was served tea and Twinkies as the first head of state to   appear on "The Daily Show," a hit U.S. political satire show.
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Comedy Central has launched a new Web site in beta for The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, giving the program its own destination and making available 13,000 video clips. Although full-length episodes will not be viewable, users can search for and view specific segments free of charge.
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By ALEX WOODSON, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER  Comedy videos have been online for years, but with the rise of personal Web logs, sketch-artist Web sites and the rise of broadband and cable, comics increasingly have been able to riff on current events and develop their own online following.
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"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday.
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Stephen Colbert is gone, but Jon  Stewart is still on. "South Park" is out, but "Adult Swim" is  still in.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf  was served tea and Twinkies as the first head of state to  appear on "The Daily Show," a hit U.S. political satire show.
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Thought I would make it easier for everyone to listen to the first Webcomics Weekly of the new year.  Important Links  Direct Download RSS Feed iTunes Feed  Share This
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As Jon Stewart tells it, he and his staff of 13 writers at The Daily Show  were looking for a project."Life was too balanced," he says with a straight face. "It was too good for us."They considered a "roads project, a civic improvement," but when they looked around their offices in Manhattan, "we mostly had computers."So they wrote a book.America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (Warner, &#36;24.95) will be published Monday after nine months of checking a few facts and making up a lot more. (Related story: Daily Show is a no-stump zone)Just as his TV show on Comedy Central is a parody of a news show, the book is a graphic-heavy parody of a textbook. Chapters include "Congress: Quagmire of Freedom," "The Media: Democracy's Valiant Vulgarians" and "The Rest of the World: International House of Horrors."The foreword is by Thomas "TJ" Jefferson, who inquires in a postscript: "Is it true Halle Berry is once again single?"Stewart's favorite part?"I like the ending," which offers a Certificate of Completion, qualifying readers to "practice, participate in, or found a democracy."Too often, he says, "you finish a book and ask, 'What's in it for me beyond self-improvement?' Our book gives you a certificate in nation-building. ... If you just smash together the basic ideas, you're bound to wind up with something better than North Korea."Stewart wants to be known as a comedian, even though The Daily Show was voted best news show by TV critics this summer. He dismisses praise from journalists such as Eric Alterman, media critic for The Nation, who recently wrote that Daily Show offers "a truer picture than ... the Sunday-morning gabfests and cable food fights."Stewart, 41, says, "It's more a sign of frustration with the information people are receiving than a sign of our entrepreneurial spirit of journalism. ... It's a '(expletive) you' to real news, not a 'hallelujah' for our fake news."The book mocks both President Bush, "hurdling the lowered bar," and Democrat John Kerry, "monogrammed for greatness." But Stewart acknowledges that The Daily Show delivers more jokes at the expense of Republicans."They're in power," he says. "Comedians in biblical times did more Goliath jokes. The David stuff didn't fly."He says he worries less about being partisan than being boring, strident or redundant, "the death of comedy."Stewart's appearance at a booksellers' convention in June, which featured former president Bill Clinton, won rave reviews. Publishers Weekly said Stewart "out-Clintoned that other guy," prompting his publisher to boost the first printing of America from 500,000 copies to 700,000.
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A new hub for Comedy  Central&#39;s &quot;The Daily Show With Jon Stewart&quot; headlines a slate  of two-dozen targeted Web sites that Viacom&#39;s MTV Networks will  launch by the first quarter.
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Blog: The Web has allowed short, funny video clips to proliferate, but the novelty of this one is that it's only five seconds long--and hilarious.
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Hey, Barack Obama, just how insane is the process of running for president? "Every day it reveals itself in new ways," Obama told host Jon Stewart Wednesday night on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."
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MTV Networks said on Friday that it would launch two dozen new Web sites based on its shows, including the entire video archives of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" with comedian Jon Stewart.
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The political strategy behind Sen. John Kerry's appearance Tuesday on Comedy Central network's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart was threefold, political and communications experts say. Kerry wanted to come off as a regular guy reaching out to young voters without having to answer tough questions, they said.
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Innocent by todayâs standards, the humor of âLove American Styleâ is typical of a show that titillated in its day but now plays like a mildly randy glimpse of a more promiscuous, less cynical era.