How is it that we don't have a running thread for the funniest hour of the day?

Last night's Daily Show was particuarly good with Rob Riggle from Iraq and that "America to the Rescue" segment was SO goddamn good. I would have lovedLOVED to Obama's reaction as he watched in the green room. Open to close Stewart was just great.

Colbert is off the charts good nearly every night. If you watch every night the show is even better as you get to know the running jokes and can almost predict how Stephen will react. The Colbert/Branson interview trainwreck wasn't nearly as "uncomfortable" as we were led to believe. Really Branson just came off odder than usual, which is saying something.

ultimoDANK

WRISTSTRONG~

All the awareness goes to wrists. All the glory......goes to me.

Oh man Colbert was great tonight with the whole taking of the wrist cast.

Everyone needs to catch the 8:00 replay tonight for the Larry Craig "Trapped in the Closet" bit. Absolutely sublime.

Is the Daily Show back on?

Last night they returned from Vacation.
The Larry Craig "Trapped in the Closet" was one of the best Daily show segments ever.
The Best part was "R Kelly" at first trying to justify Craig's actions then he finally admitted how gay it was.

Also the Jeff Garlin interview was very funny as well.

The Colbert bit with all the politicos signing his cast was pretty great too. Even O'Reilly got a laugh out of me during their exchange.

Both episodes were very fun last night. I work nights so on most days miss the show when it first airs on the Comedy Network here in Canada ... but I luck out because they replay them at 4pm the next evening. Just glad they are back from vacation again.

Colbert ripping Nancy Pelosi never gets old to me.

Yeah, that was awesome. I liked Couric and Williams too.

"Is there.. any part of you I should sign, Katie?"
"I'm.. I'm good, Stephen."



"But you're on the show now!" (something to that effect, at least)

And Garrison Keillor is gonna be on tonight.

I wish I could find that America to the Rescue skit. I want to show a few friends that one. I was in tears from laughing so hard as Stewart started screaming obscenities because of past mistakes

America to the Rescue was crazy funny, Stewart was just so great with his delivery. It was the Obama episode if that helps you track it down...

Trapped in the Closet was also a thing of beauty. One can only hope this is the beginning of Cordrey back full-time.

ultimoDANK

The America to the Rescue skit should be in the Daily Show videos on Comedy central.

Breaking out the Pac-Man font was amazing.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qu_0hfluGKw

Quality is even more hideous than usual, but it's the most complete version.

Yeah, I caught it on More4. Nice one.


I think I'm easily amused, as I laugh whenever Garlin does his shouty voice.

NINETY NINE, EIGHTY EIGHT!

Viggo Morteson. Colbert. Awesome.

Tonight's Colbert Report is a must see.

The bit with him making the Emmy Plea, the Ed Begley interivew and the bit at the end were all great.

So, is he King now?

I was wondering who that was, didn't recognize him at first. The letter to Mother Teresa was awesome. "If God doesn't exist, then who's bowling when it thunders?"

Jeff Garlin's interview may have been the best (comedy wise) I've seen on that show in a very, very long time.

My prep period at school coincides with a reairing of the previous night's Colbert Report. I love it.

Eh, Al Franken did the same gag (bringing the "courtesy basket" onto the set for his interview and mocking Jon about it) about three years ago, but he went he extra-mile and kept calling Jon "Craig" to needle him.

The phone was a nice touch

I actually found his interview on Conan a few days earlier to be funnier... His story about collecting Aladdin cups at Burger King drive thrus killed me

The look of genuine disbelief on Colbert and Stewart's face that Ricky Gervais had won the Emmy was great. They tried to recover with the group hug but you could tell all three were miffed.

I can't figure out how a 4 time a week show can end up in the same category as a 1-time special.

I eagerly await the war on tony bennett.

As good as the Daily Show is, I really think Colbert this year has been funnier a majority of the time.

I did love the writers set up on the emmy's with Colbert getting beat up by all his writers including punching himself off at the end. That and Conan's bit with his writers being illegal workers and him driving off with them in a pickup truck.

It's not a case of the Academy deciding between an entire year of Colbert shows and the Tony Bennett special. The Academy just looks at a submitted show. So in awarding "best individual performance," they would be judging how Colbert performed on the one Colbert Report episode that was formally submitted vs. how Tony Bennett performed on his special. It's all a little silly, really.

for those that missed the best writing bit from the Emmy's last night. Colbert's and Conan's were really good.

Those were pretty good, was tickled by Maher's too.

GD did Lewis Black rule it just now. "I'm a five dollar bill! I'm 500 pennies of FAAAAAAAABULOUS!"

ALTERNATE UNIVERSE COLBERT~!

That Matthews interview on Daily Show was pretty uncomfortable for some strange reason.

By the way, here's the back cover image on our site for Colbert's book :

'HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA no HAHAHAHAHA' It's just aired in the UK and I have to say that was one of my favourite interviews ever. At least this year.

- Do you wanna succeed?
- I've succeeded!

And the chaos an already tense interview descended into was amazing. I hope the vid's up on the Comedy Central site. 'This is the book interview... from hell'.

"Come on Hardball! We can play this game both ways!" "Sorry, I don't troll." OH NO YOU DIN'T!

Joke of the week on both shows has got to be John Oliver's right wing book proposal Casper; The Third Trimester Aborted Ghost. A prequel, Casper's backstory.

ultimoDANK

I've liked the new team of people they've brought in on Daily Show. With a lot of their people moving on like colbert, carrell, Coudry and Helms, i think the new group have stepped it up.

I think Oliver's segments have been pretty great. I loved the bit with him and the senior black correspondent at one of the debates playing football in the empty press room.

The bit with Oliver as a 19th century English child was hilarious. I love it when guys start to lose it on camera.

Hodgman vs. Canada and his explanation why god is responsible for the weak US Dollar had me in tears

Gold star goes to Lewis Black tonight. Harry Reid bitching about the Republicans lining up to take moveon.org to task then Harry Reid later mentioning a senate drafted letter to Clear Channel because of Limbaugh's 'phony soldiers' comment. What a bunch of douches. all of them

God I wish "Colbert on the Ert" was real.

ultimoDANK

No mention of the Lynne Cheney interview?

Lynne: "It’s been more than six years (since 9/11). And that is not an accident. … There were many attacks between 1993 and the World Trade Centers coming down in 2001.”

Stewart: "You know (the terrorists) have been doing that all these past six years ... you know the Spanish bombing, the English bombing, and then all the bombings in Iraq..."

Lynne: "Yes, but we're talking about American interests."

WTF? Terrorist attacks on our greatest allies don't count??? What I wouldn't have given for him to go all Chris Matthews on her after that.

I was pretty shocked she actually did the show, almost as shocking as that comment.

So did anyone pick up the Colbert book yet? I'm just wondering what it's all about...

ultimoDANK

I was in awe how Stewart reacted to the Darth Vader doll with the microphone bit.

At least 3 more years of The Daily Show :)

http://tv.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=280165

Plus a website with content going back to the beginning of Stewart's run...

ultimoDANK

Standard politico bio/platform book of Colbert's beliefs. It's great in audiobook form with Stewart, Sedaris, Dinello, & Co.

FLILF~! No words to get over how awesomely funny that was. Nor how freaking hot Elizabeth Kucinich looked.

"And why no black Keebler Elves?"

Colbert was on as usual tonight.

ultimoDANK

In lieu of hiatus...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jh...itle=bob-costas

How come the only video I can get to play on the dailyshow website is an add for Courtyard? I click on "Lynne Cheney Pt. 1" and get the ad. Then it says: "Up Next: Lynne Cheney Pt. 2" with options to play or replay. Either one gets me the same ad.

Perhaps they hate my Canadian IP.

They hate CANADIANS.