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The Daily Show Rejoices in Florida Being Irrelevant This Election

Here in Florida we still haven't decided who we're going to award our 29 electoral votes too, and unlike 2000 it doesn't matter one bit."For once, Florida's clusterfucker is irrelevant," declared Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. "It's like hearing, 'Good news America, the tumor on your dong is benign. ... More >>

Hotel Transylvania Director Genndy Tartakovsky: With Big-Studio Millions Behind Him, He Still Goes It Alone

SNL Takes On Florida's Chonga Voters

Saturday Night Live premiered its 38th season over the weekend, and as expected in an election year, kicked the political comedy into overdrive. Aside from the debut of a new Obama impersonator and a riff on Clint Eastwood's empty chair obsessions, the show got into some Florida specific (well, kind ... More >>

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The Daily Show Rips Rick Scott's Voter Registration Laws

Among the number of new voter registration shenanigans being pursued by Gov. Rick Scott, perhaps his new law that requires third-party voter registration groups turn in forms within 48 hours seems the most arbitrary and bizarre. The Daily Show doesn't quite understand it either, so last night they s ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Prepares for Zombie Apocalypse

In the wake of the "Miami Zombie" attack and some other cannibal-tinged news stories, we've already established that there isn't a zombie apocalypse. Or is there? Last night on The Colbert Report, America's favorite fake pundit Stephen Colbert wasn't so sure.

Stephen Colbert Searches for Florida's Elusive SuperPAC Madman

Josue Larose is perhaps one of Florida's most interesting political figures. He's not particularly influential or powerful, mind you. He ran for governor in 2010 and got 121 votes. But he has run for multiple offices, including three at once. He's also formed over 600 PACs and 64 SuperPACs. He's now ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Takes on Florida's "Stand Your Ground" Law, Geraldo's Hoodie Comments

​There's very little levity to be found in the Trayvon Martin case, and so far the satirists have stayed mostly away from the story. Well, last night Stephen Colbert decided to take a swing at it by lampooning Republican candidate's reactions to President Obama's statements about the case, Geraldo ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Lampoons Florida's Proposed Minimum Wage Reduction Bill

​A new bill is working its way through the Florida senate which would slash the minimum hourly wage guaranteed to restaurant workers from $4.65 an hour to only $2.13 an hour. True, restaurants would still have to guarantee their workers at least $9.98 an hour with tips included, but several worker ... More >>

Community Service

Video: The Daily Show Asks Rick Scott to Pee in a Cup

​Remember in December when Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi was roaming around Tallahassee asking officials, including Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi to pee in a cup?  Well, the package finally made it onto the air last night.

Watch Rick Scott Refuse to Pee in a Cup on The Daily Show

​Florida's law requiring the poor to pass a drug test before receiving welfare funds came under the scrutiny of The Daily Show last night. In an interview with Aasif Mandvi, bill supporter Representative Scott Plakon claimed that any recipient of taxpayer money should undergo drug testing. When Ma ... More >>

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Pre-TV Funnies

Hannibal Buress Talks Stand-Up, Sitcoms and the Miami Heat

​Hannibal Buress has a big year ahead of him. His one-hour stand-up special is scheduled to premiere on Comedy Central this spring. He is also developing his own sitcom for FOX, which will feature Jonah Hill as executive producer. And he's kicking it all off with a headliner at the Miami Improv ne ... More >>

Weiner Joke Genius

Virginia Key Grassroots Festival Lineup: Arrested Development and 24 Others

​The Herd is stampeding toward SoFla. Almost 22 years ago, East Coast fusion rockers Donna the Buffalo led a mass gathering of its friends, fellow bands, and followers -- nicknamed The Herd -- to Ithaca, New York for the inaugural Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival. In the intervening decades, thi ... More >>

Somebody Gonna Get Pregnant

The Miami Hurricanes Become the Joke on Happy Endings

​For the third time in a little over a week, a Miami sports team has been the butt of a joke on a national sitcom. First there was South Park's minor dig at the Dolphins, then The Office had a little fun at Chris Bosh and the Miami Heat's expense. Continuing the trend last night, ABC's Happy Endin ... More >>

Fred Durst Is a Douchebag! Limp Bizkit Singer Scores Conveniently Titled CBS Sitcom

​Newsflash! Turns out that network TV execs' massive hard-on isn't limited to sitcoms starring rappers. Apparently, they find whiteboy rap-rockers supersexy and crazy funny too. Last week, we here at Crossfade chuckled about the fact that former Rollin 20s Crip, gangsta rapper, and proud daddy S ... More >>

Snoop Dogg Lands NBC Sitcom, Starts Wearing Cosby Sweaters

​Murder was the case in 1993. But Snoop Dogg walked away a free man and into the collective heart of American pop culture. Now 18 years later, he's trying to crip walk onto primetime television. MTV News (via Deadline Hollywood) is reporting that NBC is working on Snoop's "family comedy project" ... More >>

Miami Company Making Porn Parodies of Taxi Driver, Training Day and True Grit

​Porn parodies of sitcoms -- sitcums, we suppose -- are the hottest XXX trend since breast implants, but there're only so many laughers primed for sexy satire. God help us before parodies of Yes, Dear and Mr. Belvedere are unleashed. So, Sensuous Diamond Productions, a newly launched, Miami-b ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Takes on Allen West and Debbie Wasserman Schultz Feud

​The spat between Rep. Allen "Black David Letterman" West and Rep. Debbie "home perm after model" Wasserman Schultz rocked the political world yesterday, so of course it wound up on The Colbert Report last night. And being the faux right-winger he is, Stephen Colbert had to wonder "what kind of th ... More >>

Ashton Kutcher, Opponent of Underage Sex Trafficking, Appears on Billboard With Naked 17-Year-Old Boy

Real men don't buy girls -- but it's cool if they stand next to naked boys.​No one is saying bearded celebrity pretty boy Ashton Kutcher is wrong for using his public influence to help combat underage sex trafficking. But when we published a feature calling him out for his obviously phony stats, h ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Bashes LeBron James

​Everybody has an opinion about the Miami Heat's loss, including Stephen Colbert. America's favorite fake pundit took on LeBron James and the Miami Heat last night in his spor repor, explaining, "Everyone knew they were destined to win, and personally I'm offended they were forced to prove it by p ... More >>

Mock Treatment

The Daily Show: Rick Scott is Like Florida's Psychotic Stepdad

​We're really surprised it took this long for The Daily Show to sink its teeth into Florida Gov. Rick Scott. There's certainly ample material. The guy's political career is like a bad satire that somehow became real. Last night, Scott got the ire of Jon Stewart in a roundup of the nation's new bat ... More >>

Sykes Out

Amanda Lepore, Justin Bond, and Cazwell Ringing In New Queer's Eve at Lords South Beach

Courtesy of Peace BisquitCazwell and Amanda Lepore​In a recent episode of NBC's 30 Rock, Jenna was sad 'cause she was going to miss out on going to Elton John and Tom Ford's New Queer's Eve. She had broken up with her cross-dressing boyfriend Paul, just as they were planning to go together as ... More >>

Jon Stewart Addresses the Rick Sanchez Controversy And Then Salvages The Guy's Career

​Rick Sanchez's foot-in-mouth anti-Semitic tirade against Jon Stewart and The Daily Show left the world with two questions: 1) Is he gonna get fired? and 2) How much fun is The Daily Show going to have with this? The answers were "yes" and "a lot." Stewart ripped Sanchez apart last night ... More >>

Rick Sanchez Fired By CNN

After an ethnically-insensitive tirade against The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, CNN host and former Miami local news anchor Rick Sanchez has been fired by the network. Sanchez was ultimately done in by his big mouth.

Stephen Colbert Takes on Uncle Luke's Ground Zero Mosque Column

​For the second time this year, a story premiering on this humble little blog, Riptide, has served as fodder for jokes on The Colbert Report. First, Stephen Colbert took on homophobic, rent-boy-lovin' George Rekers, and last night, the host roasted New Times columnist and 2 Live Crew founder Luthe ... More >>

Burritos, Tacos, and Beaners

Too Black for Hollywood

The Hold Steady on Colbert; Playing Heineken Inspire Festival Next Friday

Can't wait to hear what lead singer Craig Finn had to say to our Broward-Palm Beach music editor, Reed Fischer, when he interviewed him for next week's paper? Shaking in your shoes at the thought of waiting another week to see The Hold Steady perform live next Friday at The Moore Building with the C ... More >>

Top 10 TV Moms Who Cook For Mother's Day

​Your mom can't cook. Or that's what you always said. You watched those ladies on the tube, and thought it looked so damn easy. Hell. some of 'em were even hot. Well, that was all made up, you jerk. So before you nail mom again for another year -- starting this Sunday on Mother's Day,  check ... More >>

Art Basel Music: Ladytron, Hollywood Holt, and FIGO DJ a Party for "Darth Stewie" at the Vagabond, December 2

​Yes, that's "Stewie" as in the misanthropic infant star of The Family Guy. And while this event's connection to "art" is rather tenuous, who among our very coveted young demographic doesn't like The Family Guy? So stay with me here while I explain the concept of this Wednesday night party at the ... More >>

Dexter, Burn Notice, and Crispin Porter Pick up Emmy Nods

The Emmy nominations are out today, and boy are they weird. But possibly in a really good way. Not tons to report on the local front. Dexter, Showtime's drama about a Miami-based serial killer, got nods in the "Outstanding Drama Series" catagory. Meanwhile, Dexter himself, Michael C. Hall, rece ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of June 5, 2008

"They know the courts will do nothing to them, so basically these thugs have a license to do whatever they want."

Funny Man

Tracy Morgan’s coming, ankle bracelet and all

New Times's Top DVD Picks for the Week of May 23, 2006

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"Shoes" (Mercury Nashville)

Comedy, Bitch!

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Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter

A Dog and His Boy