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The Daily Show

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Steve MacNamara, Rick Scott's Chief of Staff, Gave $5 Million No-Bid Contract To Buddy's Partner

    It's official: Gov. Rick Scott's biggest single fuck-up in office is not his spectacularly failed plans to drug test everyone in Florida, his botched ideas for fixing the economy or even his refusal to pee in a cup when the Daily Show asked him so nicely. No, his biggest catastrophe was hiring Tally ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    The Daily Show Will Broadcast From Florida During RNC

    Left-leaning Floridians are probably not too enthused that the Republican Party is descending on Tampa to crown Mitt Romney as its official nominee in August. But don't worry, you hippies -- there's now something for you to get excited about, too. The Daily Show has announced it'll tape a week's wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Bourdain's No Reservations is Back Tonight: Five Places We'd Like to See Tony Visit

    Anthony Bourdain, the chef, traveler, writer, snarkmeister, and media whore extraordinaire, is doing the full-on media blitz to get the word out that No Reservations premieres tonight, at 9 p.m. on Travel Channel. Last week he was on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, where Stewart said he gets diarrhea just ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    The Ten Worst Bills On Their Way to Rick Scott's Desk This Year

    Today is one of our least favorite times of the year: the final day of the Florida legislative session. It's like the dying moments of a drunken high school party, when everyone makes hasty, poor decisions that they will come to regret. So, how have our duly elected representatives spent the past fi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 1, 2012

    Community Service

    Today is one of our least favorite times of the year: the final day of the Florida legislative session. It's like the dying moments of a drunken high school party, when everyone makes hasty, poor decisions that they will come to regret. So, how have our duly elected representatives spent the past fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Rick Scott Still Wants To Drug Test State Workers As Miami Court Hears Challenge

    ​Never before has America seen a governor so obsessed with forcing other people to pee in cups as our own Rick Scott. Two of the first orders he issued after taking office required welfare recipients and all state employees to urinate into cups -- all to make sure drug fiends aren't secretly infil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    Mitt Romney Thinks Rick Scott's Urine Test Laws are "an Excellent Idea"

    ​Should we just star calling him Governor Pee Cup? Because Rick Scott is now forever identified with spearheading laws that required people receiving welfare to take drug tests. Never mind the fact that the policy ended up costing the state money, or that the rate of positive tests was extremely l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    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.

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    Pam Bondi Hands Daily Show Reporter a Cup of Her "Urine"

    ​Daily Show reporters aren't that used to politicians outsmarting them, so kudos to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for staying one step ahead of the political pranksters.After Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi asked Gov. Rick Scott for a cup of his urine yesterday, Bondi must have been tip ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Daily Show Reporter Asks Rick Scott to Pee in a Cup

    ​You can bet that whoever let The Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi into increasingly unpopular Gov. Rick Scott's press conference today is going to get a dressing down tonight. The comedian, who we're assuming is preparing an upcoming piece on Scott for the show, asked the governor to pee in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    Michele Bachmann Can't Win Florida, Let Alone the Presidency; Here Are Five Reasons Why

    David Shankbone via Wikimedia CommonsWould you vote for this woman, Florida?​The nation is all atwitter over Michele Bachmann. Not only did she thoroughly corn-poll Iowa this past Saturday -- winning the state's straw poll over Smucker's jam spokesman Ron Paul -- but also the congresswoman claimed ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 9, 2011

    Gay Ol' Time

    David Shankbone via Wikimedia CommonsWould you vote for this woman, Florida?​The nation is all atwitter over Michele Bachmann. Not only did she thoroughly corn-poll Iowa this past Saturday -- winning the state's straw poll over Smucker's jam spokesman Ron Paul -- but also the congresswoman claimed ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2011

    Black is Back

    David Shankbone via Wikimedia CommonsWould you vote for this woman, Florida?​The nation is all atwitter over Michele Bachmann. Not only did she thoroughly corn-poll Iowa this past Saturday -- winning the state's straw poll over Smucker's jam spokesman Ron Paul -- but also the congresswoman claimed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    December 30, 2010

    Yak From Cenac

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Rick Sanchez Apologizes for Outburst

    ​A little less than a week after unleashing a controversial tirade against Jon Stewart, his Daily Show, and CNN execs in which he implied that Jews run the media that ultimately lead to his dismissal from CNN, Rick Sanchez has finally released a public apology. He reveals he privately apologized t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    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.

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Marijuana-Food Pairings: 10 Questions With Denver Pot Critic William Breathes

    From Amsterdam​After recently writing a goofy post about imaginary pot-food pairings, I received an email from the pseudonymous William Breathes, one of two medical marijuana critics for our sister paper Westword, in Denver, Colorado. He expressed gratitude for being mentioned in the post and disa ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 12, 2010

    Teaching the World to Laugh

    From Amsterdam​After recently writing a goofy post about imaginary pot-food pairings, I received an email from the pseudonymous William Breathes, one of two medical marijuana critics for our sister paper Westword, in Denver, Colorado. He expressed gratitude for being mentioned in the post and disa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Was Christopher Hitchens a Cuban Revolutionary?

    The Daily Show With Jon StewartChristopher Hitchenswww.thedailyshow.comYou might be surprised to hear that Christopher Hitchens -- best-selling author and contributing editor for Vanity Fair -- toiled at a work camp for young revolutionaries in 1968 Cuba. Last week, on The Daily Show, he told Jon St ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Jon Stewart Takes on Rekers' "European Gaycation" on The Daily Show

    ​The George Rekers and the rent boy scandal is at once very, very sad but also very, very hilarious. Following the mixed results of Jay Leno and Stephen Colbert, last night Jon Stewart took on the scandal on The Daily Show in a segment titled "European Gaycation."In the clip below starting at abou ... More >>

  • Film

    April 29, 2010

    Furry Vengeance is a movie with a message and not much else

    ​The George Rekers and the rent boy scandal is at once very, very sad but also very, very hilarious. Following the mixed results of Jay Leno and Stephen Colbert, last night Jon Stewart took on the scandal on The Daily Show in a segment titled "European Gaycation."In the clip below starting at abou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Even Marco Rubio and Bill McCollum Don't Like Arizona's Immigration Laws

    ​Last night, The Daily Show pointed out that even Tom Tancredo, one of the most zealous anti-immigration politicians and the man who called Miami a "third-world" country, didn't approve of Arizona's harsh new immigration laws. Now two of Florida's own uber-conservatives, who happen to be the front ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 11, 2010

    Flack From Black

    ​Last night, The Daily Show pointed out that even Tom Tancredo, one of the most zealous anti-immigration politicians and the man who called Miami a "third-world" country, didn't approve of Arizona's harsh new immigration laws. Now two of Florida's own uber-conservatives, who happen to be the front ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2010

    The Daily Show Explains Rick Sanchez: It's Like He's "Doing a lot of Coke"

    www.thedailyshow.comLike any good cable news freak out, Rick Sanchez's hyper-kinetic, geographically confused coverage of the Chilean Earthquake on CNN this weekend has been skewered by John Stewart on The Daily Show. Stewart's take: "I just realized something, Rick Sanchez delivers the news like a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Around Town This Weekend

    Creative Commons​Grab the weekend by its horns and ride till Monday.Friday    Tonight, Chicago's Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (whose moving, lo-fi sound has been described as "bedroom-synth") will play at Bar, the newly reopened, former Max Fish/PS14 space. Need more convincing ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 5, 2009

    The 2009 Miami Book Fair offers a strange brew of talent

    Creative Commons​Grab the weekend by its horns and ride till Monday.Friday    Tonight, Chicago's Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (whose moving, lo-fi sound has been described as "bedroom-synth") will play at Bar, the newly reopened, former Max Fish/PS14 space. Need more convincing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    Miami Book Fair International Preview: That Guy From the Mac Commercials Can Write!

    Photo by Jan CobbJohn Hodgman​Minor television personality and big-time genius John Hodgeman is an expert on things that don't matter: Presidents who have hooks for hands. The perfect name for a Hobo. Monsters hunters. He'll be in town for the Miami Book Fair International (November 8-15)and is on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    Noooooooo! Indie Film in Miami

    Hecker's next project is reported to be a Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle about the guy who invented Atari, so this may be your last chance to hear him speak in a relaxed venue.

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    News Roundup

    LocalHerald Metro editor Manny Garcia has been tapped to take over El Nuevo Herald. [Pulp]Mindy Marques will take over some of his duties, and more editors are expected to lose there jobs soon. [Pulp]Taking an unconstitutional passage out of the Marlins stadium deal makes you a segregation ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    News Roundup

    State Farm, the State's largest private property insurer, will stop insuring property in Florida. [NY Times]This seems to be a major thing, but Gov. Charlie Crist is just saying things like, "I don't really care." [Naked Politics]But, that's ok, he was too busy vetoing budget cuts today. Schools get ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 22, 2009

    Better than HDTV

    Two television regulars take the South Beach Comedy Festival stage.

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Toot! Toot! Mayor Diaz Hops Aboard the Pickens Plan Train

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  • Calendar

    January 1, 2009

    Bring the Pain

    Think you’re funny enough to headline a comedy show?

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2008

    Daily Show takes on Obama's most intimidating opponent: Miami Beach's old Jews

    Think you’re funny enough to headline a comedy show?

  • Film

    April 24, 2008

    Let's Go to Prison

    Harold and Kumar get shipped to Gitmo in this forced act two.

  • Film

    March 6, 2008

    Personal Foul

    Will Ferrell's umpteenth sports comedy is only half bad. His half.

  • Calendar

    December 27, 2007

    Hells Yeah

    It’s NYE and we’re shaking it all night long!

  • Home Entertainment

    October 5, 2006

    Lewis Blows His Top

    DVD releases for the week of October 3, 2006

  • Music

    August 3, 2006

    The Lawrence Arms

    DVD releases for the week of October 3, 2006

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2005

    A Mystical, Magical Experience

    DVD releases for the week of October 3, 2006

  • Calendar

    December 2, 2004

    Don't Wait, Do Tell

    DVD releases for the week of October 3, 2006

  • Calendar

    November 6, 2003

    Funny on a Daily Basis

    The Daily Show's Lewis Black grabs our mike

  • Calendar

    February 27, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    The Daily Show's Lewis Black grabs our mike

  • Culture

    January 3, 2002

    Rescue 9/11

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

  • Culture

    July 26, 2001

    It Happens

    Ohmigod! Five seasons in, South Park's the funniest show on TV.

  • Culture

    May 25, 2000

    Inside the Soapbox

    Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

  • Calendar

    October 1, 1998

    Night & Day

    October 1 - 7, 1998

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