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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart is now available for streaming on Channel 4’s website for viewers in the UK. You can watch the shows for up to a week after their original More 4 airings. Click here to visit the streaming page for The Daily Show on Channel 4’s website.

Were you watching More 4 on Wednesday when The Daily Show With Jon Stewart didn’t play out correctly in full? It was the show with the interview of former US President Bill Clinton. Well, because of the error on the original More 4 broadcast, that episode will be repeated on More 4 on Monday evening (29th September) at 8.30pm. The Daily Show Global Edition won’t be shown on More 4 this Monday because of this, but you can still see it on CNN International if you have cable or Sky Digital. Check CNNI TV listings.

The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards took place in Los Angeles yesterday (21st September) and US talk shows won some big awards. The Colbert Report went home with the “Outstanding writing for a variety, music or comedy programme” award. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart scooped the award for “Outstanding variery, music or comedy series”. Late Show With David Letterman and Late Night With Conan O’Brien were nominated for awards.

Click here to read the press release containing all the winners
See who was nominated for awards
BBC News - “Emmys 2008: Main winners”
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences official website

I’ve just been watching the Tony Blair interview on The Daily Show from earlier this week.

Jon Stewart seems to take a liking to him, and also asks him some serious questions.

The interview’s available below in two parts;

Comedian and The Office star Ricky Gervais is on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart broadcast on More 4 tonight (Wednesday 17th September) at 8.30pm. Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will be on The Daily Show on More 4 on Friday (19th September).

The Ricky Gervais episode went out on American TV last night (Tuesday) and the Tony Blair episode will air on American TV tomorrow night (Thursday).

More 4 is available on Freeview, Virgin TV and Sky Digital. More 4 +1 is available on Sky Digital if you prefer to watch The Daily Show at 9.30pm.

Digital Spy - “Tony Blair to appear on ‘Daily Show’”

The nominations for this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards are in, and some of your favourite talk shows & comedy shows are up for the “Variety, Music or Comedy Series” award - The Colbert Report (Comedy Central), The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (Comedy Central), the Late Show With David Letterman (CBS), Real Time With Bill Maher (HBO) and Saturday Night Live (NBC) are all nominated. This year will be the 60th edition of the Primetime Emmy Awards. The ceremony will take place on Sunday 21st September in Los Angeles.

The official website for the Primetime Emmy Awards
Digital Spy - “‘Mad Men’, ‘30 Rock’ dominate Emmy noms”

The Daily Show, the Late Show With David Letterman, Late Night With Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and The Colbert Report have all made it into Entertainment Weekly’s “100 best shows from 1983 to 2008″ list. Check out their positions below.

14    The Daily Show, Comedy Central (1996-present)
30    Late Show With David Letterman, CBS (1993-present)
43    Late Night With Conan O’Brien, NBC (1993-present)
58    The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, NBC (1992-present)
69    The Colbert Report, Comedy Central (2005-present)

Entertainment Weekly (EW.com) - “The New Classics: TV” - The list in full

John Oliver’s standup show - originally aired on Comedy Central in the US - is coming out on DVD on the 19th August this year. ‘John Oliver: Terrifying Times’ will be available on region all DVD at Amazon.co.uk so it can be played on any DVD player in the world - good news for UK fans. The DVD includes several added extras including extended footage from the standup show (and uncensorted), clips from John Oliver on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, other The Daily Show & The Colbert Report clips featuring John, an episode of Reno 911, John at the UCB Theater in New York and more.

IGN.com - Boxart for the ‘John Oliver: Terrifying Times’ DVD
IGN.com - “John Oliver’s DVDaily Show”
Amazon.co.uk - ‘John Oliver: Terrifying Times’ PAL region-all DVD (no preorder yet)
Amazon.com - ‘John Oliver: Terrifying Times’ NTSC region-all DVD (preorder now)
Late Show UK Store (just search for Terrifying Times - not available to preorder yet)

I’m not 100% sure on how long this service has been available for, but you can now watch full episodes of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report on the official TheDailyShow.com and ComedyCentral.com websites. It’s really easy to use and has limited advertisements (oh, and it works in the UK too!) - check it out.

Watch full episodes of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart at TheDailyShow.com
Watch full episodes of The Colbert Report at ComedyCentral.com
Late Show UK - Watch Online section

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama will be making another visit to The Daily Show on Monday. He appeared via satellite on The Colbert Report on Thursday last week - Hillary Clinton and John Edwards also made appearances on The Colbert Report on Thursday. Barack Obama’s appearance on The Daily Show will air on More 4 this Tuesday at 8.30pm.

The Daily Show guest listings (US airdates)

Demi Moore, Kate Bosworth and Brian Williams will be appearing on the Late Show on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. Brit pop star (of X Factor fame) Leona Lewis will be on The Tonight Show this Monday (24th March). The Leona Lewis episode will be going out on CNBC on the 27th March at 10pm and on the 29th March at 8pm. Conan O’Brien will be on The Tonight Show this Thursday (27th March). Late Night With Conan O’Brien, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report are on reruns next week. Donald Sutherland, Trevor Eve, Natasha Kaplinsky and The Kooks will be on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross this Friday. Don’t forget to check out the Upcoming Shows box in the sidebar for the next shows to air on UK TV.

The Associated Press is reporting the ratings for all the late night chat shows stayed very much the same throughout the writers strike. The AP says people “made little difference in their viewing habits” despite all the shows (except Letterman and Craig Ferguson) not having their writing teams onboard. The Associated Press report The Daily Show With Jon Stewart kept steady ratings as “the 1.6 million viewers he averaged during January was the same as he had last year”, and The Colbert Report’s “1.2 million last month was actually up 6 percent from the 2007 average”. Jay Leno “averaged 5.17 million viewers since his return” and Letterman “increased from 3.8 million pre-strike to 4.05 million after he went back on the air after the new year”. Conan O’Brien’s ratings remained largely unchanged averaging “just over 2 million people nightly” last month. The ratings data came from Nielsen Media Research. The strike ended yesterday, and all writers are now back at work, and “A Daily Show With Jon Stewart” changed it’s name back to “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” to signify the return of the writing staff.

The Associated Press - “Strike Barely Hits Late-Night Ratings”