Posted: Sunday, 18th January 2009 at 3:54pm by Paul
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart will air live on Inauguration Day this Tuesday. The show will go out at 11pm on Comedy Central, but it won’t be pre-recorded beforehand. The last live broadcast Comedy Central did featuring Jon Stewart was the Indecision 2008 programme on election night, which was co-hosted by Stephen Colbert from The Colbert Report.
The Daily Show won’t have live coverage of the Obama inauguration ceremony as that’s taking place during the day (you can keep up to date on that though on the Indecision 2008 blog), but it will have a live roundup of the day’s events at 11pm.
So if you live in the US, tune into Comedy Central on the 20th January at 11pm to watch live. If you’re in the UK, More 4 will air this episode on Wednesday at 8.30pm.
There will be live blogging on the Indecision 2008 blog throughout the show and also live blogging throughout the day of the inauguration ceremony.
Posted: Monday, 12th January 2009 at 11:47am by Paul
Vote for the “Indecision 2008″ blog from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report teams. The Comedy Central blog is nominated in the (rather oddly named) “Best Very Large Blog” category in The 2008 Weblog Awards. Click here to cast your vote. Polls close tomorrow (13th January) at 10pm GMT (UK) so head on over there now before it’s too late.
Posted: Sunday, 9th November 2008 at 2:40pm by Paul
Former presidential candidate Senator John McCain will make his first appearance on TV next week since he lost the presidential race to President-elect Barack Obama. John McCain has chosen to visit The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on NBC rather than the Late Show With David Letterman on CBS.
The Associated Press reports “The Republican presidential candidate is set to join “Tonight” host Jay Leno on Tuesday in honor of Veteran’s Day, the network announced. McCain is a former Naval officer and prisoner of war in Vietnam”.
Posted: Saturday, 8th November 2008 at 3:47pm by Paul
The Saturday Night Live 2-hour special that aired on NBC on Monday (the eve before Election Day in the US) was a huge ratings success. The special programme “was seen by 14.4 million people” according to Journal Now, and eNews 2.0 reports “according to Nielsen estimations, NBC won most viewers with ages between 18 and 49″.
The Monday night show had impressions by Amy Poehler (as Hillary Clinton), Fred Armisen (as Barack Obama) and Darrell Hammond (as John McCain). The real Barack Obama, John McCain and Sarah Palin were also on the show introducing classic SNL clips, etc.
JournalNow.com asks “what will Saturday Night Live do without the 2008 presidential election to mock?”. Good question.
Posted: Friday, 7th November 2008 at 9:59am by Paul
David Letterman’s reaction to the US Election result came on the 5th November edition of the Late Show – the first show back since Barack Obama won the election to become the next President of the United States. Dave says the Straight Talk Express (McCain’s vehicle used throughout the campaign) is now out of service.
Watch the monologue from the 5th November show to the right and click here to watch Craig Ferguson’s monologue from the 5th November.
Posted: Wednesday, 5th November 2008 at 11:10am by Paul
Last night’s joint TV programme between Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert went out live coast-to-coast on Comedy Central and was also shown on the big screen in Times Square, New York. The live programme (or “Actually Live” as they said) – called “Indecision 2008: America’s Choice” – was an historic event in itself with Colbert and Stewart teaming up for a live broadcast.
As More 4 air The Daily Show With Jon Stewart in the UK and FX UK air The Colbert Report in the UK, this special “Indecision 2008: America’s Choice” programme will be shown on both channels. It will be on More 4 at 8.45pm tonight and on FX UK at 10pm tonight. The show is about 1 hour long.
If you can’t wait until tonight, the official election blog for The Daily Show and The Colbert Report (Indecision2008.com) has uploaded various clips from the special 4th November show.
Jon Stewart got the chance to announce Barack Obama was the next US President live as it happened. The Associated Press reports “Stewart became the first comedian to announce presidential election results on live national television. Sensing the end was imminent, the broadcast delayed its signoff for a moment, as offstage producers gave the closing cue while hovering over TV monitors showing. When they said the election had been called, the comedians effectively became newsmen”. Jon Stewart looked close to tears as he announced “at 11 o’clock at night – Eastern Standard Time – the president of the United States is Barack Obama”.
Posted: Wednesday, 5th November 2008 at 9:33am by Paul
Barack Obama has won an historic 2008 US Election to become the next President of the United States of America. Senator Obama currently has 349 electoral college votes and Senator McCain has 162 electoral college votes – 270 were needed to win the US Presidency. Barack Obama gave his victory speech in the early hours of the morning today in his home town of Chicago and says “change has come to America”. Senator Obama also said “if there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy – tonight is your answer”. The voting turnout for this election was also historic – seeing a reported 75% of US people going to the polls to register their vote (about 130 million people).
Senator Obama took several key states which sealed his victory in the US Election. BBC News reports “Mr Obama captured the key battleground states of Pennsylvania and Ohio, before breaking through the winning threshold of 270 electoral college votes at 0400 GMT, when projections showed he had also taken California and a slew of other states… Then came the news that he had also seized Florida, Virginia and Colorado”.
Posted: Tuesday, 4th November 2008 at 11:46am by Paul
Last updated 4th November 2008 at 23:53
The day has come – after nearly two years of campaigning today is US Election Day 2008. Everyone in the US will be going to the polls today to register their votes for the candidate to become the next President of the United States.
Barack Obama and John McCain have made numerous appearances on various US talk shows throughout their campaign. John McCain has also – infamously – dropped out of an appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman before coming back to apologise at a later date. Letterman has made several jokes about McCain (“He’s so old…”) throughout the campaign.
The results of the US Presidency will be known by the early hours of tomorrow morning (UK time). If you’d like to watch the news coverage (and Comedy Central for a funny slant on the election) as it happens on the US & UK networks, I have put some links below that you will find useful. CBS and NBC election coverage runs right through the night in America (which will be the early hours of Wednesday morning if you’re watching in the UK). There will also be coverage of the US election on BBC1 and the BBC News Channel throughout the night tonight if you live in the UK.
Posted: Monday, 3rd November 2008 at 1:02pm by Paul
Presidential candidate John McCain made an appearance on Saturday Night Live last Saturday (1st November).
TV Guide’s review of the episode says “They wasted no time putting McCain to use, as he was joined by Tina as Palin (!) to make their last-minute plea to voters while hawking products on QVC. Apparently the campaign, as Tina points out, spent a little too much money on Palin’s clothes and couldn’t afford to match Sen. Obama’s three-network infomercial”.
Actor Ben Affleck was the guest host on the show and American Idol star David Cook performed.
There is a two hour special show tonight (3rd November) on the eve before the US Election. The two hour special is called the SNL Presidential Bash 2008 and special guests will make appearances on the show. The two hour special will air at 9/8c on Monday 3rd November on NBC.
Posted: Thursday, 30th October 2008 at 5:09pm by Paul
There’s less than a week to go until the US elections. US presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama appeared via satellite on yesterday’s edition of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. For viewers in the UK, this will air on More 4 tonight at 8.30pm or you can watch the embedded video (if you’re reading this on the homepage click on the link below for the video);
Posted: Thursday, 30th October 2008 at 2:49pm by Paul
Last updated 4th November
There will be a US Election special combining The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report on election night – Tuesday 4th November. The special show – called “Indecision 2008: America’s Choice” will air live on Comedy Central in the US (west coast) from 7pm-8pm PT and will be shown from 10pm-11pm ET. The special show will broadcast from The Daily Show studio in New York and will also be screened on the huge JumboTron TV screen in Times Square.
A press release on Comedy Central’s website says The Daily Show and The Colbert Report “head into November coming off the series’ most watched month ever in October” and that they “are currently on pace to record their most watched years ever”. The press release also reveals “there will also be a Live Blogging Event [on the indecision2008.com website] from 7:30 p.m.-11:30 p.m. ET with comedian Patton Oswalt” and “postings will take place all day by the site’s bloggers who will report the latest news on the presidential election as well as the hot races in the House and Senate”.
For viewers in the UK, More 4 will be airing this special show the following night (Wednesday 5th November) at 8.45pm through to 9.35pm. More 4 is available on Freeview, Virgin Media and Sky. FX UK will also air the special show on Wednesday 5th November at 10pm. FX UK is available on Virgin Media and Sky.
On a related election note – Barack Obama appeared on The Daily Show last night, which will be broadcast on More 4 tonight (Thursday 30th October) at 8.30pm.
Posted: Friday, 17th October 2008 at 10:21pm by Paul
Senator – and US President hopeful – John McCain came back to the Late Show With David Letterman on Thursday night. It was the first time he’s been back since he famously cancelled his last Late Show appearance a few weeks ago to, supposedly, run back to Washington to fix the economy – when he actually stayed and did an interview with Katie Couric for CBS News instead. John McCain told Letterman “I screwed up”.
Letterman made jokes about McCain on subsequent shows after he cancelled and showed how disappointed he was about it and originally said “This is not the John McCain I know”.
Thursday’s edition of the Late Show With David Letterman got the biggest audience figures since Oprah Winfrey’s appearance back in December 2005 according to CBS and E! Online. John McCain’s appearance on Thursday drew in approximately 6.5 million viewers (beating The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in the ratings, who had Joe Biden on).
CBS has been kind enough to upload the entire John McCain interview to their official YouTube channel, which is great news for us Brits who can no longer watch the Late Show on UK TV. Click here to watch the full interview.
Posted: Monday, 13th October 2008 at 1:14pm by Paul
Senator John McCain – running for President in this November’s US Election – will be coming back to the Late Show With David Letterman this Thursday. This will be the first time the senator has been on the Late Show since he infamously cancelled on his previous Letterman appearance a couple of weeks ago. David Letterman mentioned his frustration and annoyance that McCain cancelled publicly on his shows recently.
The excuse McCain gave for cancelling his last appearance was that he needed to rush back to Washington to fix the economy, when it turned out he was actually doing interviews with Katie Couric and didn’t leave for Washington until the next day. It’s not known whether he will bring Sarah Palin – his Vice President candidate – with him to the Late Show, but Dave has hinted that he would like them both to appear on the show together.
Thursday will mark John McCain’s 13th appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman.
McCain originally exclusively announced on Letterman’s show that he was running for President in the US Elections.
Posted: Saturday, 27th September 2008 at 1:05pm by Paul
Letterman has spoken out about John McCain cancelling his recent Late Show With David Letterman appearance even though McCain went ahead and did an interview with Katie Couric for CBS News at the same time. Letterman said “I’m more than a little disappointed by his behavior… We’re suspending the campaign… suspending it because there’s an economic crisis, or because the poll numbers are sliding?… something about this stinks”.
Keith Olbermann replaced John McCain as a guest on the Late Show. McCain was supposed to be on his way to Washington for talks to resolve the credit crisis, but he was actually still in New York filming the CBS News interview. Throughout the interview Dave was watching McCain getting ready for the CBS News interview on the Ed Sullivan Theatre monitors during the show. At one point Dave shouted at the McCain on the TV monitor “You need a ride to the airport?”.
On the Late Show, Dave said “Senator John McCain, Republican candidate for President, was supposed to be on the program tonight. Were you aware of that? But he had to cancel the show because he’s suspending his campaign because the economy is exploding. You know who John McCain is… he’s the running mate of Sarah Palin”.
McCain originally announced he was running for President on the Late Show.
Posted: Friday, 12th September 2008 at 2:54pm by Paul
Democrat Barack Obama appeared on the Late Show earlier this week ahead of the US Presidential elections in November. Obama spoke about his recent comments about putting lipstick on a pig (referring to the Republican’s election stance) when Letterman asked him if he had ever tried to actually put lipstick on a pig. Barack said he hadn’t “but I think it might be fun to try”. Senator Barack Obama’s appearance on the 10th September 2008 show was his 5th visit to the Late Show. Obama said “the policies of John McCain would be the pig”.
In other news, Barack Obama will also appear on Saturday Night Live this weekend – the first episode of the new season. AFP says “quite what the Democratic presidential hopeful will do on the program this time is still being worked out, the aides said, but it is a safe bet that the hosts will extract comedy value out of some of the recent campaign sparring”.
Posted: Wednesday, 10th September 2008 at 1:31pm by Paul
Democratic US Presidential nominee Barack Obama will be a guest on the Late Show With David Letterman tonight (Wednesday 10th September) on CBS. He has appeared on the Late Show in the past and read out a very amusing Top Ten list on his past appearance. As the Late Show With David Letterman airs at 11.30pm US time, you can see the show at 7.30am UK time via the embedded streaming in our Watch Online section tomorrow morning – just click on the Late Show With David Letterman option at www.lateshowuk.com/watch-online – this show may also be on Diva TV at some stage soon.
Following on from Barack Obama’s appearance on the Top Ten last week, Democratic US President candidate Hillary Clinton stopped by the Late Show on Monday to read out a Top Ten list of her own – “Top Ten Reasons Hillary Clinton Loves America”. One of the Top Ten points was “Thanks to the Internet I can order new pantsuits 24/7. There’s your pantsuit joke, Dave. Are you happy now?”. See the video in full below or read more on Reuters.
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