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”.
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Remembering September 11thPaul: Thank you so much for the video clip link. I’ve now embedded it into this post. I’ve never seen his opening monologue from this show before, so thank you again.
