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Comedy Central brings The Daily Show Headlines to Android

For the first time, the Daily Show Headlines app comes to Android, bringing content from Comedy Central's award-winning satirical news program to a swath of additional mobile users.

This means that Android users can now get mobile access to videos of Jon Stewart and "The Best F#@king News Team Ever," up to two weeks after original episodes air. In addition to the clip archive, the app offers a quote generator, guest news, and scheduled alerts to help keep you from missing an episode. Plus, it promises viewers exclusive content, which should be a treat for the … Read more

Jon Stewart on Google's glasses: Like people peeing in your eye

"In New York City, that mother****** is going to get hit by a car."

Such was Jon Stewart's exasperated verdict yesterday on anyone wearing Google's new augmented-reality glasses. This was not the only concern shared by "The Daily Show" host.

Google is, after all, the "world's biggest database of people whizzing in public." With these glasses, it will be as if these people "are peeing right in your eye."

In this busy and slightly insane week for tech, Stewart didn't stop his piss-take with Google. For there was … Read more

Apple's Siri teaches Jon Stewart about Foxconn

Everyone should have more money. Everything should be cheaper. Everyone should have a job.

These seem to be the prominent political themes of the day.

Indeed, Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry made clear that we cannot drive great tech entrepreneurs away from the U.S.: "Steve Jobs and what he innovated and people like him, we need to be giving them the incentive to be on shore doing that and not driving them off with tax policy and regulatory policy."

Last night, Jon Stewart seemed a little bemused by this. He wondered how we could get Steve Jobs … Read more

Colbert, Stewart in funny (but serious) Jobs tributes

When you are a news anchor--albeit for the Comedy Channel--you can't shy away from the news of Steve Jobs' death.

But are you really supposed to play it straight? Are you supposed to reminisce about, in Stephen Colbert's case, the day Steve Jobs gave you one of the first iPads so that you could flog it at the Grammys?

Or, in Jon Stewart's case, are you supposed to mention occasions when Jobs called you in appreciation of some skit of other?

Well, yes, in both cases.

Yet, as you watch both of these tributes from their shows, … Read more

The 404 815: Where we don't owe you any cheese (podcast)

It's Wilson's last day Skyping in from the CNET office in San Francisco and he'll be in the office on Monday. Unfortunately, there's not much we can do about that, so we just get into the stories of the day, like Jon Stewart's quote about the Osama Bin Laden photos, which rappers are suing our parent company, and how much it would cost to buy the house from "Home Alone."

The 404 Digest for Episode 815

Jon Stewart voices opinions about the Osama photos. Rappers are suing CNET. "Home Alone" house in Winnetka, Ill., on sale for $2.4M. 23-year-old makes $120,000 off Osama's death in 48 hours. Google Maps will soon give you the powers of Superman. Third attack planned on Sony.

Episode 815 Subscribe in iTunes (audio) | Subscribe in iTunes (video) | Subscribe in RSS Audio | Subscribe in RSS Video… Read more

Jon Stewart celebrates Verizon iPhone deal

Yesterday, there was screaming in the streets. There was howling in financial planning meetings. There was trembling in bars. Yes, Verizon announced that it would be offering the iPhone 4.

Talk show host Jon Stewart was one of those whose emotional cup ran over and over.

On his Daily Show, he was barely able to contain his excitement as he spread his arms into a crucifix and bellowed "FREEEEDDOMMMM!!"

Such was the cultural significance of the announcement, such was the sense of universal release, that Stewart dedicated more than seven minutes of his show to Verizon (hopefully) rescuing … Read more

Everything but full episodes

If you're a big fan of The Daily Show, it shouldn't take a lot of arm-twisting for you to grab the new The Daily Show app, which will set you back $1.99. The app offers a lot for rabid fans, starting with a shareable quote of the day (and accompanying show segment) for roughly the last eight weeks' worth of shows.

Tap the Topics button and you'll see a spinning word cloud (or an alphabetical list if you switch views), with each item leading to handfuls--if not buckets--of clips related to that topic. These appear to … Read more

The Daily Show app: Everything but full episodes

The Daily Show app looks great on the iPhone, but it's even better on an iPad, where it takes full advantage of the extra screen estate.

(Credit: Screenshot by Rick Broida)

I'm a huge, huge fan of "The Daily Show." It's the single funniest thing on TV, and Jon Stewart is perhaps the smartest guy ever to sit behind a talk-show desk. (The less said about his interviewing skills, however, the better.)

Needless to say, it didn't take a lot of arm-twisting for me to grab the new The Daily Show app--especially considering that it's being offered free just for today. (I'm not sure what the price will be as of tomorrow, but we can look for clues in The Colbert Report's The Word, which costs $1.99.) 

The app offers a lot for rabid fans like me, starting with a shareable quote of the day (and accompanying show segment) for roughly the last eight weeks' worth of shows.

Tap the Topics button and you'll see a spinning word cloud (or an alphabetical list if you switch views), with each item leading to handfuls--if not buckets--of clips related to that topic. These appear to date back as far as December, 2009--not the full archives by any stretch, but still plenty of stuff to watch.… Read more

George Lucas on making 'Star Wars': 'It helps to be nuts'

ORLANDO, Fla.--You'd think, with all the resources at his disposal, "Star Wars" creator George Lucas would be pleased, if not all that impressed, to see the flood of life-size and (nearly) fully functional droids that fans of his films have created over the years.

In fact, though, Lucas sees those droids--which were out in force at Celebration V, the huge "Star Wars" fan fest here this week--as a bit of a "tragic" reminder of the struggles he and his team had trying to get their own R2-D2s to work properly back when … Read more