In light of The Meter Is Running and Chris Matthews telling The NYT that his interview with Jon Stewart was "a painful experience," I headed down to the Comedy Central Archive Dungeon with one of those coal miner flashlight helmets on to dig up some classic cable-news-centric Daily Show clips. Along with a case of black-lung, here's what I came back with:

Secular Central: This piece on Bill O'Reilly's war on the war on Christmas is funny for a lot of reasons, but the best part has to be the introduction of Osama's Homobortion Pot and Commie Jizzporium into the zeitgeist.

The rest of the list can be found after the jump.

Michael Vick has been sentenced to 23 months in jail for the cruel practice of dogfighting. Dog-owner Jon Stewart took a lot of shots at Vick. Let's take a look back...

August 21: Vick's Rub:

July 18: Jon envisions the appropriate punishment for Vick:

And here's a Dave Attell clip from Last Laugh:

To coincide with the interview with Jon Stewart in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, the magazine's website has the 25 Greatest Rock & Roll Moments on The Daily Show (with video for each from the new Daily Show site.) See all of them on Rollingstone.com, but here's a random one: Michael Stipe in 1999:

October 29, 2001 : Steve Carell in Haunted House:

October 30, 2002 : Ed Helms in D.C. Halloween

In this episode of the Daily Show cult classic segment Even Stevphen, Steve Carell forces Stephen Colbert to trick-or-treat:

Watch the rest of the Even Stevphen segments: Even Stevphen on The Daily Show

Today, we launched the new Daily Show website. It's in beta now, but currently boasts over 5000 videos (soon to have over 13,000), tagged and organized by date, subject, theme, etc etc etc. We'll be featuring lists here based on our own time-wasting explorations, but we thought on this very first day, we'd show one of the best moments ever (as substantiated by the views it's already gotten, despite being from 2003!)

Stephen Colbert reports to Jon on a royal sex scandal, eats a banana, and completely loses it. Enjoy: