We've had quite a sexy week together, you and I. It's hard to believe that in ten years, we'll grow so passionless and distant. More roommates than lovers, really. Until then though, we've still got #5-1 of the sexiest Daily Show moments. And that's something. Isn't it?

If you missed #25 through #6, there are links at the bottom of this post.

#5 Battle of the Bulge

We always knew Ed Helms was sexy. We always knew he'd look great in a Speedo. But it wasn't until his employment of a state-of-the-art nut-cam that we knew it was love.

A good test of a comedian's hilarity mettle is how well he or she can make cancer funny. Because laughter is the best medicine, so a good cancer joke can potentially cure cancer, and really, that's what we're all here for, right? Anyway, the Daily Show correspondents have officially injected cancer with 100 cc's of LULZ.

[Via No Fact Zone]

Entertainment Weekly has crunched the numbers, done the lab work and spliced the genes to come up with the definitive list of the 25 funniest people in America. Topping the bottom-24 of the top-25? None other than Stephen Colbert and the Colbert Report team:

The once (and, we're sure, future) presidential nominee, author, and dedicated windbag also happens to be one of the smartest satirists working today. Heck, if all the dude had on his resume was the legendary 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner, he'd go down in comedy history. But week-in and week-out, Colbert takes aim at the political-industrial complex — and I don't care if there's no such term — and spins the facts into truth. Or truthiness. Whichever's easier.

Also notable on the list are Jon Stewart and The Daily Show team at #4, Matt Stone and Trey Parker at #7, Demetri Martin at #21, Dave Chappelle at #22, and Sarah Silverman at #23. The complete list is after the jump.

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.

While some bigoted xenophobes out there would love nothing more than to line the US-Canadian border with those sonic brain-melting fences from Lost and to guard those fences with rabid genetically-engineered man-eating skunk-apes all in the name of keeping the likes of The Daily Show's Samantha Bee out of these United States, there are a few who celebrate the exotic north-of-the-border foreignness that Bee and her icy compatriots add to our culture. Case in point, the immigration web portal ILW.com has named Sam one of their Immigrants of the Week:

Canadian Samantha Bee is America's favorite fake female journalist, a title she likely won't dispute. She's risen up the ranks and is now the senior correspondent on top-rated fake news program The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Bee's hilarious interviews with politicians are pretty memorable including her most recent interview with my own Congressman, Memphis Democrat Steve Cohen. If you'r