Comedy Central Insider | Funny, TV and Comedy Blog » John Oliver http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com The blog by and for comedy nerds. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:48:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Reserve Your Tickets for The Daily Show http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2012/01/06/reserve-your-tickets-for-the-daily-show/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2012/01/06/reserve-your-tickets-for-the-daily-show/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:59:23 +0000 Matt Tobey http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=38621 There are plenty of advantages to watching The Daily Show at home: clothing is optional, domesticated hippopotami are allowed and no one minds if you react to your favorite jokes by doing the Roger Rabbit. On the other hand, going to see the show live might give you an opportunity to recruit some of the other audience members into your cult, so why not click here and reserve tickets for an upcoming taping?

Before you know it, you could be sitting in the Daily Show studio not doing the Roger Rabbit during segments like this:



]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2012/01/06/reserve-your-tickets-for-the-daily-show/feed/ 1 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> The Daily Show's Best Hanukkah Moments http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/12/21/the-daily-shows-best-hanukkah-moments-3/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/12/21/the-daily-shows-best-hanukkah-moments-3/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:30:02 +0000 Matt Tobey http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=38372 Hanukkah's great, but it drives me crazy that no one can agree on a correct way to spell it. Is it "Hanukkah" or "Hanukah" or "Chanukah" or Chanuka" or "Christmas?" Who even knows? But one thing everyone can agree on is that The Daily Show has a rich and storied history of cracking wise about the festival of lights. So on this, the first full day of Hanukkah, in lieu of the traditional geese a-laying, here are some of The Daily Show's best bits about the holiday I mistakenly thought was Canadian Christmas until I was about 14.

Hanukkah Jumps Christmas



There may only be enough battery oil in your laptop lamp for one video, but I have a feeling it will last through all eight in the collection, which continues below.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

Eight Is Enough



War on Hanukkah



Produce Pete: Latkes



Back in Black: Happy Holidays



Hanukkah at the White House



Operation Enduring Choverage



Oy to the World



]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/12/21/the-daily-shows-best-hanukkah-moments-3/feed/ 0 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> Rob Riggle: Forged in the Fires of War http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/11/14/rob-riggle-forged-in-the-fires-of-war/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/11/14/rob-riggle-forged-in-the-fires-of-war/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:35:12 +0000 Eric Feezell http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=37538 U.S. Marine and former Daily Show correspondent Rob Riggle is not a man to be trifled with. You don't reach the rank of Lieutenant Colonel with merely average board-breaking skills, and Riggle demonstrates his ferocity and skill to awe-stricken televisions audiences whenever he gets the chance. But bending metal? Surely he's not that badass?

It is so. Riggle visited CNN Comedy in honor of Veteran's Day and wasted no time finding something to destroy with his bare manly hands. In this case, the unfortunate item appears to be an iMac keyboard. No doubt Tim Cook and Jony Ive are trembling in fear, safe inside their billion dollar Riggle-proof apocalypse bunkers. Because it takes a billion dollars to stop a board-breaking, metal-bending Marine like Rob Riggle. Ooh-rah.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/11/14/rob-riggle-forged-in-the-fires-of-war/feed/ 0 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> The Daily Show Around the World: Europe http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/10/12/the-daily-show-around-the-world-europe/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/10/12/the-daily-show-around-the-world-europe/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:02:03 +0000 Matt Tobey http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=36594 Some fun facts about Europe: It is Earth's smallest continent, if you're among the growing throng of conspiracy theorists who believe Australia is a hoax. And it is the largest continent, if you consider Neptune to be part of Belgium. For more on the birthplace of universal health care and mayonnaise, turn your attention to this montage of classic Daily Show moments:



The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/10/12/the-daily-show-around-the-world-europe/feed/ 0 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> Futurama and The Daily Show Celebrate Creative Arts Emmy Wins! http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/09/12/futurama-and-the-daily-show-celebrate-creative-arts-emmy-wins/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/09/12/futurama-and-the-daily-show-celebrate-creative-arts-emmy-wins/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:56:26 +0000 Matt Tobey http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=35720 The taping of The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen wasn't the only thing that made it a big weekend. I finally got my head unstuck from the bannister, and at Saturday's Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, Comedy Central won big with awards going to Futurama for Best Animated Series, Maurice LaMarche for Best Voice-Over Performance and The Daily Show Correspondents Explain for Best Special Class Short Format – Live-Action Entertainment. You can see one of the latest TDS Correspondents Explain installments after the jump, but first here's an interview with Maurice LaMarche. Congratulations, everyone!



The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/09/12/futurama-and-the-daily-show-celebrate-creative-arts-emmy-wins/feed/ 1 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> The Daily Show Correspondents Explain: The Democratic Party http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/26/the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-the-democratic-party/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/26/the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-the-democratic-party/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:51:25 +0000 Dennis DiClaudio http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=35264

From Indecision…

Here's an interesting fact about Democrats: Despite popular belief, they're more closely related to earthworms than jellyfish. Science!



The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/26/the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-the-democratic-party/feed/ 1 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> The Daily Show Correspondents Explain: The Republican Party http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/25/the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-the-republican-party/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/25/the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-the-republican-party/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:27:14 +0000 Dennis DiClaudio http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=35236

From Indecision…

It's easy to see why the Republican Party has such great respect for Abraham Lincoln. They both share 19th Century mentalities.



The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/25/the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-the-republican-party/feed/ 1 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> The Daily Show Correspondents Explain: The Socialist Party http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/24/the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-the-socialist-party/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/24/the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-the-socialist-party/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:58:17 +0000 comedy central insider http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=35169

From Indecision…

Are you kidding me? You're telling me that the Socialist Party is still an actual thing that actually exists. In this day and age? I thought that the idea of banding together for the greater good was debunked as nonsense years ago.



The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm/10c.

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/24/the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-the-socialist-party/feed/ 0 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> The Daily Show Correspondents Explain: The Tea Party http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/23/the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-the-tea-party/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/23/the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-the-tea-party/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:30:02 +0000 comedy central insider http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=35122

From Indecision…

I don't care what anyone else thinks, I support the Tea Party movement's right to drive the national conversation away from lesser issues and onto more important things, like how much everybody hates the Tea Party movement.



The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/23/the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-the-tea-party/feed/ 0 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman Take on Rupert Murdoch from Inside His Own House http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/15/john-oliver-and-andy-zaltzman-take-on-rupert-murdoch-from-inside-his-own-house/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/15/john-oliver-and-andy-zaltzman-take-on-rupert-murdoch-from-inside-his-own-house/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:24:01 +0000 Gonzalo Cordova http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=34923 The News of the World phone-hacking scandal is probably the biggest phone-related scandal ever (and that's counting all the phone-related scandals that involved penises!) But you wouldn't know it from reading News Corp. owned papers. Even the New York Post somehow restrained their infinite amount of monkeys banging away at an infinite amount of typewriters.

But in the nether regions of the Internet, a podcast rose up. John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman record a podcast together called The Bugle for The Times of London, a Murdoch owned paper. They somehow flew under the radar and mined the comedy-rich territory…

As some Murdoch-owned media properties chose to minimize the unfolding scandal, Mr. Skinner and the pair of comedians behind the podcast, Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver, went straight for the jugular. The Bugle, among the most popular comedy podcasts in Britain with roughly 400,000 weekly downloads, spent three weeks hammering their corporate owners, News International, and Mr. Murdoch himself.

This is significant considering how much power Rupert Murdoch has over shaping the perception of the trial and just how little his media empire chose to cover the scandal. John and Andy seemed pretty aware of that fact as they dug into Rupert Murdoch.

“I’m not saying Rupert Murdoch’s face didn’t look better with a shaving cream pie in it,” Mr. Oliver said during one episode. “You just don’t want to find yourself with any misplaced sympathy for Rupert Murdoch.”

The two then jokingly wondered on air whether anyone higher up at News International was listening. “Should this not have been stopped by now?” Mr. Oliver asked. “It doesn’t make sense!”

You can download the podcast on iTunes. After the jump, I've posted a video of John Oliver putting the News of the World scandal into proper perspective.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.

(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)



]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/15/john-oliver-and-andy-zaltzman-take-on-rupert-murdoch-from-inside-his-own-house/feed/ 0 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> The Daily Show on This Weekend's Ames Iowa Straw Poll http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/12/the-daily-show-on-this-weekends-ames-iowa-straw-poll/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/12/the-daily-show-on-this-weekends-ames-iowa-straw-poll/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:16:53 +0000 Dennis DiClaudio http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=34877

From Indecision…

Wow, this straw poll really has it all! Mike Huckabee, petting zoos, fried butter, Mike Huckabee, chairs. And, best of all, Mike Huckabee!



Coverage continues with Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Aasif Mandvi and Wyatt Cenac from deep within the corn poll after the jump.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.

Read more »

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/12/the-daily-show-on-this-weekends-ames-iowa-straw-poll/feed/ 0 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> Vote in the Daily Show Correspondents Explain Poll http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/01/vote-in-the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-poll/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/01/vote-in-the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-poll/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:57:05 +0000 Matt Tobey http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=34480 The first series of Daily Show Correspondents Explain videos were great, but the topics were chosen in a fascist dictatorial fashion. But not this time. That's right, Internet, democracy has come to the Daily Show Correspondents Explain! Have your voice heard by click here and voting to determine the topics of the upcoming batch of new videos, which will be online in just a few weeks.

In the meantime, here's one of the previous installments:



The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/08/01/vote-in-the-daily-show-correspondents-explain-poll/feed/ 0 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> Support The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/07/18/support-the-eugene-mirman-comedy-festival/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/07/18/support-the-eugene-mirman-comedy-festival/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:23:02 +0000 Jeffrey Luppino-Esposito http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=33739 A day of science, a petting zoo, and an awkward party bus. This isn't your grandmother's middle school experience. Which is weird because it really sounds like it could be. But, it's actually just a taste of the "very unprofitable stuff" that will be going down at year four of The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, the world's "first sincere-and-ironic comedy festival."

With past acts ranging from John Oliver to Jon Benjamin and a Kickstarter campaign promising hilarious layers of exclusivity and cured meats, this is shaping up to be the event of the summer. Watch Mr. Mirman's amazingly self-aware pitch below and then carry all of your disposable income in a virtual money bag over to his campaign page immediately.

 

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/07/18/support-the-eugene-mirman-comedy-festival/feed/ 0 <_edit_lock><_edit_last> John Oliver Comforts Jon Stewart Over the Dissolution of American Pride http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/07/12/john-oliver-comforts-jon-stewart-over-the-dissolution-of-american-pride/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/07/12/john-oliver-comforts-jon-stewart-over-the-dissolution-of-american-pride/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:51:54 +0000 Dennis DiClaudio http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=33600

From Indecision…

It's kinda cute the way the U.S. media jumps all over "news" stories like Casey Anthony's murder trial and Anthony Weiner's Twitter crotch and Sarah Palin's Sarah Palin. Though, it is genuinely humbling to watch Rupert Murdoch's News of the World implosion unfold from across the pond and see how far we truly have to fall…



The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/07/12/john-oliver-comforts-jon-stewart-over-the-dissolution-of-american-pride/feed/ 0 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> Jon Stewart on Anthony Weiner & Sarah Palin's Self-Aggrandizement Campaigns http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/06/07/jon-stewart-on-anthony-weiner-sarah-palins-self-aggrandizement-campaigns/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/06/07/jon-stewart-on-anthony-weiner-sarah-palins-self-aggrandizement-campaigns/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:00:18 +0000 Dennis DiClaudio http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=32408 Discover the secrets hidden deep beneath Rep. Anthony Weiner's clothes as well as the secrets of American History hidden in the recesses of Sarah Palin's mind with Jon Stewart in today's Daily Show in :60 Seconds.



Watch more coverage of Sarah Palin's bus tour from last night's show after the jump.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.





]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/06/07/jon-stewart-on-anthony-weiner-sarah-palins-self-aggrandizement-campaigns/feed/ 1 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> Before They Get Stale: John Oliver, Melissa McCarthy and Albert Brooks http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/05/25/before-they-get-stale-john-oliver-melissa-mccarthy-and-albert-brooks/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/05/25/before-they-get-stale-john-oliver-melissa-mccarthy-and-albert-brooks/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 22:05:54 +0000 Gonzalo Cordova http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=31984 John Oliver shares what he thinks makes a man a man, "You're not a man unless you own at least three monocles." [Esquire]

Melissa McCarthy reveals the inspiration of her Bridesmaids character is non-other than Guy Fieri. It's weird she could squeeze humor out of someone so plain and not-at-all-ridiculous. [Team Coco via Splitsider]

Adam Carolla got the incredible, legendary Albert Brooks to sit down and talk to him for 90 minutes on his podcast. It's a Christmas miracle! [Adam Carolla]

Maria Bamford talks about her love of the show Animal Hoarders, "'I want to be taken away to Florida in a van. I’m ready! Intervene! Somebody intervene.'" [AV Club via The Comedy Bureau]

Louis CK and the girls who play his daughters on TV encourage us to watch the second season of Louie and then there's some slapping. [YouTube]

Al Jaffee talks about meeting Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and their writers in this great video interview. [UCB Comedy]

Todd Phillips, who directed The Hangover, is known for taking interviewers to task, but besides that, he's pretty generous with giving interesting nuggets in interviews. This thirty minute video is a prime example. [The Hot Blog via Movieline]

Jimmy Fallon shows off some of his impersonations on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and it's a pretty fun listen. [NPR]

(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/05/25/before-they-get-stale-john-oliver-melissa-mccarthy-and-albert-brooks/feed/ 0 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> Get Your Tickets to See John Oliver Live at Foxwoods http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/05/20/get-your-tickets-to-see-john-oliver-live-at-foxwoods/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/05/20/get-your-tickets-to-see-john-oliver-live-at-foxwoods/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 18:54:14 +0000 Matt Tobey http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=31799 John Oliver is bringing his stand-up act to the Fox Theater at Foxwoods in Connecticut, and you can get 25% off the normal ticket price. Just click here or call (800)200-2882 and use the code "oliver." Make sure you use the right code though. I mistakenly used the code "fidelio," and instead of getting 25% off, I entered a sexy world of danger and intrigue.

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/05/20/get-your-tickets-to-see-john-oliver-live-at-foxwoods/feed/ 0 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> Al Madrigal Announced as Newest Daily Show Contributor! http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/05/17/al-madrigal-announced-as-newest-daily-show-contributor/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/05/17/al-madrigal-announced-as-newest-daily-show-contributor/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 19:12:02 +0000 Matt Tobey http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=31676 If you're a regular reader of this blog or viewer of Comedy Central, you're likely already more than familiar with the very funny Al Madrigal. He's appeared on Premium Blend, had his own Comedy Central Presents special and was recently one of the featured comics on the latest season of John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show. Well, you can add Daily Show contributor to that already impressive resumé, because Al will be making his debut on tonight's show!

Be sure to tune-in at 11/10c. In the meantime, here's Al talking to his new co-worker John Oliver:



After the jump, enjoy a few Al Madrigal stand-up clips.







]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/05/17/al-madrigal-announced-as-newest-daily-show-contributor/feed/ 2 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> Exclusive: The Daily Show Covers the Royal Wedding Uncensored http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/05/04/exclusive-the-daily-show-covers-the-royal-wedding-uncensored/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/05/04/exclusive-the-daily-show-covers-the-royal-wedding-uncensored/#comments Wed, 04 May 2011 14:21:01 +0000 Matt Tobey http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=31155 After the killing of Osama bin Laden, a lot of people kind of forgot that something else died over the weekend: my chances with Kate Middleton. Fortunately, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show have not forgotten about last Friday's Royal Wedding, and they didn't let that pesky satire ban stop them from covering the event. But, even if you saw this segment on last night's show, you haven't seen it in all of its uncensored glory until now. (NSFW unless your boss is a Nazi pegging enthusiast.)



The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.

]]> http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/05/04/exclusive-the-daily-show-covers-the-royal-wedding-uncensored/feed/ 3 <_edit_last><_edit_lock> The Daily Show and Colbert Report's Continuing Coverage of The Royal Wedding http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/04/29/the-daily-show-and-colbert-reports-continuing-coverage-of-the-royal-wedding/ http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/04/29/the-daily-show-and-colbert-reports-continuing-coverage-of-the-royal-wedding/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:43:05 +0000 Matt Tobey http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/?p=30978 Oh my God, who gets married at 3:30 in the morning? British people are crazy, am I right? Needless to say I've got quite the Royal Wedding hangover (or as they say in England, hangouver) this morning. Luckily, we've got a little hair of the dog courtesy of The Daily Show and Colbert Report. First up, John Oliver talks to folks in his native UK about the nuptials (or as they're called in England, football).



After the jump, Stephen takes The Report to England and waits patiently for his invitation to the ceremony.

The Daily Show and Colbert Report air Monday through Thursday starting at 11/10c.



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