Jon Stewart

  • Jon Stewart’s 11-Minute, 33-Second Excoriation of CNN (Video)

    Comedian rips network over lack of fact-checking.

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  • Jon Stewart — Jonathan Swift for our Time

    Interview? It was a pantsing by Jon Stewart. I have no idea why CNBC Mad Money-man Jim Cramer decided to go on Comedy Central to face down Jon Stewart, who has been skewering him for a week. Why in the world? Cramer was assured an opportunity for public humiliation on television, with the guarantee that…

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  • Jon Stewart & Jim Cramer: A Match Made in Viral Heaven

    Jon Stewart is coming after the CNBC media money-chat guys — just like he came after the media conservatives back in 2006 — and boy is America getting some good catharsis out of it. This morning on “The Today Show,” Jim Cramer’s attempt to defend himself against Stewart’s charge that he advocated buying Bear Sterns…

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    Maria Russo

  • A Timeline of Oscar Changes

    It’s a refrain heard every year around this time: *This* Oscars telecast will be different. And yet. Somehow the changes never seem exactly… earthshaking. Here’s a look back at the last few attempts to tweak the formula.   2004:   -Veteran host Billy Crystal comes back for 8th time -5-second delay implemented to block unlikely…

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    Amy Kaufman