The Zen and the Damaged

By DarnJester99 Source Last week on a thread about celebrity encounters I posted about working at The Daily Show and making Jon laugh, Someone asked me to do an AMA, so here I am.

By Patrick Pacheco Source In her cheeky memoir, Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek, Olivia Munn recalls being in the midst of a full-blown panic attack just before a 2009 TV appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. She calmed herself down by fantasizing about life as a mellow Mongolian sheepherder, [...]

By Mark Oppenheimer Source As difficult as it is to find good writing about religion, it is harder still to find good television about religion. Most televangelists do not do good (challenging, nuanced) religious television: one of their goals may be to educate, or win converts, but they have to raise money, and offering sophisticated [...]

By Steve Marsh Source Lizz Winstead didn’t just create The Daily Show, serving as the show’s first head writer back in the Craig Kilborn era — she helped put both Stephen Colbert and Rachel Maddow on the map.

By Michael Rubens Source As a producer, I met people whose political views I detested. The hardest part was admitting they weren’t so bad

By Lauren Moraski Source Jason Jones already has a busy schedule with his work as a correspondent on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” He will soon add a few things to his plate. “I have three very active things that could very easily become a reality and could also very easily just die a [...]

By Sarah Kelsey Source As a contributor to “The Daily Show,” Samantha Bee has experienced her fair share of extreme religious views on the U.S. election campaign trail. It’s acquired knowledge. And now, the comedian and actress is putting it to good use in the new show “Good God,” appearing on The Movie Network. The [...]

By Samantha Bee Source There’s no problem that can’t be solved by yogurt.

By Andy Downing Source John Hodgman doesn’t mean to alarm anyone, but he knows the precise day when the world is going to end: Dec. 21, 2012.

By Samantha Bee Source We live in an age that is obsessed with ‘How Other People Do Things,’ and it would seem that most especially of all, we want to know how other people parent.