The Zen and the Damaged

By Bob Andelman Source Humorist Mo Rocca may be the first reporter to have officially graduated from fake news correspondent at Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” to real news Correspondent at CBS News and “Sunday Morning.” “I get paid now and I may get insurance,” Rocca told me in a phone interview [...]

By Jaime Weinman Source When Sarah Vowell made her debut as a Daily Show contributor last week (she’d been on before as a guest), I had an odd reaction: I started remembering Frank DeCaro. No, actually, every time the show introduces a new contributor – some stay around, some don’t – I start remembering the [...]

By Mike Ryan Source Steve Carell. Stephen Colbert. Louis C.K. Charlie Kaufman. Robert Smigel. Some of comedy’s greatest minds got one of their biggest breaks on the short-lived but much-loved “The Dana Carvey Show.”

By Diane Anderson-Minshall Source After years of is-he-or-isn’t-he debates, former Daily Show correspondent Mo Rocca came out in a podcast interview with The Six Pack, a show about “news, views, and dudes” hosted by Ben Harvey and Dave Rubin. “I’m just more comfortable with myself now,” Rocca said. “It’s taken me until I’m 42 to [...]

By Megan Angelo Source “The Daily Show” celebrated 15 years this week.

By Norman Wilner Source NEW YORK CITY – In just under a decade, Steve Carell has gone from being that weird guy on The Daily Show to a proper movie star.

By Ty Burr Source This summer, the star returns to Massachusetts for some much-needed R & R. Of course, that includes keeping things humming at the Marshfield General Store.

By Stephen Whitty Source In the new Steve Carell comedy, “Crazy, Stupid, Love” — which is neither crazy nor stupid — Carell’s character is dumped, after 20-odd years of marriage, by Julianne Moore. Carell moves out, and tries to move on. But every so often he sneaks back to his old home in the middle [...]

By Curt Holman Source “When you think of Captain America, you think of Rob Riggle in a spandex suit,” “The Daily Show’s” John Oliver once said of his former office mate, a U.S. Marine reservist. Riggle, 41, began amusing America as the most beefy and swaggering of “The Daily Show’s” fake news reporters from 2006-2008. [...]

By Casey Burchby Source Rob Corddry’s Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital (no apostrophe; watch the show and you’ll get it) is a furiously fast, gag-a-second mockery of one of television’s old standbys: the medical drama.