(Week of January 19, 2008)

Hey, kids! It’s time for a quick round-up of highlights from this week’s episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Barack Obama was sworn in as president on Tuesday, so it was no surprise that the entire week’s hot topic was the Inauguration. TDS did a live show, but not too much super-special came from it. I did, however, greatly enjoy the following day’s John Oliver report form the Mall, in which he touched upon subjects like the n-word and making out with various men and women slowly freezing to death.

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(Week of December 8, 2008)

Hey, kids! It’s time for a quick round-up of highlights from this week’s episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. This was an extra-special week, as we won’t be getting any new episodes until 2009. We also said good-bye to a few old friends, the weirdly scary Rob Riggle and Alan Colmes, who’s kind of scary in his own way. Here’s a fun fact about this photo of Rob Riggle: It’s actually what people see before they die.

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Rolling Stone

Hey, kids! It’s time for a quick round-up of highlights from this week’s episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Question: Could we bump the date of the election a little earlier just so we can get it over with? Actually, while we’re at it, let’s just get rid of that economic crisis. I think that would be nice for the country, if we had a break from worrying about something like that. It doesn’t seem like it would take much more than a little elbow grease and a few nice words. Right? Right? No? We’re all going to die? All right.

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