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The Daily Show takes on the Verizon iPhone

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 12th, 2011)

While the tech world debates both the merits and the shortcomings of the Verizon iPhone, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart and John Oliver used the occasion to do some good ol' AT&T bashing. They celebrated the announcement of the Verizon iPhone with a rousing chant of "Freedom!" and poked fun at ...

Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear app now available

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 29th, 2010)

MTV Networks has released the official Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear app for this Saturday's Jon Stewart rally and Stephen Colbert march. The app features a map of the rally site, Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare integration, a portal to upload photos to the official rally photostream, news ...

Found Footage: Pull My Finger stands for freedom

by Michael Rose (Jul 25th, 2009)

I've got a soft spot in my comedy heart for The Daily Show's Wyatt Cenac, one of the newer correspondents on the program; he often manages to give interview subjects just enough Colbertian leeway to wander into the danger zone, then lets them blunder about, bumping into the awkward silences to ...

Enderle tenuously links Microsoft-Apple struggle with U.S. election

by Robert Palmer (Nov 3rd, 2008)

Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, a division of Enderle Global Enterprises, represented by Enderle, Enderle & Enderle, and a block south of Enderle Toyota*, says Apple has made mistakes with its marketing that mirror those of the Republican party in this year's presidential ...

Daily Show election center features a passel of MacBook Airs

by Michael Rose (Mar 6th, 2008)

The Daily Show, recently returned to full writer strength, apparently decided that the best way to say "high tech" for its March 5 Election Center feature was by getting a bunch of MacBook Airs on the set. Five of them, to be precise, arrayed before correspondents like Aasif Mandvi, Samantha Bee ...

Apple patent: Stream iTunes to your iPod?

by Mike Schramm (Jul 19th, 2007)

Ryan from Cybernet (thanks!) dropped a note about his find of a new Apple patent. These things spring up faster than mushrooms (or rabbits, depending on your preference for down home expressions), but sometimes they are a good indication of what Apple is at least considering producing in the ...

Daily Show tackles iPhone fever

by Michael Rose (Jun 29th, 2007)

Nothing's funnier than geek humor, I suppose. Tonight's episode of The Daily Show featured a segment with correspondent Rob Riggle on a mission to get himself an iPhone. When he discovered that the onsale date was tomorrow, he interviewed (and came close to beating up) Gizmodo's Brian Lam (of the ...

John Hodgman not a PC, just plays one on TV

by Laurie A. Duncan (Oct 6th, 2006)

Initially I found those Get a Mac commercials charming, but after a while I started to wonder why Apple chose to make the intellectual and funny guy represent the PC and the annoying dork represent the Mac. What twisted logic was used there? Anyway, I'm a fan of John Hodgman's work on The Daily ...

Found Footage: I'm a PC on the Daily Show

by Scott McNulty (Jul 20th, 2006)

John Hodgman, the fellow who plays the PC in Apple's recent commercial blitz, is a regular Daily Show guest. This clip features Hodgman discussing Net Neutrality by way of pretending that he is a computer of some sort. I wonder what kind of computer he would be. Watch the video and find out. ...