EDITOR: Im surprised. Pretty much any web browser with Flash plugin should be able to play videos from http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml

EDITOR: I can see where you’re coming from … but on the other hand they offer a free archive of their show going back years which no one else does

EDITOR: yes it was too bad that SBS dumped the Daily Show again.

Luckily people can watch clips via the comedy central website and “other sources”

Other couples may disappoint. Jen and Vince. Paris and Nicole. Cheney and Rummy. But Stewart and Colbert have soared to hilarious new heights puncturing the Bush administration’s faux reality, with Stewart as the droll anchor and Colbert as the puffed-up Bill O’Reilly-style bloviator. While real network news withers, Stewart’s show has become the hot destination for anyone who wants to sell books or seem hip, from presidential candidates to military dictators. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf arrived at the Daily Show studio with bomb-sniffing dogs and a bulletproof facade for the anchor desk. For a Strong Man, Stewart said, he was “good people.”

At the Emmys, Colbert greeted the Hollywood audience as “godless Sodomites,” and at the White House Correspondents Dinner, he proclaimed, standing beside the president, “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” He hawks his own Formula 401 sperm on his show — “the more Stephen Colberts in the world, the better,” he assured me — including a Spanish version, “para chicas”; wants Congress to build a wall and moat with flames, fireproof crocodiles, predator drones and machine-gun nests to keep out immigrants; and has a running “Dead to Me” list that includes New York intellectuals, the cast of Friends and bow-tie pasta. “I’m not a fan of facts,” he boasts. “Facts can change all the time, but my opinion will never change.” Truthiness, a word he made up just before going on air, has been hailed by New York magazine as “the summarizing concept of our age.”

Excerpt from Rolling Stones article America’s Anchors: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert faked it until they made it. Now they may truly be the most trusted names in news

Hipsters on the streets of New York are wearing “Stewart/Colbert ‘08″ T-shirts, promoting a Dream Team presidential ticket featuring the Comedy Central stars. And the subway is plastered with ads for Man of the Year, the new Barry Levinson film that imagines an American public so disgusted with politics that it elects a fake news anchor president.

Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, insists he’s not running. But judging from the reverential reception he received at last weekend’s New Yorker Festival, and the fact that tickets to his appearance sold out in about two minutes, there’s a hunger for something truthful and authentic in American politics. Man of the Year suggests the place to find it is in fake news.

excerpt from Baltimore Sun article: Digging for the meaning of fake news’ acceptance: Jon Stewart’s program is one show viewers take seriously

I’m disappointed that Jon never once challenged him, and treated him with the utmost kid gloves. Makes you wonder who else gets a free pass, despite their ideology, if they are friends of Jon.

EDITOR: I just watched that episode, first he (Dennis Miller) teased fat people, then he teased hugo chavez (venezuela’s president), then he supported the war in Iraq etc

I think you are kind of right, but basically almost all the interviews in the last 1/3 of the Daily Show show are “soft” promotional puff pieces. If you want to see interviews where the guest gets “nailed” and serious topics are discussed (not just a promo of the latest movie release like on The Daily Show), then you should watch the Colbert Report