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Monday, August 17, 2009
Entertainment

Optus Zoo Now Offers The Daily Show On Your Mobile

4:21PM Nick Broughall | Optus has just announced a whole heap of new TV stations for their mobile phone OptusZoo portal. The highlight? The Daily Show and SouthPark. More »
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Software

The App Store Is Just Like The Civil Rights Movement

2:50AM John Herrman | The Daily Show tells the harrowing tale of iFart vs Pull My Finger, showing us the faces behind the farts. It’s predictable stuff until about 3:00, when Pull My Finger guy compares himself to Jackie Robinson. Then, it’s pure art. More »
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Entertainment

The Daily Show And The Colbert Report Hit iTunes

4:00PM Nick Broughall | The two best news programs on television, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, have just landed in the Australian iTunes Store. More »
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
Entertainment

The Daily Show Investigates How the Large Hadron Collider Is Going to Kill Us All

2:50AM Matt Buchanan | The Daily Show asks a very good question about the Large Hadron Collider: “Why the f*** would you want to recreate the Big Bang?”
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Entertainment

The Daily Show Mocks the Army’s Unfeasible, Unaffordable Laser Plane, For Some Reason

2:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart spit in the face of real-world sci-fi by applauding the U.S. Military’s elimination of its laser plane project. A plane. That shoots lasers. What’s the problem, Stewart? More »
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Entertainment

Jon Stewart Trashes Black Friday, Succumbs to Lego Millennium Falcon

1:57PM Jesus Diaz | If you didn’t watch Jon Stewart yesterday, check out his hilarious take on Black Friday, recession, and people’s stupidity fighting for silly things. His purchases: a wobble-headed C-3PO doll and, get ready, the Lego Millennium Falcon*. More »
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Entertainment

Jeff ‘Magic Wall’ Han on The Daily Show, Exposes CNN’s Nefarious Multitouch Conspiracy

6:45PM John Herrman | We’re not the only ones obsessed with CNN’s over-the-top magic wall, which they use in equal measure to cover elections, entertain babies and just fill time — fake TV news has been milking it for all it’s worth. Now The Daily Show is on the case, and they’ve sent John Oliver to talk to Jeff Han, the man behind CNN’s recent multitouch renaissance. What he finds aren’t easy answers to his questions, but an unexpected mix of new technology, furtive military operations and terrifying, omnipresent newsreaders. This is bigger than CNN’s secret baseball — so much bigger. [The Daily Show — Thanks, Rafael] More »
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