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Daily Show Searches for America's Non-Existent Police Shooting Stats

Jay Hathaway · 10/08/14 09:30AM

Jason Jones took over last night's Daily Show in place of Jon Stewart, who's out sick with the bubons. While Jones was busy making (pretty good) jokes as his own expense, "Senior My Wife Correspondent" Sam Bee handled the actual reporting, delivering a piece on the complete lack of any national statistics on police killings of civilians.

'Daily Show' Hurts New Jersey City's Feelings

Adrian Chen · 11/21/10 03:54PM

Last week, the Daily Show mocked the town of Bayonne, New Jersey, in a spoof of Sarah Palin's Alaska. Jason Jones' Bayonne featured Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones taking in the city's Russian hookers and industrial wasteland. Bayonne is pissed.

Here's the Random Girl Who Just K.O.'d Half of Young Hollywood

Richard Lawson · 08/16/10 04:41PM

Finally, after months of jostling and competition and speculation, they've gone and cast the lead girl for that buzzed-about Dragon Tattoo movie. Let's never speak of it again. Also today: Clint Eastwood news, X-Men casting, and Angelina Jolie as Marilyn?

Newsweek Reporter Arrested in Iran

The Cajun Boy · 06/21/09 09:21PM

Newsweek's Maziar Bahari, who has covered Iran for the magazine for a decade, was taken into custody by Iranian officials during an early morning raid of his home. His captors also seized his computer and several videotapes.