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CBS's comedy department is starting to look a little like The Daily Show, Primetime Edition. Current Daily Show correspondent Rob Riggle has just signed a deal to create and star in a half-hour CBS comedy, following a similar deal by Samantha Bee and Jason Jones last week.
Riggle is committed to The Daily Show through the end of the year, but after that, he'll make the jump to CBS to start working on his show.
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I love when my favorite Daily Show correspondents go on to do other cool things, and so I was happy to see this story that Samantha Bee and Jason Jones are co-writing a CBS comedy project in which they would also star.
Jones and Bee — who are married! I had no idea!
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Wow, this was a total shocker! And I'm not talking about the "Prince Charles might be bisexual" gossip. (Yawn.) I'm talking about Stephen Colbert breaking out of character and laughing his ass off!
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If the idiocy pundits are spewing on television is any indication, the political discourse around the upcoming election is pretty low on substance. The Daily Show's Jon Stewart mocks one dude's critique of Obama (based on what proof, we'll probably never know) that he — gasp! — eats arugula.
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Who loves Hummers? Rappers and Republicans apparently! After Rep.
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Veteran mortgage lender and author of Confessions of a Subprime Lender Richard Bitner was a guest on The Daily Show the other day. Jon Stewart calls the book "fascinating and disturbing" and gets some answers from Bitner about what exactly is a subprime loan and how our lending system became the disaster that it is today.
When discussing why people with less than perfect credit are granted loans with higher interest rates, Stewart jokes, "If you're going to give money to people that have a tough time paying it back, charge them more!
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