the truth is, after four and a half years on the daily show, i felt like i needed to do something different at that point. there was not much they would offer me except for more screen time that i have not already done on the show. after 4.5 years, i was starting to think, what is next? what do i want to do? i wanted to do narrative television and leads, i felt like i had to make a strong choice to change how i was perceived. no one knew i was anything other than a snarky use your -- news jerk, a fake news guy. the decision really wasn't that complicated. i was a fan of the office, and steve carell, we were acquaintances. i was impressed with what he was doing and how the show looked, i felt like i could fit in. it was a scary choice, but it was also a no-brainer. tavis: this could be said of any character that one place over time, both of these characters that you played on the daily show at the office could lead to typecasting. i am trying to juxtaposed you not wanting to be typecast on the daily show. >> any actor that is desperately trying to avoid typecasting is actually avoiding reali

from the daily show. did there. i'm proud of the work that i did there. i'm proud that i got to work with what i think are the smartest people in the business. >> he still loves you, john. mike rubeens, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> after the break, larry cramer left the newspaper business for the on-line world decades ago, so why did he just take a job at usa today? we'll ask him. >>> usa today of the first newspaper back in the day to combine full color with advanced graphics, but that innovative approach has fadeed in recent years as the gwinnett papers were hit by layoffs and declining circulation. this week usa today tried to take a step into the digital future by hiring larry cramer as its president and publisher. he is the founder of market watch.com, later served as president of cbs digital media, and he joins me now from new york. welcome. >> thanks, howie. how are you? >> good. you left newspapers about 30 years ago for the on-line fronti frontier. why do you want to come back and run o

. ♪ may 9, 2012, from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show"h jon stewart. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: hey, welcome to "the daily show"! (cheers and applause) my name is jon stewart. got a good one tonight. we're going to have a visit. our guest is john hall. he is the dean of westminster abbey and i cannot wait to find out whether he is a hufflepuff or griffin dorr. (laughter) yesterday on this program... for those of you who watched, i don't watch this program, reasonable people can disagree. we e may have insinuated president obama was somehow being disingenuous in giving in to his most base political calculations by not just saying he favors same-sex marriage and equal rights for all americans. that his position is evolving is weak tea what we didn't know at the time is that he had planned this: . >> it's important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. (cheers and applause). >> jon: there you have it.

you guys saw it on "the daily show"! it's happening right here. >> jon: okay, everything's good.s good. >> his name is kyle and he was a bad boy. he couldn't be tamed with his belong blond hair and tribal neck tattoo. play the drums for me, kyle. play the drums like you used to. >> jon: what are these beakers and tubes and... >> oh, that's kyle's, um, chemistry set? >> jon: and the box labeled "meth"? >> that's a typo. that's where we kept our math. (laughter) >> jon: how could candidates have connected with the 18-year-old kristen? >> i don't know, maybe if they legalized math. (laughter) that certainly would have put bob dole on my radar. >> jon: all right, well why don't you take us to an election where you did vote. >> that would be the 2004 election. soccer moms were out and terror moms were in. -the-thought al qaeda was out to poison her kids yogurt so she put a panic room in her minivan. >> jon: you weren't a terror mom. >> i was a wait tres. waiting tables at planet hollywood. the only thing more depressing than serving kindergarten cop poppers to tourists who didn't trip

["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] captioning sponsored by comedy central >> jon: hey, everybody. welcome back to the show. boom, we're back. thank you. thank you for joining us. welcome to "the daily show". i want to say right off the top u.s.s. roosevelt bringing the nice pictures and the guys bringing the nice things and some guy from england who -- i don't know. [ laughter ] [ applause ] has a diseased mind. [ laughter ] we're so happy to be back. i'm jon stewart. our guest tonight is the author of a great new book on home gardening. [ laughter ] and -- [cheers and applause] -- anyway, we're excited to have the first lady tonight. first, real quick off the top. we've been out of office two weeks. when i'm on vacation the only news i keep up is the latest. obviously i read the huffington post my one stop source. the latest scoop involves miley cyrus and her side boob. next 20 that i crossing this story about how roger ailes said i admitted to him in a bar that i'm a socialist. now, i didn't doubt the story. [ laughter ] i know watching fox news makes you misinf

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["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] captioning sponsored by comedy central show". my name is jon stewart. we got one tonight. our guest tonight ambassador ivo daalder which i'm assuming is just another sasha baron cohen character so. we're excited about -- actually the ambassador to nato. maybe he will bomb us. [ laughter ] tonight we begin some place very special. [ laughter ] submitted for your approval a small town near virginia maryland border. meet joe a simple fellow who speaks from his heart. his honesty is about to trap him in a terible place a place where straightforward sentiment is three days of (bleep). a place we call washington, d.c. [ laughter ] [twilight zone music playing] [ laughter ] i probably should have gone with like zone or vortex would have made more sense. anyway, last sunday vice president biden made an appearance on "meet the press" and was asked about gay marriage. >> i am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women and heterosexual men and women are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil r

emmy winning daily show writer, come right in.o do. >> he's a man with a sense of humor. >> when i suggested it may no longer allow him to have lifetime tenure, he asked me if >>> good evening, americans, and welcome to "the ed show" tonight from new york. one day after wrapping up the republican nomination, mitt romney's yellow brick road to the white house is being paved by a handful of billionaires out to help him destroy the middle class in america. that is the most undercovered story in america, what these people will do to the middle class. i'm covering it tonight. this is "the ed show."

from colt this is the daily show with jon stewart. >> jon: welcome to the the daily show.wart. let me tell you about our guest. we're very excited about this. zach wahls, author of the book "my two moms." it is an ode to his two moms and how they raised him. it's going to make what you got your for mom on mother's day really just... look, flowers. well, zach wahls, he wrote his moms a book. take your flowers and go (beep) yourself. ( cheers and applause ) listen. good to be here. it's good you're cheering tonight because we begin tonight talking about the young people. generation-x. what's that? they're up to 40 now. oh, my god. how old am i? what? that is outrageous. i can't even hear you. they say young people are in play this election year. it won't be enough for presidential candidates to make a couple token mtv appearances and pretend they have j-z on their walkman. is that... what? what do you mean people don't listen to the walkman anymore. all right. these candidates will have to do real heavy duty pandering like on the subject of student loans. >> 7.4 million unde

by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: say, hell woman to the daily showmy name is jon stewart. great show, peter bergen, author of the new book manhunt. i know bhau are thinking, are you just saying that so you can say abbottabad, i know. i'm sure it will be an interesting conversation. lev laugh. >> jon: as you know osama bin laden has been all over the news this being the onier an verse ar of his passing. >> good morning, we are getting a brand-new look into the mind of osama bin laden. parts of bin laden's personal letters nabbed from his compound in pakistan by navy seals have just been released. >> jon: whooo! personal letters. of bin laden. dear wife number 7. (laughter) >> jon: how is son number 19? i miss you. tell me what you are wearing? over your face. laugh laugh come on, the guy was run one of the world's most feerdz terrorist network. i can't imagine he had a lot of time to keep up with correspondent. >> nbc news has been told by senior officials that there were as many as 15,000 distinct individual documents that were taken from that compou

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captioning sponsored by comedy central ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: welcome to the daily show." name is jon stewart. what a show tonight, dan rather, the legendary newsman dan rather is here. let's begin tonight with the big news in politics. >> this is a fox news alert. governor romney winning the texas primary and securing enough delegate delegates to bee g.o.p. nominee. >> jon: it is official after 28 years, $2 trillion, and three unsolved murders later, wilbeerdink cummerbund romney will be the republican presidential mom network or rom-in-ey. you want to use that? you want to use rom-in-ey? lawyer up. you want to use, that lawyer up. my lawyer from the firm ( bleep ) you and pay me. i guess that's it. the coney island mermaid's parade that was the republican primaries is done. we're left with five months of obama v. romney. yup. ( laughter ) five months of johnny pregnant pause... >> for years what we've heard is the piggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint. that, uh, unelected... group of people would somehow overturn-- uh, uh, a d

from comedy central, world news headquarters in new york this is the daily show with jon stewart. captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stewart: welcome to the daily show, ladies and gentlemen! >> get ready for tonight, our guest tonight is going to come out. tj as i call him. he and i won't the same school. but not at the same time. many of you may already know this. today is a special day. one year anniversary of the death of osama bin laden, just 12 months ago parents across the country suddenly explained to their children why they just shouted at the tv. >> yeah! oh!, oh, yeah! >> bin laden -- one year later, this ad touting obama's presidential leadership during the race while subtly questioning his opponent's judgment. that ad is -- >> this administration is not above political sizing any issue for personal gain, politicizing what -- an event that all americans am lawed enormously, it is deplorable to politicize this. >> the president is going to spike the football and all of this, we shouldn't gloat about it. >> running cam

emmy winning daily show writer, come right in.n with a sense of humor. >> when i suggested it may no longer allow him to have lifetime tenure, he asked me if he could be grandfathered in, which i appreciated. >> kevin bleyer -- >> up next, "hardball" with chris matthews. >>> lumped with trump. let's play "hardball." >> good evening, i'm chris matthews back in philadelphia. what has donald trump got on mitt romney? is it fear? is the republican nominee for

"" with jon stewart ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) . >> jon: welcome to the daily show. my guest, the senator there the great state of oklahoma, tom coburn, will be joining us later. he's written a book-- it's a comedy. ( laughter ) it's about america and how we're all going to die. ( laughter ) by the way, we'll rick off the top, this afternoon we got a big announcement from the one-time front-runner for the republican presidential nomination. >> today. >> i'm suspending the campaign. >> jon: well, there you have it, not ending, just suspending. he's suspending it like we hulla to do with our disbelief when he thought he was going took president. >> but suspending the ceem does not mean suspending citizenship. calista and i are committed to being active citizens. >> jon: wouldn't it be awesome though if it did mean suspending citizenship? like if you're you losing a presidential primary, you're deported. wouldn't that awesome? i don't think anybody thought they would leave the country but it's good to know you member active citizens and haunt people on jury duty. ( lau

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sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: welcome to the daily show, my name is jon stewart. we have a show for you today. robert caro will be joining us, author of "the passage of power" it's the fourth volume in his remarkable biography of lbj, lbj, of course, spanish for the bj. (laughter) but we begin tonight with last night's momentous news. >> it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same-sex couples should be able to get married (cheers and applause) >> jon: finally,-- from its president of the united states. of course the president still believes it is an issue best left to the states. but they're not complaining tonight. it's a great day when the president of the united states says on national it was gay people should no longer be relegated to only planning other people's weddings. it's not right! it's like putting a cat in charge of the goldfish toss game. it's not fair! you're just torturing the cat. let him eat the fish or move him down to the clown. that's a better game for the cat. what are we talking about? i forgot al