The Colbert Nation host takes the director of the British oil-giant to task for the company’s response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Spill-a repsonse Colbert considers woefully inadequate. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive
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Cable News Is a Third of a Century Old
Looking back at CNN’s debut
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“Arrested Development” Gets an “Elvis”
And now the story of four reporters who lost their weekend watching all of Arrested Development season four, and the Gchat conversation they had to put it all together.
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Bill O’Reilly Does Daily Show to Promote Fifth Book This Month
“You reproduce books like mold,” said Jon Stewart. “They just come out. This one is just a kind of compilation of all the wisdom that’s come out of the Factor.” The audience snickered. “I set you up for that,” laughed O’Reilly. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The […]
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Star Bleck
The second entry in the J.J. Abrams’ reboot doesn’t have the fun of the first outing, and all that’s left is one more humongazoid, cluttered summer blockbuster whose gobbledygook plot just spackles over the interludes between kaboom-happy CGI set pieces.
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Veep’s Much Improved Trash-Talking Minuet
The second season of Veep kicks off on Sunday with a very entertaining montage of Vice President Selina Meyer (Julia-Louis Dreyfus) on the campaign trail. She’s delivering a clunker of a stump speech-“Freedom isn’t ‘Me-dom.’ It’s ‘We-dom’!”-that climaxes with a peachy parody of the Anecdotal American our pols so love to describe encountering when being […]
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Tucker Carlson Versus Segregation
“This is the same rationale that propped up Jim Crow for 80 years,” Tucker Carlson said Saturday while critiquing a Phoenix, Arizona, initiative to hire minority lifeguards. “Right,” said guest Crystal Wright.
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“Jackass” Goes Geopolitical
Vice’s foray into doumentary film may make you shake your head, but you can’t deny it’s good television.
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A Season of Swords
Game of Thrones, otherwise known as every origins story trash-compacted into the “ultimate extrapolation of Dallas,” returns for its third season this Sunday.
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Always Be Monologuing
Al Pacino’s endless arias are the only thing that save David Mamet’s Phil Spector from being mere propaganda.
