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Hot Dish on Facebook: Stop climate change, win cool prizes!

One of the reasons I haven't kept up with my DSN blogging lately is that I've been extremely busy working on a NewsCloud-related project, Hot Dish. It's a very cool new climate change news application for Facebook which I hope you'll try out and share with your friends!

Hot Dish allows Facebook users to read, discuss, post and share news about climate change, the most serious issue facing our planet. Editorial content is provided through our partnership with online environmental magazine, Grist.org!

If you are a 16- to 25-year old U.S. resident, you can participate in the Hot Dish Action Team, earn points through online and offline actions and compete for rewards. Top eligible participants can win a grand prize trip for two to the Arctic from Quark Expeditions, an Amazon Kindle 2, a "green" Apple MacBook and much more. Prizes will be awarded each week through May 3, 2009. Please read the official rules for full eligibility details.

I hope you'll check it out and share it with your friends. I'd love to hear your feedback!

Status Report

The Daily Show News Blog is taking a brief hiatus at the moment.  We are, however, always looking for new volunteer contributors!

Important Things with Demetri Martin

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Daily Show Schedule For Feb. 9th-12th, 2009

Mo 2/9: Walter Isaacson
Tu 2/10: Thomas Ricks
We 2/11: Daniel Sperling
Th 2//12: John Sununu

Daily Show Schedule For Febuary 2nd - 5th, 2009

Mo 2/2: Lawrence Lindsey
Tu 2/3: Dave Patel
We 2/4: Karen Greenberg
Th 2/5: TBA

How will the Daily Show handle Barack Obama's presidency?

John Hodgman responds:

"There certainly is a question mark in terms of what sort of jokes they're going to be, and what the tenor of times are going to be, and where the humor is, but as trained comedy professionals, they're thoroughbreds, they want to run," said Mr. Hodgman of the show's writers. "They're eager to try out some new stuff. I think it's an unbalanced time for everybody. While they try to figure out what kind of jokes to make, I'm trying to figure out-maybe I should start showering in the evenings? It's time to change up the routine."

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Daily Show Schedule For January 26th-29th, 2009

Mo 1/26: Former President Jimmy Carter
Tu 1/27: Gwen Ifill
We 1/28: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Th 1/29: P.W. Singer

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Daily Show Schedule For January 19th-22nd, 2009

My apologies for any confusion I might have caused by my earlier entry in which I posted the guest list for this week's Colbert Report.  What can I say?  I have very little time to devote to this blog anymore.  You can view this week's schedule for The Daily Show at The Late Night TV Page.

Jon Stewart on Conan O'Brien

Apparently Jon is set to appear on Conan O'Brien January 29th. Happy (almost) birthday Conan-Colbert-Stewart-Huckabee feud?

Also, if you dare, there's a recent interview with John Oliver up at the Suicide Girls website.  There doesn't appear to be any hot, tattooed ladies in the sidebar, so it's work-safe.

Speaking of John O, here's a brief interview he did with Great Britain’s Channel 4 News:

Bush's Last Day

Happy MLK Day everyone!  Feel that joy in the air?  Sure you do!  It's Bush's last hours in office.  What will you remember him for?  The Iraq war?  His constant bumbling and failed policies?

Check out Newsday for Obama's Inauguration schedule.  Sure wish I were there!

Kristen Schaal: Punchline Magazine

Kristen Schaal was interviewed recently for Punchline Magazine.

You’ve been associated with the term “alternative comedy” a lot. What, in your words, defines alternative comedy? What differentiates it from “traditional comedy?”

I think alternative comedy just means that there’s more comedy than usual. And I think that that word is probably going to become a mixture again, because alternative comedy was a word that described comedians who weren’t working in the bigger clubs in New York— people who were doing shows for no money, like on the Lower East side and in Brooklyn, so we became the “alternative” to the clubs.

Really, because the work that we produced was more experimental in the fact that the audience wasn’t paying just to see a joke, so we didn’t have to please a booker or an audience. [Laughs]. So it was just a different way to explore all the different ways to make people laugh, other than just telling jokes; but, they call comedians who just tell jokes “alternative” comedians, too, so I think mainly that word was created because of location, and not because of content.

You can read the full interview @ Punchline

Daily Show Schedule For January 12th-15th, 2009

Mo 1/12: Maxwell Kennedy
Tu 1/13: Daniel Craig
We 1/14: Fareed Zakaria
Th 1/15: TBA

Adorable photos of Jon and son Nathan at Knicks game!

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Time Warner to turn off Comedy Central, 19 other Viacom channels on January 1st

What an awful way to ring in 2009. It turns out that Viacom claims it has been trying to negotiate a “fair” renewal of its prized cable channels for months and months, but reputedly Time Warner Cable has been unresponsive and “unreasonable” so talks have stalled. The nation’s 2nd largest cable system operator, in turn, claims Viacom is asking for “exorbitant” increases inc arriage fees which would have to be passed along to the customer. So now this fight between the two Big Media giants will hurt cable viewers. At 12:01 AM on January 1st, just after the ball drops in Time Square, Time Warner Cable’s 13.3 million subscribers will lose 19 Viacom channels — Comedy Central; CMT: Pure Country; Logo; Palladia; MTV; MTV 2; MTV Hits; MTV Jams; MTV Tr3s; Nickelodeon; Noggin; Nick 2; Nicktoons; Spike; The N; TV Land; Vh1; Vh1 Classic; Vh1 Soul.

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