The Week in Viral Videos
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From a Sarah Palin media blitz to a Robert Pattinson tantrum, a controversial Gap ad to a cat's run-in with the fuzz, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.
Robert Pattinson's complete and utter despair at being the star of the most popular vampire-abstinence franchise on earth is well-documented at thi...
Fox News Reponds to Stewart (Again)
Has Fox News only recently discovered The Daily Show and its trademark mockery of all media? You'd think so, from the curious attention the network has given it this month. On Thursday's O'Reilly...
How to Hit on Serena Williams
Say a guy like Jon Stewart walks into a bar. What would it take to impress tennis goddess Serena Williams? Some low-down, dirty dance moves, she confesses to the host-prompting an awkward attempt. ...
Racism in the Republican Party
Conor Friedersdorf, a Daily Beast columnist, also writes for The American Scene and The Atlantic Online's ideas blog.
The GOP chairman's comment that some white Republicans are afraid of him is just the latest reminder that our politics are hardly post-racial. Conor Friedersdorf on how the GOP can repair its image-and the myths the left perpetuates.
Stewart: Let Our Children Sing
A YouTube video of schoolkids singing an "anthem" to Obama has conservatives up in arms. Jon Stewart advises them to take a chill pill. Clip above; full segment here.
Stewart: May I Touch It?
On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart and Rod Blagojevich got intimate, as the maligned governor lamented how cynical politics has become. Clip above; full episode here.
Stuff White People Like
Choire Sicha is co-proprietor of The Awl and is at work on a nonfiction book for HarperStudio.
As anxiety about the declining television business permeates the Emmys, the show relies on ... Kanye West jokes.
Television's Big Night: The Top 10 Emmy Moments
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Naturally, the least surprising awards show of the season honored a slew of repeat winners (30 Rock, The Daily Show, Mad Men), but thankfully, a few new faces like Jon Cryer and Kristen Chenoweth kept things interesting. Here are the ten best moments of the 61st Annual Emmy Awards.
Daily Show Co-Creator on Comedy's Gender Gap
Rachel Sklar is the Editor-at-Large for Mediaite.com and a contributor to the Daily Beast. She was formerly a senior writer and editor at the Huffington Post and is currently working on Jew-ish, a humorous book about cultural identity. She recently launched online micro-giving site Charitini, and Twitters up a storm here.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
Rachel Sklar sits down with Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead and asks a tough question: Why aren't there more women writers in comedy?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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