West Virginia voters say why they voted in overwhelming numbers for Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama (at 1:45):
I guess because he is another race. I’m sort of scared of the other race ’cause we have so much conflict with ‘em…
He’s Muslim, and that has a lot to do with it…
I don’t like the […]

Columbia sociology prof. Sudhir Venkatesh, author of Gang Leader for a Day, went on Colbert last night for a silly interview in which he denied ever popping a cap in someone’s ass. ‘I’m a pacifist,’ he said. But he acknowledged he once had to have someone beaten. Columbia grad students beware.
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Earlier […]

The Daily Show’s Jason Jones gave Starbucks free publicity for its nationwide shutdown and visited a desi-owned deli to buy coffee. He overlayed a random wedding shehnai soundtrack, unlikely to be playing at a place of business, then headed out to Times Square to make fun of a Sikh gentleman’s lack of English fluency. This […]

The Diana-ization of Benazir Bhutto continued last night with a credulous Jon Stewart offering her U.S. spokesman free rein to rewrite her as a saint of democracy:

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Mark Siegel is counting on Americans’ ignorance of Pakistan to gloss over the fact that the kleptocrat oligarch backed jihadis to the hilt when she […]

Jon Stewart noted on tonight’s Daily Show that the financial channels’ whole gimmick is ‘hot women interviewing bald guys,’ like maybe the pair above.
The star of Sexy Beast is not without charms of his own, but that’s humanity’s racket in general (see Jack and Suzy Welch).

[Musharraf won with] 98%? I think oxygen’s approval rating is only 94%… So on the downside, Pervez Musharraf has subverted the will of the Pakistani people. But on the upside, the will of the Pakistani people has subverted.

Jon Stewart attempts the Apu Sellers accent, about a quarter of the way through the clip; disses Hillary Clinton; and pimps liberal blog Daily Kos:

I have to say, he does a terrible impression of a terrible impression of a terrible impression of a desi accent.

A friend of a friend bears a striking resemblance to the proprietor of the Daily Show.

Fareed Zakaria went on the Daily Show and scoffed mightily at the neocon view of the world, strange given his early support for the Iraq war.
Plan A was you hold elections in Iraq, in Gaza, in Lebanon. And out of this process will emerge the George Washingtons, the Thomas Jeffersons, the James Madisons of the […]

Aasif Mandvi weighs the situation and does a desi shoutout anyway on a Daily Show segment about the new immigration bill.
Stewart: You yourself were not born here, you were…
Mandvi: Brown? … But I’m from India. I’m tech support / cardiologist brown…
Audience: [Cheers…]
Mandvi: Shout out. Not dishwasher / parking attendant brown. And I say that with […]

Rushdie’s bosom buddy Christopher Hitchens promoted his book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything on the Daily Show. He wore on his lapel a flag which looked Indian but is actually from Kurdistan (thanks, anangbhai and RC):
This is the flag of Kurdistan in my lapel but my Kurdish comrades say… their main […]

Richard Gere explains on The Daily Show why there’s an arrest warrant for both him and Shilpa Shetty in India. Gere and Gerbil start with the same letters — coincidence?
Stewart: Today it was announced there’s an arrest warrant out for you in India.
Gere: Thank you for reminding me of this. That is really sweet of […]

Aasif Mandvi finally hits his marks in this piece about the political theater over Richard Gere kissing Shilpa Shetty:

Mandvi: By morning the police had managed to disperse the crowd, not with tear gas but by showing the rioters Autumn in New York on a continuous loop. People’s eyes are still burning today…
Stewart: How do you […]

In this Daily Show clip, Jon Stewart tells Iran not to be so sensitive over the drag queen Persian in 300, because Hollywood isn’t exactly sensitive to minorities. He plays a clip of Fisher Stevens in Short Circuit:

Of course, the Iranians have reason to be annoyed. The Persians looked like they were from sub-Saharan […]