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Jodi Arias Trial: CNN's Dramatic Coverage Mocked by the Daily Show (Video)

It seems nearly impossible to keep the state of Arizona off of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but, for once, an Arizona-based segment isn't due to the actions of the state's elected officials.This time, Stewart gave his analysis of the Jodi Arias trial, specifically, the over-dram ... More >>

John Kavanagh Gets "Shamed" at Committee Hearing for His Toilet-Policing Bill (Video)

Republican Representative John Kavanagh's newest effort to regulate toilet usage in Arizona, by proposing that businesses can dictate which bathroom transgender people can use, cleared its first hurdle at the Legislature on Wednesday.With that, the scores of people who spent nearly two hours testify ... More >>

Austin Head: DJ/LGBT Advocate Is Running for City Council

As a deejay, Austin Head knows how to work a crowd. It takes finesse, and it takes being in touch. Those skills are coming in handy for the entertainer/LGBT advocate: He recently announced that he is running for a seat on Phoenix's District 4 city council. It's a very different gig than providing m ... More >>

Burt Wonderstone Vanishes What Steve Carell's Best At

Arizona's Top 10 Appearances on the Colbert Report

The joke's on Arizona so much that we had to separate the state's best appearances on Comedy Central "news" shows into two lists.Last week, we brought you some of the best Arizona-themed segments from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Now, we've gone through the Colbert Report's archives, to bring yo ... More >>

New Times Rolls With Joe Arpaio's School-Patrol Posse; Nobody Dies

"You play golf?" we ask 69-year-old John van Steinburg, as we roll past the entrance to Anthem's country club, riding in a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office patrol car.He doesn't, but since Sheriff Joe Arpaio's PR staff let us hop in the car with Steinburg -- one of Arpaio's posse members now on arme ... More >>

Flashback: John McCain Calling John Kerry "Mr. Secretary"

In a move that wasn't exactly unexpected, President Obama nominated Senator John Kerry for the secretary of state post to replace Hillary Clinton.That reminds us of the moment earlier this month when Senator John McCain -- who essentially forced out Obama's original pick for the spot, U.N. Ambassado ... More >>

Tom Horne's Snakepit, Bill Montgomery's Dirty Money, and the Problem with Carmen Chenal

The media's been hot for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne's head over allegations that during the 2010 campaign he was improperly involved in supporter-turned-staffer Kathleen Winn's independent expenditure committee Business Leaders for Arizona. See also: -Tom Horne's Alleged Hit-and-Run at an ... More >>

Kyrsten Sinema's Hilary Rosen Moment, and Her Persistent Verbal Flubbery

Sinema's statement on Iran starts 2:48 in, her comments on health care at around 6:03The flap over center-left talking head Hilary Rosen and her perceived insult of Mitt Romney's wife Ann offers a perfect example of how mere verbal flubs can offer ammunition to right-wingers in the highly-charged pa ... More >>

John McCain Earns a Daily Show Cameo for His Endorsement of President Obama... Er, Mitt Romney -- That's the Guy

Representatives of the "meth lab of democracy" are apparently comedy gold for The Daily Show, as U.S. Senator John McCain was featured in one of the show's segments earlier this week.McCain's appearance was actually in the same episode as Michael Hicks, a Tucson Unified School District governing boa ... More >>

The "Reality Hits You Hard, Bro" Guy Hopes Fortune Follows His Fame

Rick Perry's Texas Is a Fantasy Land

John McCain's Bigotry Earns Hashtag, Near-Universal Ridicule, Help from Bigot-Boy Sheriff

TwitterNo hash pipe for McCain, but his stupidity has scored him his own hashtagGuess I've heard the last from U.S. Senator John McCain's haughty, over-paid flack Brooke Buchanan.Yesterday, in the midst of a PR meltdown that's turned McCain (once again) into a political laughingstock, his office iss ... More >>

CNN Fires Rick Sanchez, Hires Eliot Spitzer, World's Most Famous "John"

Some of what Sanchez said that sunk his dinghyCNN's firing of Rick Sanchez over some controversial comments made on a satellite radio show is asinine, short-sighted and hypocritical in the extreme.Yeah, he called The Daily Show's Jon Stewart a "bigot," but then he withdrew the comment later during t ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, May 6, 2010

SMoCA’s “Seriously Funny” Exhibit Will Leave You Either in Stitches or Wondering How You Missed the Punch Line

Conchords in Concert

Flight of the Conchords: The Trick Is to Get on Their Good Side

Feedback from the issue of Thursday, August 28, 2008

MiniKiss is better than no KISS at all

The next wave of post-9/11 political films trade sobriety for satire

The Wheel World

Comedy Central's American Body Shop is straight out of Phoenix -- and Sam Greene's head

Bird Boycott

The truculent tweeter tackles Mayor Phil, PHX City Council hypocrisy, and goofball prez wanna-be Fred Thompson

Goldwater Uncut

You've seen the G-rated HBO documentary on the Arizona legend, but there was so much more to Goldy than that

Voter Fraud

Levinson wags the dog again, but his bark is worse than his bite

Sunnyside Up

Da Mayor's Debacle

The foul fowl crows over Scottsdale's vote-down of the anti-lap-dance prop, a major slap-down of Mayor Mary Manross

Man Bites Dog

If we had it to do over, would we publish the satirical saga of Chef Kaz Yamamoto? Hell yes! Punk you, if you can't take a joke!

Cursed

A spell badly cast

The ME Show

See me, hear me, feel me, fund me! Are vlogging and podcasting the ultimate slacker careers?

Raging Bull

Kerry's a wuss. Dubya's a doof. How can anybody vote for either of these clowns?

David Cross

It's Not Funny (Sub Pop)

See Dick, and Tom, Run

In comedy--and comebacks--it's all about the timing

Dem Blues

The left, turning right, was plain wrong

to attack pop culture

Ice Ice Maybe

A decade after Vanilla Ice melted down, he's back with the man who made him.

It Happens

Ohmigod! Five seasons in, South Park's the funniest show on TV

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

The Talking Penis

Basic Instinct author crawls up Bill Clinton's pants and hangs on tight

Dawn of the Dead

Sci Fi's brilliant good vs. evil is a corpse in search of a burial