Tag Archives: The Daily Show

That’s What He Said

I could never wrap my head around why the world and the president that Republicans describe bear so little resemblance to the world and the president that I experience, and now I know why. There is a President Obama that … Continue reading

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Dreams, Come True

The Urchins are dreamers and daydreamers alike. Surely you’ve been able to tell. So sit back and enjoy, if you will, these latest wouldn’t-it-be-nice-ifs and feel free to share your own! Later this summer, I will be fulfilling a four-year-held … Continue reading

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3rd Annual Urchie Award Winners!

Welcome to the 2012 Urchie Awards! The Urchademy has been in deliberation for weeks, Heming(way) and Haw(thorne)ing over this year’s wonderful nominees. After many late nights of heated discussions over choc bikkies, tea, and Skype, here they are, world! Your … Continue reading

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3rd Annual Urchie Award Nominations, Part 2

Briton of the Year Daniel Radcliffe           Carey Mulligan             Catherine Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge         Best Bookstore City Lights, San Francisco         Greenlight Bookstore, … Continue reading

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3rd Annual Urchie Award Nominations, Part 1

As actors, writers, politicians, and musicians everywhere anxiously stare at their phones hoping for calls from their agents, we’re here to announce the 2012 Urchie Award Nominees. In a year when political and environmental stakes were higher than ever, artists … Continue reading

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2011 Emmy Awards: Good People, Bad Voting

By Sarah Jost The 2011 Emmy Awards got off to a bad start. Poor Jane Lynch’s opening musical number and monologue were neither fun nor funny. An odd smattering of television actors were introduced as the ‘Emmytones,’ an a capella … Continue reading

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That’s What He Said

Wouldn’t it be a shame if we didn’t take that moment to make sure that the world that we are creating now… wasn’t better than the one we previously lost? —Jon Stewart, in reaction to the Tuscon shootings

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Ain’t No Party Like an RNC Party!

Zipples! Bedazzle it! Literary faux pas! Guns make you cool! It’s the Republic National Committee’s chairman candidates’ agreement party…I mean debate. A Daily Show MUST-SEE video!

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My Trip to Washington and the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

By Geo Ong In between a particularly hectic week at work and my first week of NaNoWriMo, I spent this past weekend in Washington, D. C., primarily to attend what has most recently been referred to as the Rally to … Continue reading

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The Rally to Restore Sanity and the March to Keep Fear Alive – Washington, D.C., 30 October 2010

[The rallies have come and gone, but I'm still sane! Read about my experience here!] On 16 September, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert made huge announcements on their respective television shows. First, on The Daily Show, Stewart announced the Rally … Continue reading

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