Obama, Stewart 'Not Very Funny'

President will guest days before rally—sorry, Glenn Beck

(NEWSER) - Glenn Beck is probably not a fan of the upcoming Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rally as it is—but his head is really “going to explode when he hears this:” President Obama will be a guest on the Daily Show just days before the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear . “So much for arguing this rally is not political,” writes Glynnis MacNicol on Mediaite . More»

But, he insists, rally wasn't about what they say it was about

(NEWSER) - Jon Stewart busted out the boxing gear for last night’s Daily Show , where he took criticism (via video clips) from Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and Bill Maher for his Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear . Their anger at Stewart—for, as Olbermann put it, creating “a false equivalence between what we do here and what Fox News and the like do there”—inspired Jon to consider holding another rally this weekend. More»

'Daily Show' ramps up excitement for Saturday rally

(NEWSER) - Jon Stewart kicked off the Daily Show’s week in Washington, DC, by weighing in on—what else?—the Juan Williams-NPR controversy. The obvious problem? Williams violated NPR’s “never-say-anything-interesting policy,” says correspondent Samantha Bee. And, considering Fox News was quick to jump all over NPR as soon as it all hit the fan, Stewart noted, “NPR, you just brought a totebag full of David Sedaris books to a knife fight.” More»

Bigger than Glenn Beck's rally ... maybe

(NEWSER) - The question on everyone’s mind today: Just how many people attended yesterday’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear? Some estimates:

• At the rally, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of Mythbusters estimated the crowd at 150,000, according to Talking Points Memo .
• An MTV spokesperson told the Washington City Paper more than 250,000 were in attendance, while Viacom (parent company to both MTV and Comedy Central) told the New York Times the Parks Service gave a private estimate of “well over 200,000 .”

And she seems pretty darn excited about it

(NEWSER) - Oprah Winfrey is always giving stuff to her audience , and she feels bad that Jon Stewart’s audience never gets anything. So she made a surprise appearance on last night’s Daily Show (right after Stephen Colbert and Stewart announced that the Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity would be combined with Colbert’s March to Keep Fear Alive) and, with typical Oprah enthusiasm, told Stewart’s audience to look under their seats. That’s right: “You’re going to the rally! You’re going to the rally! You’re going to the rally! Everybody’s going to the rallyyyyyyy!” To see who won't be going to the rally, click here . More»