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Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton will appear in the upcoming season of the Comedy Central series Broad City.

South Park’s 19th season has already been called the show’s best in a decade for taking a hatchet to political correctness run amok. In this week’s episode, the citizens of South Park banish the town’s “racist, trigger-happy” police force because of their newfound PC sensibilities.

Entertainment Weekly writer Darren Franich has dubbed the current 19th season of Comedy Central’s South Park the “best in a decade” because of the show’s relentlessness in attacking the current liberal, politically correct outrage culture in recent episodes.

The Iowa Republican Party has denied media credentials to Comedy Central’s news satire show The Daily Show but not because the show skewers the GOP.

On Thursday’s “@Midnight with Chris Hardwick” on Comedy Central, comedian Yassir Lester likened the Washington Redskins name to blackface while playing a game of renaming NFL teams. Lester first wanted to rename the Baltimore Ravens to the Baltimore Police Force,

South Park’s “Where My Country Gone?” builds on last week’s assault on political correctness, by satirizing illegal immigration, Caitlyn Jenner’s driving skills, PC culture, and Donald Trump, who is depicted being raped and murdered by Mr. Garrison.

New correspondents for The Daily Show had their tweets evaluated by the show’s staff at the direction of new host Trevor Noah.

Comedian Steve Rannazzisi, star of “The League,” and a one-hour special on Comedy Central, confessed Tuesday that his story about escaping the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 was a lie.

[Warning: Language] During his Comedy Central show “Tosh.0” this week, comedian Daniel Tosh mocked University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban over the unauthorized biography recently discredited by Saban in a press conference. Tosh, a Dolphins fan that has ripped

Thursday night’s GOP debates were a ratings juggernaut for the Fox News Channel, leaving liberal darling Jon Stewart’s last Daily Show appearance in the dust.

Incoming Daily Show host Trevor Noah told a roomful of television reporters Wednesday that the Comedy Central staple will take a new approach when he steps in for the outgoing Jon Stewart later this year–it won’t bash Fox News as much.

Note: I consider Donald a pal. That’s why I’m critical of him.

A week after taking a stand against her critics, self-described feminist comedian Amy Schumer is apologizing for the politically incorrect material that put her on the map to begin with.

Despite a number of allegedly homophobic, fat, anti-Semitic, and racist jokes posted on comedian Trevor Noah’s Twitter account over the years, Viacom head Doug Herzof said Monday the Daily Show heir was never without the company’s support.

On April 21 Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer ran a parody ad in which Schumer complained that guns are easier to acquire than birth control pills.

After Stephen Colbert left Comedy Central to be replaced by omedian Larry Wilmore, critics were exultant. But three months after taking over, Wilmore’s ratings have taken a serious tumble.

After 17 years at the helm, Jon Stewart revealed Monday night he would host The Daily Show for the last time on August 6.

Daily Show successor Trevor Noah has been scrutinized for his joke choices since an announcement he would take over for Jon Stewart later this year, but now he is being accused of stealing his material, altogether. Channel NewsAsia recently sat

The only thing keeping Jon Stewart and Comedy Central relevant are carriage fees and a mainstream media that loves Stewart’s socialist ways. Ratings-wise, The Daily Show is a disaster. Last month only 1.25 million total viewers tuned in. In a

Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld said that he isn’t offended by new “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah’s controversial tweets, but doubts that Noah would still have a job if he was a conservative on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Five.”

Trevor Noah had barely endured 12 hours of conservative criticism about his past Twitter comments when the left began to voice its outrage, as well. Liberal critics focused in particular on Noah’s jokes about women. Yet while both left and right seized on Noah’s Twitter feed, the spirit of criticism was not quite the same for each.

The left-wing Comedy Central released a statement Tuesday in defense of Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” replacement Trevor Noah and a series of jokes that the likes of a Comedy Central would immediately condemn as racist if they were told by

Trevor Noah, Jon Stewart’s already embattled replacement as host of the left-wing Daily Show, used his verified Twitter account to respond the firestorm over a series of his older tweets that mocked Jews, Asians, women, and gays. The tweet read,

South African comedian Timothy Noah has been named to succeed Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Noah is talented and funny, and as a fellow native son of South Africa, I wish him well. Unfortunately, Noah is a mismatch for the show. Stewart would be a tough act to follow in any circumstances, but Noah lacks any obvious fluency in American politics or media, and his specialty in racial and ethnic humor suggest that his repertoire will remain limited.

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart spent a portion of Thursday night’s The Daily Show bashing Fox News, which in and of itself is not newsworthy. However, this time the soon-to-be retired host enlisted the help of director George Lucas.

Comedy Central has announced the March 30 airing of the Roast of Justin Bieber will not include jokes at the expense of late actor Paul Walker.

While B-list celebrities blasted pop star Justin Bieber for his errant ways at Saturday night’s Comedy Central Roast, the former teen sensation ended his evening on a note of humility.

On March 3, Comedy Central’s The Nighty Show with Larry Wilmore mocked Nevada Assemblywoman Michle Fiore (R) for wanting to arm women against sexual assault.

Dr. Christina Greer, a professor of Political Science at Fordham University said that the US is ” a patriarchal, white supremacist country” on Thursday’s “Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore” on Comedy Central. In a discussion on black women being called

Shares of Viacom, the parent company of Comedy Central, slid 1.5% on Wednesday after The Daily Show host Jon Stewart announced he would leave the program later this year.

Jon Stewart announced Tuesday that he will be leaving The Daily Show he has hosted on Comedy Central since 1999. The reaction from the media has been a gushing geyser of praise and, occasionally, an acknowledgement that his comedy mostly appealed to the far left.

Erstwhile comedian Jon Stewart will no longer helm Comedy Central’s flagship late-night program The Daily Show, the network has confirmed.

Jim Norton cites success and sponsors as reasons Comedy Central became more politically correct.

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart became the latest celebrity to climb aboard the anti-Rupert Murdoch bandwagon Monday night by referring to the media magnate as “his excellency from the republic of Media Conglomistad.”

On Thursday, Comedy Central aired the final episode of “The Colbert Report,” the 30-minute follow-up program to the network’s signature “The Daily Show” that had aired going back nine years. As part of the finale, a number of celebrities sent

In an appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” on Monday, President Barack Obama appeared as outgoing host Stephen Colbert’s guest from a live set in Washington, D.C. Obama used the segment sometimes reserved for Colbert’s “The Word” monologue, deemed