Politics & Crime 6 Comics Who Should Join Al Franken In Washington

Well, somehow it’s official (if still in legal limbo): SNL alumni and prodigious pundit/writer Al Franken has defeated the incumbent by 225 votes to become the new U.S. Senator from Minnesota. Yes, senator. Show-business congressmen (Fred Grandy, Sonny Bono), mayors (Clint Eastwood, Kevin Johnson), even governors (Ahnold, Jesse Ventura) aren’t unheard of, but Franken’s ascension to the Senate is frankly (zing!) a little weird.

We’re sure he’ll make a great rabblerouser, especially as the tantalizing 59th Democrat (a party needs 60 to become a filibuster-proof majority, but we’ll save that conversation for a nerdier time), but it also kinda opens up the playing field. If a guy who starred in one of the worst movies of all time can become a Senator, then we’ve got six other comics who are at least qualified to be his chief of staff…

TV Is Jon Stewart Secretly Ripping Off Complex?

We’ve long thought that The Daily Show could step up its game by taking a hint from our esteemed political coverage, but now Jon Stewart has really taken it too far. Last night, he swaggerjacked us so hard that the chafe marks are still there. Read on to see how it took the good folks at TDS a full 10 days to catch up to our peerless commentary. We want our Emmy, thun!

TV Jon Stewart’s Short Window of Funniness At the Oscars

Daily Show host Jon Stewart was rather lame tame at this year’s Academy Awards, but he still managed to hit a few out of the park. Check out this clip of Stewart joking about McCain’s lack of youngness and what having a black or woman president usually means, well, in Hollywood at least.