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Video: Jon Stewart Shows Animated Simulation of the Royal Wedding Night

Posted May 5th 2011 at 12:05 AM by AOL TV Editors

In response to a contractual restriction which forbids networks to use royal wedding footage in a satirical way, Jon Stewart presented a hilarious animated simulation of the marriage between Prince William and Kate Middleton on 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart'. In the animation, the Prince and Middleton walk down the aisle past a line of notable figures, including Harry Potter, David Beckham, ...

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Matthew Perry Remembers Jon Stewart Asking for a Date With Jennifer Aniston

Posted Feb 3rd 2011 at 09:57 AM by AOL TV Editors

On 'The Daily Show' Matthew Perry and Jon Stewart reminisced about how they met, 15 years earlier, when Perry was a guest on a talk show Stewart was doing for Paramount. "I remember way back when, you asked me if I could potentially set you up with Jennifer Aniston," Perry brought up. "Yes," Stewart said, laughing. "Which I thought it was funny because I couldn't even get a date with ...

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James Franco Gets Trapped By Mini-Fridge on 'Daily Show'

Posted Jan 26th 2011 at 07:30 AM by AOL TV Editors

James Franco barely survived a harrowing experience on 'The Daily Show.' After having to get into character for his film '127 Hours,' where his character's arm was trapped in a rock collapse, it must have been eerie to suffer a similar calamity. As he explained it, "I was trying to get a Fun-Size Snickers bar out of the mini-fridge, and it came down on me and I can't get my arm out." Franco ...

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Cable King Jon Stewart Beats Out Letterman and Leno

Posted Nov 4th 2010 at 04:55 PM by Jett Wells

Even when you're a comic superstar like Jon Stewart, it takes something monumental for a cable guy to beat out network titans like David Letterman and Jay Leno. Well, people, that time has come. It took an interview with President Barack Obama and 215,000 people rallying in costume, but Stewart's 'The Daily Show' finally edged out Letterman and Leno's ratings by a nose for October, according to ...

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Democracy 1, Viacom 0 at 'Rally to Restore Sanity'

Posted Oct 30th 2010 at 09:15 PM by Jett Wells

Pop-Ed: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's 'Rally to Restore Sanity' sent a bold statement to the country, but the crowds at the National Mall in Washington D.C. were more insane than any tear-filled Glenn Beck rant. It's hard to tell how many people showed up, but it was enough to fill the entire field and the adjacent streets -- we're talking hundreds of thousands of people from ...