A couple of weeks ago, The Daily Show upgraded their website, adding a free and fully-searchable video database of the past eight years of programs from the Jon Stewart era. For fans of the show, it was heaven. Imagine being able to instantly watch one of those old “Even Stevphen” segments with Carell and Colbert, before their bloated comic egos whisked them away to greener pastures and/or the studio down the block. Or how......

Nielsen numbers came back from Sunday's big show and the numbers aren't good. Some 38.8 million Americans watched, which is 8% lower than last year and only the second time audience numbers dipped below 40 million. Some will pin it on the serious and indie-aspects of almost all the major films (Crash, Brokeback, Syriana, et al) others critiqued Jon Stewart. Torontoist blames Gothamist for doing such a hilarious job liveblogging the thing. Who needs TV......

Okay, so, this week it’s definitely the Oscars! Everyone you know is probably all excited and arranging Oscar parties because, you know, Jon Stewart is presenting! He’ll be all edgy spelt with a ‘3’ and probably insult George Bush or something! Will he mention Cheney shooting a lawyer again? OMG that dude is the funny! Expect a muted performance from Stewart, so muted, in fact, that you’ll wonder if he’s wearing a ball gag. This......

The Oscars are next weekend! And much like the fact that most people will skim over, or simply ignore the categories that don’t interest them, Torontoist is going to have to admit defeat to mentioning every single film out each week, particularly on a week like this one, with something like 12 new releases in the city this week. We mean, honestly. Some of it just isn’t worth reporting. Does anyone need to be told......

Torontoist would never encourage you stay home glued to your couch when you could be out doing all manner of fun and edifying things. That last statement is a baldfaced lie. Torontoist has a really cushy couch and a backstock of microwave popcorn that would do any Cold War paranoiac proud and we are not above occasionally camping out on the couch with the popcorn from dinner until bedtime. Now, usually televsion programming is unable......

If, like us, you were too cheap to shell out the requisite amounts of rent money required to see Stewart, Jon work his magic at Massey Hall tonight, be not dismayed! There is much to do for much less money on this weekend of drizzle and fizzle. - Neato Japanese artist Mariko Mori speaks at Ryerson at 7:30pm tonight, as part of the Kodak Lecture Series. - Toronto Animated Image Society presents a screening of......

TOists will be shaking their booty at Do Something With A Blundstone, the Aussie-themed fundraising party tonight. It's a benefit for SKETCH, the lofty downtown arts studio that offers street-involved and homeless youth drop-in programs that integrate job and life skills development through the visual arts. At the home of the good pilsner folks Steam Whistle Brewing from 7pm to 2am tonight, ten bucks at the door gets you into the party (plenty of food......

An extremely slap-dash look around the blogiverse has yielded the following links (excuse the tardiness of some): - Our friend Frank's got some BSS pics (one of which we ungraciously stole), and some words for those who didn't like Les Giraffes. (PS Did they remind anyone of the first Batman, when the Joker had that street party? Toronto=Gotham City) - Still tickets available for Jon Stewart in Toronto. - Brooklyn Vegan has a Saul Williams......

Harry G. Frankfurt's Bullshit netted a shitstorm of press when it came out this year, despite the fact that it's little more than an academic paper, stretched out to constitute a book, as he admitted during a lackluster interview with President Jon Stewart. Meanwhile, Nova Scotian Laura Penny's own Your Call Is Important To Us: The Truth About Bullshit, offers up a sophisticated exegesis of bullshit, and a few jokes to boot. So if you......

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A hot topic around certain media water coolers this week is definitely George. And for once it’s not Mr. Bush we’re scrutinizing, it’s Mr. Stroumboulopoulos and his new show, The Hour. The formula fits. The CBC needs to nab a younger audience before their mostly-geriatric audience croaks. Hell, we’re all a generation in need of fresh ideas. So, they give themselves a to-do list: - Make a hip new show that happens to cover the......

So the Tuckman's gone, and with him all that 'partisan hackery' that President Jon Stewart so loved to loathe. But no love lost, really. Wells, sans Ink, has particularly good advice for what the bowtie-wearing, Canada-hating, smirk-laden wonk ought to have said. Too bad Tucker tucked out before taking it. In other Wells-related news, didn't the Maclean's blogger of record write the exact same piece about the Itunes music store weeks ago that the Globe......

Torontoist likes to make our own rules, so when it comes to year end lists and such, there are no rules. Along the lines of Torontoist's kinda-sorta-best-of's for 2004, while out and about we've noticed some good stuff, some bad stuff, and some damn near ugly stuff: The Good: Rediscovering Cheap - it's out there, you just have to find it--on Queen West of course. $2.50 beers at The Queenshead, $3.99 Breakfasts at Still......

We're glad that the Globe's trying to get all young and hip on us, but it looks as if they're also vying for the grand prize in the 'World's Busiest Cover Competition.' Each week brings a new collage of close-cropped heads, excessive text and weirdly useless lines. Maybe they're trying to catch up to the Post, which has reefered its close-cropped heads since the Conrad era. Regardless, we're hoping they'll tone it down a bit.......

Torontoist won't even pretend we'll be venturing outside tonight. Nope, we'll be holed up in front of the tube, eating lime-doritos and scanning the networks for the least offensive pundits, as the vote count rolls in. In honour of the end, here are the two photos that Torontoist feels best represents the estimable candidates. Months of furiously checking Electoral-vote will come to an end today, and Torontoist only hopes that the vote won't have to......

Never Forget/Internet Vets For Truth is the world's most awesome compendium of despair-inducing presidential multimedia. You can watch Kerry's full testimony before the CIA in 1967, and Zell Miller's infamous 'spitball speech,' though Torontoist strongly cautions against any repeat viewings of the latter (may induce shock, or, in extreme cases, death). You can also watch Bush read My Pet Goat, and watch President Elect Jon Stewart get up in bow-tie wearing Tucker Carlson's face. Torontoist......