The Daily Show

Metafilter: A guest from a Daily Show joke piece was fired from the Broward Art Guild (which still lists her as the exec. director). The strange thing about this story is that in the original piece, the artists involved in a guild show were the source of controversy (for this (NSFW) and this), the director was simply subjected to a few goofball questions from Ed Helms. She was fired in a secret session because, I assume, from the bad press.

In case you’re not a journalist/journalism geek, you may have missed that Matt Cooper talked to Karl Rove on “double super secret background”. The Daily Show’s Stephen Colbert explained the other night what, exactly, that means: Double super secret background: “Just like regular background but with no tagbacks, frontsies or backsies, taken to infinity plus one on opposite day, circle circle dot dot now you’ve got a cootie shot. It was first pioneered by Edward R. Murrow.” – Stephen Colbert…