Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Sigourney Weaver is a famous actress and occasional international sex symbol. But still, she has her insecurities, as we all do. Luckily, Jon Stewart is the perfect person to confide in. So on the latest 'Daily Show' (weeknights, 11PM ET on Comedy Central), Sigourney reveals all her problems to a sympathetic ear.

First, Weaver confesses that she wasn't very popular in high school. Honestly, though, this is probably a good thing. Our premise is that anyone who ends up being cool later on in life wasn't actually "cool" in high school. But this is just a working theory.

Generally, politics is only compared to sports using bad metaphors. But Linda McMahon's run for the Senate in Connecticut has made it clear that a staged sporting event and a political campaign are kind of the same thing.

McMahon was the manager of the WWE for 29 years. Suddenly, she's the candidate for national political office. Wow. Politics are getting a little weird in this country, right?

Since Linda was involved in professional wrestling for so many years, there's a lot of odd footage of her. And Jon Stewart covers it all on 'The Daily Show' (weeknights, 11PM ET on COM).

There's video of her "chugging" a beer, and getting in a "beat down" with wrestler Steve Austin. Also, there's a discussion of McMahon's daughter having the words "Slut, slut, slut" chanted at her.

Jon Stewart tries to hold it together, but eventually he just ends up cracking up about the whole thing. Welcome to politics in the year 2010.

We're at Day 59 of the BP oil spill. It is truly a national nightmare. But it does give Jon Stewart plenty of new material. And it provides us with a few more satirical news bites on 'The Daily Show' (weeknights, 11PM ET on Comedy Central). So, that's not great -- but it's something, at least.

President Obama requested that BP put money into a fund that would assist the victims of the oil spill. Surprisingly, the company actually went ahead and did this. But no good deed goes unpunished -- and so, for some odd reason, Republican Congressman Joe Barton decided to attack this move.

Barton defended British Petroleum -- the company responsible for the oil spill which has devastated the Gulf Coast. Joe Barton said that making this fund for the oil victims was a "tragedy." The congressman then accused Obama of trying to create a "slush fund" with the money.

This was the point where Jon Stewart's anger kicked in. The 'Daily Show' host was fairly unrelenting in his attack. "I don't like you!" he yelled in reply to Barton.

Jon Stewart has a message for Fox News. While he usually speaks from behind the "anchor" desk of 'The Daily Show' (weeknights, 11PM ET on COM), this particular statement was made in front of a small gospel choir of backup singers. They helped Stewart really get his point across.

Watch the video after the jump.

We're all doing our part to help save the environment, curb global warming and attempt to keep that island of garbage out in the ocean from getting any bigger. 'The Daily Show' (weeknights, 11PM ET on COM) host Jon Stewart is personally trying to make up for "the CFCs from all that Aqua Net I used in the '80s."

Watch the video after the jump.

On the Daily Show (weeknights, 11 PM, Comedy Central), correspondent Aasif Mandvi got to the bottom of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's love-hate relationship with the U.S. by comparing his (fake) social networking pages. Karzai only allows the U.S. access to Karzai's Facebook page, where he claims to love "blue jeans, rock n' roll music" and is friends with Dane Cook, apple pie, and baseball. But his LinkedIn page tells a different story.

Listen up politicians, you cannot put one past Jon Stewart.

Yesterday on 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,' the host opened up the show mentioning the President's Address and his plans to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan next year. Apparently, this same exact speech had been given by President Bush before! Giving credit where credit is due, Stewart makes the quick comparisons between the two Presidential speeches on Afghanistan and and the parallels are startling.

Watch this full episode of 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' on Slash Control after the jump.

Is Jon Stewart responsible for getting a Newsweek journalist jailed in Iran?

In June, Newsweek's Maziar Bahari, who has covered Iran for over a decade, participated in a 'Daily Show' skit in the aftermath of Iran's controversial election. Bahari was interviewed by tongue-in-cheek 'Daily Show' correspondent Jason Jones. "He dressed like some character out of a B movie about mercenaries in the Middle East -- with a checkered Palestinian kaffiyeh around his neck and dark sunglasses," wrote Bahari afterwards.

Evidently the Iranian regime didn't get the joke. On June 21, four days after the skit aired, the writer was detained without cause. Maziar Bahari was held, in his own words, for "118 days, 12 Hours, 54 Minutes."