Comedy Central's the Daily Show with John Stewart has been going for years. I've watched since Craig Kilborn and I think John Stewart has been better, a little goofier and a little more political, but more involving. The Daily Show is at it's best when it does two things: point out the shortcomings of the news networks and unique comedy/reality sketches. If they stuck with those two it'd be golden, but lately that's been weak. Just making fun of current events is something any show can do so that one's a moot point, and the interview endings are never funny but are entertaining in that there are so few other programs that give you good glimpses at authors and thinkers who are legitimate. The weakpoint of the Daily Show is it's current reliance on in-studio news gags; these are rarely funny and happen too often. The Golden Age of Steve Carell and Steven Colbert as reporters is gone and Wyatt Cenac just isn't up to the task. The leftist political bent of the show is usually correct but the more politicized John Stewart becomes the less relevant he appears to be as spokesman for the real average American. It's currently stuck in a No Man's Land between being taken seriously as muckraking news organization/ leftwing political voice and being taken humorously as a fake news organization like the Onion. Great in that every episode has something to take away from it (which most shows can never say) but falling short in that there's almost never an episode that lacks a dead point. (.91)

- J Paige