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comedycentral:

On last night’s Colbert Report, Stephen Better Know’d Wisconsin’s 4th district with openly black Congresswoman Gwen Moore.

Click here for part one and here for part two.

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It is all over Twitter!

Click here for more from last night’s Daily Show.

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Look who joined Twitter.

Before I was in media and before was doing this kind of media, I was a student of political science. I did a doctorate in political science and I studied social movements and how activists bring about change. The one thing that I learned and saw in action, and was never able to prove academically but I believe it with all my heart, is the thing that makes you most likely to win is winning. And that when you are unexpectedly able to achieve something, you not only attract attention, you attract hope—and hope is momentum.

huffposttv:

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, are you reading this?

I spoke with the “Veep” star about the new season, her favorite “Veep” lines and getting a call from the real veep, but we also talked about Tumblr.

In some of the Season 2 episodes that were sent out to the press, both Tumblr and Reddit come up. I know “Veep” and Elaine Benes are both big on Tumblr. Do you ever poke around on that blogging platform?
You know, I don’t. I guess I should, but I probably would be frightened if I did. I don’t know, but I don’t do it a lot … should I? Or would it be a huge mistake? [Laughs.]

I think it’s fun. There are all these GIFs of great Selina insults and moments. Right after the trailer for Season 2 came out, there were a bunch from there.
No shit! I gotta go on that and check it out. We have this meeting with HBO, sort of a social media meeting, and we were talking about going to all these places and … I can’t get over what people are putting out there. It’s pretty cool. Some of it’s cool, I guess some of it’s scary, but some of it’s cool.

Read the full interview here.

Can we agree that Matthew Weiner was most likely deeply traumatized as a child by a Mean Girl named Betty?

Can’t wait!

The role of female talk show hosts in late-night TV broadcast network history, all 50-plus years of it, can be summed up in two words: Joan Rivers. It takes just another two — Arsenio Hall — to do the same for minorities.

Read: Late-night network shows still a white men’s club

Is this that difficult of a concept for you Piers? I mean, you won Celebrity Apprentice. You’re a really smart guy!

John Ziegler, maker of the controversial documentary The Framing of Joe Paterno just said that to Piers Morgan on CNN.

He was dead serious and that is hysterical. 

[T]he town, formerly known as Clark, agreed in 2005 to change its name as part of a deal with the Dish Network satellite TV service. In exchange, existing and new residents can receive basic service… for free.

Dish, Texas, Is Named After Satellite TV Company - NYTimes

GOP leader thinks Will McAvoy is a real news anchor
JIMROMENESKO: He deleted his tweet after someone pointed out that McAvoy is a fictitious anchor.

GOP leader thinks Will McAvoy is a real news anchor

JIMROMENESKO: He deleted his tweet after someone pointed out that McAvoy is a fictitious anchor.

I did what I did. It’s all on the public record, and I feel very good about it. If I had to do it over again, I’d do it in a minute,” Dick Cheney says in “The World According to Dick Cheney,” which debuts at 9 p.m. ET on Showtime.

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10 P.M. (HBO) REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER

The interview guest is controversial former D.C. public school chancellor Michelle Rhee. At the table will be MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, economist Jared Bernstein and former Va. Rep. Tom Davis. Later they will be joined by reality TV Chef Tom Colicchio.