Ground hogs day. Or as the ground hogs call it, fat guy in a top hat yanks me out of my hole. This morning, Punxsutawny Phil made his 131st prediction. This year, he came out, saw what was happening in washington and went right back in the hole. Every day theres something new to report. President trump this morning was the Main Attraction at the National Prayer breakfast in washington, d. C. Its an annual event organized by a christian organization. All the president s go. People say trump has a tendency to wander off topic and make things about him. This is what he had to say to kick off this annual morning of prayer. We had tremendous success on the apprentice. And when i ran for president , i had to leave the show. Thats when i knew for sure i was doing it. And they hired a big, big movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger to take my place, and we know how that turned out. The ratings went right down the tubes. Its been a total disaster, and mark will never, ever bet against trump again. A
Or as the ground hogs call it, fat guy in a top hat yanks me out of my hole. This morning, Punxsutawny Phil made his 131st prediction. This year, he came out, saw what was happening in washington and went right back in the hole. Every day theres something new to report. President trump this morning was the Main Attraction at the National Prayer breakfast in washington, d. C. Its an annual event organized by a christian organization. All the president s go. People say trump has a tendency to wander off topic and make things about him. This is what he had to say to kick off this annual morning of prayer. We had tremendous success on the apprentice. And when i ran for president , i had to leave the show. Thats when i knew for sure i was doing it. And they hired a big, big movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger to take my place, and we know how that turned out. The ratings went right down the tubes. Its been a total disaster, and mark will never, ever bet against trump again. And i want to just
England patriots made what turned out to be the biggest comeback in super bowl history to beat the Atlanta Falcons in overtime last night. [ cheers and applause ] who doesnt like to see the overdogs win . You know . Great sorry. Just like the election. A rich white guy married to a model from another country who seemingly had no chance of winning actually did win. The falcons were up 213 at halftime. And then lady gaga got the patriots all fired up and they came out and that comeback really was [ cheers and applause ] i am now 100 convinced that tom brady is one of those west world robots. More than 111 million americans watched the game, the fourth most watched Television Broadcast of alltime. Advertisers paid more than 5 million for a 30second commercial which seems like too much money to remind us that avocados exist. [ laughter ] isnt running an ad for avocados on super bowl sunday too late . Its the one day of the year were already eating avocados. Like running a commercial for tu
[theme music playing] [cheering and applause] jon welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. My guest tonight, oh, we love this woman, Melissa Mccarthy is going to be joining us tonight. Were so excited about that. [cheering and applause] but first, funny story, remember that time we invaded iraq to remove the threat of the worlds most dangerous people using the worlds most dangerous weapons and it turned out the threat wasnt there . Well, good news, the threats there now. [laughter] in some measure due to the destabilizing effect of our intervention. Youll never guess what the people who hyped the original plan would like to do now. We must grapple our best to help iraq meet this threat. It is absolutely essential that we stop isis from gaining this foothold in iraq. We need air power immediately to stop the advance. We have to act. We must act. Jon we must. [laughter] act. If we do, i think youre going to need acting lessons. But i do look forward to you and your friends star
Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central [theme music playing] [cheering and applause] jon welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. We have a good show. Oh, its good show. My guest tonight, Jennifer Esposito. Shes an actress, but shes going to talk about her book. Shes got celiac disease. Its named after a ballplayer, lucilleback. Played for the new york yankees. [laughter] but first, you know, for most of its existence, the irs was americas favorite Government Agency. [laughter] but that all changed after the irs admitted last year to certain propublica pryities. Tea party and other conservative groups that rose to power early in the president s first term were unfairly targeted for special scrutiny by the i. R. S. Jon by the way, whatever you think of the tea party movement. , i think we should agree that the only federal agency singling it out for special scrutiny is the fashion police. Pantaloons . Come on. The irs also targeted liberal 501c4s but not with the same level of