Consider The Daily Show's Jon Stewart your new social studies teacher!

The Emmy-winning funnyman will be producing a two-hour doc for History Channel called The Naturalized exposing the United States' naturalization process. The special "follows eight individuals through the bureaucratic morass of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services… [and] will also include interviews with undocumented and deported illegal immigrants."

Def a topic that should be touched upon!

"It's a look at that process that is very much in Jon's tone and manner," History Channel VP Nancy Dubuc revealed. "The early stuff we're seeing is quite funny but really poignant and relevant."

The special will be produced through Stewart's production company, Busboy, and for all you Jon-a-philes out there, there is a chance that Stewart may appear in the special!

Said Dubuc, "This is a topic that he appreciates."

Fingers crossed!

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Fox News blowhard Bill O'Reilly made a guest appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night.

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Barack Obama was EVERYWHERE last night!

In addition to broadcasting an address to the American people on most of the major networks, the Democratic presidential hopeful also appears on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

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Jon Stewart doesn't hide his feelings towards Sarah Palin.

While speaking to a college audience in Boston, Massachusetts, this weekend, the host of the Daily Show took the time to respond to Palin's comments about the "pro-American" parts of the country.

Stewart let it all hang out.

Says Jon, "She said that small towns, that's the part of the country she really likes going to because that's the pro-America part of the country. You know, I just want to say to her, just very quickly: Fuck you."

The reaction came in response to Palin's comment on Thursday night at a North Carolina fundraiser when she said, "We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe…that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation."

So Stewart added, "I can't take it anymore…After eight years of this divisiveness, we're back to this idea that only small-town America is the real America."

Stewart then referred to Palin's hometown of Juneau as "the woods."

He says, "McCain made an interesting vice presidential choice. I like the woods…I just don't know if I would pull my vice president out of the woods randomly."

As for Palin's statements that Barack Obama is linked to terrorist Bill Ayers, Stewart had his own remarks.

He said, in a Palin impression, "I've never seen someone with a greater disparity between how cute they sound when they're saying something and how terrible what they're saying is. Don'tcha know, Obama, by golly, he just is a terrorist?… Oh, you know, he just, gosh, kills babies, you know."

Sarah Palin = Idiot!

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The Daily Show ran a great segment on Sarah P. Wednesday night.

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Democratic Presidential Hopeful Hillary Clinton was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Monday night.

Check out her appearance (below)!

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Despite the ongoing writers strike, both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have announced plans to return to the air.

The funny men will resume production on their Comedy Central shows January 7th without any scribes, though.

Unlike the other returning talk show hosts, however, the Daily Show and the Colbert Report are heavily scripted.

Both programs will likely have to rely on much more interview segments, but booking guests may prove difficult.

Both Colbert and Stewart are Writers Guild members.

It should be very very interesting to see how their shows fare without writers!

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Now this is the kind of boss peolpe should be lucky to have!

Jon Stewart is not only supporting his writers that are on strike but he's also going to pay the scribes for the next two weeks…out of his own pocket.

The funnyman is a producer on the Daily Show and the Colbert Report.

What a mensch!

Update:

"UPDATE, 2:20 P.M.: Confusion: Jon Stewart's rep just called back to deny the information above. I checked back with my source, who set me straight on a few details: Stewart is not paying writers out of his own pocket, but through Busboy, his production company. And it's not just writers who are getting their salaries covered but all the shows' employees. "He's hoping that it wraps up amicably and quickly, and over the course of that time he wants to look out for his employees," he says.

But when I ran this by Stewart's rep, he emailed back, "While I hesitate to knock down every rumor that comes up, the assertion that Jon and/or Busboy Productions will be paying for the staff is false and we have no further comment beyond this at this time."

I'm pretty sure there's some truthiness here (sorry), but it may take some more digging to determine exactly what the situation is."

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The Academy Awards announced on Wednesday that Jon Stewart will be returning as host for this year's Oscar ceremony.

Ryan Seacrest is pissed!

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