The Daily Show

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The Daily Show is a recurring film in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 28, 2022 and July 01, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “with four times as many viewers as The Daily Show”; “The Daily Show did an episode on shrimp welfare”. It most often appears alongside California, China, Nuno Sempere.

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  • Category: Films
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: December 28, 2022
  • Last seen: July 01, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

December 28, 2022 · Original source
52: The highest-rated political comedy show on TV, with four times as many viewers as The Daily Show, is Gutfeld!, a right-wing Fox production I never heard of until now. Industry insider Jeff Maurer explains Why “Gutfeld” Is The Highest-Rated Political Comedy Show On Television (It’s Not Because It’s Good). Short answer: it produces a lot of episodes, mostly by diluting the (hard to produce) comedy with a lot of (easy to produce) panels, then handles the panels well enough that viewers don’t feel ripped off. Also: “Gutfeld! certainly doesn’t do anything to dispel my belief that the Republican Party is intellectually brain dead” (h/t Ne0liberal)
July 01, 2025 · Original source
29: The Daily Show did an episode on shrimp welfare, apparently thanks to Bentham’s Bulldog’s indefatigable pro-shrimp blogging. An inspiring story of how a single ordinary person, if they try hard and believe in themselves, can get their pet cause made fun of on national television (but in a good way, I think)!