Jon Stewart

Comedy Central, which has politics-heavy The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, saw its online audience nearly double during the political conventions and had an additional 50% growth during the week ending Oct. 12, according to Nielsen Online. Meanwhile, the shows hav...

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Some credit for the exploding online popularity of The Daily Show goes to a decision by Viacom's (VIA) Comedy Central to make all Daily Show content available free on the Web -- amid an ongoing battle with Google (GOOG) over illegally posted clips on YouTube. It also doesn't hurt that Stewa...

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Jon Stewart will be digitally fingerprinted. On Friday, Google told a judge that a digital video fingerprinting system would ensure that clips of Stewart from Comedy Central's The Daily Show -- and other copyrighted material -- would not show up on YouTube.