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Friday Funny: The Daily Show Makes Infrastructure Funny—Even if it's Still Not Sexy

Call it gallows humor: Jon Stewart and the Daily Show get a few laughs out of the serious subject of infrastructure.

June 5, 2015 - The Daily Show

Friday Funny: Daily Show Burns Congress' Highway Trust Fund Dysfunction

In a segment The Daily Show calls "Shabby Road" (complete with photoshopped image of President Obama, Rep. John Boehner, Sen. Harry Reid, and Vice President Biden as the Beatles), Jon Stewart takes down Congress' inaction on the Highway Trust Fund.

July 18, 2014 - The Daily Show

Obama's Renewable Energy Blunder

The President went out of his way to support Solyndra's cutting-edge solar technology. When the company declares bankruptcy this week, Jon Stewart anticipates the gaffes by Obama's opposition in a very funny segment on The Daily Show.

September 16, 2011 - The Daily Show

Addressing Our "Addiction To Oil": Have We Heard This Before?

Jon Stewart examines Obama's and his seven predecessors attempts to end this addiction, stated in various ways, showing how popular the term is, yet how ineffectual every president has been.

June 19, 2010 - The Daily Show

LaHood Talks Trains on the Daily Show

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood talks about the federal government's mobility plans on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

December 16, 2009 - The Daily Show

Energy Secretary Steven Chu Entertains Daily Show's Jon Stewart

While the Comedy Show's Jon Stewart can't get too excited about “Cap & Trade,” Secretary of Energy Steven Chu does his best to explain the importance of the Waxman-Markey climate legislation to him.

July 23, 2009 - The Daily Show

How to Rekindle America's Love Affair with the Car

The Daily Show's resident "problem solver" John Hodgman offers his advice on renewing America's "love affair with the car": eliminate public transit and bomb foreign auto makers. [Video]

April 9, 2009 - The Daily Show

What will the World be Like with Two Billion Cars?

Daniel Sperling, author of "Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability" talks to Jon Stewart about the future of plug-in hybrid, fuel cell and electric vehicles.

February 13, 2009 - The Daily Show

Daily Show Looks at 'The Big Sort'

Author Bill Bishop discusses the "big sort" that's resulting in increasingly homogeneous voting patterns in the segment on Comedy Central's Daily Show.

July 31, 2008 - The Daily Show

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