Hill and Louis C.K. on Gervais' "Side"
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Jonah Hill and comedian  Louis C.K. will play Ricky Gervais' neighbors in the Warner  Bros. release "This Side of the Truth."
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At its root, the âfeudâ between Conan OâBrien and his rivals originated with a political boast.
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Comedian Ricky Gervais is to direct and star in a film about a world where no-one lies, according to reports.
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One angry word begets another, and one Fool tries to sort out who's closer to the truth.
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The real point of Michael Lewis' "The Blind Side."
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Many see the TV show as a sly commentary on the current French political scene.
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A caption in the Workspace photo essay last Sunday misidentified the actor depicted in a portrait in the home of the poet Donald Hall. It is Charles Laughton, not Charles Lawson.
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In Stephen Massicotteâs excellent new play,  T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves are two veterans and it takes no leap of the imagination to translate their World War I experiences into stories from todayâs newspaper.
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Political analysts and keyboard comedians Peter Robinson and Arnie Arnesen exchange wit and wisdom in a real-time format.
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In Stephen Massicotteâs excellent new play, T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves are two veterans and it takes no leap of the imagination to translate their World War I experiences into stories from todayâs newspaper.
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Seeing Both Sides Blog Boston-based VC and serial entrepreneur Jeff Bussgang blogs that entrepreneurs can learn a lot from Sacha Baron Cohen. Like Cohen/Borat, entrepreneurs need to take risks, without fear for personal repercussions. They must be bold and audacious and yet remain credible enough to not lose anyone along the way. And they must remain in character, persuading partners, ...
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ON FOREIGN and economic policy France and Britain may be chalk and cheese, but there are fascinating parallels between political conditions on the two sides of the Channel.
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The Prince of Wales has again ruffled the feathers of New Labour. Political Editor Kirsty Buchanan looks at the relationship between Prince Charles and the Government.
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Richard Prince blurs the distinctions between life and art, truth and fiction, and even automaking and sculpture.
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The Office's Ricky Gervais is writing an episode of The Simpsons in which he will also have a guest role.
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This show is an entertaining but sometimes too earnest primer about the politics of food.
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As Jon Stewart tells it, he and his staff of 13 writers at The Daily Show  were looking for a project."Life was too balanced," he says with a straight face. "It was too good for us."They considered a "roads project, a civic improvement," but when they looked around their offices in Manhattan, "we mostly had computers."So they wrote a book.America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (Warner, &#36;24.95) will be published Monday after nine months of checking a few facts and making up a lot more. (Related story: Daily Show is a no-stump zone)Just as his TV show on Comedy Central is a parody of a news show, the book is a graphic-heavy parody of a textbook. Chapters include "Congress: Quagmire of Freedom," "The Media: Democracy's Valiant Vulgarians" and "The Rest of the World: International House of Horrors."The foreword is by Thomas "TJ" Jefferson, who inquires in a postscript: "Is it true Halle Berry is once again single?"Stewart's favorite part?"I like the ending," which offers a Certificate of Completion, qualifying readers to "practice, participate in, or found a democracy."Too often, he says, "you finish a book and ask, 'What's in it for me beyond self-improvement?' Our book gives you a certificate in nation-building. ... If you just smash together the basic ideas, you're bound to wind up with something better than North Korea."Stewart wants to be known as a comedian, even though The Daily Show was voted best news show by TV critics this summer. He dismisses praise from journalists such as Eric Alterman, media critic for The Nation, who recently wrote that Daily Show offers "a truer picture than ... the Sunday-morning gabfests and cable food fights."Stewart, 41, says, "It's more a sign of frustration with the information people are receiving than a sign of our entrepreneurial spirit of journalism. ... It's a '(expletive) you' to real news, not a 'hallelujah' for our fake news."The book mocks both President Bush, "hurdling the lowered bar," and Democrat John Kerry, "monogrammed for greatness." But Stewart acknowledges that The Daily Show delivers more jokes at the expense of Republicans."They're in power," he says. "Comedians in biblical times did more Goliath jokes. The David stuff didn't fly."He says he worries less about being partisan than being boring, strident or redundant, "the death of comedy."Stewart's appearance at a booksellers' convention in June, which featured former president Bill Clinton, won rave reviews. Publishers Weekly said Stewart "out-Clintoned that other guy," prompting his publisher to boost the first printing of America from 500,000 copies to 700,000.