I don’t know if y’all have been keeping up on your Daily Show, but Jon Stewart is doing an exemplary job of pulling his show along with the political times and not sitting back on his “Obama’s been elected laurels.”

Without mentioning too much politics, here’s Stewart himself outlining his feud with Jim Cramer of CNBC (a non-biased article you can find HERE at the LA Times Blog):

And the best part? This Thursday on The Daily Show, Jim Cramer has agreed to be a guest.

I love television personality feuds.

For those of you following the Late Night switch from Conan to Jimmy Fallon, I think we can all agree that Fallon is off to a rocky start. Granted, there are very few clean starts in Late Night, especially when your predecessor was Conan O’Brien. There’s a lot Fallon has to live up to and his mumbling charm isn’t saving him thus far.

Tina Fey did a little sexy dance on the show this week and, realizing that The Roots as his house band might be the best thing Fallon has going, the sexy dancing continued last night with a Cameron Diaz/Jimmy Fallon dance off.

Really, ever since Charlies Angels, the only thing Cameron Diaz has done right is sexy dancing, so we can see how this is playing to her only strength, even with the semi-lame OctoMom burn in the middle…

In a bit of somber and depressing news, late night co-host and pop-cultural check clearing icon Ed McMahon has been fighting pneumonia for nearly three weeks in a hospital–but was only disclosed on Friday. His spokesman relates that Ed is in serious condition, according to the AP, and the usual well wishing.

This is only the latest in a series of mis-haps for the man who used to star opposite Johnny Carson, whether he was fighting foreclosure this past June or being sued for being unable to pay his attorney.

And worst of all must be this ad from the Super Bowl:

Oooooooooooooh…
Kayyyyyyyyyyy…

Anyone want to take any guess as to if Joaquin Phoenix has seriously stopped acting in order to pursue a rap career? We’ve been following this since Phoenix’s beard was just some normal stubble threatening to go wild.

His recent appearance on Letterman has some people claiming that he ended his career on national television. Others claim that Casey Affleck’s documentation of Joaquin’s sudden transformation will actually end up being a documentary about this full prank. It’s safe to say that this prank is going on under the noses of most people, because - from what we hear - Dave Letterman’s staff and Dave himself had no idea that any of this was going to happen, meaning Phoenix bombed on purpose.

Oh, you best believe we have the highlights…

Gah-wha?

Just so we get this straight, here’s how we thought the late night lineup would shake out up until late last night: Jimmy Fallon takes over for Conan on March 2nd, Conan takes over for Leno on June 1st, Leno goes into sweet retirement for a year before bursting on the scene with an 11:30 PM NBC slot, killing off Jimmy Kimmel Live and Nightline.

Well a cog just got thrown in that well-oiled plan…

Call us pessimists or call us people who watch a lot of comedy television, but it seemed like last night’s live Comedy Central event featuring Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert covering the election was just mildly sub par.

The above video has been circulating via e-mail suggesting that Steven Colbert actually breaks character and tears up when Obama wins the election. Gossip blog Jossip says: Maybe? It’s sort of up in the air, he could just be really tired, or trying to kill time until all the immense shrieking from the audience dies down.

Whatever. Who was watching Comedy Central at 11PM EST when polls closed on the west coast? We certainly weren’t after the opening half-hour of the special was full of slight technical glitches, guests who didn’t matter and uncharacteristically stiff inprov banter from Stewart and Colbert.

During a segment when Steve Forbes (of all people) joined the co-hosts as a guest, he was placed in-between them and forced to be interviewed by Jon Stewart (who either gives the greatest or the most boring interviews depending on the night) and Steven Colbert (who stays in satiric character throughout his interviews) at the same time. We would not want to be him, even if he did get to host a really unfunny SNL once.

Though The Daily Show frequently ends with Stewart chatting with Colbert for a brief one-minute comedy routine turned plug, something about the chemistry of Comedy Central’s two great political humorists was off. What little spark they were able to muster wasn’t able to jump-start the writing.

Maybe The Colbert Report and The Daily Show are best when their award-winning writers get all day to hammer out the material.