On Thursday’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert reported that Newt Gingrich was playing Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger at his campaign events without the band’s permission prompting them to sue the former Speaker of the House. “The power anthem from Rocky 3…an obvious parallel for Newt. He’s an underdog, a born scrapper, and he’s fighting for the chance to be smacked around by a black guy!”

Mitt Romney was off to a bad start this morning, as he began the day telling CNN’s Soledad O’Brien that he was “not concerned about the very poor.” Jon Stewart happened upon this clip in horror, trying to understand what Romney was getting at. The best he could do was to imagine Romney as a doctor unconcerned about the “very sick because, you know, morphine.”

Jon Stewart came back from the weekend with little but the Florida primary to look forward too and a cluster of polls from various points of the Republican race that showed Mitt Romney in a heated battle with Newt Gingrich for the top spot. Such a heated battle, in fact, that Stewart compared the bloodbath to a level of Mortal Kombat, one that culminated with someone’s spine broken in a video game.

The State of the Union address is a once-in-a-year opportunity for mockery for Jon Stewart. With the President going over his past successes and future plans, there was plenty to go over: The Osama Bin Laden opening, the large amounts of tax credits, and the bad joke that made the First Lady force an awkward smile.

Jon Stewart came back from his weekend to find a pretty dramatic shift in the dynamics of the Republican primary. When he had left, Mitt Romney was a “juggernaut,” impossible to stop (see several movie posters Stewart apparently made to celebrate this fact). But now he’s back, and it’s all Newt Gingrich, all the time. And all because of a debate moment that makes Stewart completely flip out.

On Tuesday’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart lampooned the overzealous conservative audience during Monday’s South Carolina GOP Debate held on Martin Luther King Day. “The real star of the debate was the South Carolina audience who made some revealing laudatory choices.”

How Jon Stewart got chef Mario Batali to feed him an omelet “mother bird” style in order to make a statement about Stephen Colbert‘s SuperPAC, we may never know, but that it happened is a fact on film. The new president of Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow took to the stage today wearing a tiara and spending money on insane and useless things, much like other SuperPACs have done for candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, and was legally unable to tell Colbert anything about it.

On Thursday’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart put Newt Gingrich on blast for being — in correspondent Wyatt Cenac‘s terminology — “condescending and dickish” to African-Americans, making reference to his remarks to the NAACP that they should “demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.” “Here is the great thing about Newton Leroy Gingrich, he is not being defensive. He’s truly bewildered that he is taking sh*t for saying something so incredibly altruistic!”

CNN’s new morning show Early Start has a segment where they call newspeople early in the morning as a surprise and get them live, possibly before they are awake. Needless to say, spontaneous segments have a way of going… awry, and Jon Stewart took a peek at just how wrong things can go– first, during a call to one of the Kennedys, and then mistakenly dialing the wrong number, then telling that person that they were talking to the FBI and not CNN.

Jon Stewart came into the office this Monday with four hours of Republicans shouting at each other to wade through, and the analysis of cable news pundits thereafter, given Saturday night’s Republican debate and the fact that Republicans “inexplicably reassembled at 9 AM for another debate.” There was much to talk about in these debates! Like what the candidates would be doing on Saturday night, and the fatherly advice of relatable Gov. George Romney to his son.

While most of the attention this week has been on the Iowa caucuses and development of the extended drama that has become the Republican primary, the GOP has taken some time to point out their disapproval of President Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “What kind of Monster… .com is he?” Jon Stewart asked, before noting that, not only are recess appointments common, the Senate wasn’t even in recess.

Last night on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert spent the better part of the first half of his show mocking a late-night failure by Erin Burnett to properly “flick” a graphic from one touchscreen to another. It quickly got Burnett’s attention, apparently, as she had a few corrections for the fake news host tonight– and a challenge for him to come flick along with her.

Jon Stewart had a lot on his plate today, with the Iowa caucuses cramming a week’s worth of news into the wee hours of the night early Wednesday morning. Stewart gave every candidate their turn, and praised everyone from Rick Santorum to Mitt Romney for sticking with it. One entity notably getting moans and groans from Stewart for its inanity: CNN, for its “weeble” cyber-illustration of the caucuses.

On Thursday’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert ribbed “Queen of Narnia” Fox News’s Megyn Kelly over her network’s chyron error, mixing up a photo of Mitt Romney with Barack Obama .

Thursday, Daily Show host Jon Stewart had a bit of advice for Republican primary voters: “Don’t do this.” As in, please do not elect Newt Gingrich as the GOP nominee. “Seriously,” he continued. “I know you’re mad. I know you’re mad… der than usual. Country’s being run by a foreign-born Hawaiian radical Christian Muslim socialist who’s in the pocket of Wall Street. And sometimes Newt Gingrich can sound like the answer… But here’s the thing, here’s the thing. He’s not Reagan.

Wednesday, Daily Show host Jon Stewart introduced a new, ball-centric segment aimed at celebrating and/or denigrating public figures whose massive cojones propel them forward or trip them up, as massive cojones are wont to do. And it’s all sponsored by Lowe’s,* naturally.

On Monday night’s edition of The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert tackled the decidedly liberal agenda behind the American Heritage Dictionary’s revision of its definition for the term “Anchor Baby.”

Prompted by a complaint from The Immigration Policy Center, the dictionary revised its definition to include a line stating that the phrase is “offensive” and “used as a disparaging term.” Colbert, thus, dedicated a wag of the finger to the “lexicowards” behind the revision.

On Monday night’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart responded to Politifact giving him a “Pants on Fire”, by unloading on The History Channel for their historically inaccurate programming. “Apparently the clip we showed was off by around 66 years!” Stewart exclaimed. “For this mistake, I was awarded the fact-checking site Politifact.com’s lowest grade possible “Pants on Fire.”

This Saturday marked yet another soundbite-riddled Republican presidential debate, one Jon Stewart recapped as one of the worst for Mitt Romney. From the grave mistake of attacking Newt Gingrich‘s “one awesome idea” (establishing a permanent lunar colony) to the bet heard around the blogosphere, it was not entirely Romney’s night in Stewart’s eyes.

Did you know that, in America, Jewish people celebrate a winter holiday that isn’t Christmas? It’s called the Republican Jewish Coalition Forum, Jon Stewart explained, and it helps Jewish Republicans decide who among the extremely Christian GOP candidates loves them the most.

Wednesday, Daily Show host Jon Stewart took a look at the passage of a bill that would allow the government to detain certain American prisoners indefinitely, without a trial. He noted what a brief amount of time it took to discuss such an important move, airing a clip of Sen. Rand Paul calling the bill “unamerican,” and of Sen. John McCain calling out Paul’s “opinion” for possibly allowing American terrorists to go free and continue trying to harm their fellow citizens.

‘Tis the season, Jon Stewart acknowledged today, as he caught the coverage on Fox News of Rhode Island governor “and part-time Steve Doocy impersonator” Lincoln Chafee referred to the plant one fills with lights and ornaments in December as a “holiday tree.” But this year, Stewart wasn’t going to take the Christmas assault lying down, instead opting to declare war on the holiday.

It was a sad day for The Daily Show this Saturday, as Jon Stewart lost one of his favorite targets of humor: Herman Cain, who suspended his presidential campaign. “When I look at him, I don’t see a presidential candidate– I see steak,” Stewart told his audience tonight, narrating the full hilarity of Cain’s departure, complete with his campaign’s last words being from a Pokémon movie, and paving the path for a new era of Newt Gingrich, “the thing that has been in your pantry forever,” to become frontrunner.

Thursday, The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart shared the secret of why it is that Mitt Romney doesn’t seem to give nearly as many one-on-one television interviews as his GOP rivals. The man is clearly undertaking The Marilyn Munster Strategy! “Romney appears only in debates,” Stewart explained, “surrounded by Munsters, aka the other Republican presidential candidates. And instantly, voters think, ‘Hey, the pretty one seems normal.’”

When Brian Williams reacted, handsomely and Brian Williamsly, to last night’s fire alarm during his broadcast, the first thing you should have thought was, “I wonder what The Daily Show is going to say about this, and how they’ll manage to incorporate an alpaca into this story.”