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The “Saturday Night Live” alumnus, with notable career ups and downs, is about to star in his own sports show.

Time Warner Cable is experimenting with a lower-priced cable-TV package that excludes ESPN, Comedy Central, TNT and many other channels.

Just three days before pivotal midterm elections, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert threw a "sanity" rally that organizers insisted wasn't about politics. But there were political undertones to Saturday's event that blended laughs, activism and a call to civility for the huge throng that stretched along the National Mall.

White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer says Obama is taping an appearance on Oct. 27, just days before the Nov. 2 elections.

Funny man Stephen Colbert injected a little sarcasm into the congressional record Friday as he testified about farm labor and immigration.

"As we've heard this morning, America's farms are presently far too dependent on immigrant labor to pick our fruits and vegetables," Colbert said in his prepared remarks. "Now the obvious answer is for all of us to stop eating fruits and vegetables. And if you look at the recent obesity statistics, you'll see that many Americans have already started."

On her Comedy Central show, Sarah Silverman got drunk on cough syrup, mocked the abortion rights debate and seduced none other than God....

Producers of "South Park" said Thursday that Comedy Central removed a speech about intimidation and fear from their show after a radical Muslim group warned that they could be killed for insulting the Prophet Muhammad....

Comedian Stephen Colbert, who unsuccessfully tried to get on the ballot of the South Carolina presidential primaries, aimed higher and won this time.