Daily Show Prep - Friday October 9, 2015

• Another school shooting, this time at Texas Southern
• Latest on the House Speaker's race
• Did rumors of McCarthy affair with congresswoman sink his run for speaker?
• Rep. Renee Ellmers responds to rumors
• House committee actually eliminates bad parts of Obamacare, defunds Planned Parenthood
• Officials say Iran nuke deal violates U.S. law
• Obama weighing expanding background checks without congressional approval
• Texas professor quits over students packing heat
• Jim Cramer: No more coal if Hillary is elected
• CNN's Banfield says Hillary e-mails 'not even a scandal'
• Anvil Joe moves closer to running
• Memphis elects first white mayor in 24 years
• High school QB suspended for 'inappropriately touching' center
• Clemson U. apologizes for Mexican food night
• Twitter set for big layoffs
• Mom shocked by son's 'racist' Playmobil pirate toy set
• Tesla CEO: Apple is a 'Tesla graveyard'
• Expert of the Day: Scott Whitlock from Newsbusters.org on the media coverage of Ben Carson's comments on the Oregon shooting
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Actually, a great name. Admiral Sir Manley Power

Daily Show Prep - Thursday October 8, 2015

• Rep. Kevin McCarthy drops out of speaker's race
• Boehner will stay until there's a replacement
• Dem leader says GOP chaos explains why Dem brand better than GOP brand
• Sanctuary cities explode, 6,460 criminals still at large
• 'Interrupting Whiteness': Conference blames white folks for school woes
• US hero in French train attack stabbed in California
• How 'Lady Jihad' convinced an entire white Catholic family to join ISIS
• College learns why co-ed showers are a bad idea
• Nashville considering legal homeless encampment
• Trump, Carson, Fiorina lead in California
• Van Jones calls Rupert Murdoch's comments 'disgusting' regarding Ben Carson as 'real black president'
• 6 times in the last decade the world was supposed to end
• 'Death ray' can knock drones out of the sky using radio waves
• Study: Government workers make 78% more than private sector
• Actor Daniel Craig: 'I'm over Bond'
• OMG! Water found on Pluto
• Ever wondered why we don't tip flight attendants?
• Best Little Whorehouse in Nevada: Bunny Ranch paying student loans
• Idiot alert! Woman mistakes Super Glue for eye drops
• Expert of the Day: Shona Holmes on why the Canadian healthcare system is so bad
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Psychiatrist Dr. John Looney

Daily Show Prep - Wednesday October 7, 2015

• Trump doesn't get it on the issue of eminent domain
• Top Hillary aide passed classified intel to Clinton Foundation
• Video: Ted Cruz schools Sierra Club president on global warming
• Bobby Jindal unveils 'Everybody has some skin in the game' tax plan
• Republicans introduce bill to punish sanctuary cities
• IT company handling Hillary's e-mails felt they were covering up something shady
• El Chapo may have put a bounty on Trump's head
• Trump leads in swing states, too
• EPA will not help in Flint's water crisis
• Upton warns of EPA's 'economy-wide energy tax'
• How do we accidentally bomb a hospital?
• US officials want to know how ISIS got so many Toyota vehicles
• DC council introduces 16-week paid maternity/family leave
• Obamacare mandated better mental healthcare coverage. It hasn't happened.
• Prison debate team beats Harvard's national champion team
• Rosie's daughter says her mom is a pot-smoking phony
• Exclusive college rejects term 'yacht club,' too exclusive, doesn't support 'queer' people
• New study reveals counties where Americans have trouble sleeping
• Whole milk is better than skim milk after all
• Dog survives gunshot to the head by burglar
• Mom shaves misbehaving son's head, parades him around Walmart in tutu
• Man 'too high' on marijuana calls the police for help
• Expert of the Day: Sarah Westwood from the Washington Examiner on FBI leaks in Clinton e-mail probe
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Professor Dam Son

Daily Show Prep - Tuesday October 6, 2015

• Arab languages fastest growing languages in U.S.
• Government deports fewest immigrants in a decade
• Biden was the source of leak about dying son's presidential wish
• Video: Hillary supporters support a 'white privilege' tax
• Houston transgender bathroom debate depends on what 'man' means
• Deal reached on Pacific Rim trade agreement
• Trade agreement seen as biggest threat to Internet
• Sen. Jeff Sessions says it's not too late to kill it
• Trump campaign trolls Rubio with water delivery
• Video: Man accuses Rubio of cheating on his wife
• U. of PA professor calls Ben Carson a 'coon'
• New scientific discovery should change climate change debate
• Obama's latest push to close Gitmo
• 27 Bill Cosby accusers speak out on 'Dateline'
• Video: CNN reporter actually says F---ing N-word on the air (go to 1:58)
• Workers quietly remove Ten Commandments from Oklahoma capitol
• Please: VW illegal emissions killed dozens of people
• Video: Drunk UConn student wants mac-and-cheese, gets arrested instead
• Democrat Artur Davis switched to the GOP, now switching back
• Video: Mini Kiss (As heard on The Phil Valentine Show)
• Expert of the Day: Sean Davis from The Federalist about Hillary's gun show loophole proposal which is already law
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Vanessa Tobaccojuice

Daily Show Prep - Monday October 5, 2015

• Obama considering executive action on guns
• Flashback: 12 times mass shootings were stopped by people with guns
• EU Times: Oregon shooter was on terror list, US ignored it
• Petition to allow teachers to protect children in school
• Putin sees Obama's coolness as weakness
• ISIS blows up Arch of Triumph in Palmyra
• Peak Trump? Poll numbers start to drop in key primary states
• Trump sees collapse in GOP without him
• PC speaker at Vanderbilt says people like Trump 'for saying racist and sexist comments'
• Koch brothers go for Carly
• Chaffetz: McCarthy lacks enough votes to be Speaker
• Kathleen Willey vows to haunt Hillary throughout campaign
• Top Hillary aide used — and lied about using — personal e-mail account
• Conserve water? South Carolina sees 4.4 trillion gallons fall from the sky
• The Decline of Big Soft Drink
• Joaquin misses U.S., 10-year hurricane drought continues
• Lesbian bishop wants to remove cross from church to make it more inviting to Muslims
• It's getting nutty: Mom complains about man in ladies' room at REI, she's booted from store
• Cosmo: Kardashians are 'First Family'
• New implant can reverse Alzheimer's
• Air France workers attack execs after planned job cuts
• AA captain dies at controls
• Man caught trying to smuggle himself out of Peru in a suitcase
• Depressing: Study says happiness peaks in our 20s
• Strange animal found, part buffalo, part crocodile
• Priest accused of pointing musket at boy over football rivalry, says he was joking
• Woman dies at Hong Kong McDonald's, no one notices for 24 hours
• After years of sexual abuse, son kills mother and step-dad, eats his flesh
• Florida woman stabs husband after he calls out wrong name during sex
• Expert of the Day: Iain (Ian) Murray from the Competitive Enterprise Institute on the real jobs numbers
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: DJ charged with sexual assault named DJ Sex Charges

Daily Show Prep - Friday October 2, 2015

• Record number of Americans not in labor force
• Jobs up only for immigrants, down for native-borns
• Putin levels ISIS command and training camp
• Army vet shot 7 times trying to save others in Oregon shooting
• School had one security guard and he was unarmed
• Law professor: Hysteria on the rise, not violence
• Trump abruptly pulls out of Hispanic Chamber of Commerce event
• Secret Service director revises his story about leaked info on congressman
• Pope walks back visit with KY county clerk Kim Davis
• Huckabee disputes the Pope's account
• Global warming rallies thwarted by cold rain
• Congress investigates scientists who want to prosecute global warming skeptics
• Louisiana food stamp recipients have three months to get a job
• Who are you wearing? Models wear each other during Paris Fashion Week
• Crazy vegans stage shouting protest at steak house
• Study: Cell phone use hurting relationships
• Exercise in a bottle may soon be reality
• 42-year-old man trapped in 14-year-old body
• Black women kicked off wine train for being too loud sue
• NR's rebuttal to NY Times' '27 Ways to be a Modern Man'
• Expert of the Day, Rachel Payton from Americans for Prosperity on Missouri lawmakers failing to pass right-to-work legislation
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Young Boozer

Daily Show Prep - Thursday October 1, 2015

• Multiple deaths in Oregon college shooting
• Reports that shooter was asking people's religion
• Hillary still dropping in the polls
• Mediaite: Biden will reportedly skip CNN debate. Duh, he's not running yet
• Trump says Syrian refugees are going back if he's president
• Iran joins Russia in Syrian war
• Planet's own global cooling mechanism just discovered
• Secret Service official wanted to embarrass congressman with release of private info
• Muslim man beaten to death over rumors he ate beef
• Sweet Cakes refuses to pay lesbian couple in cake dispute
• OJ thought about killing himself in Kim Kardashian's bedroom
• Nutcase! Woman blinds herself to fulfill lifelong dream to be disabled
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Criminal Shakeya Leggs