Daily Show Prep - Monday August 31, 2015

• ISIS plotting another 9/11
• Trump, Carson tied for top spot in Iowa
• 'Black lives matter' chant called 'disgusting' by police leader
• Houston area deputy shot execution-style, suspect in custody
• State Department to release large batch of Hillary e-mails
• Food waste up 56% thanks for Obamalunch
• Flashback: ABC News' prediction for 2015 back in 2009
• Illinois lottery bankrupt, issuing IOUs
• Professor threatens bad grades for saying 'illegal alien'
• Obama renaming Mt. McKinley
• 25-minute walk each day can add 7 years to your life
• Obsession with healthy eating can lead to malnutrition
• P.F. Chang's chef stabs another chef to death during dinner rush
• Overly-sensitive? Jewish visitors complain about mist showers at Auschwitz entrance

Daily Show Prep - Friday August 28, 2015

• Appeals court lifts injunction against NSA phone records program
• Hillary claims to already have a fifth of delegates locked up
• Video: Black couple beats white woman for being in the 'wrong hood'
• 'Sister Wives' family points to same-sex marriage to argue for polygamy
• Obama closes in on locking up Iran nuke deal in senate
• Mexico files amicus brief in birthright citizenship lawsuit
• Judge: Illegals have right to bear arms
• University of Tennessee urges the use of correct pronouns when addressing students
• Ashley Madison CEO resigns
• Nestle under fire for slave cat food
• Judge blocks Obama's new water rule
• Cops bust Jerry Seinfeld's son's lemonade stand
• Move over Caitlyn, Lion-killing dentist costume hot for Halloween
• You might be a redneck if: Man arrested after dog tests positive for meth
• Fair Tax: Guest Steve Hayes, National Chairman for the Fair Tax
• Expert of the Day: Gabby Morrongiello from the Washington Examiner, is Scott Walker fading?
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Francine Filler-Quick

Daily Show Prep - Thursday August 27, 2015

• TV reporter killer reprimanded for wearing Obama badge on Election Day
• Poll: Biden more competitive than Hillary
• Trump continues to dominate GOP field
• Pollsters dumbfounded by Trump
• Trump's lean campaign breaks the mold
• Trump has campaign attendee confirm his hair is real
• Dan Rather sees conspiracy in Trump/Fox News feud
• Hillary compares GOP to terrorists on women's issues
• Clinton data went unsecured for a month after classified data discovered
• Illegal alien sex offender previously deported assaults teen with Down Syndrome
• Christian man brutally murdered by Muslim refugees
• Gas drops below $2-a-gallon in 15 states
• Blue Cross of New Mexico bailing from Obamacare
• Lion in same park as Cecil kills tour guide
• 141 counties have more registered voters than live people
• Feds raid gay escort service, gay community outraged
• French woman wins disability grant for 'gadget allergy'
• Polish authorities confirm Nazi treasure train
• Expert of the Day: Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute on the EPA's Clean Power Plan
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Brown Rainwater

Daily Show Prep - Wednesday August 26, 2015

• Gunman in deadly attack on TV reporter and cameraman kills himself
• Killer left strange 'manifesto'
• Never let a crisis go to waste: WH calls for tighter gun restrictions
• Trump vs. Univision's Jorge Ramos on illegals
• Jorge's daughter works for Hillary
• CNN's war on woman: Carly Fiorina wants in on the debate
• Walmart to stop selling AR-15s and similar guns
• CBO forecasts unsustainable debt
• Colorado theater shooter sentenced to life plus 3,318 years
• Josh Duggar checks into center for sex addiction
• First state legalizes taser drones for cops
• Liberal idiots: How to solve San Francisco's homeless pooping problem
• Video: Irish tourist takes on Turkish mob and wins
• Ten most influential pot smokers
• Man leaps to his death in China over market crash
• Expert of the Day: Sarah Westwood from the Washington Examiner on Hillary's e-mails
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Customer Service Rep for McDonald's, Hazel Nutt

Daily Show Prep - Tuesday August 25, 2015

• New Planned Parenthood video: Buyer jokes about shipping severed heads
• Planned Parenthood suing Louisiana
• ESPN suspends Curt Schilling over tweet about Muslims, Nazis
• BSNBC: Jeb facing backlash over comments on Asians
• Jeb: People should 'chill out' on the anchor baby controversy
• Tourist births: 71% get welfare
• Rasmussen: 46% think it's time for Hillary to pack it in
• Sanders leads Hillary in New Hampshire
• Shrink: Hillary's lonely, longs for intimate relationship with powerful woman
• Hillary's e-mails were classified under Obama executive order
• Trump-Fox News war heats up again
• Frank Luntz backtracks on Trump 'destruction'
• Lindsey Graham says he'll beat Trumps brains out in S.C.; he's at 4 percent
• Lois Lerner had another stealth e-mail account
• Oil price drop raises fear of unrest
• Study says it can predict men who may kill their spouses
• Rock band finds illegal immigrant hidden in guitar case
• Expert of the Day: David Paul Kuhn, novelist and political analyst; his novel is 'What Makes It Worthy'

Daily Show Prep - Monday August 24, 2015

• Oil drops below $40 a barrel
• Stock market drops big time
• Denver halts Chick-fil-A at airport over owner's religious beliefs
• Biden more likely to run than not
• Dem rep accuses Scott Walker of 'literally' tightening noose around blacks, doesn't know what 'literally' means
• French train hero's father to BSNBC: 'PC crowd needs to recognize terrorism for what it is'
• US considering an award for French train heroes
• Satan worshipers protest in support of Planned Parenthood
• Ashley Madison hack may have led to two suicides
• Ashley Madison customers 90-95 percent male
• Old Dominion U goes nuts after 'offensive message' to income freshmen
• 14-year-old saves siblings from home invasion with a rifle
• Experts: Text of Jesus' wife may be real
• Pokemon players arrested after bringing guns to tournament
• Video of ISIS toddler beheading a teddy bear
• Ken Burns equates 'birthers' with saying the N-word
• TN school district bans all flags from being flown on trucks on school property
• Expert of the Day: Ron Hosko on the growing ISIS threat
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Dixie Normous

Daily Show Prep - Friday August 21, 2015

• U.S. Marines take down terrorist on French train
• Surprise! Officials say he was an Islamist militant
• Rasmussen: 57% of Republicans think Trump will be nominee
• 'Deez Nuts' more popular than Hillary on Google
• Trump and allies plot path to victory
• Trump: 'I go out of my way to use the word Christmas'
• Hollywood actress confronts Ted Cruz on gay issue
• Pope wanted to enter the U.S. from Mexico
• AZ Sheriff: Drug cartels control American soil 30 miles from Phoenix
• Dozens of Clinton e-mails were classified from the start
• Oil drops below $40 for first time since 2009
• Satellites tell different story from press hype: July not hottest on record
• Dr. John Christy: We have a 'moral imperative' to burn fossil fuels
• Kim Jong Un approves 'final attack operation' on South Korea
• Another ignorant editorial on reparations
• Ten things you didn't know were racist
• ISIS destroys ancient monastery
• Nashville: Micro houses for the homeless
• Expert of the Day: Ilan Berman, VP of the American Foreign Policy Council on Iranian nuke inspectors
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Arrested for public indecency, 90-year-old Leonard G. Dickman