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  • Hulu Plus ends year with 1.5 million subscribers

    Hulu Plus, the online video subscription service owned by major broadcast networks ABC, Fox and NBC, reached a new milestone at the end of the year with 1.5 million paying subscribers a little more than a year after its formal launch.


  • Colbert offering $500K to pay for SC GOP primary

    Comedian Stephen Colbert is offering to pay half a million dollars to help subsidize South Carolina's first-in-the-South GOP presidential primary, as state officials struggle to pay for it, but there's doubt whether it would even be legal.


  • "Did you spot the trend amongst the Republican nominees?" Jon Stewart asked recently on his Comedy Central program, "The Daily Show." "They're all saying crazy things." (Associated Press)

    What's so funny? Comedians say GOP

    If President Obama can spare a moment from such chores as winning re-election, he might find a few chuckles on late-night TV.


  • Colbert to meet Radiohead in hour-long episode

    Stephen Colbert meeting Radiohead is such a special occasion, a regular episode of "The Colbert Report" wasn't sufficient.


  • Colbert looks for answers on campaign finance

    Stephen Colbert delights in lampooning politicians on his Comedy Central show, but he plans to raise some serious issues about public disclosure of corporate campaign contributions before the Federal Election Commission on Thursday.


  • Comedian Stephen Colbert, who plays a conservative TV pundit on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," collects cash donations on the sidewalk in front of the Federal Election Commission in Washington on Thursday, June 30, 2011, after a hearing on his request to form a political action committee. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

    Colbert gets conditional OK on campaign finance

    The Federal Election Commission said Thursday that comedian Stephen Colbert can use his TV show's resources to boost his political action committee, but he must disclose some major expenses as in-kind contributions from the show's corporate owners.


  • Colbert gets conditional OK on campaign finance

    The Federal Election Commission said Thursday that comedian Stephen Colbert can use his TV show's resources to boost his political action committee, but he must disclose some major expenses as in-kind contributions from the show's corporate owners.


  • Colbert gets some answers on campaign finance

    The Federal Election Commission says comedian Stephen Colbert can use his TV show's resources to boost his political action committee. But he must publicly disclose some major expenses as in-kind contributions from the show's corporate owners.


  • Colbert plays rock star, with Jack White as guide

    With Jack White as his guide, Stephen Colbert is living out his rock star dreams.


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