DAILY SHOW and COLBERT REPORT Set for Live Election Night Coverage, 9/6

THE DAILY SHOW WITH Jon Stewart and THE COLBERT REPORT will once again be televised live on election night. On Tuesday, November 6, fans can tune in to COMEDY CENTRAL for live coverage of the 2012 Presidential Election.

Host Jon Stewart and The Best F#@king News Team (correspondents Samantha Bee, Wyatt Cenac, Jason Jones, Al Madrigal, Aasif Mandvi, John Oliver and Jessica Williams) will be on hand to provide the quality news coverage fans have come to be crushed by from 11:00 p.m. ? 11:30 p.m. ET (8:00 p.m. ? 8:30 p.m. PT) and Stephen Colbert will be preaching truthiness from 11:30 p.m. ? Midnight ET (8:30 p.m. ? 9:00 p.m. PT).

THE DAILY SHOW draws its comedy and satire from recent news stories, political figures, media organizations, and often, aspects of the show itself. The show covers recent headlines and features celebrity interview, with guests ranging from actors and musicians to nonfiction authors and political figures. It is currently the longest running program on Comedy Central, and has won 18 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Stephen Colbert is the host, writer and executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series THE COLBERT REPORT on Comedy Central as well as an accomplished author and actor. Recently, Colbert starred as Harry in the New York Philharmonic presentation of Stephen Sondheim's COMPANY along with Jon Cryer, Neil Patrick Harris, Christina Hendricks, Patti LuPone and Martha Plimpton, among others. The performances were held at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City from April 7-9, 2011.

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