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We invaded a little while back. No, no, that was too far back. No, no, that was. No, that was a shadow coup. That wasnt an invasion. That was a police action. That was a giant step for all mankind. Im talking about iraq. Thats the rock. Thank you. Iraq. Remember . We invaded it because 9 11 and weapons and then we had to pretend that we were really trying bring democracy and stability to the middle east. I dont remember what happened over there, but i guess history will be the judge. In iraq whe...

[cheering and applause] but first, funny story, remember that time we invaded iraq to remove the threat of the worlds most dangerous people using the worlds most dangerous weapons and it turned out the threat wasnt there . Well, good news, the threats there now. [laughter] in some measure due to the destabilizing effect of our intervention. Youll never guess what the people who hyped the original plan would like to do now. We must grapple our best to help iraq meet this threat. It is absolutely ...

Republican senator thad cochran of mississippi and Charlie Rangel, 160 years of life between them, 86 elected years in office, aaaahhhh if they were one man, they would have been born in 1854. Elected to congress in 1928. They would have died in 1944 and still held office for 70 more years. [laughter] and their name would have been tharly cockangel of the mississippi tharly cockangels and the basis for the tv show, tharlys cockangels. Both men were bailed out by African Americans. Its the subjec...

Anyway, the Iraqi Government has now had a couple tweaks respond to the rebels incursion. We should be getting news of the Iraqi Governments triumph right about now. Isis militants control the borderrary with syria, the border area with jordan and pretty much everything in between. Jon right about now. [laughter] wait did you just blow past everything in between. Did you just yadda, yadda the invasion . Yeah, isis came in from syria, started sweeping east, yadda, yadda, yadda, the u. N. Now reco...

Same. What would you do . I dont know. I just want some pizza. What do you want from me . [laughter] but tonight id like the talk to you about corporations. Corporations, theyre a lot like us immortal. [laughter] shielded from liability, accountable tom shareholders. Oh, wait, thats opposite of us. Sorry. But there is one thing corporations do have in common with the rest of us. They dont like paying taxes. Hate it. Fortunately, they rarely have to. Its the subject of tonights oh, no. Thats not....

We have a good show tonight. Our guest tonight, the great bill maher. Bill maher will be joining us. [cheering and applause] but first, we turn to the middle east, where a group of Sunni Islamist militants have formed nation startup looking to gain market share in iraq. The group is called isis, not to be confused with their early 90s incarnation, vanilla isis. [laughter] anyway, the Iraqi Government has now had a couple tweaks respond to the rebels incursion. We should be getting news of the Ir...

From Comedy Centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central [theme music playing] [cheering and applause] jon welcome to the daily show. Im jon stewart. We got a good one tonight. Our guest tonight, keira knightly, host of the news parody the knightly show. I should just go now. Im sorry. [laughter] lets begin tonight with some important news. Republican senator thad cochran of mississippi and Charlie Rangel, 160 years...

Elected to congress in 1928. They would have died in 1944 and still held office for 70 more years. [laughter] and their name would have been tharly cockangel of the mississippi tharly cockangels and the basis for the tv show, tharlys cockangels. Both men were bailed out by African Americans. Its the subject of tonights democalypse 2014 always bet on black. [laughter] obviously the African American vote is always important in Charlie Rangels harlem and bronx district, but this year even more so b...

As it sounds. Isis militants trying take over a hydroelectric dam. Providing social services and investing in electricity. On the streets of mosul, isis militants now direct traffic. [laughter] jon all right. First of all, my guess is that dude is not the top jihadi. Im sure the leaders like, you, grab your group, move toward baghdad. You, seize the refineries. Jimmy, make sure no one blocks the box. As you know, for quite a few years the flow of iraqi traffic was our job. And if you think were ...

Family at a pizzeria in naples. The mayor says its in keeping with people and how they eat their slices there. Jon oh, yeah, blame it on the locals. Sure, fine. Although i guess if he did pick up his pizza slice and eat it with his hand, i bet the italian daily show would have had a field day on him. [laughter] wow, that guy really mugs for the camera. Write some jokes. Heres my favorite part of. This keep your eye on de blasios daughter chiara. Shes anticipating the reaction back in the states ...