End o' week linky-link clean up (special Daily Show edition). Here's links for some of my fave past and present performers from the Daily Show:

After a long run with some fairly mediocre talent (I'd be happy never to see Rob Corddry or Samatha Bee again), the Daily Show is featuring some good work lately from John Oliver, Larry Wilmore and others. But my personal fave is Aasif Mandvi. He's usually featured as their Baghdad correspondent. Lots of links to clips on the site (ETA: as noted in the comments below, this is a fansite and not official... it's still great, tho, and we should all be so lucky to have such an awesome fansite) which point to the Comedy Central page. I was pleased to see that the Mother Load clips now work in Firefox for Mac, which wasn't the case originally.
Blast from the past time -- it's Frank DeCaro. From back in the days when the Daily Show didn't take itself quite so seriously. I don't mean that as a slam. I enjoyed John Oliver's bit on the falling dollar just as much as "Out at the Movies" or "Even Steven" but I think it's hard to argue that the current model of the Daily Show really doesn't have room for Frank DeCaro anymore. One of the best part of DeCaro's site are the celebrity recipes (Vincent Price's pepper steak!!).
And, of course, John Hodgman. I'm almost finished listening to the audiobook of Areas of My Expertise. I've actually gotten thru the book and the announcement of the next book and am now at the list of hobos. Aside from the fact that it's a pretty impressive one-take, it's also funnier than I'd expected (see: repetition = key to humor). Altho I can see why they moved it to the end of the audiobook. Anyway, I know several of my valued readers are not as enamored of Hodgman's deadpan drollery as I am (careful readers will have noted Hodgman quotes appearing as blogpost titles on and off since the beginning of the year). I also noticed that in the latest "I'm a Mac; I'm a PC" ad, Hodgman's wearing a fat suit that makes him look uncannily like a washed-out version of Violet Beauregard (post-gum chewing but pre-squeezing).