Still not sure what to get your teenage nephew this holiday season? Let ultra-youthy trendspotter Demetri Martin help you out, as he takes you through the history of hot holiday gifts, from the frankincense of ancient times...

Nothing says the holidays like a Baldwin and his Schweddy balls. This classic SNL sketch features the "Delicious Dish" gals talking balls with a deadpan Alec Baldwin. You may think that you stopped laughing at "balls" puns...

If the most exciting part of your work day is the free mini-muffins at a mandatory budget meeting, it may be time to take a cue from the hard-workers at Late Night Underground. They're currently making use of the writers...

You may think that nothing could be more unpleasant than the discovery that your studio apartment also houses a family of rats. You would be wrong. Consider running into the long-eared Jerboa, an endangered rodent species...

Is the thought that you won't be spending the holiday season with your loved ones at "The Daily Show" making your seasonal affective disorder act up again? Well, perhaps this video scrapbook of ten years' worth of holiday...

If you're tired of dancing like a robot and want to learn to fight like one, then Tokyo's first-ever robot-fighting championship is right up your alley. The contest, featured in this recent "Oddball," sets out to determine...

What should you get the cyclist in your life who has everything this Christmas? How about a 50-CD changer and some powerful 12-inch speakers for his bicycle? According to the "New York Times" and this "Oddball" clip, some...

Amidst rumors of shady Katrina dealings, Republican Senator Trent Lott announced his plans to resign from the Senate by the end of this year, giving us the opportunity to reflect on this seasoned politician's life work and...

Keith Olbermann was granted one of the highest honors American pop culture can bestow this past weekend: he was featured on "The Simpsons." In the episode, Olbermann anoints "content burglar" Marge the "Worst Person in the...

This post-Thanksgiving "Daily Show" clip from a couple years back reminds us that high cholesterol and mysterious Jell-O molds aren't the only dangers lurking around our beloved holiday: You might also be struck by giant pair...

This "Oddball" takes us to a spooked gas station in Ohio, which appears to be haunted by a mysterious blue blur hanging out by the pumps all night and showing off for the surveillance cameras. We're pretty sure it's the...

Are you worried that the writer's strike will make you miss out on Colbert's invaluable Christmas observations and advice? Good thing he started early this year, waiting no later than the day after Halloween to give us a hot...

Monkey spit, that is. A brewer in Taiwan has devised a clever way to work with the monkeys that eat his coffee bean crops. Use the beans anyway! Hey, if the French will shell out top dollar for fattened duck liver, why can'...

Can't get enough political crooners? Check out this 2001 "Daily Show" clip, which explores the effect Senator Jim Jeffords' departure from the Republican party would have on his all-conservative band, the Singing Senators....

In this "Oddball" segment, Olbermann gives us a glimpse of the biggest European sensation since Right Said Fred. The French and German foreign ministers teamed up to perform this "hit" duet entitled "Deutschland," which will...