If the Daily Show is a must for you and Stephen Colbert is not to be missed, you just might want to scan the net for Charlie Brooker's Newswipe, from the BBC. The British comedian desconstructs the media with a close reading of how news is gathered and conveyed. Here's a link to a recent send up of how a TV news segment is produced, but WARNING - in the tradition of Stewart and Colbert, he uses profanity and his storytelling may be quite offensive to some viewers. (HT: Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish).

Brooker, who writes for the Guardian newspaper, explains himself in a column from last March.