“Just when I thought I was out…” Less than three months after leaving his long-running “Daily Show,” Jon Stewart has signed a deal with HBO to provide “short-form digital content” focused on current events for HBO’s subscription video service.
We’re surprised he lasted this long. Stewart’s got three months of pent-up Donald Trump jokes that he’s only been able to share with the animals on his wife’s rescue farm.
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Let me know when it’ll get my coffee: Google’s new Inbox app for Gmail users will “read” incoming email and generate likely replies that can be sent with a couple of clicks, such as “Thanks” and “Sounds good.”
We’re hoping it can be customized with other canned responses, such as “I’ll get right on it, boss,” “Thanks for sending that funny link, Mom” and “Keep filling my inbox with spam and I’ll sue.”
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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1935, Parker Brothers began marketing the board game “Monopoly.”
Fun fact: Eighty years later and no one has actually finished a game of “Monopoly,” with most players purposely going bankrupt.
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