Last week Fox News CEO Roger Ailes spoke at Ohio University, where he said, among other things, that “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart told him in a bar that he was a socialist. As it turned out, in 2000, Stewart told Larry King that he was a “socialist.”

Of course, that was 12 years ago and people change. Now that he is back from vacation, Stewart revealed what Ailes told him in that bar:

After the jump, Stewart explains what he meant when he was on “Larry King Live.”

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Sometimes a headline really says it all. Funny or Die produced a video of former CNN host Larry King doing the dubstep.

There may be some suspect editing (and a body double?), but it sure is fun to watch:

For anyone missing “Larry King Live,” there is some good news: Larry King‘s new talk show on Internet TV network Ora.TV will launch this Summer, earlier than expected. The show, now called “Larry King Now,” had originally planned to launch in the Fall.

Unlike on CNN, where his show went on-air at 9pmET every night, the new show will air weekly, and will be posted in the early evening, around 5 or 6 PM. The AP has more:

But King said he wanted to “get into the political mix.” The Democratic and Republican national conventions to name presidential nominees are this summer.

King said he expected the format of his show to be similar to “Larry King Live,” which aired on CNN in prime time for 25 years, and he’s retained much of his old production staff. The new show will generally be 30 minutes in length, instead of an hour, although there will be flexibility to go shorter or longer depending on who’s being interviewed, said Jon Housman, Ora.TV’s CEO.

No word on guests yet, but King tells the AP he is aiming for President Obama or Mitt Romney.

At the annual industry gathering The Cable Show on Monday, King will be inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame.

Former CNN host Larry King has returned to cable news to honor his friend and fellow broadcasting legend Dick Clark. King made a few appearances on CNN, including on “John King USA,” as well as the show hosted by his replacement, Piers Morgan:

A CNN staffer says that the studio broke into applause when King entered.

In addition to CNN, King appeared on other outlets as well, including on Fox News Channel’s “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren:

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On “Jeopardy!” this week, a pair of questions relating TV news. The first was the $1,000 question under the category “Women on TV”, and the second was the $200 question under “Interviewing the Interviewer.”

The answers are after the jump. Coincidentally, at least here in New York, the second question was interrupted by an ABC News special report on the North Korean rocket launch.

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New York magazine profiles comedian and raconteur Bill Maher, and reveals a surprising fact about the first guest on the first taping of Maher’s Comedy Central show:

He pitched a show to Comedy Central executives that would remake political-debate programs like The McLaughlin Group with comedy and celebrities. He would do a monologue like Carson and feature assorted stars tackling current affairs. The very first guest during the first taping, in a studio on East 23rd Street in New York, was a Republican TV executive at NBC named Roger Ailes.

The article goes on to have Maher impersonating Larry King (“Let’s go grab a nosh with Larry King”) while his friend refers to MSNBC’s Martin Bashir as “Martin Balsam.”

Read the entire piece here.

MSNBC hosted a party at Manhattan’s Ace Hotel last night in celebration of Rachel Maddow‘s first book, Drift, which tops the New York Times Best Sellers list this week.

“When we gave [Rachel] a show on September 9, 2008, we had never, ever won at 9 o’clock,” MNSBC president Phil Griffin (pictured here with Maddow and NBC News president Steve Capus) said during his toast. “Larry King was an icon — never, in our 12-year history. Rachel goes in there, she beat Larry the first day, the first month, the first year, the second year, the third year. And now, this is her first book, and boom! Number one.”

Maddow, who arrived at the event late because the taping of her primetime show ran over, said she could not have written “a real book, and not a collection of cable news observations,” without support and resources from MSNBC.

“I don’t exactly know why I deserve to have an employer this supportive of something like this, but I am very, very, very thankful. Also, they paid for this [party],” she joked.

Maddow, a cocktail buff, hand-picked the party’s drink — a “French 75,” which she said is named after a French artillery piece. TVNewser spotted Chris Hayes and Alex Wagner and in the crowd, as well as Dan Rather, Gail Collins, Sandra Bernhard and Andre Leon Talley.

More pictures after the jump.

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Marketwatch.com’s Jon Friedman had lunch recently with CNN/U.S. EVP Ken Jautz, now 18 months into his tenure at the top of the cable news network. “He has one of the most delicate balancing acts in all of the media,” Friedman writes, “by serving his corporate bosses while leading his thousands of CNN network and online troops.” The takeaway on some of CNN’s biggest names:

• Anderson Cooper, CNN’s biggest star, has made progress in establishing himself as a global presence on news stories and is unruffled by media naysayers who wonder why he doesn’t get higher ratings, considering how high profile he is. Jautz said he is “pleased” with Cooper’s growth.

• Piers Morgan, who succeeded Larry King, is developing a “water-cooler” appeal.

• Erin Burnett, who left CNBC last year to take over a CNN news show at 7 p.m., is gaining traction as a tough interviewer. “She’s doing great,” he said.

(h/t ICN)

Former CNN host Larry King will be returning to the interviewer’s chair on an Internet TV network backed by the richest man in the world, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.

The network, Ora.tv, will feature a variety of shows of different genres and lengths, and will stream them directly to computers, phones, tablets and yes, TVs.

King is a co-founder of Ora.tv, and revealed some more details to the New York Times‘ Brian Stelter. Not surprisingly, his new show will look a lot like his old one. His wife Shawn may also have a role:

In a separate interview, Mr. King, a co-founder of the network, said his new program would partly resemble “Larry King Live,” the hourlong interview program that was on CNN from 1985 to 2010. CNN replaced “Larry King Live” with a new interview program, “Piers Morgan Tonight,” early last year.

Mr. King said he was “restless” and missed covering big stories: “I run into people everyday who tell me they miss my show. And a lot of times I miss it too.”

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• TVNewser hears that Mark White, who had been EP of Bloomberg TV’s morning programs, has left the company. White joined Bloomberg in 2009. No replacement has been named.

• ABC News chief foreign correspondent Martha Raddatz has been traveling in Afghanistan with the top U.S. commander there, General John Allen. Raddatz’s interview with Allen will air tonight on “World News.” Allen was also interviewed recently by CBS’ Scott Pelley and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.

• Former CNN anchor Larry King appeared on CBS affiliate WBOC in Maryland, where he said he missed his talk show… at least with regards to big events like the death of Osama Bin Laden.

WATCH:

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