Just two weeks after host Jon Stewart announced he would be leaving The Daily Show this year, another long-time star of the satirical news comedy has announced that he, too, will be departing. Correspondent Jason Jones has quit after nearly a decade with the show to star in and produce a new sitcom on the channel TBS. Samantha Bee, Jones's wife and fellow Daily Show correspondent, will remain, the broadcaster Comedy Central said. She will also join her husband as an executive producer on the sitcom, which the couple created, about a family on a holiday road trip. On Twitter, Jones said it was time for him to move on from The Daily Show, which he called one of TV's greatest programmes. Comedy Central said he will leave this year but didn't give a date. – AP
Rancic sorry for Zendaya comments
Giuliana Rancic has apologised for her Fashion Police jab at the actress-singer Zendaya's Oscar-night dreadlocks. On E! News on Tuesday, February 24, Rancic said the reaction to her comments has increased her awareness of "clichés and stereotypes". They are damaging, she said, adding that she and others have a responsibility to avoid perpetuating them. On Monday's Fashion Police, Rancic said that Zendaya's hair suggested the smell of patchouli oil or marijuana. Her E! News apology went beyond a tweet in which Rancic said her comments had nothing to do with race. Zendaya's father is African-American. In a long Twitter post, 18-year-old Zendaya called Rancic's initial comments "outrageously offensive". – AP
Canada refuses to let Chris Brown in
Chris Brown tweeted on Tuesday, February 24, that he had been denied entry into Canada and that concerts in Montreal and Toronto had been cancelled. The Grammy-winning R&B singer was due to perform at the Bell Centre in Montreal on Tuesday and the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on Wednesday, February 25, night. Brown said in the tweet that the “good people of the Canadian government wouldn’t allow me entry. I’ll be back this summer and will hopefully see all my Canadian fans!” Brown was jailed for nearly three months last year for violating his probation by getting into an altercation outside a Washington hotel the previous year. Nicole Perna, a spokeswoman for the singer, said Brown can apply to return at a later date and plans to do so. In 2010, the United Kingdom denied Brown entry into the country because of his criminal record, forcing him to miss four shows. – AP
