Conventions a parody playground for 'Daily Show'

NEW YORK (AP) — For “The Daily Show” correspondents, the national conventions are a veritable playground, teeming as much with targets for satire as they are with banner-waving delegates.

As it has in recent election years, the Comedy Central show is decamping for both the Republican and Democratic national conventions to broadcast a week of shows at each that will — in as close to real-time as “The Daily Show” gets — parody the nation’s most extravagant political pageants.