Donald Trump has less than a week left in office and Sarah Cooper is feeling reluctantly hopeful. “I’m really excited. I’m really happy,” she tells me in this preview of next week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. “There’s still a part of me that’s like, is it really over? Could it really be over?” The comedian, who became wildly famous over the past year posting […]
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It was a story that seemed like it was written for late-night television. As the Washington Post lede read, “Many U.S. Secret Service agents have stood guard in Washington’s elite Kalorama neighborhood, home over the years to Cabinet secretaries and former presidents. Those agents have had to worry about death threats, secure perimeters and suspicious strangers. But with the arrival of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, […]
After gleefully cheering President Donald Trump’s second impeachment on Wednesday night, Jimmy Kimmel had even more good news to celebrate on Thursday. Not only has Trump already started moving out of the White House, but the president’s mood has been described as “sullen” and “vengeful” and he’s “even lashing out at his number one dirty deeds-doer Rudy Giuliani.” The host was referring to a new report […]
In her first new episode of 2021—and the first since last week’s Trump-led insurrection at the U.S. Capitol—Samantha Bee had a lot to get off her chest. “It was the ugliest scene to happen on the floor of the Senate since… about one hour before that,” the Full Frontal host said, cutting to a photo of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who she singled out, along with […]
When critics attempt to rank the best “Weekend Update” anchors across four and half decades of Saturday Night Live, Colin Quinn consistently falls at or near the very bottom. He gets it. “I would self-destruct, as you can see if you watch it,” the man who is paradoxically also considered by his peers to be among the best stand-up comedians of his generation says on this […]
As President Trump’s MAGA hordes were overtaking the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday, photos started to emerge on social media of a familiar face in the insurrectionist crowd: Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper. When I reached out to him in the immediate aftermath to see what kind of field piece he had in store for viewers, the comedian simply replied, “A wild one.” The segment, which is […]
Even as the FBI has begun making sweeping arrests of the seditionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol last week, Stephen Colbert asked, “You know who’s not taking alt-right terrorism seriously at all? The president.” During his Late Show monologue Tuesday night, the host zeroed in on a new report that President Trump laid blame for the riot on “antifa people” in a call with House Minority […]
Colin Quinn got COVID-19 for the jokes. Well, not exactly. But he is already developing new material about his experience with the virus. “I was actually glad I had it,” the comedian admits to me on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. “Because when you’re doing stand-up and you’re like, ‘Well I had corona,’ everybody’s going to be more interested.” He only wishes the […]
Meghan McCain has only been back on The View for a week and tempers are already running high. So Andy Cohen really had no choice but to ask her about the perpetual on-set tensions during her latest appearance on his Watch What Happens Live show Monday night. Specifically, he brought up the moment last week when Joy Behar bluntly declared, “I did not miss you.” “So […]
In his latest “A Closer Look” segment Monday night, Seth Meyers went through all of the most egregious reactions to last week’s siege of the U.S. Capitol, culminating with one of the most appalling of all, from First Lady Melania Trump. “If you are a public figure in any capacity, but especially someone who was complicit in building or encouraging this violent insurrectionist movement that nearly […]
After soberly calling for the immediate removal of Donald Trump from office on Wednesday night, Seth Meyers turned his attention on Thursday to the Republican lawmakers and Fox News media stars who are actually still defending the president after he instigated a coup attempt by his supporters to take the U.S. Capitol. “Why isn’t Congress immediately convening to remove the leader of a violent insurrectionist movement […]
Exactly two months ago, after President Donald Trump responded to his election loss by declaring victory, Stephen Colbert choked back tears during his monologue as he told viewers, “We all knew he would do this. What I did not know is that it would hurt so much.” He hadn’t seen anything yet. But this time, Colbert wasn’t sad, he was furious. The Late Show host once […]
It took no time at all for Meghan McCain to start warring with Joy Behar when she returned from maternity leave this week. But things really got ugly on Tuesday when McCain tried to joke around about how much her co-host “missed” her and Behar wasn’t having any of it. During a discussion about the future of the GOP after Trump leaves office, Behar said that […]
In his first Late Show monologue of the new year, Stephen Colbert went all-in on President Donald Trump’s not so “perfect” phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. “Happy New Year! 2020 is over!” Colbert began. “All that badness is finally behind us and we are off to a fresh start… with a raging pandemic and a president who’s trying to steal the election. […]
The View has been hyping the triumphant return of Meghan McCain for weeks. And in her first show back since taking off for maternity leave shortly before the 2020 election, she did not disappoint. Following an opening segment during which McCain expressed her sudden passion for paid parental leave after giving birth last fall—while implying that it should only apply to women—the hosts turned to the […]
Appearing live via house arrest on MSNBC on Monday evening, Michael Cohen issued a dire warning to his former boss President Donald Trump, who has been on an unfettered pardon spree during his final weeks in office. After Cohen spent a few minutes talking up the criminal justice advocacy he’s been pushing on behalf of his prison “buddies” like “Tony Meatballs and Big Minty,” host Ari […]
After hosting the second of two maskless Christmas caroling events to protest COVID-19 restrictions in Southern California this week, former child actor Kirk Cameron appeared Wednesday night on Newsmax, where he labeled those who have dared to criticize his actions as the “mask gestapo.” Starting with a joke of sorts, Cameron said, “You know, we’ve all heard of The Masked Singer and it’s quite the rage, […]
If you suspected that Maria Bartiromo would be easy to dupe, those assumptions were borne out on Wednesday morning when the Fox Business anchor spent more than six minutes interviewing an animal rights activist who she believed to be the CEO of Smithfield Foods, which bills itself as “the world’s largest pork processor and hog producer.” According to Direct Action Everywhere, activist Matt Johnson was able […]
Brian Kilmeade, who has spent a good portion of 2020 condemning Black Lives Matter and “antifa” protesters as co-host of Fox & Friends, is now defending the heavily armed members of far-right groups like the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer who attempted to storm the Oregon State Capitol this week. During his radio broadcast on Tuesday morning, Kilmeade joined anchor Trace Gallagher on Fox News, who […]
Former Trump administration official Sebastian Gorka, who despite only having a PhD proudly displays the honorific “Dr.” before his name, filled in for Newsmax host Greg Kelly Monday night. But while he spent much of the hour pushing conspiracy-fueled lies about the 2020 election, he at one point shut down MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for apparently taking things too far. “We’re not going to ignore it […]
Maria Bartiromo may have thought she had a kindred spirit on her Fox Business show Monday morning when she brought up the Trump administration’s last-ditch legal efforts to overturn the election. But former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney wasn’t ready to go there with her. At the end of a segment about the COVID-19 relief package, Bartiromo pivoted to ask her guest to weigh […]
With Jim Carrey (mercifully) deciding to step aside as President-elect Joe Biden, Saturday Night Live wasted no time introducing his successor on the show’s final episode of 2020. “I’m sure all Americans are excited to see me, the guy who let COVID spread everywhere, get one of the first vaccines,” Beck Bennett’s Mike Pence said at the top of the cold open sketch. He assured the […]
It didn’t quite make up for having Donald Trump host Saturday Night Live during the start of his 2016 presidential campaign, but it was something. As Colin Jost explained on this week’s show, “Barring a reverse Christmas miracle, this is the last ‘Weekend Update’ with Donald Trump still in office.” “Now, as a president, he was mostly bad, but there were a few bright spots,” the […]
Five years ago, Joe Biden did Stephen Colbert a solid by appearing as a guest on the first week of his new Late Show—just a few months after the death of his son Beau—and baring his soul to the host about his agonizing decision to ultimately forgo a run for president that cycle. Now that he’s officially president-elect, Biden returned to The Late Show on Thursday […]
Jimmy Kimmel opened his last monologue of the week with a handful of jokes about the blizzard that hammered the east coast on Thursday before moving on to more pressing matters. “Speaking of cold, white stuff,” the host said, “Mike Pence is expected to get his first of two Pfizer shots tomorrow.” As he explained it, Pence and his wife Karen are “doing it on television […]
“For a crowd that constantly claims your feelings don’t matter, they seem to think Donald Trump’s feelings matter a lot,” Seth Meyers said Wednesday of the so-called “fuck your feelings” group of MAGA-heads who have spent every day since the 2020 election denying the reality that Joe Biden won. The emerging leader of that crowd appears to be Newsmax host Greg Kelly, who still won’t refer […]
Tom Cruise’s mission has apparently been compromised and he is pissed. In an audio recording first posted to The Sun website on Tuesday, the movie star can be heard aggressively going off on the London crew for the seventh installment in his Mission: Impossible series for allegedly breaking strict COVID-19 protocols. “If I see you do it again, you’re fucking gone!” Cruise screams on the tape […]
It wasn’t the first late-night interview of his book tour, nor the most freewheeling, but on Tuesday night, former President Barack Obama sat down for a long, virtual interview with The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah that was among the most insightful and revealing he’s done to date—especially when it came to the issues of systemic racism and Black Lives Matter. Obama, whose best-selling memoir A Promised […]
Back in April, when Dr. Anthony Fauci was just starting to become a household name, Brad Pitt momentarily broke the internet by embodying the nation’s top infectious disease expert and speaking out against Trump in a way the real Fauci never has. This week, it was Kate McKinnon’s turn. Saturday Night Live’s most versatile cast member, who spent last week’s cold open crushing Rudy Giuliani, appeared […]
“Guys, I gotta be honest,” Colin Jost said at the top of “Weekend Update” on this week’s Saturday Night Live. “I’m beginning to think that Donald Trump didn’t win this election.” Noting that the Trump campaign lost two bids to overturn the will of the American voters at the highest level this past week, the anchor joked, “They were the first rulings by the Supreme Court […]
Amy Coney Barrett was supposed to save Donald Trump from electoral defeat. Instead, she just joined with the president’s two other Supreme Court picks to hand down what could be the final blow to his attempt to upend democracy. “First off, it’s not over,” a distressed Greg Kelly said at the top of his Newsmax broadcast Friday night. “The Supreme Court did turn down the Texas […]
“The U.S. coronavirus outbreak hit a grim new milestone yesterday with over 3,000 deaths in one day, a global record,” Seth Meyers said at the top of his “A Closer Look” segment Thursday night, “but the president was too busy live-tweeting Fox News and trying get the results of an election he lost overturned.” With that one sentence, the Late Night host summed up perhaps the […]
Samantha Bee lamented Wednesday night that “along with stealing all of the copper wiring in the White House,” Donald Trump appears likely to spend the last days of his presidency “doing what he does best: Making sure no one in his life ever faces consequences.” “While Trump is currently considering preemptive pardons for up to 20 allies,” the Full Frontal host said, “he’s been abusing his […]