Before the pandemic, nobody had heard of Sarah Cooper. Five months later, she’s the latest celebrity guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! The beloved TikTok Trump lip-syncher took the reins on a big night as Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his running mate just a few hours before she taped her […]
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Trevor Noah is feeling pretty good about Joe Biden’s decision to go with Kamala Harris as his running mate. “Say what you want about Joe, but the man went Black and he is not going back,” the Daily Show host joked. He then explained how “impressed” he was with the […]
Immediately after Joe Biden announced Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his 2020 running mate, Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson released a statement attacking her. There was a blatant lie in the first sentence. “Not long ago, Kamala Harris called Joe Biden a racist and asked for an apology she never […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to make his highly anticipated running-mate pick any day now. But before he does, The Daily Show made the case for one more out-of-left-field candidate. “All of those candidates are definitely qualified to be Biden’s VP,” Trevor Noah said Monday night of the […]
Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt learned some disturbing new information on Monday morning: Children can, in fact, contract the coronavirus. “We’re all worried about sending our kids back to school, what is that going to look like for our country and for our elderly grandparents and things like that,” […]
If Chris Wallace was trying to prove to Fox News viewers that he could grill Democratic leaders just as hard as President Donald Trump and his biggest sycophants, it may have worked. Vice President Joe Biden has thus far declined to appear on Fox News Sunday, but this week Wallace […]
President Donald Trump really thought he had Joe Biden with this one. “After yesterday’s statement, Sleepy Joe Biden is no longer worthy of the Black Vote!” the president tweeted on Friday morning. He left out any context, assuming that his biggest fans would be fully aware of the most recent […]
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to predictions. And CNN anchor Poppy Harlow was more than ready with the receipts when he came on her show to talk about the coronavirus fallout Friday morning. Harlow began her interview by asking Kudlow […]
One night after he broke down the most absurd moments from President Donald Trump’s interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan, Seth Meyers shifted over to the other end of the spectrum. While the Axios interview “could have doubled as an intake exam at a psych ward,” the Late Night host said […]
Trump campaign adviser Mercedes Schlapp attempted to clean up her disastrous interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar by penning an op-ed about the network’s supposed “dishonesty” for the website RealClearPolitics. But she made at least one major mistake. As The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman—channeling The Princess Bride’s Inigo Montoya—put it […]
Fox News host Chris Wallace has no illusions about why the Trump campaign is suddenly demanding a fourth debate against former Vice President Joe Biden. After Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade echoed the president’s stated concerns about the debates happening after early voting starts in some states, his radio […]
On Wednesday, Facebook finally took the long overdue step of removing a piece of Trump campaign content from its platform that pushed misinformation about COVID-19. That didn’t stop Kellyanne Conway from trying to defend it Thursday morning on Fox News. The claim in question came during the president’s appearance on […]
Meghan McCain officially signed off of The View for the summer last week. But she still had a few more opinions to share with the world on Watch What Happens Live Wednesday night. McCain spent most of the episode dishing with host Andy Cohen, her good friend S.E. Cupp and […]
There have been plenty of hilarious reactions to Donald Trump’s ridiculous interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan in the 48 hours since it first aired on HBO. But Seth Meyers may have had the funniest riff to date on Wednesday night in response to the colorful chart the president held up […]
Jake Tapper may be on vacation, but he is incapable of ignoring the news. “It’s difficult to keep away from it, just because, I mean, I am such a news junkie that any attempt to not have my phone right nearby will not work,” the CNN host told Seth Meyers […]
After running down the latest horrifying statistic about the coronavirus pandemic, Seth Meyers pointed out Monday night that all of this could have been avoided if the United States had implemented a “coordinated national testing strategy.” And as it turns out, “We almost had one, until Jared Kushner slithered out […]
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro has been one of Donald Trump’s strongest media boosters since the very start of his presidency. But while the Trump administration claims it’s working at “warp speed” to produce a vaccine for COVID-19, she’s now saying that she doesn’t want to take it. Appearing on […]
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace interrupted his guest’s attacks on Joe Biden to bring up some important points about the Trump campaign this weekend. “Despite what you say about the Biden campaign, the fact is it is the Trump campaign that just replaced your campaign manager,” Wallace told Trump […]
When John Cleese tells people that he has a new show called Why There Is No Hope, they assume the title is a joke. “A lot of people think that I mean it humorously,” he tells me on an upcoming episode of The Last Laugh podcast, “but of course I […]
It has been 20 weeks since Breonna Taylor was shot and killed in her own home. And the cops who killed her still have not been arrested. “If you’re online a lot, you’ve probably seen Breonna Taylor being turned into just another meme,” Trevor Noah said on Thursday night near […]
All the way back in the middle of April, former Vice President Joe Biden issued a warning to his supporters. “Mark my words,” he said at a virtual fundraiser. “I think he is gonna try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can’t be […]
It was only a matter of time before Seth Meyers took “A Closer Look” at the woman who will now forever be known as “Dr. Demon Sperm.” “As the coronavirus pandemic has spread out of control, so has misinformation about it,” the Late Night host began. “If you have Facebook, […]
Kayleigh McEnany had a difficult job even before her boss started retweeting conspiracy theories from a fringe doctor who blames demon sperm and alien DNA for America’s health problems. CBS This Morning co-host Anthony Mason wasted no time getting to that particular story when he invited the White House press […]
“Obviously ordinary Americans should be taking this pandemic more seriously,” Trevor Noah said on Tuesday night’s Daily Show. “But in their defense, it’s hard to do that when this is the guy who’s setting the tone from the top.” With that, Noah became the first late-night host to delve into […]