Matt Wilstein

What started as a seemingly generic country music video parody turned into a full-on Squid Game parody during this week’s Saturday Night Live, complete with spoilers for anyone who has yet to catch up with Netflix’s most popular series ever. Pete Davidson and host Rami Malek were singing a ballad about their bad luck and crippling debts—set to the tune of Branchez & Big Wet’s “Turn Up On the Weekend”—when things took a sharp turn. “Yes I’m broke and it’s a damn shame,” Davidson sang. “Guess I gotta play the Squid Game.” “Weird cards, pink guards, locked us in a big […]

Comedian Hannah Gadsby is not happy that Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos is citing her stand-up specials as evidence that the platform does not have a Dave Chappelle problem. In a memo to his staff this week, Sarandos doubled down on his defense of Chappelle’s latest special The Closer following in-house protests from trans employees. “We are working hard to ensure marginalized communities aren’t defined by a single story. So we have ‘Sex Education,’ ‘Orange is the New Black,’ ‘Control Z,’ Hannah Gadsby and Dave Chappelle all on Netflix, he wrote. “Key to this is increasing diversity on the content team itself.” […]

This week, Donald Trump caused some potentially catastrophic problems for his own party when he warned that Republicans “will not be voting” in 2022 or 2024 if they don’t “solve” what he is now calling the “Presidential Election Fraud of 2020.” Or as Jimmy Kimmel put it Thursday night, “The angry orange baby is throwing another fit over the election he can’t admit he lost.” After reading the bizarre statement, Kimmel laughed out loud, telling his audience, “I know, I’m confused also. It’s like, did Nancy Pelosi write this for him?” “It seems like he’s telling Republicans not to vote, right?” […]

Despite the fact that Southwest Airlines has repeatedly denied that its recent mass flight cancelation was due to President Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate, “that hasn’t stopped some on the right from spreading the baseless claim anyway,” Seth Meyers told viewers Wednesday night. Leading the charge, of course, has been Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who pushed that conspiracy theory hard on his show Monday night. But he then went even further, blaming Amtrak train route cancelations on the mandates as well. “Were these also protests against the Biden shot mandates?” he wondered aloud. “We can’t say for certain. It certainly wouldn’t […]

“Thank you, thank you, you’re going to be so disappointed!” Larry David said to a standing ovation Tuesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live! With less than two weeks to go until the premiere of Curb Your Enthusiasm’s highly anticipated 11th season, David joined Jimmy Kimmel to reminisce about the time he accidentally showed up to the host’s house for dinner a week early and explain why he’s not “temperamentally suited” for stand-up comedy. But perhaps the most important question Kimmel asked his guest was about those perfect photos that were captured of him at last month’s New York Fashion Week. “You […]

For the first time since March 2020, Seth Meyers welcomed a live studio audience to Late Night on Monday. And he used the opportunity to mock Donald Trump for apparently boring the hell out of his own rally crowd over the weekend. “I’m thrilled to be back in front of an audience,” the host said during his latest “A Closer Look” segment. “And I’m just hoping that my audience is a little more enthusiastic than Trump’s audience.” Noting that Trump went to Iowa on Saturday to hold a rally in which he “repeated the same deranged lies about the election that […]

Word on the internet is that Kanye West had been “quietly advising” estranged wife Kim Kardashian West ahead of her big Saturday Night Live debut this week. But the biggest influence on her monologue may have been the late Norm Macdonald. Taking the stage in a hot pink velvet jumpsuit, the reality star opened with, “I know, I’m surprised to see me too.” After getting a handful of self-deprecating jokes out of the way, mostly about the sex tape that launched her career, Kardashian delivered a series of genuine burns about her most famous family members. “I’m excited to be here […]

Thursday, October 7th marks exactly 25 years since Fox News first hit cable boxes everywhere. And Jimmy Kimmel was not going to let the occasion pass without shouting out the network’s major milestone in his late-night monologue. “That’s right,” Kimmel said. “Fox News is now old enough to rent a car, fill it with immigrants and claim it’s heading to your grandma’s house to bury her alive.” Noting that they’ve been “celebrating all day over at Mordor,” the host shared a clip of the “little birthday circle jerk” that Fox & Friends held at a diner in Greenville, South Carolina, earlier […]

“One of the reasons people are so misinformed about the vaccine—and a lot of other things—is Fox News,” Jimmy Kimmel said Wednesday night, highlighting a new study that shows just how deep that network’s disinformation campaign about COVID-19 goes. According to Media Matters, Fox “pushed a claim undermining vaccines during 99% of the days” between April 1st and September 30th of this year. “The two days they didn’t undermine it were the days they took off to go get the vaccine,” the host joked. Last month, Fox News revealed that more than 90% of its workforce is vaccinated and implemented a […]

In the nine months since January 6th, Stephen Colbert has done everything he can to stop talking about Donald Trump in his Late Show monologue, refusing to even say the former president’s name or show it on screen. But as he put it Tuesday night, sometimes the news “forces” him to give in. “There’s a new tell-all from former White House press secretary and Morticia Addams’ divorced sister, Stephanie Grisham,” the host explained. “Stephanie Grisham worked in the White House for four years, and as press secretary she famously never gave a single press conference. But now she’s spilling all the […]

With Meghan McCain finally out of the picture, The View has been trying out a series of potential conservative replacements. The list has included everyone from vehement Never Trumper and regular fill-in host Ana Navarro to more left-field ideas like Caitlyn Jenner. On Monday morning, it was Alyssa Farah’s turn. The short-lived White House communications director under President Trump, who resigned her post after the 2020 election, began the show by desperately trying to explain why she decided to work for that White House so late in the game. After Farah went on about how she just wanted to “serve” her […]

Last season, Saturday Night Live navigated its way through the transition from Trump to Biden, first by miscasting Jim Carrey opposite Alec Baldwin, then by letting actual cast member Alex Moffat take on the presidential role and then by sidelining Biden altogether in favor of Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris. So how did the iconic show open its 47th season this week? With one of its brand new cast members, James Austin Johnson as the 46th president. Turns out Johnson, who before joining SNL was best known for his expert Trump impression, does a pretty solid Biden as well! He was joined […]

When he appeared on “Weekend Update” during Saturday Night’s Live’s 47th season premiere this week, Pete Davidson paid tribute to the late Norm Macdonald with his t-shirt. Fortunately, that wasn’t the only way the show honored the show’s all-time best “fake news” anchor, who succumbed to cancer last month. “Guys, it is a bittersweet night for us tonight,” Colin Jost said, explaining that Macdonald is the reason he “ever wanted to do ‘Weekend Update’” in the first place. “So tonight we thought we’d turn the last few jokes of ‘Update’ over to Norm,” he added, before the show cut to a […]

In his third appearance as Rudy Giuliani on The Late Show Thursday night, John Lithgow held nothing back. The actor, who was on the show to promote his latest collection of satirical poems, joined Stephen Colbert on the heels of Giuliani’s reported ban from Fox News. “Banned from the one network that encourages drunken conspiracy theories? Will Rudy ever appear on TV again?” Colbert asked before introducing the former New York City mayor in all his glory. Admitting he was “a little confused” right off the bat, Giuliani excused himself to talk to his “chief of staff” and then guzzled some […]

In the six years since he left The Daily Show, Jon Stewart has made more appearances than anyone could have predicted on the network he once blamed for all of America’s ills, Fox News. As an advocate for causes like the health benefits of 9/11 first responders and veterans exposed to burn pits, he is always on-message, remarkably disciplined, and almost never funny. So, as he geared up for what he has insisted is not a “comeback” on Apple TV+, the big question is which Stewart viewers would be getting. The hilariously scathing comedian who spent a decade and a half […]

Back in 2017, singer R. Kelly cast doubt on the dozens of rape allegations against comedian Bill Cosby, saying in an interview, “When you wait 70 years, 50 years, 40 years, to say something that simple, it’s strange,” adding, “You know why I say that is because it happened to me, and it wasn’t true.” Now that Cosby has been released from prison after his conviction was overturned on a technicality, he has returned the favor, defending Kelly, who was finally convicted for sex crimes this week. When Jimmy Kimmel told his late-night audience about Cosby’s comments on Wednesday night, he […]

Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were abruptly asked to leave the stage of The View live on-air Friday morning just as Joy Behar was introducing Vice President Kamala Harris. When the show returned from an impromptu commercial break, Behar revealed that both co-hosts had just tested positive for COVID-19. Source link

While Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) was leading an anti-mask protest outside of a recent school board meeting in Smithfield, North Carolina, The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper was in the crowd finding out why parents in the district were so up in arms about policies meant to keep them and their children safe. It turns out they might not know what they’re talking about. Entering “America’s new thunderdome,” Klepper began by pointing out that these parents seem to think that “putting on a piece of cloth is just too much” to ask to stop the spread of COVID-19 in their community. For […]

Wednesday night was “Climate Night” on late-night TV, which found seven hosts across network and cable joining forces, in a sense, to tackle an issue that rarely gets enough attention from the shows given the level at which it is now affecting the lives of Americans every day. Steve Bodow, the former Daily Show showrunner who conceived of the coordinated effort, recently told The New York Times that his message to the hosts was “Please do your show the way that you do your show,” adding, “The shows have different styles and vibes, and that’s how they’ll approach this.” Late Night […]

During his Late Show monologue Tuesday night, Stephen Colbert joked that a more accurate title for Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s new book Peril might have been “AAAAGGH!” When the authors joined him later in the show, they confirmed his worst fears about just how dangerous the Trump administration really was. “It was a discovery for us that this was a national security crisis,” Woodward explained. “We kind of thought that all of Trump was a domestic problem politically.” But especially when the revelations about what Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley reportedly did to prevent war with China in the […]

Seth MacFarlane has never felt comfortable sharing a network with Fox News. Now the Family Guy creator has channeled some of that anger into a new PSA that he premiered on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday night, acknowledging that he felt the need to counter Tucker Carlson’s disinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine. “You’ve been very critical of your own employer because the Fox network also is the parent company of Fox News,” Jimmy Kimmel noted during their interview. “And I guess you’re not a Tucker guy?” “No, you know, that’s why we did this Family Guy PSA about vaccination,” MacFarlane replied. “Because […]

In 1998, Norm Macdonald was fired from Saturday Night Live, evidently for making too many jokes about a good friend of NBC’s west coast president: O.J. Simpson. Now we know that the longtime NBC executive, Don Ohlmeyer, tried—and thankfully failed—to get the comedian banned from the network’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien. “Norm had the most unique comedic voice I have ever encountered and he was so relentlessly and uncompromisingly funny,” Conan O’Brien, who hosted Macdonald on his various shows at least 25 times over the past three decades, tweeted on Tuesday after news broke of his friend’s untimely death from […]

After nearly eight months without Donald Trump in the White House, late-night TV can’t quite believe the comedy gift it’s been given in the form of Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend’s swollen testicles. For the second consecutive night, Stephen Colbert spent the bulk of his Late Show monologue on what he has now officially deemed a new “Ball Gags” segment. After recapping the initial controversy over Minaj’s tweet claiming that her cousin won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine because his friend “became impotent” after receiving it in Trinidad, the host revealed that the rapper had actually responded to a parody music video his […]

Seth Meyers shed no tears for Norm Macdonald on Tuesday night, but not because he wasn’t devastated by the tragic news of his fellow “Weekend Update” anchor’s sudden passing at the age of 61 after a long and secret cancer fight. As the Late Night host put it, Macdonald wouldn’t have wanted to hear anything “sentimental,” but Meyers did spend several minutes remembering some of the funniest things the late comedian ever said. Among them was the first time Meyers met Macdonald backstage at Saturday Night Live in 2001, when Meyers was just a young cast member on the show. When […]

Almost exactly a month after Seth Meyers used his “A Closer Look” segment to make fun of Rudy Giuliani for joining Cameo in what was apparently a desperate bid for cash, the Late Night host returned to one of his all-time favorite targets Monday night to mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. As Meyers put it, the Republican Party’s latest transformation is “perhaps best embodied” by Giuliani, who went from “America’s Mayor” after 9/11 to “essentially a New York City bigfoot who hangs out with Eastern European mobsters.” On Saturday night, Giuliani hosted his annual dinner […]

Comedian Sarah Silverman became the latest high-profile guest host for Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week and she opened her second of two monologues Thursday night by highlighting the odd experience of filling in for her ex-boyfriend. “Look, I know you guys miss Jimmy,” she began. “But take it from me, you will get over him. It’s true, he does not have to define you. Sure, you wasted your child-bearing years with him, but you will find you again. And this time, you’ll be stronger and you’ll be wiser. But also older. Look, my point is, freeze your eggs.” Then, she moved […]

“The many weirdos who tried to help Donald Trump overthrow the election are in major legal and financial trouble,” Seth Meyers said Wednesday night, pointing to both Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, neither of whom have been having particularly good weeks. After spending a few minutes on another politician who has had what is certainly the worst week of his career, the Late Night host moved on to Giuliani, who just announced that he has joined Cameo, where he is offering to record personal video messages for anyone with $275 to spare. “But if you just wait a while, […]

Brian Stelter stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Tuesday night and the timing couldn’t have been much worse for CNN’s in-house media reporter. The appearance just happened to fall on the same day that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo finally resigned his office following a damning probe outlining the many sexual harassment allegations against him. So naturally, Colbert asked Stelter to weigh in on the drama over at CNN over anchor Chris Cuomo’s role as an informal adviser for his older brother. “Behind closed doors, are people mad at him?” Colbert wanted to know. “Is he in trouble?” “Some […]

The “Stephen Colbert” of The Colbert Report liked nothing more than when he could make himself the center of any given news story. But he was rarely handed a gift as juicy as the one with which the “real” Stephen Colbert got to open his first Late Show monologue after a two-week break. “There’s a fourth wave of coronavirus, we just got a global warming red alert for humanity, there are wildfires consuming Northern California and Greece,” Colbert told his live audience on Monday night before turning to the camera and adding, coyly, “So naturally, there’s one question on everyone’s mind: […]

Well, the moment has finally arrived. Meghan McCain made her final appearance on The View Friday morning and it was hard not to detect a sense of relief among her long–suffering co-hosts that it was finally over. McCain herself seemed more subdued than usual in the pre-taped episode, hardly able to muster any outrage at all over Jennifer Aniston’s decision to end friendships with the people in her life who refuse to get vaccinated. The show saved her big send-off for the very end of the episode, after an interview with McCain’s “special friend,” Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema—whom she proudly labeled […]

Loyal viewers who tune into Fox & Friends every morning for advice on how to live their lives won’t know what to think after Thursday morning’s broadcast. On a show that rarely features dissent, co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade sent some seriously mixed messages about the COVID-19 vaccine. During a “report” on the dire situation in Arkansas, Doocy stressed that 20 percent of those hospitalized due to coronavirus complications are children. Though his facts may have been off—nearly 19 percent of active cases in the state are currently among children under 18 and among hospitalized children, 20 percent are under […]

As Meghan McCain prepares to finally exit The View at the end of this week, she still seems to be chafing at the idea that anyone would suggest she could be the beneficiary of nepotism. During a Wednesday morning discussion about the civil investigation that found New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo guilty of sexual harassment, McCain praised the “thoroughness” of Attorney General Letitia James and criticized Cuomo’s “obviously inappropriate and disgusting” behavior before ultimately doing what she does best: make the story about herself. “I also think it’s interesting, we had a conversation about nepotism on this show a few days […]

Tucker Carlson is will deliver a speech, appropriately titled “The World According to Tucker Carlson,” this coming Saturday at MCC Feszt, a far-right conference in Budapest that is backed by Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister, Viktor Orban. A person familiar with the matter confirmed to The Daily Beast on Monday evening that Carlson will speak at the event. The news of Carlson’s appearance follows an apparent meeting between the Fox News star and Orban, as a friendly photo posted to the leader’s Facebook page revealed on Monday that Carlson had hosted Orban on his online show for Fox Nation. Carlson appeared on […]

Greg Kelly’s self-parodying Twitter account met its match on Monday after the Newsmax host took relentless aim at Alexander Vindman, the retired Army lieutenant colonel who testified against Donald Trump during 2019’s impeachment hearings. Kelly seemed oddly mesmerized by an interview that Vindman and his family gave to CBS Sunday Morning over the weekend on the occasion of the release of his new book, Here, Right Matters: An American Story. “What a bunch of Schlubs,” Kelly tweeted on Sunday, sharing a photo of Vindman with his elderly father and twin brother. “IS this the waiting room at Jiffy Lube? No, it’s […]

The Daily Show is currently on an extended summer hiatus—with host Trevor Noah set to return with a “brand new look and feel” starting in mid-September. But that hasn’t stopped the team of writers and researchers from working diligently behind the scenes to hold Fox News hosts and other conservatives accountable for spreading dangerous misinformation. This week, the show took aim at Fox for changing its tune on the dangers of COVID-19 now that they want to scare viewers about the potential that immigrants are bringing the virus over the U.S.-Mexico border. To make that point, they presented a series of […]

During an off-the-walls argument on The Five that attempted to paint anti-vaxxers as freedom fighters and the CDC as reactionary fascists, Geraldo Rivera single-handedly burst the Fox News bubble by decrying Americans who refuse to get vaccinated as “arrogant, selfish SOB’s.” Calling the vaccine “bulletproof against this damn disease,” Rivera began by saying how “appalled” he was to hear his co-hosts Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld’s attempts to blame immigrants coming across the U.S.-Mexico border for the rise in cases “without any evidence.” When Watters cited “common sense,” Rivera shot back, “Common sense is not proof!” From there, Rivera turned to […]

During an interview with a hospital administrator who has expressed regret for not pushing COVID-19 vaccines harder as the Delta variant continues to run rampant, CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota directly accused Fox News’ Tucker Carlson of telling his viewers not to trust the vaccine while at the same time refusing to say whether he has been inoculated against the disease. “Yes, you have a megaphone but not as big as the megaphone of some of the Fox prime time hosts,” Camerota, who worked at Fox News before joining CNN, said before playing a clip of Carlson suggesting that the vaccine “doesn’t […]

Seth Meyers hammered Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Thursday night for “falsely citing HIPAA” in an attempt to dodge questions about whether she has been vaccinated for COVID-19, “given that she continues to lie and spread dangerous misinformation about COVID vaccines.” “Your first question is a violation of my HIPAA rights,” Greene said earlier this week. “You see, with HIPAA rights, we don’t have to reveal our medical records, and that also involves our vaccine records.” “That’s not a thing,” Meyers shot back. “A reporter asking you if you’ve been vaccinated doesn’t violate the HIPAA rights any more than a […]

With the Delta variant spreading like wildfire across the least vaccinated areas of the United States, Stephen Colbert pointed out that “all the anti-vax propaganda on Fox News is not helping.” “Well, it’s no surprise,” the Late Show host joked in his monologue Tuesday night. “It’s right there in Fox News’ slogan: ‘We report. You just died.’” Nothing exemplified this disturbing trend like a Monday morning Fox & Friends segment in which Brian Kilmeade—or “contestant on Jeopardy realizing he spelled his own name wrong,” as Colbert called him, declared that it’s not the government’s “job to protect anybody” from anything. A […]

With Jimmy Kimmel on vacation this summer, a bunch of guest hosts have been swinging through his late-night show, from Wanda Sykes to Arsenio Hall. But comedian and Big Mouth creator Nick Kroll may be the only one who actually applied to be a writer on Jimmy Kimmel Live! 16 years ago. “You know what’s crazy back in like 2005, I actually applied to be a writer on this show and the feedback we got back was ‘these jokes suck ass.’ But I don’t know, I kinda think they hold up,” Kroll said during his monologue Friday night. From there, he […]

Stephen Colbert opened his Late Show monologue Thursday night by explaining that he would prefer to “forget” about the former president. “Since the day he went out and lied about the election, I try not to say his name,” he said, referencing the broadcast during which he literally shed tears over Donald Trump’s false declaration of victory. “We don’t show his name on air. I don’t do my impression, because haven’t you suffered enough?” “But there are times when you just have to slap yourself in the face, put a little cold water on the back of your neck, bear down […]

Just because Rob Schmitt has a primetime Newsmax show with his name in the title doesn’t mean his views represent the network that gave him that show. Or at least that’s what his bosses are claiming after he told viewers that vaccines are “against nature” because some diseases are “supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people.” “Newsmax as a network strongly supports President Biden’s efforts to widely distribute the COVID vaccine. It is important for the safety of all and especially those at high risk, such as the elderly,” a spokesperson for the network said in a statement after […]

Seth Meyers still doesn’t have a live audience, but he did have some company on Tuesday night when his old “Weekend Update” co-anchor Amy Poehler joined him for yet another round of “Really!?! with Seth and Amy.” Their target this time was Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and any other billionaires who might be considering shooting themselves into space instead of paying taxes or their workers a fair wage. “Really, billionaires?!” Meyers asked. “This is what you’re going to do with your unprecedented fortunes and influence, drag race to outer space?” Poehler said she misses the “old billionaires” who wore top hats […]

During an appearance on Fox News Tuesday night, Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) challenged host Pete Hegseth to tell his viewers that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. Hegseth refused to confirm that basic statement of truth, proving his guest’s point in the process. As Hegseth pushed Talarico to explain why he and his fellow Democrats fled Texas to deny their Republican colleagues a quorum to pass anti-voting rights legislation, the lawmaker pulled no punches, telling him, “You have made a lot of money personally and you have enriched a lot of corporations with advertising by […]

There’s a scene early in the new documentary Roadrunner that feels inconceivable to anyone who has spent the past couple of decades watching Anthony Bourdain travel the world. Hot off the blockbuster success of Kitchen Confidential, his tell-all book about the restaurant industry, Bourdain has been granted his first shot at the type of television show that would ultimately make him a star. But he has no clue what to do. Seated on the floor of a private room in a traditional Japanese restaurant, Bourdain silently eats his meal as the two women serving it to him nod awkwardly. All he […]

Seth Meyers returned from a two-week vacation on Monday just in time to roast Donald Trump Jr. for his disastrous attempt at comedy at CPAC’s summer conference in Dallas. “Trump revealed a lot about our politics,” the Late Night host began, “but one main thing is that many prominent Republicans are just super weird.” And no one is weirder than the former president’s eldest son, who tried and failed to tell some “incomprehensible jokes.” After praising Texas for “leading the charge” on conservative action, Trump Jr. quickly backtracked to seemingly attack the Democratic members of the state House for taking over […]

During her big announcement that she was leaving The View after four years as the daytime talk show’s most problematic co-host, Meghan McCain castigated “the media” for covering her with “deep misogyny and sexism,” imploring them to “do better as they cover the rest of you going forward.” On Thursday night, Desus and Mero really took that advice to heart during the final moments of the warm-up segment that precedes their late-night broadcast on Showtime. After sharing the “very sad goss” with viewers, the hosts speculated about what her next move might be. “She should get a cop show,” Desus suggested. […]

Stephen Colbert has never been shy about going after sexual predators, including his own former bosses like Louis C.K. and Les Moonves. So it was no surprise that he opened his Late Show monologue Wednesday night with the biggest news of the day: Bill Cosby’s unexpected release from prison. “Folks, I’m going to shoot you straight. I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news,” Colbert began. “The bad news is I lied about the good news and both bads combine to be the worst news: Bill Cosby’s been released from prison after his sexual assault conviction was overturned.” As his […]

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photo Paramount+ Ten years before he created the hilarious, Stephen Colbert-produced Tooning Out the News, R.J. Fried spent time in the trenches of actual cable news, working for MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. That experience, along with his years as a writer for The Late Show with David Letterman and Robert Smigel’s Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, helped prepare him to run what has somehow become the most consistently funny and hard-hitting political comedy show on TV. On this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast, Fried breaks down how he gets people like Alan Dershowitz […]

With his late-night competition on hiatus this week, Stephen Colbert welcomed a “hot crowd” to the Ed Sullivan Theater on Monday night for a new episode of The Late Show. But he spent most of his monologue looking backward. The host began by spending a bit too much time delving into Donald Trump’s attempt at a comeback rally in Ohio over the weekend, during which he forgot Neil Armstrong’s name and resorted to reciting his favorite poem about snakes. “Mr. Not-President, do you have anything—anything at all—to say about the state of the country right now?” Colbert asked before cutting to […]

“Folks, after five years of the living hell that was the 2020 election, the 2024 presidential election is finally getting into gear,” Samantha Bee said at the top of her show Wednesday night. “And sweet American Jesus, we may already have a frontrunner for the Republican nomination!” No, she wasn’t talking about Donald Trump, but rather Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who shocked the political world this week when he edged out the former president in a conservative straw poll. Given his surprisingly strong showing, the Full Frontal host spent several minutes examining DeSantis’ “Trumpian ability to weaponize the white resentment and […]

Few people were more excited about Tuesday’s big report in The Daily Beast concerning Donald Trump’s attempts to shut down his late-night TV critics than Jimmy Kimmel. “So, The Daily Beast reports that, in 2019, Donald Trump wanted the government to investigate—guess who, Guillermo?—me!” Kimmel said at the top of his monologue before quoting at length from the story. As the Beast’s Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley reported, “According to two people familiar with the matter, Trump asked advisers and lawyers in early 2019 about what the Federal Communications Commission, the court system, and—most confusingly to some Trump lieutenants—the Department of […]

When Conan O’Brien was fired as host of The Tonight Show in 2010, he essential said “fuck it” in his final week on the air and started doing whatever he wanted, spending as much of NBC’s money as he could on his way out the door. Now, the longest-serving late-night host on TV is in his final week of nightly shows on TBS—before launching a new weekly series on HBOMax. The circumstances of his departure are far less fraught this time around, and there is much more celebration in the air. But he still seems to be throwing caution to the […]

“There is no possible way that I owe Candace Owens an apology, is there?” Dave Chappelle asked at the top of the latest episode of his podcast The Midnight Miracle. The immediate answer from his co-hosts, Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, is “Fuck that!” It’s been just over a year since Chappelle dropped his 8:46 special on YouTube. It was released days after George Floyd was killed, and the comedian spent a portion of that set going after the conservative commentator for trying to paint the victim of police violence as a criminal who deserved to die. “That rotten bitch, she’s […]

Unlike Jimmy Kimmel, The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper couldn’t get the MyPillow guy to come to him. So he did what he does best and went to the MyPillow guy. In his latest field piece from MAGA world, the long-serving correspondent traveled to Mike Lindell’s “free speech Woodstock” in Wisconsin with the hope of interviewing some of the election truthers who are still holding out hope that Donald Trump will return to the White House this summer. He likely never could have imagined that he would end up spending several minutes confronting Lindell himself before he took the stage to spread […]

Now that President Joe Biden is back from his big summit with Vladimir Putin, Seth Meyers used his final “A Closer Look” segment of the week on Thursday to dig into the blatant, if not shocking, hypocrisy that Fox News has displayed in its coverage. “The very same people who approve of Donald Trump’s friendly attitude towards Putin are claiming Biden wasn’t tough enough,” the Late Night host said, noting that “even Putin was willing to admit that he was dealing with a more experienced statesman in Biden.” “And yet, this will shock you, Fox News had a very different takeaway,” […]

Earlier this week, Jon Stewart impressed Fox News when he dramatically embraced that network’s favorite theory about the origin of COVID-19 on The Late Show. On Wednesday, Stephen Colbert gave the right something else to enjoy when he went after President Joe Biden for lashing out at CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins during a press conference in Geneva. First, Colbert dug into Biden’s meeting with Vladimir Putin, saying that “basically, the only thing that was exciting about it is that it was not the most demoralizing, nauseating, international bootlicking anyone has ever seen,” referring to President Trump’s infamous Helsinki summit. But when […]

It took about 25 years, but Fox News finally loves Jon Stewart. All he had to do was fully embrace the theory that COVID-19 escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. On Wednesday afternoon, the hosts of The Five rushed to Stewart’s defense after he faced some mild pushback for endorsing the so-called lab leak theory as the most plausible explanation on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this week. “I think the big revelation here is that Jon Stewart watches Fox News!” the channel’s resident comedy expert, Greg Gutfeld, declared. “Because this is exactly what we’ve been saying at […]

Jimmy Kimmel was joking Tuesday night about a sharp increase in New York City subway cars “caked with feces” this summer when he made a hard pivot to politics. “Speaking of human excrement, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene did something unusual for her: She apologized.” The late-night host went on to remind viewers that Rep. Greene once compared Congress members having to wear masks to Jews being forced to wear the Star of David during the Holocaust. “Well yesterday, Klan Mom paid a visit to the Holocaust Museum in D.C. and I guess the field trip did some good because she apologized.” […]

When Dana Carvey appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this year he debuted an impression of President Joe Biden that instantly surpassed anything that Jim Carrey—or any other SNL impersonators for that matter—managed to pull off over the past couple of decades. Now, with Colbert back on the Ed Sullivan Theater stage for the first time since before the pandemic began, Carvey upped the ante big time with a full-on Biden interview sketch, appearing “via satellite” from across the pond. The actual president would have been a huge get for Colbert’s first show back, but Carvey’s version was […]

Fifteen months after he abruptly left the Ed Sullivan Theater and started hosting A Late Show from first his bathtub and later a small office, Stephen Colbert made his triumphant return Monday night, with a fully vaccinated audience in their seats and his old friend Jon Stewart by his side. After walking on stage—in pants!—to an exuberant standing ovation and “Stephen! Stephen! Stephen!” chant, Colbert grinned widely as he embraced his band leader Jon Batiste and welcomed viewers to THE Late Show for the first time since COVID-19 upended everything last March. “We never really left, but we certainly weren’t here,” […]

On Friday afternoon, the New York Post flashed this “exclusive” headline on its website: “‘SNL’ cast won’t be forced to appear with controversial host Elon Musk.” The report cited an unnamed source who told Page Six, “Speaking historically, if a cast member has been that unhappy, they don’t have to do it,” adding that executive producer Lorne Michaels “won’t ever make them do anything they don’t want to do.” It was a somewhat dubious claim that appeared to be little more than speculation, and also seemed to be news to Saturday Night Live co-head writer and co-anchor of “Weekend Update,” Michael […]

After staying up late for his live coverage of President Joe Biden’s big address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, a “punchier” than usual Stephen Colbert kicked off his Late Show monologue on Thursday by taking more than a few shots at Senator Ted Cruz, who was caught sleeping through the speech. Noting that Biden the president wants to pay for his ambitious new social programs by raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, Colbert said, “Yes, he’s taking from the rich and giving to the poor, which has led a lot of people to compare him to Robin Hood.” […]

Well, it actually happened. The day America has been eagerly awaiting since Mike Lindell accepted Jimmy Kimmel’s invitation during his bizarro live-stream event finally arrived on Wednesday, and there was the MyPillow CEO in the flesh sitting across from his supposed late-night nemesis. “Somehow a simple pillow salesman from Minnesota got to the bottom of the deepest conspiracy in the history of American politics,” Kimmel said at the top of his monologue. “It’s so crazy, it’s almost hard to believe.” With the real Lindell presumably watching backstage, the host was visited by his own personal MyPillow guy, comedian James Adomian, who […]

You would think that any reasonable person would agree that repeatedly pushing demonstrably false stories on the most-watched cable news outlet is not a good thing. But when the person is Meghan McCain and the network is Fox News, that is apparently not the case. “The last guy in the White House loved to accuse the mainstream media of pushing fake news, but it kind of looks like some of his most supportive conservative outlets are guilty of doing that very thing—again,” Whoopi Goldberg said at the top of The View on Wednesday morning, referring to the story about Biden allegedly […]

On Monday, Fox News corrected its report that Joe Biden’s climate change plan included a 90% cut in red meat consumption by 2030. But the damage was done. “Perhaps the central theme of our politics at the moment is that one of our two major political coalitions is growing more extreme, more authoritarian, more paranoid, and more detached from reality by the day,” Seth Meyers said at the top of his “A Closer Look” segment Monday night. “Republicans seem to think Joe Biden’s army of antifa super-soldiers is going to come to your house and take your Dr. Seuss book and […]

Four years ago, Joe Scarborough went on The Late Show to declare his independence from the Republican Party. On Thursday night, Stephen Colbert tried to push him even further away. The appearance started out innocuous enough, with Colbert joking that Scarborough’s Morning Joe (and life) partner was “giving off real John Boehner vibes” with her glass of red wine and the three hosts sharing their challenging experiences with the second COVID-19 vaccine while trying not to scare off any skeptics who might have been watching. But the conversation really picked up when Colbert asked Scarborough to weigh in on the state […]

Following the guilty verdicts for Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd this week, Jimmy Kimmel noted Wednesday night that many Americans “have spoken powerfully and passionately about the verdicts and their significance yesterday, but none spoke less eloquently than Tucker Carlson of Fox News.” The host highlighted a supremely bizarre moment from Carlson’s show the previous night in which he abruptly cut off his former corrections officer guest who dared to describe Chauvin’s actions as “savagery.” “Well, yeah, but the guy that did it looks like he’s going to spend the rest of his life in prison so I’m […]

Jimmy Kimmel and Ellen DeGeneres were all smiles during their late-night 4/20 sit-down on Tuesday. But just beneath the surface, things were fraught. Beyond the tightly controlled set of her daytime talk show, which has seen its ratings plummet in recent months following the backlash against her “toxic” workplace culture and eventual public apology, DeGeneres has almost completely avoided any interactions with outside interviewers who may have asked her an uncomfortable question or two about her behavior. Hardly the toughest interviewer in the mediasphere, Kimmel was especially soft on DeGeneres, who is attempting some image rehab ahead of the premiere of […]

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is currently engaged in a 48-hour livestream marathon to promote his new “social media” “platform,” and when he wasn’t lashing out at various writers for The Daily Beast he was expressing his disappointment with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. “Thank you for joining us on what was, I have to admit, one of the least productive days that we’ve had here at our office in quite some time,” Kimmel said at the top of his monologue Monday night, admitting that he is fully “obsessed” with the Trump-loving pillow salesman. “You know, a lot of people said the CEO […]

On Monday afternoon, as jurors started to deliberate over former officer Derek Chauvin’s fate, Juan Williams attempted to calmly explain something to his co-hosts on The Five that may seem obvious to non-Fox News viewers: Police brutality is a real problem in America. Jesse Watters didn’t want to hear it. In the final moments of that show’s broadcast, The Five’s only co-host of color simply tried to raise the importance of the video evidence in the George Floyd case. “We always give the benefit of the doubt to law enforcement in this country,” Williams said. “But we have gone through a […]

There’s just something about scandalous congressional sex parties that was irresistible for the late-night hosts Wednesday night. “This morning, we learned that [Matt] Gaetz attended champagne-fueled sex parties with GOP officials,” Stephen Colbert began on The Late Show, citing a Daily Beast report. “I’ve never been so torn in my life. I want there to be a sex tape, but I don’t want to dig out my own eyes with a grapefruit spoon.” “These weren’t your workaday champagne intercourse shindigs,” the host continued. “They were house parties in a gated community in suburban Orlando. Is Matt Gaetz a congressman or a […]

After decades of mercilessly “eviscerating” Fox News during his time as host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart has made a surprising number of appearances on that network in years, almost exclusively to promote his activism around issues like medical benefits for 9/11 first responders and now veterans who were exposed to “burn pits” in Iraq and Afghanistan. The comedian remained dead serious on Tuesday when he joined Fox host Martha MacCallum to explain why he was in Washington lobbying for a bill that would provide aid to veterans affected by that toxic exposure. “If a senator or a representative is […]

Former House Speaker John Boehner made quick work of Meghan McCain on The View Monday morning. He faced a somewhat more formidable interviewer in Stephen Colbert later that night. Boehner, whose new book On the House: A Washington Memoir Colbert described as “juicy” and “candid,” promised to be just as revealing during his Late Show appearance. Over bourbon and Cabernet, Boehner ranted about the various “jackasses” he had to deal with during his time as the “mayor of Crazytown” in politics. He also eagerly repeated his new moniker for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), “Lucifer in the flesh.” But when Colbert pressed […]

Trevor Noah opened his first Daily Show of the week on Monday with a powerful rebuke of the latest police killing of an unarmed Black man to shake the country over the past 24 hours. And he began by noting that the supposedly “accidental” shooting happened in the same city where the Derek Chauvin murder trial (over the killing of George Floyd) is now entering its third week. “It says just about all you need to know that even as the trial is going on,” the host said, “protests are raging once again in Minneapolis over the killing of another unarmed […]

Meghan McCain tried her best to tee up John Boehner for an attack on President Joe Biden on Monday. The former Republican House Speaker refused to take the bait. “I’m worried we’re headed towards the most divided time in our nation,” McCain told Boehner, who was on The View to promote his spicy new memoir On the House. “President Biden has promised to usher in a new era of bipartisanship. So far he’s issued more than 50 executive orders and chosen to go it alone on issues like the stimulus. You said that President Obama never made reaching across the aisle […]

For the second week and row, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was target number one on Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update.” And this time, anchor Colin Jost didn’t even bother to acknowledge how much he looks like the scandal-plagued congressman. “Well, our favorite Florida congressman Matt Gaetz is back in the news, but this time it’s good!” Jost began. “I’m kidding, it’s still the sex stuff.” From there, Jost moved straight into the explosive Daily Beast report revealing that Gaetz sent $900 to an accused sex trafficker, who then made payments in that exact amount to three different young women, claiming that […]

Jimmy Kimmel took a break from roasting his most-despised presidential offspring on Thursday to welcome the son of the current president on his late-night show for a friendly, sympathetic, and occasionally hilarious conversation. Hunter Biden, who weathered the onslaught of attacks hurled his way before, during, and after the 2020 election, and somehow managed to come out stronger, dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live in person this week to promote his revealing new memoir, Beautiful Things. “You know how Donald Trump was always asking where Hunter is?” Kimmel asked in his opening monologue. “Well, he’s here in our building. He’s been here […]

Like every major late-night host except Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert was on vacation last week, which meant he missed out on the height of the Matt Gaetz sex-trafficking scandal. But with new developments unfolding every single day, the Late Show host caught up in earnest Wednesday night. And he did not hold back. Colbert began with the “blanket pardon” Rep. Gaetz (R-FL) reportedly sought from Donald Trump, joking, “Oh, I don’t think the blanket wants a pardon. I think it wants to be burned. It’s seen too much.” “Gaetz wanted a preemptive pardon for any illegal activity he’s ever done, like […]

“Today was one of those days when a name trends on Twitter and people were sent into a frenzy,” The Daily Show host Trevor Noah said Tuesday night. As he explained to his guest, 83-year-old Oscar winner Morgan Freeman, “People think one of two things has happened: the person has died or the person wishes that they had died.” Freeman, who experienced the latter a few years back when he faced his own #MeToo allegations, trended this week for a third reason. He lent his face and words to a new PSA urging all Americans to get the COVID-19 vaccine. “I’m […]

When I admit 30 seconds into my Zoom call with Gail Simmons that I have just finished bingeing all 17 seasons of Top Chef in preparation for this week’s highly anticipated 18th season premiere, she is simultaneously delighted and disturbed. “Oh god, I am horrified and I’m grateful,” she responds. “The hairstyles alone, I mean, it’s like a journey through time.” Along with head judge Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons has been a vital part of the increasingly elaborate cooking competition reality show since its inauspicious premiere in 2006. (Padma Lakshmi famously joined the show as host and later executive producer in […]

Jimmy Kimmel had the unique pleasure of being the only late-night host not on hiatus during the week that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was embroiled in a sex-trafficking scandal. And on Wednesday night, he took full advantage of the situation. “Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is having a bad week after a bombshell report by the New York Times last night,” the host began. “If you’re not familiar with Matt Gaetz, this is his Twitter profile,” Kimmel added, putting up the photo of the congressman taking a selfie with Donald Trump that appears across the top of his page. “That should tell […]

Jimmy Kimmel really summed up the current state of the Republican Party on Tuesday when he set up his next monologue topic as “kind of unbelievable but also par for the course.” “We now have controversies where we never had them before,” the late-night host said, referring to current right-wing freakout over the so-called “vaccine passports” that the Biden administration is currently developing in conjunction with various private entities. “If you have a vaccine passport,” Kimmel explained, you will be able to do things like travel or go to concerts and sporting events. “But unfortunately many Republicans aren’t on board with […]

Two and a half years ago, Lisa Lampanelli went on The Howard Stern Show and did the unthinkable: She retired from comedy. After nearly three decades as a stand-up comedian, during which she rose to infamy as the “Queen of Mean” on the Comedy Central Roasts of Jeff Foxworthy, Pamela Anderson, William Shatner, Flavor Flav, Larry the Cable Guy, David Hasselhoff and, yes, Donald Trump, Lampanelli simply walked away—becoming, of all things, a life coach. She hasn’t told a single insult on stage since. And aside from a handful of live appearances like an upcoming storytelling show at a local Connecticut […]

It’s almost as if Jimmy Kimmel is having more fun making jokes at Donald Trump’s expense now that he’s no longer president than he did while he was still in office. After taking on his “bowl of mashed potatoes in pants” post-presidency body earlier this month, the late-night host turned Monday to the bizarre speech about China, Iran, and the 2020 election that Trump unleashed on an unsuspecting wedding party at his Mar-a-Lago resort over the weekend. “One of his friends-slash-club member donors got married at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday and the former president had some beautiful words for the bride and […]

Two years ago, Saturday Night Live added Bowen Yang as its first-ever cast member of East Asian descent. The comedian has been a vital and hilarious part of the show ever since, but on “Weekend Update” this week, he demonstrated why it really matters that he’s there. “Across the country, rallies are being held to condemn the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes,” Colin Jost told viewers. “Here to share resources on how you can help is Asian cast member Bowen Yang.” As those words appeared below him on the screen, Yang asked, “Is that my official title, Asian Cast Member?” When […]

With Maya Rudolph hosting the first new Saturday Night Live episode in a full month this weekend, an appearance by Vice President Kamala Harris was all but inevitable. And yet it took nearly halfway through the show to get it. After opening the show by hosting an MTV Spring Break game show called “Snatched, Vaxed or Waxed” and breaking out her classic Beyoncé impression on a parody of Hot Ones, Rudolph finally delivered a special Passover unity message as the vice president—joined by the one and only Martin Short as her husband, “Semitic smoke show” Doug Emhoff. “I can’t do this. […]

On Thursday night, The Daily Show correspondent and resident host of “Unsolved Mysteries: MAGA Edition,” Roy Wood Jr., tried to get to the bottom of a very important question that’s on everyone’s minds. After a clip of the former president’s first born calling New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo “the biggest predator in politics today,” Wood looked into the camera and warned viewers, “In recent weeks, Donald Trump Jr., the oldest, least Eric-y son of Donald Trump, has been complaining that a politician has not been punished for his alleged sex crimes.” “It raises an uncomfortable question,” he continued. “Does Don Jr. […]

Paul Feig, director of comedy hits like Bridesmaids, The Heat and the Ghostbusters reboot, is known for his unique ability to bring some of the funniest female performances of all time to the screen. And there were few women funnier than Jessica Walter, who died on Wednesday night in her sleep at 80. “I was devastated,” Feig tells me when I reach him on Zoom shortly after the news broke on Thursday afternoon for an upcoming episode of The Last Laugh podcast. “It really breaks my heart.” He can’t take any credit for her comedic genius, but Feig did have the […]

“As we slowly emerge from the grip of one deadly plague that has ravaged the country for the past year, the coronavirus, we’re once again being confronted with yet another deadly plague that has haunted this country for decades: the plague of gun violence,” Seth Meyers said Wednesday night. “And in both cases, there has been a small minority of sociopaths with outsized power in our politics who stand in the way whenever the rest of us try to do something about it.” In the case of gun violence and the two large scale mass shootings that occurred in Atlanta and […]

A conversation on The View about Asian American representation in Joe Biden’s cabinet turned personal on Wednesday when Meghan McCain used the opportunity to express her fears that “identity politics” could leave her without a job. Each of the show’s panel members seemed to agree that it was entirely appropriate for Democratic Senators Tammy Duckworth and Mazie Hirono to demand the Biden administration diversity its high-level staff, with Sunny Hostin saying she “didn’t see anything wrong with it” and Sara Haines calling it “the right thing to do.” But when it was McCain’s turn to speak, she said she “truly believes” […]

For the first time in a long time, Stephen Colbert opened The Late Show Tuesday night with a solemn message about yet another mass shooting in the United States. “Yesterday was another grim day for America when a gunman walked into a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket and killed 10 people, including a police officer,” he began. “This story is unspeakably tragic and I cannot imagine for a moment the grief of these families.” The “only suitable way to honor these victims is with action,” Colbert added. “But our government continues to do nothing.” Partly due to the COVID-19 shutdowns, it had been […]

In the weeks and months following the 2020 election, late-night hosts like Seth Meyers spoke with a deep sense of relief about the glorious freedom of a post-Trump comedy landscape. But it hasn’t been so easy for them to let go. Last week, Jimmy Kimmel delivered an extended riff about the desperate “sycophants” who have been rushing to Twitter to declare Trump looks “stronger than ever” as he supposedly prepares for another presidential run in 2024. On Monday, it was Meyers’ turn to take on the former president’s sad state of affairs. As the Late Night host put it, Trump has […]

Fox News host Harris Faulkner managed to embarrass herself within the first few minutes of her live phone interview with former President Donald Trump on Monday morning. And not just because she allowed him to repeat nearly verbatim the racist rants against immigrants that launched his 2016 campaign. The pair hadn’t been talking for long when Faulkner got very excited, telling Trump to stop talking for two seconds. “This has just happened now and I want to double check this with our producers,” she said. Dramatically removing her glasses, she reported:“The DHS secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, has resigned, Mr. President.” “Well, I’m […]

John Oliver opened Last Week Tonight this Sunday by examining the anti-Asian racism that led directly to the horrific mass shooting that left six Asian women and two others dead. And in addition to slamming Donald Trump for spending a full year using terms like “Wuhan virus” and “kung flu” instead of COVID-19, Oliver had some choice words for conservative pundits like The View’s Meghan McCain who gave the former president a pass. “Our long, ugly history of anti-Asian racism and the fact that it often peaks during times of crisis is the exact reason why, just last year, many were […]

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made the full round of Sunday morning talk show appearances this weekend to defend the Biden administration’s handling of the influx of migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. His message across all of the interviews was consistent: Give us time, we’re still cleaning up Donald Trump’s mess. On ABC’s This Week, which was hosted from the border by Martha Raddatz, Mayorkas began by trying to clarify what his interviewer described as “mixed” messages. “The message is quite clear: Do not come. The border is closed. The border is secure,” he declared, adding, “We are encouraging […]

Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) said he only signed what has been widely described as a “near-total abortion ban” in his state this month because he hopes it leads to the Supreme Court taking away women’s rights to make decisions about their own bodies. Hutchinson was speaking during an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, after host Dana Bash raised with the issue with him. “Even when you signed it, you said you had reservations about the law, saying that it violates Supreme Court precedent,” Bash said. “So to be clear, did you sign this bill because you hope it will […]

“One thing is clear, this isn’t an isolated incident,” Stephen Colbert told Late Show viewers Thursday night during a long section of his monologue about the Atlanta mass shooting that clearly targeted Asian women. As the host explained, studies have shown a dramatic increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans last year, spiking in March and April at the beginning to the COVID-19 lockdowns. “And that matches up neatly with the person who, for nearly a year, did this,” Colbert said before playing a damning supercut of Donald Trump using slurs like “China virus,” “China plague” and “kung flu.” “He’s clearly […]

Fox News seems to be embracing the legalization of marijuana. All it took was President Joe Biden sidelining staff for past pot use. “Dozens of young White House staffers have reportedly been fired suddenly or demoted suddenly over past weed smokin’,” Fox host Harris Faulkner reported near the end of her show Friday morning, citing The Daily Beast’s report on the stunning about-face from the Biden administration, which originally indicated a more lenient pot policy. Fox Nation host Kat Timpf, a pro-legalization libertarian, joined Faulkner in expressing outrage over the report, saying, “This is wrong in itself on a few levels.” […]

Fox News can’t figure out how it’s supposed to feel about the COVID-19 vaccine. On the one hand, hosts like Sean Hannity want President Joe Biden to personally thank Donald Trump for aiding in its creation. On the other, Tucker Carlson is quickly going full anti-vaxxer, claiming that they are not as effective as they should be and just might be part of a larger government conspiracy (claims that are totally unfounded). “There seems to be some tension at Fox over whether Trump deserves credit for this miraculous medical breakthrough that will save the world,” Seth Meyers said Wednesday, “or whether […]