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On the same day that Joe Rogan endorsed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for president in 2024, Jon Stewart convened a “special emergency session” of the podcast that seems to have replaced his Apple TV+ show to explain why he believes this week’s bombshell Jan. 6 Committee hearing will be the last straw for Donald Trump in the Republican Party. “I think the larger development from yesterday,” Stewart said, referring to Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony, “is that more Republicans have decided Ron DeSantis is a better option. This is just too much.” While there was “nothing surprising” about how we now know Trump […]

Immediately following the first hour of Tuesday’s last minute bombshell testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, to the January 6th Committee, Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier said in no uncertain the revelations about Donald Trump’s actions on that day in 2021 were both “stunning” and “compe “All of this is firsthand, so it’s from her listening to it,” Baier added. “That’s why it’s so compelling. And that’s perhaps why we had this hearing that popped out of nowhere.” But just moments later, his fellow anchor Martha MacCallum seemed to undercut that […]

It was a rare and opportune moment to have a woman hosting a network late-night talk show. As previously scheduled, comedian Chelsea Handler began her week of shows filling in for Jimmy Kimmel just a few days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. “I’ll be here all week long,” Handler said at the top of her monologue. “Or at least until Republicans make it illegal for women to talk.” She then joked that Kimmel is currently on vacation “doing whatever the fuck he wants with his body.” And then, “At this point, I’d probably have more rights if my […]

The View’s big trip to the Bahamas to mark the daytime talk show’s 25th anniversary kicked off on a less than celebratory note on Monday as the hosts weighed in for the first time on the Supreme Court decision that removed women’s constitutional right to make decisions about their own bodies. As moderator Whoopi Goldberg explained at the start of the show, the news broke while the team was flying down from New York. Joy Behar, meanwhile, joked that she almost “jumped out of the plane.” Each co-host expressed their shock and dismay—despite plenty of warning—that we are now living in […]

During his monologue Thursday night, Jimmy Kimmel took aim at former NFL star and current Republican Senate hopeful Herschel Walker after a series of reports from The Daily Beast about the multiple children he fathered that he’s been hiding from the public. “Just in time for Father’s Day, we found out he has not one but three children he somehow forgot to mention,” Kimmel explained. “He has four kids and raised one of them, which is interesting because he’s a very outspoken critic of absentee fathers. He blames every societal problem on absentee dads and I guess he would know, because […]

Stephen Colbert’s name recently popped up in a statement from a lawyer representing one of the Proud Boys charged with seditious conspiracy for the Jan. 6 insurrection. So the Late Show host clearly felt he had no choice but to share his response with viewers Wednesday night. “Some of the folks being featured in the videos in these hearings are not happy about all the publicity,” Colbert said on the eve of yet another Jan. 6 Committee hearing on Thursday. Specifically, he was referring to Proud Boys leader “and worst-case scenario David Cross” Joseph Biggs, who faces up to 20 years […]

Donald Trump may have conned his supporters out of $250 million in the wake of the 2020 election, as revealed during this week’s Jan. 6 committee hearing, but his son has since resorted to a far more familiar grift. “Until they face consequences, the ex-president’s family is still out there peddling their wares,” Stephen Colbert explained on Tuesday night’s Late Show, “including eldest MAGA son Don Jr., seen here wondering, ‘How come the airplane doesn’t have to flap?’” The host called Donald Trump Jr.’s latest business venture an “homage” to his father’s infamous Trump Steaks, with his version of a mail-order […]

Hot on the heels of Rudy Giuliani’s “apparently inebriated” cameo at the Jan. 6 committee hearing and “documusical” about his exploits premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Daily Show is giving the man formerly misidentified as “America’s Mayor” its official biopic treatment. In “The Dailyshowography of Rudy Giuliani: Oozing Greatness,” which will premiere on Comedy Central Tuesday night, The Daily Show follows its in-depth examinations of Lindsey Graham (“Married to the Game”), Chris Cuomo (“Epic News Bro”) and other political luminaries by diving into Giuliani’s not-so-illustrious past. The piece covers everything from Giuliani’s early ambitions to become a priest—he “almost […]

As the only late-night host to go live after the Jan. 6 committee’s first primetime hearing on Thursday, Stephen Colbert had the floor all to himself. And he began The Late Show by pushing back on the Republican predictions that the night would be “nothingburger.” “They were wrong,” he said to cheers from his audience. “It was such a juicy burger that Fox News knew that even their viewers would be tempted to take a bite. Which is why—and this is true—for the hour of his show opposite the hearings, Tucker Carlson took no commercial breaks.” “Do you understand what that […]

In the days leading up to Joe Biden’s first in-person late-night interview of his presidency on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Fox News has been up in arms with claims that the appearance proves he’s not taking the country’s myriad problems seriously. But what those complaining neglected to remember is just how serious Jimmy Kimmel can be when he wants to. After joking in his monologue that “as a precautionary measure” they had rounded up and removed anyone named “Brandon” from the audience, Kimmel shared a comprehensive montage that showed Donald Trump fielding “tough questions from real hard-hitting journalists” at Fox and sent […]

Stephen Colbert is going all-in for this Thursday night’s primetime January 6th committee hearing with a live edition of The Late Show after the proceedings wrap up, as he announced during Tuesday’s monologue. “It’s going to be a historic evening,” the host predicted before revealing his big plans for the night. “I’m tired already! I am pre-exhausted.” But as Colbert explained, while “all of the major news outfits” will be airing the hearing live, Fox News has opted to stick with its usual primetime lineup of Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, who defended the decision by saying, “We actually […]

President Joe Biden has not yet made his planned appearance this week on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, but that hasn’t stopped Fox News from kicking its outrage cycle into gear. All day Monday, various Fox pundits complained that by appearing on a late-night comedy show, Biden is not taking his presidency seriously enough. Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade predicted Kimmel would go too soft on the president, former Trump spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany declared it a “bad choice,” and Fox Business anchor Dagen McDowell called the interview emblematic of the “land of insanity in which we all live.” “Oh, I see, what […]

Jimmy Kimmel just happened to be perusing Donald Trump Jr.’s website recently when he noticed an odd description next to the various hats and shirts with hate-filled messages scrawled across them: “Designed and embroidered in the USA.” “The hypocrisy, they don’t even try to hide it anymore,” the late-night host said during his monologue Thursday night. “I guess they don’t need to hide it, nobody seems to notice.” But Kimmel did notice that while Trump Jr. is “always talking about China,” saying things like “my father was tough on China” or “Hunter Biden’s in bed with China,” the labels on the […]

Exactly one year after he took the comedy world by surprise with his genre-bending pandemic-era Netflix special Inside, Bo Burnham treated fans to another full hour of material from the project, dropping The Inside Outtakes on his YouTube channel Monday night. As the elusive comedian announced on Twitter, “a year ago today, i released a special called inside. i’ve spent the last two months editing together material that i shot for the special but didn’t end up using. it will be on my youtube channel in one hour. i hope you enjoy it.” The new hour has already been devoured by […]

When comedian John Mulaney co-guest-hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live! just last week, he joked that unlike the titular host he wasn’t going to “​​ruin the show by suddenly crying in the monologue.” It’s true that Jimmy Kimmel has developed a reputation for getting emotional during what is ostensibly supposed to be a comedy show. But it’s always been for good reason, whether it was after his infant son almost died or following horrific mass shootings in his hometown of Las Vegas and a high school in Parkland, Florida. And as he said to an empty theater before his show began on Wednesday […]

Ahead of the 47th season finale of Saturday Night Live, news leaked out that the show would be losing some of its biggest stars, including Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, and Kyle Mooney. But SNL’s biggest loss has to be the incomparable Kate McKinnon, as evidenced by the fact that the show more or less cleared out for her to cook in her final cold open. Kate McKinnon’s Miss Rafferty, who has been abducted by aliens countless times over the past eight seasons, appeared alongside Cecily Strong and host Natasha Lyonne to share her disturbingly unique experience one more time. The sketch […]

For the last time on Saturday night, Pete Davidson stopped by the “Weekend Update” desk to say goodbye and talk about how improbable it was that he ever became one of SNL’s most famous cast members. “Hello, Colin and Che and millions of people only watching to see if I bring up Kanye,” Davidson began, referring to his very public feud with girlfriend Kim Kardashian’s ex. “I never imagined this would be my life,” he said, describing the 20-year-old who joined the show in 2014 as being “a skinny kid and no one knew what race I was.” He then joked, […]

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee just happened to go on a three-week hiatus the same day that Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion aiming to overturn Roe v. Wade leaked to the press, making Thursday night the host’s first show since that bombshell news. “Just a beautiful day to kick back, enjoy the sun, and burn our throats to dust with endless screaming,” she joked. Turns out, it was worth the wait. Bee called the draft opinion a trailer for “how fucking horrible life is to become for a lot of people” once states are free to ban abortion altogether and tore […]

Earlier this month, Jimmy Kimmel called in his friend and fellow comedian Mike Birbiglia to guest host his late-night show after he tested positive for COVID-19. Now, after returning to the show last week, it has happened again. Instead of merely appearing as guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wednesday night, Saturday Night Live alums—and co-stars of Disney+’s new Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers reboot—John Mulaney and Andy Samberg, also filled in as last-minute guest hosts after Kimmel caught COVID, again. “Thank you so much, it is an honor and a favor to be here,” Mulaney joked at the top of their […]

“You know, guys, politics is a rough and tumble business and D.C. can be a cruel town,” Seth Meyers said the night after Tuesday’s primary elections. “Just when you feel like you’re making headway in Congress, you’re unceremoniously forced out by a cruel and unforgiving system of cutthroats and backstabbers. And that’s exactly what happened last night when one of our nation’s most committed public servants, a camera-shy policy wonk who was laser-focused on serving the greater good lost his bid for re-election.” Then, he stopped himself. “Oh wait, I think I read that whole thing wrong,” the Late Night host […]

Stephen Colbert taped his Late Show monologue before polls closed in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. “By the time this airs, the victors will be celebrating and the losers will be saying they’re the victors,” he joked. But that state’s highly contentious Republican Senate primary remained far too close to call, with David McCormick and Dr. Mehmet Oz in a tight race for first place and Kathy Barnette in distant third. Or as Colbert described it, a “battle royale” between “original recipe nutballs” and “extra crispy cuckoo cojones.” “Of the three, Dr. Oz has the former president’s backing, and last night, he made […]

Seth Meyers opened his first show since a white supremacist gunman killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York by solemnly lamenting the “absolute nightmare” of a “story we’ve now seen dozens and dozens of times.” Shortly after those opening comments—and a darkly funny, outrage-filled musical performance from Late Night writer Amber Ruffin—Meyers turned to one of the main figures who helped spread the terrorist’s hateful ideology: Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “With prominent figures on the right embracing and parroting the dangerous white nationalist conspiracy theory known the Great Replacement, it’s worth noting that in addition to being […]

Someone finally grilled Dr. Mehmet Oz about his views on the 2020 presidential election. And if Donald Trump was watching, he might not be too pleased with his chosen candidate’s response. During a Monday appearance on David Brody’s Real America’s Voice show The Water Cooler, Oz committed the cardinal sin of both admitting he hasn’t seen Dinesh D’Souza’s misinformation-filled “documentary” 2000 Mules and refusing to use the words “rigged” or “stolen” when referring to the 2020 election. “I have not seen the movie,” Oz told Brody, suggesting that running for Senate in Pennsylvania has kept him too busy. “My wife, however, […]

Saturday Night Live took a break from politics this week to instead bring viewers “live” coverage of the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard “cuckoo” trial. “I know it’s not the most pertinent story of the moment,” Kate McKinnon as MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace said at the top of the cold open sketch. “But with all of the problems in the world isn’t it nice to have a news story we can all collectively watch and say, ‘Ooh, glad it ain’t me?’” The sketch zeroed in on the salacious allegation that Heard left “fecal matter” in Depp’s bed, imagining the moment when his […]

Jimmy Kimmel struggled to find the right words to sum up his feelings about the Senate vote that failed to protect abortion rights on Wednesday. “Shocking, unfathomable, stupefying maybe?” he said during his late-night monologue. “Yes, a stupefying day in the history of this country. “Every Democrat voted in favor of the bill,” Kimmel explained, “except Joe Manchin, who voted with his fellow Republicans.” He then noted that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for the vote “so we would know where Republicans stand,” adding, “Turns out, they’re standing in the year 1865.” “It almost feels like maybe we shouldn’t have […]

The last time a president and comedian shared the stage at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was six long years ago tonight when Larry Wilmore ended his set with a deeply personal send-off to Barack Obama. A lot has changed in both politics and comedy since then. Now, following a couple of years in which Donald Trump refused to attend and was roasted in absentia by, most notably, comedian Michelle Wolf, two more years canceled due to the pandemic—and one in between that everyone involved would rather forget—Washington D.C.‘s “nerd prom” made a tentative return on Saturday night amidst yet another […]

The conventional wisdom has held that Elon Musk buying Twitter in the name of “free speech” will ultimately be a good thing for Donald Trump. But Jimmy Kimmel had a different take Tuesday night. “Now that Elon Musk is buying Twitter, Trump finds himself in a very Trumpy situation because he raised more than a billion dollars to start this promising new right-wing media platform that looks exactly like Twitter,” the late-night host explained. “But now that he probably won’t be banned from Twitter anymore because Elon owns it, he’s kind of stuck.” Kimmel described Truth Social as “such a disaster” […]

There has been a lot of talk this week about the new trove of text messages to and from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, but there was one in particular that stood out to Seth Meyers. Two days after her father lost the 2020 election, Ivanka Trump texted a group of his closest advisers, “You are all WARRIORS of epic proportions! Keep the faith and the fight!” “She’s trying to overturn the results of an election with the tone of a Peloton instruction,” the Late Night host joked Monday night. “And also, just a tip, if you’re planning […]

Stephen Colbert opened his Late Show monologue by saying he’d “always hoped to live to see the end of the COVID safety precautions.” He just didn’t think it would happen “out of the blue” when a federal judge struck down the CDC’s mask mandate for airplanes and public transportation. “No surprise, the ruling comes from a Tampa-based federal judge,” the host remarked. “You can’t let Florida make health decisions for the entire country! That’s not smart. The Florida food pyramid is just gator jerky and meth!” Colbert went on to question Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle’s reasoning that the CDC’s power was […]

Seth Meyers spent several minutes making fun of Donald Trump’s latest rant about windmills Monday night before revealing that it was hardly the “weirdest” thing to happen in right-wing politics this week. He was, of course, talking about Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s deep dive into the world of “testicle tanning.” The Late Night host began by questioning Carlson’s suggestion that “half” of his viewers might find that idea—somehow meant to boost testosterone—to be “crazy,” joking, “I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if you’re tuning in to watch a Tucker Carlson special on Fox’s streaming service […]

Easter is here and Saturday Night Live was in the mood for rebirth this weekend. Following a cold open greeting from Bowen Yang’s Easter Bunny, the show gave several cast members a chance to present their best impressions and “share their hopes” for the spring season. First up was Kate McKinnon’s Dr. Anthony Fauci, who warned viewers that “like Jesus,” COVID numbers have “risen again.” He then added, “If you’re vaccinated, you’re going to be fine. And if you’re not vaccinated, I’m not supposed to say this, but I honestly don’t care what happens to you.” Next came Cecily Strong’s Marjorie […]

Less than a year ago, Elon Musk was hosting Saturday Night Live. Now he’s its biggest punchline. “Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for over $40 billion so he can loosen its free speech rules,” Michael Che said this week, before adding, “That’s how badly white guys want to use the ‘n-word.’” For the next few minutes, the “Weekend Update” anchors tore into the richest man on the planet for his bizarre plot to take over Twitter. “Honestly, I don’t understand why Elon even wants to own Twitter,” Colin Jost said. “It used to be something that seemed important and even […]

Saturday Night Live opened this week’s show at the White House, where James Austin Johnson’s Joe Biden was congratulating new Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (Ego Nwodim) on her historic confirmation. When Justice Jackson said she bet Biden couldn’t say her name “three times fast” the president replied, “I’m shocked I was able to say it one time slow.” “I was happy to do my part,” Jackson told Biden. “Work twice as hard as a white man my entire life and then spend a week listening to Ted Cruz call me a pedophile.” Left alone in the Oval Office, Jackson […]

The rest of Saturday Night Live may have moved on from The Slap, but “Weekend Update” couldn’t help but get a few more digs in now that Will Smith has been banned from attending the Oscars for the next 10 years. “Is that a punishment?” Colin Jost wondered aloud. “He can still be nominated and even win an award. He can even go to the after party. He just doesn’t have to attend the four-hour ceremony where someone is definitely going to make fun of his wife again.” “Honestly, I think a real punishment would be to make Will Smith host […]

Last week, Stephen Colbert stirred up some faux-controversy by suggesting that President Joe Biden should have pulled a Will Smith on Fox News’ Peter Doocy for asking yet another “stupid” question at a recent press conference. Jimmy Kimmel waded into similar comedic waters Tuesday night. After noting that Sarah Palin “seems downright quaint” compared to the “monsters” who she might be joining in Congress soon, Kimmel turned his attention to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who called her Republican colleagues who plan to support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination “pro-pedophile.” “Wow, where is Will Smith when you really need […]

It’s been just over a week since the Oscars, and it seems Jimmy Kimmel may have finally moved on from The Slap. Instead, the late-night host spent the majority of his monologue on politics Monday night, from Senator Marsha Blackburn’s unhinged smears about soon-to-be Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s bizarre rants about coke-fueled orgies. Then there was his take on the big news that Sarah Palin is returning to the political stage with a run for Congress in Alaska after losing her lawsuit against The New York Times. In his statement endorsing Palin’s candidacy, Donald Trump said the […]

In a confounding decision this week, Saturday Night Live decided to open its first post-Oscars episode not with the shocking physical attack on one of its most famous alums, but instead yet another episode of Fox & Friends. After some jokes about Donald Trump’s Truth Social app and Ted Cruz’s Antiracist Baby nonsense, the hosts were joined by Kenan Thompson’s Clarence Thomas, who would neither confirm nor deny that he almost died of COVID-19 and Kate McKinnon’s Ginni Thomas, who spoke out against the controversy surrounding her texts to Mark Meadows on Jan. 6, 2021. “I don’t want any trouble,” she […]

With his stand-up tour in New Jersey this weekend, it must have been tempting for Chris Rock to drop by his old stomping grounds to address what went down with Will Smith at the Oscars just six days ago. But instead, it was left to “Weekend Update” co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che to come to his defense. And they held nothing back. “Intelligence officials are saying that Vladimir Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about how badly the Russian military is performing in Ukraine,” Jost began, misdirecting viewers, “which is kind of like Will Smith’s agent telling him, ‘You […]

After opening this week’s show with a grab bag of Fox News controversies, Saturday Night Live ultimately dug deep on last weekend’s Oscars insanity about midway through the episode with a sketch that imagined how some of the seat-fillers surrounding Will Smith may have reacted to him slapping Chris Rock out of nowhere. Cast member Chris Redd took on the role of Smith—doing his best in Jay Pharoah’s absence—with host Jerrod Carmichael playing one of the actor’s biggest fans. “I don’t want to sound corny but you’re my hero, man,” Carmichael’s seat-filler said. “This is the coolest night of my life. […]

After an exhaustive dissection of Will Smith’s mid-Oscars assault on Chris Rock on his show Monday night, Jimmy Kimmel admitted on Tuesday that it was still all he wanted to talk about. “I feel like if they discovered a live chicken on the moon, we would talk about it less than we do this slap,” the late-night host joked. This time he zeroed in on the people who “think the whole thing was fake,” including Fox News “reporter” Lawrence Jones who said, “I really don’t believe that it happened, I think it was more of a staged act,” suggesting it was […]

The hottest topic in the country was also the number one “Hot Topic” on The View Monday morning. But not all of the co-hosts agreed about how much blame Will Smith deserved for smacking comedian Chris Rock in the face on live television during the Oscars. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg, a former Oscar winner and host, reserved her judgment on the incident until the end of the show’s opening segment, ceding the stage to her co-hosts, including Joy Behar, whose first reaction was, “Comedians are in danger everywhere.” Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin took the situation even more seriously, calling Smith’s actions […]

It was supposed to be a career-defining moment in the sun for Will Smith, winning his first Academy Award for playing the title role in King Richard. Then Chris Rock made an off-hand joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s lack of hair. “Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family,” Smith began, implicitly addressing the incident, explaining that he was “overwhelmed by what God is calling on me to do and be in this world.” Throughout the long and emotional speech, Smith tried to rehab an instantly damaged reputation, attempting to turn the unfortunate situation into a positive. “I […]

After two hostless years that saw a precipitous drop in ratings, the Academy Awards returned on Sunday night with not one but three hosts. After an exuberant opening performance by Beyoncé, who was introduced by Venus and Serena Williams, Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes took the stage together at the top of the show Schumer, who may or may not have been joking about wanting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to beam into the ceremony via satellite, staked her claim early as the night’s “edgiest” host, joking, “This year, the Academy hired three women to host, because it’s cheaper than […]

When Maude Apatow was first cast as Lexi on season 1 of HBO’s Euphoria, she was widely known as “Judd Apatow’s daughter.” After the wildly popular and obsessed-over second season wrapped up last month, culminating with Lexi writing, directing and starring in the most expensive high school play of all time, Judd Apatow has officially become “Maude Apatow’s dad.” “I went online and I looked at my Twitter feed and I saw that my name was trending and the first tweet was something like ‘Judd Apatow is Maude’s dad?!’” the legendary comedy director tells me in this preview from next week’s […]

Jimmy Kimmel spent the bulk of his monologue on Tuesday night breaking down the “embarrassing” and “infuriating” start to the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. While Judge Jackson’s opening statement received at least some praise from both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, “not every Republican was impressed,” the host said, adding, “Senators Marsha Blackburn and Josh Hawley were like, “You lost us at ‘Ketanji.’” “What a creep this guy is,” Kimmel said of Hawley in particular, going off on a slight tangent. “He spent much of his 30 allotted minutes reading a list of child porn […]

The increasingly public feud between Kim Kardashian, her ex-husband Kanye West, and new boyfriend Pete Davidson may seem like nothing but tabloid fodder. But over the course of a thoughtful, unscripted 10-minute monologue Tuesday night, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah broke down why it actually matters. Noah argued that more people should be paying attention to the story, “but not for the reason that you think.” While West’s efforts to win Kardashian back may have started out as “romantic,” they have become more “belligerent” over time, including what appeared to be music video death threats against Davidson. And while there […]

During his monologue Tuesday night, Jimmy Kimmel decided to share some footage of Eric Trump’s appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show from the night before “where Eric did his best to answer a question nobody asked, which is, who’s your daddy?” Among the most laughable statements from the former president’s second-born son on Monday was the claim that “my father would have called up and would have said, ‘Vladimir, don’t even think about it, don’t even try us.” But as Kimmel revealed with his supercut, that was just one of many, many times that the words “my father” came out […]

“Right-wing conspiracy theories about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have spun wildly out of control as Donald Trump, the leader of the Republican Party, declared that if he were president he would threaten to use nukes against Russia,” Seth Meyers said at the top of his latest “A Closer Look” segment. The Late Night host turned his focus to the “increasingly unhinged” rhetoric from Fox News hosts like Maria Bartiromo, who told her viewers on Sunday, “Some people have told me over the weekend that they feel that, at the end of the day, this administration does not see Putin as the […]

The almost entirely one-sided feud between the artist formerly known as Kanye West and Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson took on a new dimension Sunday when an extensive text conversation between the two men suddenly appeared online. “A message from Pete,” comedian Dave Sirus, who used to write for SNL and also co-wrote Davidson’s 2020 movie The King of Staten Island, tweeted. He included screenshots of the alleged texts, initiated by Davidson, who began, “Yo, it’s Skete,” a reference to Ye’s preferred nickname for the man who is now officially dating his ex-wife Kim Kardashian. Page Six also claims to […]

“This week marks two years since the beginning of the first COVID lockdown and let’s just say some people have handled the stress better than others,” Colin Jost said at the top of Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” this week, as Vladimir Putiin’s photo appeared on screen beside him. “Russia has passed a ‘fake news’ law that makes it illegal for any organization to report information that contradicts what the government says,” he continued, “which explains the recent headline, ‘6’5″ Putin Not Insane.’” After Jost joked that the situation in Ukraine is “so upsetting” that he’s “honestly thought about marching down […]

“Now, some of you may not have noticed, but I’m a comedian,” Stephen Colbert told viewers at the top of his Late Show monologue Tuesday night. Because of that, the host said, he has many “comedy idols,” including Steve Martin, John Cleese and Elmo: “He just tickles me.” “But I’ve got a new comedy idol,” Colbert continued. “And my new comedy idol is Volodymyr Zelensky.” As the host explained, he’s “normally against electing comedians to political office, and keep in mind I ran for president twice,” referring to his satirical bids in character for The Colbert Report. “But this guy is […]

Seth Meyers spent most of his latest “A Closer Look” segment Monday night imagining just how much worse the situation in Ukraine could be right now if Donald Trump had successfully pulled off his coup and remained president. “We came very close to a world where Trump was still in charge during Russia’s brutal and illegal invasion of Ukraine, which is scary for many reasons,” the Late Night host explained. “One of which is Trump keeps giving us a glimpse as to how he would have responded. And as usual it has that unique Trump blend of being both terrifying and […]

Jimmy Kimmel did not seem overly enthused about President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address Tuesday night, calling it a “tough speech” and joking that he “probably could’ve just saved himself some time and just tweeted that the State of the Union is ‘malarkey AF.’” “The state of our union is about as strong as Kim and Kanye right now,” the late-night host added, noting that “not every lawmaker showed up to watch the speech, which is not the usual.” “One of those who opted out tonight was Florida Senator Marco Rubio,” Kimmel continued, explaining that the Republican lawmaker […]

At the very end of his Watch What Happens Live broadcast Tuesday night, Andy Cohen declared Texas Governor Greg Abbott his “Jackhole of the Day” for persecuting the families of trans kids in his state. “You might have heard that the governor recently ordered that parents of transgender children who give their kids gender-affirming care should be investigated for child abuse,” Cohen, the only openly gay late-night TV host, began. “You heard that correctly,” he added, telling viewers that at least one such family is “already being investigated.” “This order goes against the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics […]

“You know there are a lot of crazy and bad and bad crazy people out there,” Jimmy Kimmel said on Monday after spending some of his monologue making fun of Donald Trump’s unhinged CPAC speech. “And it would seem that I am one of them. Maybe even two of them.” The late-night host was talking about a supposed “Arrest and Execution List” that has emerged from the QAnon conspiracy world. “This is a list of all the celebrities and world leaders who have supposedly been arrested and/or executed,” Kimmel explained. “It’s a long list. There are a couple of hundred names […]

On the off chance you didn’t spend your weekend watching—or god forbid, attending—the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, Seth Meyers had you more than covered Monday night in his latest “A Closer Look” segment. “It really feels like everywhere you look these days, the world is at the whim of fully insane people,” the Late Night host began. Yes, he was talking about Vladimir Putin, but also Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mike Lindell, and Donald Trump. In addition to attending the white nationalist alternative to CPAC, Rep. Greene also “did a truly head-spinning interview where she defended her attempt […]

Following a month-long break, Saturday Night Live returned this week to the unenviable task of trying to find comedy amidst Russia’s horrific invasion of Ukraine. So instead of the traditional cold open, cast members Kate McKinnon and Cecily Strong introduced a solemn song from the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York. That meant it was up to host John Mulaney, joining the coveted Five-Timers Club, to deliver the first jokes of the night. “After a very complicated year, it is wonderful to be in a place that has always emphasized sobriety and mental health,” the comedian began, before trying out some […]

After opening this week’s show on a somber note, Saturday Night Live avoided trying to mine laughs from Russia’s Ukraine invasion—until Colin Jost and Michael Che took the stage for “Weekend Update.” “President Putin launched the attack with support from allies like Belarus and Tucker Carlson,” Jost began. “Many analysts were surprised that Putin went through with it even though it was obviously going to be a colossal mistake. But he couldn’t back down after all that build up. Kind of like how NBC still had to go through with airing the Winter Olympics.” Che meanwhile, lamented that “this is a […]

John Mulaney’s induction into Saturday Night Live’s famous Five-Timers Club went unremarked upon during his excellent opening monologue this week. But midway through the show, Steve Martin, Candice Bergen and recent five-timer Paul Rudd showed up in their special jackets to welcome their newest member. “Congratulations, John, and let me be the first person to say, who are you?” Bergen asked. Later, they were joined by Tina Fey and Elliott Gould—but the biggest surprise of the night came when Conan O’Brien, who spent three seasons writing for SNL but only hosted once in 2001, busted into the room after Martin complained […]

As news broke of even more legal trouble for the former president’s adult children this week, Jimmy Kimmel noted Tuesday night that “Trump’s terrible kids are making the rounds, desperately trying to protect the golden goose.” “Eric took time out of his busy schedule to promote this made-up Hillary Clinton spying case they’re now pumping into the Fox News viewers’ soft, oatmeal-like brains,” the late-night host added. He then cut to a clip of the Trump Organization’s executive vice president’s latest unhinged rant on Hannity from the night before in which he demanded to know why prosecutors weren’t going after his […]

After spending more than 15 minutes breaking down why he felt Joe Rogan’s apology for a history of racist jokes and commentary on his popular Spotify podcast was so disingenuous last week, Trevor Noah doubled down Monday night, turning over the entire Daily Show episode to an extended conversation with the singer who helped break open the controversy earlier this month. “Tonight, we had an episode planned around the Super Bowl and Ukraine and just catching up on all the news, but I had truly one of my favorite conversations with a human being that I ever thought I could have,” […]

After he spent the first several minutes of his monologue complaining that Spider-Man: No Way Home failed to make it onto the list of Best Picture Oscar nominees on Tuesday—without mentioning that Marvel and ABC happen to share the same parent company in Disney—Jimmy Kimmel shifted gears. “Speaking of great acting, you want to see something funny?” the late-night host asked. With that he cut to a clip of a speech Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) made on the floor of the House this week in favor of a bill that aims to eliminate forced arbitration in sexual-assault cases—while currently under federal […]

First, Trevor Noah called out Joe Rogan for his racist commentary about what it means to be “Black.” Then, he reluctantly defended the podcaster’s “refreshing” apology for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. So when he started in on the topic once more during Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show, it wasn’t clear at first which direction he was going to go. But when he arrived at the latest controversy surrounding Rogan’s repeated use of the “N-word” over many years, Noah did not hold back. “If there’s ever a video of you saying the ‘N-word’ that many times,” the host said after sharing […]

It takes a lot more than it used to for Stephen Colbert to get worked up about Donald Trump. But he got there during his Late Show monologue Tuesday night over the new report that the former president plotted to seize voting machines after the 2020 election. “Let’s be clear,” he said, “it is difficult after years of building a thick, protective callus over my heart and my brain, just to protect myself from the hot, black tar of his narcissistic, evil impulses, for me to take this information in for the gargantuan and grotesque violation of everything that this country […]

Just a few days after he tore into Joe Rogan for making blatantly racist comments about what it means to be “Black,” Trevor Noah spent nearly 10 minutes defending the influential podcaster on Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show—all while insisting that wasn’t what he was doing. Noah began his long, unscripted rant by catching his audience up on everything that has been happening with Rogan and artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, who have taken their music off of Spotify so as not to support the same streaming service that exclusively broadcasts his misinformation-filled podcast. On Sunday night, […]

“Donald Trump made it clear this weekend that he’s leading a pro-coup movement intent on dismantling American democracy,” Seth Meyers said in his first “A Closer Look” segment of the week on Monday. The Late Night host was referring first to Trump’s proposed pardons for January 6th rioters and then, more directly, to his admission in a subsequent statement that he did indeed want former Vice President Mike Pence to “overturn” the 2020 election on that day. “For a year now, Trump and his cronies have insisted, ludicrously, that January 6th was not an insurrection and that all they were trying […]

After reporting the news that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire from the bench in June, Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che joked, “‘We thank Justice Breyer for years of upholding the rights of every American,’ said liberals who have been tweeting, ‘Retire, bitch’ for the last year.” “I sympathize with Breyer because I get those same tweets every Saturday around this time,” the “Weekend Update” anchor added. Then he told a joke that demonstrated why. “President Biden promised to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court,” Che said to cheers from the live audience. Those cheers turned to […]

Stephen Colbert began his Late Show monologue Tuesday night by explaining that one of things he “admires” most about President Joe Biden is that he’s a “straight-shooter.” “After a year of holding his tongue in the face of constant criticism, last night he expressed his true feelings about Fox News White House correspondent and winner of the ‘blandest blond man’ and ‘blondest bland man’ awards, Sir Peter Doocy,” the host said before sharing the now infamous clip of Biden calling Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch.” Strapping on his aviators, Colbert exclaimed, “That’s right, old Joe is back! I’ve reached […]

During his opening monologue Monday night, Jimmy Kimmel cheered President Joe Biden for getting caught on a hot mic calling Fox News’ White House correspondent Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch.” “There’s old snarky malarkey, we’ve been wondering where he was!” the late-night host exclaimed with a smile. But later in the show, his guest Jake Tapper had a very different reaction. When Kimmel asked Tapper if his life is “boring” now that Donald Trump is no longer president, the CNN host replied, “No, the current president just called someone a dumb son of a bitch today.” “That reporter, […]

Seth Meyers really wanted to talk about the executive order that Donald Trump’s team drafted to seize voting machines in the aftermath of the 2020 election. But first he had to address what Fox News was focused on instead. “It seems like almost every day we get new details about the threat to our democracy posed by Trump and his cronies as they plotted to overturn the 2020 election,” the Late Night host began. “So naturally, Fox News has been laser-focused on the issues that matter most to Americans.” He was of course talking about the latest culture war outrage about […]

The Daily Show returned from a long hiatus on Tuesday and among the stories host Trevor Noah decided to catch up on was the drawn-out saga of tennis champion Novak Djokovic’s ejection from the Australian Open for his refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccine. “This was supposed to have been a big week for Djokovic,” Noah said. “But like my dream of starring in the biopic of Weird Al, it wasn’t meant to be.” In reference to a survey that found 71% of Australians favored his deportation, the host said, “Damn, it says a lot about you when that many Australians […]

The mainstream media may have mostly ignored Donald Trump’s return to the rally stage this past weekend. But Jimmy Kimmel was not about to let the laughable performance go unremarked upon in his monologue Monday night. “Speaking of angry people in a spin,” the host said, by way of transition from Kanye West to the former president, “Donald Trump is back on the road.” Noting that Trump “ranted for an hour and thirty-five minutes,” Kimmel said, “Maybe it’s me but the material, it’s just not working. It’s kind of like watching the Sex and the City reboot. It needs more Samantha […]

The final Saturday Night Live episode of 2021 did not exactly go as planned after the live audience was sent home and the vast majority of the cast was either out sick with COVID or declined to risk their health for the sake of the show. So the pressure was on to deliver something better resembling what fans expect from SNL when the show made its big return to Studio 8H this week for the first new episode of 2022. And they kicked things off with a message from James Austin Johnson’s President Joe Biden about the one thing America can […]

A few years ago, Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson was forced to apologize to Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) after he made a throwaway joke about the eyepatch that he wears. But that overblown uproar did not stop SNL’s Michael Che from returning to the eyepatch well on “Weekend Update” this week. This time, he was talking about Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, who was arrested and charged with sedition this past week for his role in the January 6th insurrection. “But I don’t know, he looks pretty remorseful,” Che said, as Rhodes’ photo appeared on […]

“Mike Lindell is having a heck of a 2022 so far,” Jimmy Kimmel said in his monologue Thursday night, noting that the MyPillow CEO recently had his phone records subpoenaed by the committee investigating January 6th. And now he’s been trying to “sell his most outlandish claim yet.” During an appearance on a far-right streaming show this week, Lindell declared that he has “enough evidence to put everybody in prison for life, 300 and some million people,” for their role in “stealing” the 2020 election. “There are only 330 million people in the country!” Kimmel shot back. “You know, he keeps […]

Former President Trump’s contentious interview on NPR has been getting perhaps a bit more attention than it deserves on Wednesday. But it was another recent sit-down, this one on OAN, that caught Jimmy Kimmel’s eye. Asked if he’s “reconsidering” his belated push for for the COVID-19 booster, Trump called out some other “politicians” who won’t say if they’ve been boosted. “The answer is ‘yes,’ but they don’t want to say it, because they’re gutless,” he said. “You gotta say it, whether you had it or not, say it.” “‘Gutless?’ Gee, I wonder who he’s talking about…” Kimmel said before playing the […]

“Well, here we are again,” Seth Meyers said from his fifth remote location since the beginning of the pandemic on his latest episode of Late Night. After testing positive for COVID-19 last week, Meyers abruptly canceled several shows before returning to work while still under quarantine Monday night. The host went on to joke that when he tested positive, “I tried to get my hands on some of that horse paste, but they were out of it at my local feed store,” referring to ivermectin. So instead he went with “horse pudding,” which “has no medicinal value, and is not a […]

Before he brought his audience into the studio for his first new episode of 2022 on Monday, Jimmy Kimmel decided to stand on stage and share some thoughts about the sudden loss of his longtime friend Bob Saget. It wasn’t easy. The first tears came when Kimmel described Saget as “the sweetest man” who was always quick with a compliment or just a text to let him know how much he loved him. “He was so funny,” he added. “And I’m not talking about Full House or America’s Funniest Home Videos or stand-up comedy or movies. I mean funny for real.” […]

Fox News’ White House correspondent and perpetual nemesis of Jen Psaki thought he had Joe Biden’s press secretary cornered on Monday when he asked her why the president is still referring to COVID-19 as a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” when so many people are getting breakthrough infections. He was wrong. “I understand that the science says that vaccines prevent death,” Doocy began, before undercutting that basic truth. “But I’m triple-vaxxed, still got COVID. You’re triple-vaxxed, still got COVID. Why is the president still referring to this as a pandemic of the unvaccinated?” Noting that she had “minor symptoms” when she tested […]

The vast majority of casual fans who hear that Bob Saget was tragically found dead at 65 in a Florida hotel room on Sunday will think only of his most famous role as Danny Tanner, the lovable single father of three on the family-friendly ‘90s sitcom Full House—and its recent, equally saccharine reboot Fuller House. Or maybe as that guy who made silly voices on America’s Funniest Home Videos. But to comedy fanatics like me—and especially to comedians—Saget was known as one of the filthiest and most hilarious stand-up comics of all time. It was the inadvertent irony of his long […]

One year to the day after he “tore up the script” to deliver an impassioned excoriation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party on a live episode of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert revealed that he almost went commercial-free that night after “every advertiser” pulled out of the broadcast. “At the last minute, we got new sponsors,” he added Thursday night. “So I’d like to salute the true heroes of January 6th, 2021: CBS ad sales.” From there, the host went on to heap praise on President Joe Biden for the “truly powerful speech” he gave marking the anniversary, during which […]

Stephen Colbert could not wait to dig into the latest bombshell about one of his favorite targets, Sean Hannity, after the House committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot set its sights on the Fox News host. On the eve of the Jan. 6 anniversary—“that horrible day when millions of Americans stared at the TV in shock and grief and said, ‘Ah, crap, is that Uncle Dave?’”—Colbert opened his Late Show monologue with a series of jokes about “Fox News host and proof that the Irish weren’t meant to live past 60, Sean Hannity.” After finding an excuse to play footage of […]

During his first new Late Show monologue of 2022, Stephen Colbert pivoted from joking about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter suspension to a longer chunk about the upcoming anniversary of the Capitol insurrection with the segue, “Speaking of insane people trying to destroy everything.” “In lieu of flowers, the rioters are asking for money in their prison canteen accounts,” he added, before turning his attention to the Congressional committee investigating the attack. Over the weekend, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) revealed on ABC’s This Week that the committee has “firsthand testimony that his daughter Ivanka went in at least twice to ask […]

The one-year anniversary of the Capitol insurrection is upon us, and while many of the hosts, pundits, and commentators who will be discussing it this week were watching from afar, The Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper was right in the middle of the action. To mark the occasion, Klepper joined MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Beyond the Scenes, a weekly podcast hosted by The Daily Show’s Roy Wood Jr. that takes listeners inside some of the Comedy Central program’s most impactful segments. “We remember the Alamo,” Klepper says in the exclusive video version of the episode, which will be available across all […]

The U.S. is currently experiencing an all-time high in COVID-19 cases and Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade has identified the real culprit: Testing. In the morning show’s first broadcast of the new year, Kilmeade echoed former president Donald Trump by declaring that there is just “too much testing” going on. “There’s way too much testing!” he exclaimed, adding, nonsensically, “There’s testing to do testing, testing to go back to school, testing to go back to work, we can’t afford it!” Meanwhile, the CDC has been under fire over the past couple of weeks for not requiring infected individuals to provide […]

This week, CNN’s Chris Cillizza posted a photo of the “post-Christmas gift” he bought himself: a box of the increasingly hard-to-obtain BinaxNOW rapid COVID tests that are helping people feel safe visiting family during the holiday Omicron surge. As with most of his punditry, it did not go over well. But while much of the hate came from the anti-lockdown crowd, the most impassioned response came from Meghan McCain, the former co-host of The View, who began 2021 by complaining about having to wait her turn to get the COVID-19 vaccine. McCain first accused Cillizza of “hoarding” tests and when he […]

Despite what you might still hear over on Fox News, the “War on Christmas” is apparently over. And Americans have Donald Trump to thank. During a deeply bizarre sit-down with Mike Huckabee for a Christmas special from Mar-a-Lago, set to air Thursday night on Newsmax, the former president eagerly took credit for bringing back the phrase “Merry Christmas” and banishing the dreaded “Happy Holidays” once and for all. “America had gone through a long period where people quit saying ‘Merry Christmas.’ It was all ‘Happy Holidays.’ You deliberately changed that!” Huckabee told Trump as treacly music played in the background. Without […]

Seth Meyers took a deep dive on Wednesday into the bombshell revelations about the panicked texts that then-chief of staff Mark Meadows received from Fox News stars and others on the day of the Capitol insurrection. And he began with the desperate pleas from Donald Trump Jr. “Damn, they have Don Jr.’s text messages to his father’s chief of staff,” the host said, “which means Don Jr. doesn’t have his father’s own phone number. And if Don Jr. gets relegated to the chief of staff, who does Eric have to go through, Rudy?” “Whatever else we find out about the actual […]

Stephen Colbert could not wait to dive into the latest bombshell from the January 6th investigation on Tuesday night’s Late Show, spending the bulk of his monologue on the recently revealed text messages that were sent to Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows during the insurrection. The host began with the messages from Donald Trump Jr., who begged Meadows to get his father to deliver an Oval Office address, writing, “He’s got to condemn this shit ASAP.” “OK, that reveals two things about Don Jr.,” Colbert said. “One, he knew his dad was responsible and failing to lead. And […]

Saturday Night Live returned from a four-week hiatus this week with a holiday message from Kate McKinnon’s Dr. Anthony Fauci. “Do people still think I’m sexy or are we done with that?” Fauci began. “With COVID cases on the rise, people still have a lot of questions: ‘Is it safe to travel? Can I still use this as an excuse to get out of stuff? I would like to never work again.’” To answer those queries, Fauci presented a series of increasingly absurd scenarios that began with basic situations like indoor dining and air travel and quickly escalated to include prominent […]

Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” had a lot of news to cover this week, but the hands-down best joke came from Michael Che about the homeless arsonist who set the Fox News Christmas tree on fire last week. “After the tree outside of Fox News headquarters was set on fire by a homeless man, Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt said, ‘This Scrooge is not going to get away with it,’” Che told viewers. “And nothing has ever explained Fox News better than a rich white lady calling a homeless man ‘Scrooge.’” Elsewhere in the segment, co-anchor Colin Jost noted that […]

Fox News hosts spent the past 24 hours going wall-to-wall with outrage over the network’s Midtown Christmas tree, which was set on fire Wednesday night by an apparently mentally ill homeless man. So naturally, Jimmy Kimmel spent a good portion of his monologue Thursday night making fun of their reaction. “They are really making a mountain out of an act of vandalism outside their studio,” the late-night host said. “And whether it is or not, Fox desperately wants to make this a political thing.” Kimmel then played some of the most overheated coverage, including Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade’s assertion […]

The Reno 911 deputies have never met a mission quite like this one. After rebooting the classic Comedy Central series for the ill-fated Quibi last year, the whole crew is back again this month for a new Paramount+ streaming special, promisingly titled Reno 911! The Hunt for QAnon. In the exclusive trailer below, we see a glimpse of the morning meeting in which Lieutenant Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon) lays out the plan to find and “serve” Q by going undercover on a QAnon convention at sea that is sailing from Florida to Nassau. When they find out they can board the […]

Over the past few years, Jordan Klepper has become best-known for embarrassing Trump fanatics all across America in his role as a roving Daily Show correspondent. This week, he broke the mold to train his lens on an unexpected target: anti-vax progressives. “The discussion around vaccines and mandates tends to pit red state versus blue,” Klepper began in his newest segment. “But I had heard there was vaccine hesitancy in the elitist of the elite blue corners of the U.S.” So with that in mind, he headed to Southern California and immediately found himself in the middle of an anti-vaccination protest […]

“Speaking of catastrophes,” Stephen Colbert said midway through his Late Show monologue on Tuesday night, pivoting from a story about the demise of humanity to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), who announced this week that he will be leaving Congress at the end of this year to work for Donald Trump. “Nunes has been named the CEO of the former president’s new media company,” the host explained, “despite having ‘no apparent prior experience working in the tech industry or as an executive.’” As a former dairy farmer, Colbert joked that Nunes is the “perfect guy to make money off the old president, […]

Six weeks later, Alec Baldwin claims he still has no idea how he ended up shooting and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his ill-fated western Rust. The actor spoke out for the first time this week—outside of a heated run-in with paparazzi in Vermont—in an exclusive primetime special with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that aired Thursday night. And in the tearful interview, he denied actually pulling the trigger in the deadly shooting and at the same time described the incident as the “worst thing” that has ever happened to him. He said he is taking solace in the […]

When comedian Kathy Griffin returned to The View for the first time in more than three years on Thursday, she had a lot to talk about. There was the lung cancer surgery that has temporarily altered her voice to sound like Minnie Mouse—her words—and the suicide attempt that stemmed from her ongoing legal troubles surrounding her anti-Trump rhetoric on social media. And of course, there was the continued fallout from the photo Griffin posed for with a fake severed Trump head. At one point during her appearance Thursday morning, guest co-host Ana Navarro asked Griffin what it was like to see […]

As Stephen Colbert has explained to his Late Show audience before, he has spent almost all of 2021 trying his best not to talk about former President Donald Trump. “But no matter how hard you try to avoid him,” he said on Wednesday night, “his name keeps coming up.” The latest story Colbert couldn’t ignore comes from The Chief’s Chief, the new book by former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who reveals that Trump actually tested positive for COVID-19 three days before his September 2020 debate with Joe Biden, and not after as he had previously claimed. “Who could […]

Stephen Colbert kicked off his run of jokes about Dr. Mehmet Oz’s big campaign announcement on Tuesday with a bit of a softball: “Turns out, running for Senate is the one weird trick to reduce belly fat.” It thankfully got harsher from there. “Now, this is Dr. Oz’s first time running for office,” the Late Show host said of the TV doctor’s announcement that he will be running as a Republican for the open seat being vacated by Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA). “So he’s staying humble with his promises.” As an example, he pointed to a line from Oz’s campaign website […]

When Meghan McCain returned to The View from maternity leave at the beginning of 2021, her co-host openly admitted on-air: “I did not miss you. Zero.” Those feeling don’t seem to have changed now that McCain has been off the show for several months. On Friday, The View welcomed back another former conservative co-host, Abby Huntsman, who also happens to be close friends with McCain. Almost immediately, Behar asked her: “Did you miss us? And how does it feel to be back here?” Huntsman, who left the show in 2020 to work on her father’s failed bid to become Utah’s governor, […]