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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 […]

After taking some particularly brutal shots at a post-presidency Donald Trump on Monday, Jimmy Kimmel pivoted on Tuesday to take on his “fraudigal son.” As the late-night host explained, “DJTJ is angry that Biden hasn’t weighed in on the sexual misconduct allegations against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is getting close to breaking presidaddy’s all-time sexual misconduct record by an American politician.” During an especially unhinged appearance on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo the night before, Trump Jr. said that Biden is “probably not the best person to talk about these things given his history of sniffing children.” Trump Jr. […]

It’s been just about two months since Donald Trump departed the White House for Mar-a-Lago so Jimmy Kimmel decided to check in on how he was doing Monday night. “This is what our former president is up to,” the late-night host said during his monologue, telling his viewers about the recent report concerning Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara, “she of the plumped lips” who has a charity called ‘Big Dog Ranch Rescue’ that “paid almost two million dollars to Mar-a-Lago, which is owned by guess who, over the past seven years.” “That doesn’t sound suspicious at all,” Kimmel added. But what the host […]

Stephen Colbert opened The Late Show on Thursday—one year to the day since COVID-19 was officially deemed a pandemic—by playing a slightly altered version of the new PSA featuring four former presidents. In addition to clips of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter each promoting vaccinations, this one included Donald Trump predicting that the virus would magically “go away” without the need for a vaccine. In reality, the 45th president was nowhere to be seen in the ad, which premiered online Thursday morning. After dusting off his W. impression to make fun of Bush for picking a […]

Senator Chuck Schumer knew what he was doing when he used his decades-long relationship with former Republican colleague John McCain to refute Meghan McCain’s criticism of Joe Biden on The View Thursday morning. After fielding a handful of questions about the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill, the Senate Majority Leader turned to the only conservative member of the show’s panel, who began by acknowledging how long they have known each other. “My family loves you, I think of you as a very intellectually honest man,” McCain said. “I really do, even though we disagree on many things.” When Schumer replied by […]

Piers Morgan holds a special place in Stephen Colbert’s heart. So it was no surprise that the Late Show host spent a good few minutes of his monologue Tuesday night reveling in the British pundit’s dramatic downfall. As the fallout from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s big sit-down with Oprah Winfrey started to become apparent in the U.K., Colbert said, “Fans of the royal family dumped a crumpet in their knickers, especially TV organism Piers Morgan.” Among other outrageous commentary, Morgan actually defended whoever it was that expressed concern over the skin tone of the couple’s child, “Is it racist and […]

Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo was so excited Tuesday morning for her big segment on the Looney Tunes character Pepé Le Pew, declaring, “Cancel culture takes on cartoons!” But that excitement quickly turned to visual frustration when her guest refused to echo her outrage. As Bartiromo explained to viewers, the upcoming Space Jam sequel decided to cut out a scene featuring the sexually assaulting skunk. She laughed off the notion that the animated character could be “promoting rape culture” and joked, “Bugs Bunny better watch out, they’re coming for him!” Wall Street Journal writer Jon Hilsenrath, who seemed to not […]

Like at least a decent number of the more than 17 million Americans who tuned in to watch Oprah Winfrey’s dramatic sit-down with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Sunday night, Jimmy Kimmel initially had “no interest” in watching the special. “Then my wife put it on and I was like, ‘Wait, rewind that! What did he say? Prince Charles is an animal!’” Joking that the event “will surely go down in history as the most shocking gender reveal party of all time,” Kimmel said, “If only there was a way these Oprah specials could vaccinate us too, it would be amazing.” […]

The second the phrase “Neanderthal thinking” came out of President Joe Biden’s mouth in reference to Republican governors who were prematurely reopening their states, it was inevitable. Conservatives had found their new “basket of deplorables” and would start self-identifying as cavemen to own the libs. On Friday, Joy Behar opened The View by asking if this whole “scandal” could be considered a “win to just get Republicans to admit that evolution exists?” Over the next several minutes, Sunny Hostin dismissed the “pearl clutching” by Republicans after years of defending Donald Trump; and Sara Haines laughed off the whole thing, explaining the […]

The last time Sacha Baron Cohen appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, he was in-character as Borat Sagdiyev, introducing his “daughter” Tutar—AKA Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova—to the world. On Thursday, on the heels of his double win at the Golden Globes, he returned as himself. But it was anything but a typical late-night spot. Baron Cohen was joking that he got stuck talking to the losers in his category in the awkward Zoom rooms at the ceremony after he won when Kimmel added, “If they had any sense of humor, they would have stuck Rudy Giuliani in that room with you” and […]

During a shouting match with Geraldo Rivera on Fox News on Thursday night, Judge Jeanine Pirro went on a tirade that was shocking in its blatant racism—even for her. “We’ve got people being released at the border right now who’ve got COVID,” Pirro screamed at Rivera, who was attempting to push back on her argument. “Wait a minute, I listened to you, you listen to me! They’ve got COVID! They’ve got all kinds of diseases! They are being released into the United States!” “Now, you’re not going to tell me that a governor is going to shut me down and not […]

Almost two years ago, Samantha Bee used her role as one of the very few ladies in late-night television to mock Joe Biden’s video apologizing for inappropriately touching women in a way her male counterparts never could. Now, with another prominent Democrat under fire for even creepier behavior, the Full Frontal host went all-in Wednesday night. “The U.S. still has a long way to go toward making a real recovery from the pandemic, but we’re entering a new phase. The fog is clearing and we can finally start scrutinizing the behavior of our leaders, including the ones we used to like,” […]

If you happened to catch any hour of Fox News over the past couple of days, you may be under the impression that Dr. Seuss getting “canceled” is the biggest news story in America. You probably won’t be surprised to learn that it’s not quite so simple. As Stephen Colbert explained in his Late Show monologue Tuesday night, Dr. Seuss Enterprises has decided to stop publishing six rather obscure titles from the iconic children’s author because they contain “racist and insensitive imagery.” “It’s a responsible move on their part,” the host argued. “There hadn’t been an earth-shattering outcry, but they recognize […]

Over the past six weeks or so, late-night shows have been struggling to figure out how to make comedy out of our collective post-Trump reprieve. Mostly, they have either found excuses to keep joking about Donald Trump or found new conservative targets like QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Cancun Senator Ted Cruz. More recently, on the latest episodes of Saturday Night Live, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo finally started taking some heat. But one political figure who has mostly evaded comedic scrutiny—much to Fox News’ frustration—is the current […]

“We have to talk about the political scandal that is rocking the country,” Trevor Noah said during Monday night’s Daily Show. For the first time in a long time, he wasn’t talking about Donald Trump. After an extended breakdown of the multiple sexual harassment allegations against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, including his defense that he was just trying to be “playful” with his female employees, the host said, “Guys, of course he was being playful! I mean, imagine your much older, politically powerful boss turns to you and says, ‘When was the last time you were really hugged?’ That’s super […]

Chris Cuomo opened his primetime CNN show Monday night by acknowledging the growing sexual harassment scandal surrounding his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and telling viewers why he “obviously” would not be covering it. “Before we start tonight, let me say something that I’m sure is very obvious to you who watch my show,” the host began. “And thank you for that. You’re straight with me, I’ll be straight with you.” “Obviously, I’m aware of what’s going on with my brother,” Cuomo continued. “And obviously I cannot cover it, because he is my brother. Now, of course CNN has to […]

“Thank you to the all white Hollywood Foreign Press,” Sacha Baron Cohen said, accepting the Golden Globe award for Best Comedy or Musical film Sunday night. His speech only got more scathing from there. “I’ve got to say, this movie could not have been possible without my co-star, a fresh new talent who came from nowhere and turned out to be a comedy genius,” the Borat Subsequent Moviefilm star said. “I’m talking about Rudy Giuliani. I mean, who can get more laughs out of one unzipping? Incredible.” “Our movie was just the beginning for him,” Baron Cohen continued. “Rudy went on […]

After giving conservatives something to embrace in this week’s cold open, Saturday Night Live steered hard in the other direction during “Weekend Update” when Cecily Strong revived her Marjorie Taylor Greene impression to take the QAnon congresswoman to task for her appalling display of transphobia. As Colin Jost explained, Greene “caused more controversy this week after she put up a sign outside the office of a congresswoman with a transgender daughter that said, ‘There are two genders, male and female. Trust the science.’” “You know me, I’m a science person,” Greene, carrying a gun and wearing a T-shirt that read “Trust […]

This past week, Fox News finally lost its collective mind over Saturday Night Live’s reluctance to parody Joe Biden the way the show hammered Donald Trump for the previous four years. And while that trend continued on the latest episode, SNL did give any conservative viewers out there something to love by taking on not only Dr. Anthony Fauci but also a trio of Democratic governors in a cold open game show called “So You Think You Can Get the Vaccine.” “The vaccine rollout is going strong, but it is also very confusing,” Kate McKinnon’s Fauci said at the top of […]

Less than two weeks after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared that there was “no question—none—that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking” the insurrectionist attack on the U.S. Capitol—while simultaneously voting to acquit on impeachment—he told Fox News on Thursday evening that he would “absolutely” support Trump if he is the Republican nominee in 2024. Ahead of Trump’s big speech at CPAC on Sunday, Fox anchor Bret Baier asked McConnell to weigh in on the widespread assumption that the former president will be the frontrunner should he decide to run again. At first, McConnell hedged a bit, saying, […]

With the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference just days away, both Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel went in on the organizers of CPAC Tuesday night for using the tagline “America Uncanceled” and then immediately “canceling” one of their featured speakers for openly anti-Semitic tweets. “It’s a who’s who of ‘who needs that many guns in their rec room?’” Colbert said during his Late Show monologue, in a nod to Donald Trump Jr. “Of course, with all the crises facing our nation, conservatives are focusing on the most pressing issue of all: fascists being kicked off of Twitter.” Referring to the conference’s […]

“It’s been this way for a long time, but right now in particular if you look around, it’s easy to feel like virtually everything in our country is broken,” Seth Meyers said on his first episode of Late Night after taking the previous week off. “This past year has been one of ceaseless misery, dysfunction and chaos, and yes, I know I’m starting to sound like Werner Herzog at the top of one of these segments.” But with more than 500,000 Americans dead from COVID-19 and an ongoing power and water crisis in Texas, this is where we are. And the […]

It was a story tailor-made for Jimmy Kimmel, who has never been shy about his outright hatred of Ted Cruz. And on Thursday night, he spent nearly his entire monologue going in on the Texas senator for fleeing his freezing, devastated home state for what ended up being a short-lived getaway in Cancun. “On behalf of all of us we want to send our best wishes from L.A. to those of you who have been hammered by the cold weather,” the late-night host began, sincerely. “Hundreds of thousands of Texans are still without power. And on a day when the most […]

Senator Ted Cruz fleeing his home state of Texas in the middle of a catastrophic winter storm that has left millions without power, water, or heat for a weekend getaway to Cancun is one of those actions that is so egregious it’s hard to imagine how anyone could defend it. And yet, a few brave souls in conservative media are doing the best they can. First out of the gate was right-wing pundit Erick Erickson, who tweeted early Thursday morning: “The fact that people think Ted Cruz, a United States Senator, can do anything about a state power grid, even his […]

Donald Trump still has not called Joe Biden to congratulate him on winning the 2020 election. And Jimmy Kimmel knows why: He’s “too busy” calling into Fox News. “After 27 days in hiding, Trump called into Fox News today to talk about his friend Rush Limbaugh who died,” the late-night host said during his monologue Wednesday night. “And what a beautiful tribute it was.” Kimmel proceeded to air the highlights from the first of two phone “interviews” Trump gave to Fox, ostensibly to praise the openly racist, misogynistic and homophobic right-wing radio mogul, who died on Wednesday after a long battle […]

Jimmy Kimmel returned from the holiday weekend on Tuesday night to weigh in on the surprisingly dramatic, if ultimately anti-climactic conclusion to Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. “Mitch McConnell tried to have it both ways this weekend,” the late-night host began. “After voting to acquit, McConnell gave a blistering speech condemning Trump’s actions and inaction. Basically saying, ‘Donald Trump is guilty of all the things I just found him not guilty of.‘” Instead of giving McConnell the triumphant video treatment, Kimmel aired audio of his scathing speech behind video of a turtle eating a leaf, before joking, “It was the tortoise […]

After two weeks of struggling to make fun of politics in the Joe Biden era, Saturday Night Live finally had something to work with this weekend: The second impeachment trial and inevitable acquittal of Donald Trump. The scene opened on Saturday with “human White Claw” Tucker Carlson (played by Alex Moffat) hosting Kate McKinnon’s Lindsey Graham and Aidy Bryant’s Ted Cruz on his Fox News show. “There’s a lot to cover tonight including the impeachment,” Carlson said at the top of the cold open sketch. “So in place of my usual monologue, here’s a loose collection of scaremongering non sequiturs. Is […]

A month after he found himself in the middle of the Capitol riot melee, The Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper returned to the scene of the crime this week to confront the handful of Donald Trump supporters protesting his second impeachment. He began the piece by noting that Washington, D.C. is “a bit different” than the last time he was there, with National Guard troops in the streets and fencing surrounding the U.S. Capitol Building where the proceedings were taking place. “And the thousands of screaming MAGA folks is down to… two.” Without the typical hordes of maskless Trump fanatics, Klepper […]

Ahead of Thursday’s impeachment hearings, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) joined MSNBC to offer up her defense of Donald Trump. But her “constitutional” argument didn’t fly with anchor Chuck Todd. Mace—who just last week was fundraising off dishonest attacks on her colleague, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), claiming she exaggerated the threat to her own life during the Capitol riots—said she tried to watch the House impeachment managers’ video presentation but only got halfway through. “I felt physically ill, I cried when I watched it.” she said, before pivoting to elaborate on violent threats that she has received. “Rhetoric does have consequences,” Mace […]

Unlike his competitor over on CBS, Jimmy Kimmel found the first day of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial “boring and pointless.” Day two was a different story. “What the House managers presented today was absolutely gripping,” the late-night host said at the top of his monologue. “They had never-before-seen videos of the rioters terrorizing congresspeople. Mitt Romney had to run, they had video of that. The mob was knocking out windows, banging on doors, looking to find Nancy Pelosi, chanting ‘hang Mike Pence.’” Among the most shocking new pieces of video, Kimmel explained, was of Pence and his family being evacuated […]

John Oliver makes his triumphant return to Last Week Tonight this coming Sunday on HBO. But first, he joined Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night’s Late Show to weigh in on everything he missed since his post-election season finale last fall. “Here we go again, again,” Colbert said at the top of the show, explaining that the first day of Trump’s second impeachment hearings—or, as he called it, “déjà coup”—turned out to be “far less boring” than he thought it would be. The host was especially moved by the “devastating” video House impeachment managers presented at the top of their opening arguments. […]

In the moments after House impeachment managers wrapped up their opening arguments on Tuesday, Fox News anchors were briefly forced to concede that the connection between President Trump inciting actions and the violent insurrection is hard to dispute. “When we saw that video,” John Roberts said, referring to the comprehensive montage of footage from the Jan. 6 riots presented by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), “we saw some of the people who were at the tip of the spear breaching the Capitol, repeating what Trump had said in his rally, ‘We will stop the steal.’” He also highlighted the moment when one […]

Bobby Moynihan still has incredibly “vivid” memories of walking out onto the stage at Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center for his first episode as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. It was September 13th, 2008 and Tina Fey was making her debut as Sarah Palin opposite Amy Poehler’s Hillary Clinton in the cold open sketch. “I remember being like, ‘Physically try to imprint this on your brain so you will remember it at all times,’” Moynihan recalls on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. “I was aware that I had worked my entire life for that moment and […]

On the eve of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, Seth Meyers dug into the various ways Republicans are attempting to defend his calls for violent insurrection—even as the former president himself refuses to denounce the “big lie” that drove his supporters to violence in the first place. But while Trump is unlikely to face any major consequences for his actions, the same can’t be said for “one of his closest allies,” Lou Dobbs, whose Fox Business show was canceled last week following a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit brought by the voting software company Smartmatic. “Ah, wow, poor Lou Dobbs,” the Late […]

Saturday Night Live took some heat for giving Joe Biden a pass in its first new episode of 2021, and cast member Alex Moffat was once again missing in action as the 46th president on this week’s show. And by the time “Weekend Update” rolled around, it became clear just how much the show was missing Donald Trump. “Former social media influencer Donald Trump,” Colin Jost began, getting an applause break for his set up, “will not testify at his impeachment trial next week and I think I speak for all of us when I say, come on, please?” “Give us […]

CNN commentator Van Jones joined The View on Friday morning to talk about the new documentary about American “unity” he co-produced with Meghan McCain. But first, McCain’s co-host took Jones to task for crying tears of joy after Joe Biden’s win after having secretly worked with the Trump administration. “Now Van, you do spend a lot of time threading the middle and trying to unite people,” Sunny Hostin began. “But there are those who accuse you of being a political opportunist—a chameleon, so to speak—who provided racial cover for former, disgraced, twice impeached President Trump.” Jones smiled tensely on one side […]