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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, […]

Ahead of the second Thanksgiving of the COVID-19 era, Samantha Bee opened her late-night show this week by presenting good news and bad news. “The good news is that the pandemic is getting better,” she began. “The bad news? Your ass is going home for the holidays.” As the Full Frontal host went on to explain, the widespread availability of vaccines, including for children as young as five, means that most Americans can have a “relatively normal Turkey Day” this year. And she even took time to celebrate a “surprising twist” in the pandemic narrative. “Some anti-vaxxers actually are getting the […]

Chris Christie has been on an apology tour of sorts, promoting his new book Republican Rescue with interviews on late-night TV, where he refused to rule out voting for Donald Trump in 2024, and cable news, where he refused to criticize Fox News. As Jimmy Kimmel described it Tuesday night, the former New Jersey governor is “busy on a ‘yeah, I knew Trump told lies, but all politicians tell lies, and even though Trump told a thousand times more than all of them combined, the fact that I buddied up to him is OK, because lies are as American as apple […]

The first thing Trevor Noah asked Chris Christie when they sat down for an extended talk on The Daily Show Monday night was, “Are we having a legit conversation or are you going to politician me?” Christie promised Noah a “totally legit” interview. And he mostly stuck to it, sharing candid anecdotes from his new book, Republican Rescue: Saving the Party from Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe Biden and openly criticizing Donald Trump more than pretty much any other high-profile conservative has been willing do since January 6th. But when it came to the question of […]

This week’s Saturday Night Live opened with a very special episode of “Cruz Street,” in which Aidy Bryant’s Ted Cruz used his new platform on “Newsmax Kids” to continue his bizarre war against Big Bird. “Hello, I’m Texas senator and last one invited to Thanksgiving, Ted Cruz,” he began. “Now, for 50 years, I stood by as Sesame Street taught our children dangerous ideas, like numbers and kindness. But when Big Bird told children to get vaccinated against a deadly disease, I said, ‘enough’ and I created my own Sesame Street called ‘Cruz Street.’ It’s a gated community where kids are […]

Before her show-stopping performance of the new 10-minute “All Too Well” from Red (Taylor’s Version) on Saturday Night Live, musical guest Taylor Swift made a surprise appearance in the latest short film from Please Don’t Destroy. The taped sketch started as a bit about how cast member Pete Davidson wanted to make a video with the trio of new SNL writers—Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy—about “how we’re all like best friends and how we’re like boys,” but quickly revealed itself to be a song called “Three Sad Virgins.” “Another day in the life of Pete, just sitting in a […]

Last weekend, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) tweeted a short, out-of-context clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live! with the caption, “Good morning. @JimmyKimmel is a sexist pig. Have a great day!” In the video, Boebert could be seen demanding a “full investigation into just how many puppies were eaten alive on Fauci’s watch” followed by Jimmy Kimmel joking that every time he hears her speak he expects it to “turn into stepmother porn.” Calling the Colorado congresswoman an “idiot” who “wears glasses to make it look like she can read,” Kimmel used his monologue Thursday night to both defend himself and embarrass Boebert […]

Of all the former Trump White House officials whom Seth Meyers “would have been happy to never see or hear from again,” Kellyanne Conway sits at the top of the list. “Probably the person I miss the least is Kellyanne Conway, whose shamelessness really knew no bounds,” the Late Night host explained Wednesday night. “She was somehow the Trump administration’s most prolific and also worst liar.” Meyers added that Conway “lied the way your kids lie,” going way too far to the point where no one could plausibly believe her nonsense. The quote that “should follow her for the rest of […]

It’s still unknown whether Kyle Rittenhouse’s tearful testimony will help him avoid going to prison for killing two people amid the chaos of violent demonstrations last spring in Kenosha, Wisconsin. But he definitely convinced Fox News host Jeanine Pirro. “He was a good kid, he went there to clean up the graffiti on the buildings.” Pirro declared of Rittenhouse on The Five, leaving out the part where he brought along an AR-15 with him. She went on to describe him as an “exemplary” witness, praising him for speaking “clearly” and “directly” and calling the prosecutor in the case “so desperate, so […]

“Our dear misleader suffered a setback yesterday,” Jimmy Kimmel said during his late-night monologue on Tuesday. He was referring to a ruling from a federal judge that Donald Trump’s White House records must be turned over to the congressional committee investigating the January 6th insurrection. “Late last night, Trump asked a federal judge to prevent the records from being released,” Kimmel explained. “The judge denied that late-night request. And Trump was like, ‘You’re just like Melania!’” “But this could be bad for Trump,” the host continued. “If these documents are made public, we may finally know whether Trump and his associates […]

Aaron Rodgers is currently quarantined with COVID-19 and Jimmy Kimmel did not express any sympathy Thursday night, taking the Green Bay Packers quarterback to task for refusing to get vaccinated. “No one seems to know that he wasn’t vaccinated,” the late-night host explained. “He hasn’t been wearing a mask, even where it’s required, and at one point, he claimed he was ‘immunized,’ but looking back at when he said it, it should have been obvious that he was not.” Kimmel then rewound the tape, adding comical air quotes to Rodger’s assertion that he had been “immunized.” “We now know he is […]

As a “judge,” you would think Fox News host Jeanine Pirro would know the difference between a “kingmaker” and a “kingpin,” but during an interview with former President Donald Trump over the weekend, she mixed them up. Neither she nor Trump seemed to notice. But Seth Meyers did, sharing the clip with his viewers during Monday night’s “A Closer Look” segment on Late Night. After Pirro asked Trump if he sees himself as a “kingpin for elections going forward,” he replied, “If I endorse somebody, they win,” inventing a false statistic that claims he is 148-and-2 on successful endorsements. “Jeanine, I’m […]

Seth Meyers spent 12-and-a-half minutes of his last Late Night of the week on Thursday breaking down just how much of a “shit-covered, ass-over-tea kettle clusterfuck” the Democrats’ attempt to pass President Joe Biden’s social safety net expansion has become. But he started by drawing attention to the weirdest thing that happened in Washington today. “To give you an idea of how things are going in Congress right now, here’s a photo Utah Senator Mitt Romney posted today of himself dressed up as Ted Lasso serving biscuits to Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema,” the host began. He neglected to even mention the […]

When Roy Wood Jr. appeared on The Last Laugh podcast earlier this year, he teased that he would be “closing the window” between taping and air for his next stand-up special. Inspired by the fast turnaround of Dave Chappelle’s 8:46 set, he was eager to get his new hour out into the world with as little delay as possible. Now, he’s done it, filming Imperfect Messenger at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood, Colorado, less than two weeks before it’s set to premiere on Comedy Central this Friday, October 29th at 10:30 p.m. And the longtime Daily Show correspondent includes plenty of […]

CNN host Jake Tapper used the last few minutes of his State of the Union broadcast on Sunday to unload on the conversative politicians who saw opportunity in the tragic death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Alec Baldwin’s movie Rust last week. Noting that Hutchins was a “rising star” in her field who left behind a husband and young son, Tapper said, “Heartbreaking, for normal people. But there’s something about our politics right now that is driving people away from our shared humanity.” He pointed to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) who “apparently did some digging” and found a […]

Colin Jost opened the Halloween edition of Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” with the “most haunting image” he saw this past week. No, it wasn’t Kanye West in his creepy white mask, he joked: “Sorry, Ye, he goes by Ye now. Even though no one looks at this and goes, ‘Yay!’” He was actually talking about Steve Bannon, “former White House, I want to say garbage man,” who was held in contempt of Congress this week for avoiding a subpoena in the January 6th investigation. “But this is what Bannon wants,” Jost said. “It just plays into his whole persecuted messiah […]

Over the course of nine seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, Jason Sudeikis played dozens of recurring characters, perhaps most famously then-Vice President Joe Biden. In the years since, the show first went the stunt-casting route—to disastrous effect—with Jim Carrey, before briefly turning the role over to Alex Moffat and then this season letting new featured player James Austin Johnson take the reins. When the Ted Lasso star returned to host SNL for the first time this week, they couldn’t help but give him another shot at the current president. After a cold open in which Chloe Fineman’s […]

Stephen Colbert can’t believe Donald Trump is actually calling his new social media platform “Truth Social.” “The man who told over 30,000 lies in office has launched something called ‘Truth,’” the Late Show host said in his monologue Thursday night. “He’s also launched a new makeup line called ‘Human Skin.’” As Colbert explained, when the site briefly went live on Wednesday, someone started a fake account in the former president’s name and promptly posted a photo of a “pig defecating on its own scrotum.” “Are they sure that was a fake account?” the host asked. “Because it feels on-brand.” From there, […]

In the two-and-half months since she bid her awkward farewell to The View, Meghan McCain kept her media presence pretty low key. But this week, she is back in a big way, promoting her new audio memoir Bad Republican by trashing her former co-hosts in the digital pages of Variety and on Sean Hannity’s show, where she extolled the virtues of Fox News’ “sisterhood.” And on Wednesday, she returned to her favorite late-night haunt, Watch What Happens Live, to spill even more tea to Andy Cohen. With the title of her book unironically displayed beneath her name on screen—and her good […]

Trevor Noah is not impressed with Kanye West’s big name change. During his rundown of the latest news on Tuesday’s episode of The Daily Show, Noah revealed that the “iconic rapper, fashion designer and self-appointed youth pastor” is “Kanye no more,” adopting “Ye” as his new full, legal name. “And I’ll be honest, I get why he changed it,” the host said. “I mean, if I had gone super MAGA like he did last year, I also would want to distance myself from myself.” But what really baffled Noah was the reason the artist formerly known as Kanye West gave for […]

Jordan Klepper hadn’t attended a Trump rally since he inadvertently found himself in the middle of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, “a day no one will ever forget, unless you’re a Republican member of Congress,” the Daily Show contributor joked in his latest dispatch. But this past week, Klepper boldly returned to the scene, trolling the crowd at the former president’s big Iowa event for the most embarrassing devotees he could find. What he discovered more than anything was banners, flags, and deluded supporters all proclaiming that “Trump Won” as loudly as they could. “And even though Trump won, they’re […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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