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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” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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! […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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, […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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’ […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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,” […]

Organized religion continues to decline in America, but God just keeps getting more popular on Twitter. As of this week, @TheTweetOfGod has 6.2 million followers, or what the comedy writer behind the account refers to on today’s bonus episode of The Last Laugh podcast as “one Holocaust” of followers. It’s exactly the type of dry, dark, controversial joke that “God,” AKA former Daily Show writer David […]

Stephen Colbert made it clear Thursday night that he didn’t really want to spend most of his Late Show monologue talking about QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. But he didn’t really feel like he had a choice. After touching on the absurdly petty letter that Donald Trump sent to the Screen Actors Guild earlier in the day, the host said, “Speaking of acting, I can’t wait […]

After attempting to take aim at Joe Biden (sort of) earlier in the week, Seth Meyers took on an easier target Wednesday night: Marjorie Taylor Greene. Specifically, the Late Night host focused on the “most vile defense” of the QAnon Congresswoman he’s heard so far. And it just happened to come from one of Fox News’ most prominent “straight news” anchors, Bill Hemmer. Drawing a shocking […]

Late-night TV’s new favorite punching bag took some more hits Tuesday night when Jimmy Kimmel spent the better part of his monologue digging into the latest controversy surrounding QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). “Mitch McConnell emerged from his shell yesterday to distance himself from Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene,” the host said. “The Senate Minority Leader called her out for latching onto ‘loony lies and conspiracy […]

Seth Meyers actually went after President Joe Biden pretty hard Monday night—but not for the reasons Fox News would have liked. Instead, the Late Night host criticized Biden for engaging in what he views as a “futile and preposterous exercise” by “indulging” Republicans’ demands of “bipartisanship” when it comes to COVID relief. “Just the fact that he’s willing to sit down and listen to you at […]

Cecily Strong may have opened this weekend’s Saturday Night Live with a solid new Marjorie Taylor Greene impression, but she was one-upped during “Weekend Update” when Beck Bennett busted out his Mike Lindell. Joining Colin Jost to talk about his exile from Twitter after continuing to push false voter fraud conspiracy theories, Lindell snuggled his MyPillow close as he pushed back on allegations that he helped […]

After an extended six-week break, Saturday Night Live returned to a new Trump-free reality this weekend. And with Alec Baldwin and the show’s new President Joe Biden nowhere to be seen, Cecily Strong stepped in to follow up her instantly iconic performance as Rudy Giuliani’s star witness Mellissa Carone by debuting her Marjorie Taylor Greene impression. The QAnon congresswoman was the first guest on a Kate […]

One day after drawing a bizarre false equivalence between QAnon-loving Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell on The View, Meghan McCain tried out another failed analogy—this time on Twitter. “The GameStop stock story is like a mirror to the world of everything that is wrong,” McCain tweeted. “This is what happens when the system feels rigged and nothing seems to work anymore. […]

Meghan McCain really didn’t want to defend QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on The View Thursday morning, but she just couldn’t help herself. After her co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar tore into Greene for specific threats she made against Democratic leaders in the years leading up to her election last fall, McCain admitted that they were right. “She’s a nightmare for Republicans. I mean, […]

President Joe Biden wants to bring “unity” to the United States of America. But as The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah laid out Wednesday night, that is not going to be easy given that this country has pretty much been divided from the very beginning. “I can see why unity would be very appealing for people right now,” the host said. “But for unity to work, you […]

After getting under Donald Trump’s skin one last time over the weekend with a brutally honest interview in The New York Times (and accompanying episode of The Daily podcast) Dr. Anthony Fauci seemed genuinely ready to move on Monday when he appeared as a guest on Fox News’ revamped America’s Newsroom hour. Towards the end of that appearance, co-anchor Dana Perino noted her frustration that about […]

After Seth Meyers delivered a light burn of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s “erection” gaffe during his latest “A Closer Look” segment Monday night, he jokingly added, “And they thought we were going to run out of material.” But as much as the Late Night host wants to move on from Donald Trump, he was sucked back in thanks to the pending impeachment trial in the […]

Late Friday morning, at the end of an unusually busy news week, Fox News anchor Harris Faulker evidently ran out of things to be outraged about and turned her attention to Time magazine’s first cover of the Joe Biden era. In Faulkner’s words, the cover, which was illustrated by longtime Time artist Tim O’Brien and is accompanied by the headline “Day One,” shows Joe Biden in […]

Seth Meyers booked Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as his guest on Late Night before Wednesday’s inauguration, but by the time Thursday night rolled around, there was really only one thing he wanted to ask him about. “Were you aware that this photo immediately sort of became the meme of the day?” the host asked, holding up the original photo of Sanders sitting by himself with both […]

Joy Behar had “all sorts of feelings” to share about the inauguration of President Joe Biden on The View Wednesday morning, including the sense that an air conditioner could have fallen on the heads of the collective heads of American people, but then it didn’t. “That’s how I felt yesterday,” she said. But it was Behar’s comments about one of the inauguration attendees that set off […]

Stephen Colbert went live on Wednesday night following President Joe Biden’s inauguration and the sense of deep relief in the room was palpable. “Well, you did it,” he told his Late Show viewers. “You survived the last four years and your reward? A shiny, new, old president.” After admitting that he “cried a lot” over the course of the day, Colbert said, “It was extremely emotional […]

Unlike pretty much every other late-night host, Trevor Noah was still on hiatus when MAGA insurrectionists took over the U.S. Capitol two weeks ago. So this Tuesday, which also happened to be Donald Trump’s last night as president, was his first chance to weigh in on what happened. The Daily Show host decided to zoom out and look at the bigger picture of how the riot […]

“We’re planning sort of a great big goodbye to her that I’m really, really excited about,” Laura Benanti told me last month when I asked her if she was finally finished playing First Lady Melania Trump on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “It’s going to be pretty, pretty spectacular.” On Monday night, with about 36 hours to go until Joe Biden is sworn in as […]

Donald Trump has less than a week left in office and Sarah Cooper is feeling reluctantly hopeful. “I’m really excited. I’m really happy,” she tells me in this preview of next week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. “There’s still a part of me that’s like, is it really over? Could it really be over?” The comedian, who became wildly famous over the past year posting […]

It was a story that seemed like it was written for late-night television. As the Washington Post lede read, “Many U.S. Secret Service agents have stood guard in Washington’s elite Kalorama neighborhood, home over the years to Cabinet secretaries and former presidents. Those agents have had to worry about death threats, secure perimeters and suspicious strangers. But with the arrival of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, […]

After gleefully cheering President Donald Trump’s second impeachment on Wednesday night, Jimmy Kimmel had even more good news to celebrate on Thursday. Not only has Trump already started moving out of the White House, but the president’s mood has been described as “sullen” and “vengeful” and he’s “even lashing out at his number one dirty deeds-doer Rudy Giuliani.” The host was referring to a new report […]

In her first new episode of 2021—and the first since last week’s Trump-led insurrection at the U.S. Capitol—Samantha Bee had a lot to get off her chest. “It was the ugliest scene to happen on the floor of the Senate since… about one hour before that,” the Full Frontal host said, cutting to a photo of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who she singled out, along with […]

When critics attempt to rank the best “Weekend Update” anchors across four and half decades of Saturday Night Live, Colin Quinn consistently falls at or near the very bottom. He gets it. “I would self-destruct, as you can see if you watch it,” the man who is paradoxically also considered by his peers to be among the best stand-up comedians of his generation says on this […]

As President Trump’s MAGA hordes were overtaking the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday, photos started to emerge on social media of a familiar face in the insurrectionist crowd: Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper. When I reached out to him in the immediate aftermath to see what kind of field piece he had in store for viewers, the comedian simply replied, “A wild one.” The segment, which is […]

Even as the FBI has begun making sweeping arrests of the seditionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol last week, Stephen Colbert asked, “You know who’s not taking alt-right terrorism seriously at all? The president.” During his Late Show monologue Tuesday night, the host zeroed in on a new report that President Trump laid blame for the riot on “antifa people” in a call with House Minority […]

Colin Quinn got COVID-19 for the jokes. Well, not exactly. But he is already developing new material about his experience with the virus. “I was actually glad I had it,” the comedian admits to me on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. “Because when you’re doing stand-up and you’re like, ‘Well I had corona,’ everybody’s going to be more interested.” He only wishes the […]

Meghan McCain has only been back on The View for a week and tempers are already running high. So Andy Cohen really had no choice but to ask her about the perpetual on-set tensions during her latest appearance on his Watch What Happens Live show Monday night. Specifically, he brought up the moment last week when Joy Behar bluntly declared, “I did not miss you.” “So […]

In his latest “A Closer Look” segment Monday night, Seth Meyers went through all of the most egregious reactions to last week’s siege of the U.S. Capitol, culminating with one of the most appalling of all, from First Lady Melania Trump. “If you are a public figure in any capacity, but especially someone who was complicit in building or encouraging this violent insurrectionist movement that nearly […]

After soberly calling for the immediate removal of Donald Trump from office on Wednesday night, Seth Meyers turned his attention on Thursday to the Republican lawmakers and Fox News media stars who are actually still defending the president after he instigated a coup attempt by his supporters to take the U.S. Capitol. “Why isn’t Congress immediately convening to remove the leader of a violent insurrectionist movement […]

Exactly two months ago, after President Donald Trump responded to his election loss by declaring victory, Stephen Colbert choked back tears during his monologue as he told viewers, “We all knew he would do this. What I did not know is that it would hurt so much.” He hadn’t seen anything yet. But this time, Colbert wasn’t sad, he was furious. The Late Show host once […]

It took no time at all for Meghan McCain to start warring with Joy Behar when she returned from maternity leave this week. But things really got ugly on Tuesday when McCain tried to joke around about how much her co-host “missed” her and Behar wasn’t having any of it. During a discussion about the future of the GOP after Trump leaves office, Behar said that […]

In his first Late Show monologue of the new year, Stephen Colbert went all-in on President Donald Trump’s not so “perfect” phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. “Happy New Year! 2020 is over!” Colbert began. “All that badness is finally behind us and we are off to a fresh start… with a raging pandemic and a president who’s trying to steal the election. […]

The View has been hyping the triumphant return of Meghan McCain for weeks. And in her first show back since taking off for maternity leave shortly before the 2020 election, she did not disappoint. Following an opening segment during which McCain expressed her sudden passion for paid parental leave after giving birth last fall—while implying that it should only apply to women—the hosts turned to the […]

Appearing live via house arrest on MSNBC on Monday evening, Michael Cohen issued a dire warning to his former boss President Donald Trump, who has been on an unfettered pardon spree during his final weeks in office. After Cohen spent a few minutes talking up the criminal justice advocacy he’s been pushing on behalf of his prison “buddies” like “Tony Meatballs and Big Minty,” host Ari […]

After hosting the second of two maskless Christmas caroling events to protest COVID-19 restrictions in Southern California this week, former child actor Kirk Cameron appeared Wednesday night on Newsmax, where he labeled those who have dared to criticize his actions as the “mask gestapo.” Starting with a joke of sorts, Cameron said, “You know, we’ve all heard of The Masked Singer and it’s quite the rage, […]

If you suspected that Maria Bartiromo would be easy to dupe, those assumptions were borne out on Wednesday morning when the Fox Business anchor spent more than six minutes interviewing an animal rights activist who she believed to be the CEO of Smithfield Foods, which bills itself as “the world’s largest pork processor and hog producer.” According to Direct Action Everywhere, activist Matt Johnson was able […]

Brian Kilmeade, who has spent a good portion of 2020 condemning Black Lives Matter and “antifa” protesters as co-host of Fox & Friends, is now defending the heavily armed members of far-right groups like the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer who attempted to storm the Oregon State Capitol this week. During his radio broadcast on Tuesday morning, Kilmeade joined anchor Trace Gallagher on Fox News, who […]