Alex Christy
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Desi Lydic was dismayed on Thursday at recent polling that still showed high levels of support for President Trump among Republicans. Under the guise of self-deprecating humor, she compared those who still support Trump with a fictitious version of herself who set up a Jared Fogle babysitter fan club.
Lydic introduced a clip of the always…
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Josh Johnson reacted on Thursday to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that paved the way for states to get rid of minority-majority districts with all of the scholarly analysis one expects from a comedy show, which is to say none at all. Instead, Johnson just called everyone a racist while also smearing Justice Clarence Thomas as an “Uncle Tom.”…
Usually when Comedy Central’s Jordan Klepper does his man-on-the-street segments he travels to a conservative event and tries to make conservatives look bad, but on Tuesday he shook it up a bit. After the failed assassination attempt against President Trump at Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner, Klepper traveled to Times Square to interview foreign tourists to make…
Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, kicked off the show by trying to suggest that the shooting at Saturday’s White House Correspondents' Dinner was merely another incident involving guns in America and suggested that the whole thing could have been avoided if President Trump was never invited.
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Later, Stewart welcomed Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, whom The Daily Show…
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Michael Kosta joined forces with Jordan Klepper on Thursday to dumb down the definition of what it means to be an “insane extremist” as they condemned new acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao for opposing the use of drag queens in recruitment videos.
Kosta also attacked Cao for remarks he made during his 2024 Senate campaign where he said there…
Comedy Central’s Ronny Chieng took some time on Thursday’s episode of The Daily Show to examine a different aspect of the war with Iran: the internet meme battle. According to Chieng, Iran’s Lego propaganda video is much better than the memes the White House has been putting out.
After reacting to a local news reporter claiming Iran has been mocking President Trump in its videos, Chieng teed up…
After Vice President JD Vance criticized Pope Leo’s recent Iran War comments as being a possible departure from traditionally understood ideas around just war theory, CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, responded by telling Vance to “sit down” because he has been a Catholic since the 60s while Vance only converted in 2019. Colbert then went to a commercial, and when he returned, he…
For the last three weeks the late night comedy shows have relentlessly attacked President Trump amid the war in Iran, but on Monday, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart went over the other half of the American-Israeli alliance in an interview with former Biden national security advisor Jake Sullivan on The Daily Show. Both men would also use Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare the…
In the latest example of the late night comedy shows degenerating into Democratic strategy sessions, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart welcomed Kentucky Andy Beshear to The Daily Show on Monday to suggest ways for Democrats to win again and on how Democratic governors can band together to stop Trump and his immigration policies that come with a “body count.”
Stewart lobbed the softball…
The Daily Show’s host-of-the-week, Desi Lydic, took a break from all things Minneapolis on Wednesday to welcome New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill to Comedy Central to gush over her recent executive order to order price controls for utilities.
Lydic lobbed a softball Sherrill’s way when she wondered, “You ran very strongly on affordability for the people of New Jersey, and you wasted no time. Day…