Alex Christy
CBS’s Stephen Colbert had an actually funny joke on Monday. There were only two problems. One was that he told it not on The Late Show, but during an interview with GQ’s Zach Baron as the magazine put him on the cover of its “men of the year” issue. A second problem was that it was completely unintentional, as he told Baron that “I think I'm more conservative than people think.”
During a…
Saturday Night Live cast members Ashley Padilla and Andrew Dismukes joined the NBC show’s Weekend Update segment recently to play the role of “Two People Who Just Hooked Up.” According to Padilla and Dismukes’s characters, Republicans and Democrats need to do the same to end the government shutdown. While a sex-themed bit about ending the government shutdown would have just been odd, SNL felt the…
For liberals such as CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, who are worried about the fate of food stamps amid the government shutdown there is a simple solution: reopen the government. However, Colbert used his Monday show to suggest that it was the Trump administration that was starving children to pressure Democrats. Meanwhile, over at ABC, Jimmy Kimmel continued to advance the line…
CNN’s Abby Phillip swung by The Breakfast Club radio show on Tuesday to promote her book about Jesse Jackson and at one point argued that it’s a known fact that many voters and “especially white voters” apply a higher standard to black candidates. Phillip provided no evidence for her accusation.
Co-host Loren Lorasa led Phillip by wondering how Jackson’s failure to become president in the 80s…
Friday evening’s weekly news roundup featuring PBS News Hour host William Brangham, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart was full of bizarre government shutdown-related hot takes. In addition to Obamacare subsidies, Brangham and Capehart added rescission packages to the list of Democratic demands, which they falsely claimed take away Congress’s spending power.…
Friday evening’s weekly news roundup featuring PBS News Hour host William Brangham, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart was full of bizarre government shutdown-related hot takes. In addition to Obamacare subsidies, Brangham and Capehart added rescission packages to the list of Democratic demands, which they falsely claimed take away Congress’s spending power.…
On Thursday, the nation’s four major airlines came together to embrace the Republican position that the government shutdown should end with a clean continuing resolution. However, NBC’s Today was the only Friday morning show to report this. By contrast, CBS Mornings made it seem as if the airlines wanted squabbling siblings to just get along, while ABC’s Good Morning America was content to only…
Jon Stewart welcomed former Vice President Kamala Harris to Thursday’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about everything from her failed presidential campaign to Donald Trump to the state of the Democratic Party. In one instance, Stewart claimed that Democrats need to go further left on healthcare because the “conservative” Obamacare fix did not…
Jon Stewart welcomed former Vice President Kamala Harris to Thursday’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about everything from her failed presidential campaign to Donald Trump to the state of the Democratic Party. In one instance, Stewart claimed that Democrats need to go further left on healthcare because the “conservative” Obamacare fix did not…
For the late night comedy shows, joking about Democrats in 2025 usually consists of lamenting the party isn’t socialist enough. To help this cause, on Wednesday’s edition of The Daily Show, radio host Charlamagne Tha God swung by Comedy Central to attack party leadership for not enthusiastically falling in behind Zohran Mamdani's New York City mayoral campaign, lament that the party won’t support…
