Alex Christy
CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego to Wednesday’s taping of The Late Show for one of his regular segments where he seeks to align his show’s talking points with those of congressional Democrats. This time, the duo focused on the ongoing government shutdown and claimed that they are merely interested in providing affordable healthcare.
Colbert began with the kind of…
On Monday, MSNBC host and podcaster Nicolle Wallace welcomed Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to The Best People for a truly surreal interview. Within the span of only a couple of minutes, Wallace would declare that no Democrat has ever compared President Trump to Adolf Hitler, then claim that if they did, it would be appropriate, and then sit back and listen as Pritzker did precisely that, all while…
CBS’s Stephen Colbert mourned on Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show that it will take several years to rebuild democracy after President Trump leaves office. Colbert’s lamentations came as Trump addressed sailors onboard the USS George Washington in Japan, which led him to also express confusion at the idea that the Navy stands ready to sink enemy ships.
After a clip of Trump telling the sailors…
HBO’s John Oliver is not content to only import his bad jokes from his native Britain; he also wants to import its disastrous healthcare system as well. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, Oliver devoted most of the show to a crusade against Medicare Advantage, which he alleged could be fixed by instituting a single-payer healthcare system.
After a clip of former Sen. Orrin Hatch claiming private…
Late night comedy’s all-out effort to drag Zohran Mamdani across the finish line in New York City’s upcoming mayoral election continued on Monday on Comedy Central with its most direct bit of campaigning. The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart welcomed Mamdani to tell him how much “I love hearing” about his campaign and to claim that he has been surprised establishment Democrats have not fallen in line…
According to Apple, former ESPN columnist Bill Simmons currently hosts the number two sports podcast in the country, but during Thursday’s episode, Simmons and guest Joe House found themselves at the intersection of sports and politics as they discussed the Mafia-connected illegal betting and poker game scandals rocking the NBA. According to both men, “they,” and especially FBI Director Kash…
HBO’s Bill Maher quipped on Friday’s Real Time that Bernie Sanders-endorsed Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s days as a Democrat are limited and that he might have to become a Republican given his Nazi tattoo and other controversies.
Maher began:
In bilateral Nazi news, because there's always a lot of Nazi news these days, one Republican and one Democrat. One Republican, the nominee for…
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Boston Globe counterpart Kimberly Atkins Stohr joined forces on Friday’s PBS News Hour to lament the nation’s redistricting “race to the bottom,” which they blamed solely on Republicans.
Moderator Geoff Bennett began with Stohr, “I mentioned in the introduction the redistricting battle. You have got both parties escalating, Republicans in North Carolina…
As New York Attorney General Letitia James pled not guilty on Friday to mortgage fraud allegations, MSNBC legal analyst Charles Coleman Jr. highlighted the network’s glaring double standards on the situation James finds herself in compared to what she put President Trump through.
Jansing led Coleman with the idea that if taken to its logical conclusion, it would result in no public official ever…
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel may have the week off on TV, but that didn’t stop him from repeating one of his favorite lines about supporters of President Trump’s agenda being bad Christians and wondering how they can go to church. This time the conversation revolved around deporting illegal immigrants and took place on the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast that was released on Wednesday but taped…
