Alex Christy
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…
After the Trump administration reassigned Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino on Tuesday, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show doubled down on the idea that Bovino led some Nazi-like operation in Minneapolis and cited his clothes and haircut as proof.
Correspondent Troy Iwata told host-of-the-week Desi Lydic that the final straw for Trump was “an image issue. He likes a strong leader,…
CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, and Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, both reacted to Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino denouncing those who have compared ICE and Border Patrol to the Gestapo by trying to argue the comparisons are legitimate.
The background for all the anti-ICE rhetoric was the Saturday shooting of Alex Pretti, but instead of…
Comedy Central’s Michael Kosta wrapped up his week of bad military hot takes on by denouncing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for pressuring Scouting America to reverse certain changes it has made in recent years to align itself with the left side of the culture war. While imitating a conservative Scout and referencing the sexual abuse scandal, Kosta quipped, “We signed up to molest biological…
