Alex Christy
On Wednesday, the late night comedians received their government shutdown-related marching orders. To listen to them is no different than any generic Democratic member of Congress who portrays the shutdown as a showdown between Democrats, who want people to have healthcare, and Republicans, who do not.
On CBS, The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert asked and answered his own question, “So, how did we…
It was a tale of two interviews for CNN’s Dana Bash on Wednesday’s Inside Politics as she sat down with Speaker Mike Johnson and left-wing activist and actress Jane Fonda. During her conversation with Johnson, Bash recited Democratic talking points on the government shutdown and wondered if there is “something to that.” Meanwhile, she laughed it up with Fonda and suggested that she had…
It was a tale of two interviews for CNN’s Dana Bash on Wednesday’s Inside Politics as she sat down with Speaker Mike Johnson and left-wing activist and actress Jane Fonda. During her conversation with Johnson, Bash recited Democratic talking points on the government shutdown and wondered if there is “something to that.” Meanwhile, she laughed it up with Fonda and suggested that she had the…
There were plenty of dumb hot takes from the left after a Tuesday speech by Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth to an assembled audience of generals and admirals, but CBS’s Stephen Colbert may have had the dumbest. For some reason, The Late Show host tried to tie Hegseth’s observation that the people in the crowd “kill people and break things” to other ongoing conversations about the need to dial down…
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and CBS’s Stephen Colbert guested on each other’s respective Tuesday shows, and the former’s recent suspension was naturally a topic of interest. However, the reason why ABC suspended Kimmel in the first place went unmentioned, but there was still plenty of attacks on “that son of a bitch,” President Trump, and mutual back patting.
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ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and CBS’s Stephen Colbert guested on each other’s respective Tuesday shows, and the former’s recent suspension was naturally a topic of interest. However, the reason why ABC suspended Kimmel in the first place went unmentioned, but there was still plenty of attacks on “that son of a bitch,” President Trump, and mutual back patting.
On The Late Show, Colbert asked Kimmel, “How…
For comedic reasons that only he can understand, HBO’s John Oliver devoted most of his time on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight to covering the career of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During his lengthy diatribe, Oliver would also take aim at one of President Trump’s biggest first term accomplishments: the Abraham Accords. According to Oliver, the accords are to be diminished as a ‘fuck…
NBC’s host of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon, stopped by CNBC’s Squawk on the Street on Tuesday to promote his new On Brand. While there, co-host Carl Quintanilla naturally asked about the state of late night, especially in the aftermath of ABC’s brief suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. Fallon insisted that his show isn't that political and contrary to all evidence, that “we hit both sides equally.”…
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart tried to present himself as the only reasonable man in America on Monday’s The Daily Show. According to Stewart, everyone is too busy trying to portray perpetuators of violence as members of the other side, but he was determined to show it is not that simple. While Stewart’s point came with some reasonable warnings, he also downplayed known political motivations in…
After a Friday World News Tonight report on the possibility of a government shutdown, ABC might need to rename its network DNC because throughout the segment, host David Muir and White House correspondent Rachel Scott combined to utter the phrase “Democrats say” three times while never once using the equivalent “Republicans say.”
Muir kicked things off by declaring, “We turn next tonight to this…
