Alex Christy
CBS Evening News host Maurice DuBois and chief Washington analyst Robert Costa collectively mourned on Friday that there does not appear to be any internal White House dissent over the decision to indict former FBI Director James Comey. For Costa in particular, the mood could be described as “shatter norms and carry on.”
DuBois began by asking, “Robert, we know the president has celebrated this…
The trio of host Geoff Bennett, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart gathered together on Friday’s PBS News Hour to announce, yet again, that democracy is dying. This time, the culprit is the Department of Justice and its decision to indict former FBI Director James Comey.
Bennett began with Brooks, “So, David, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer…
Actress and comedian Leslie Jones swung by Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Thursday for one of her irregularly scheduled rants. This time, Jones, who is not exactly struggling financially, demanded other people pay her reparations and wondered why America hates black people.
Jones kicked off her rant by discussing social media posts by President Trump about the Smithsonian that argued the…
No Republican is safe from CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s wrath, not even former President and quintessential moderate George H.W. Bush. According to Colbert and actor Jeremy Strong on Thursday, “we risk losing essentially everything” to climate change, and it is Bush’s fault.
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After the clip, Strong moved the conversation to present day, “So, you know, a couple of days ago, on…
No Republican is safe from CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s wrath, not even former President and quintessential moderate George H.W. Bush. According to Colbert and actor Jeremy Strong on Thursday, “we risk losing essentially everything” to climate change, and it is Bush’s fault.
Colbert teed up Strong, “You have a documentary about our burning world.”
An appreciative Strong…
It is quickly becoming a tradition that celebrity guests that appear on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! have to sing the praises of the eponymous host. On Wednesday, it was actor Ethan Hawke, and on Thursday, it was actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her dog’s turn to gush over the supposedly “brave and powerful” Kimmel.
Louis-Dreyfus claimed she brought her dog Ethel along in order to make Kimmel feel…
Stephen Colbert’s week of inviting Democratic politicians to CBS and The Late Show continued on Wednesday with Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy. Colbert began by praising Murphy’s gun control advocacy as he tried to use the shooting at the Dallas ICE facility to push the idea. Murphy, meanwhile, tried to argue that it was actually President Trump doing the politicizing because political violence…
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel welcomed actor Ethan Hawke to his Wednesday show to promote his new TV show, The Lowdown. However, before that, Hawke compared Kimmel’s recent suspension to being sent to a Russian gulag. Kimmel agreed with the sentiment, claiming it is “hard to tell the difference” between the gulag and the United States.
After some joking about how Kimmel is taking the show to Brooklyn next…
The Daily Show’s only use for Christianity seems to be using it against conservatives, and the latest installment in this ignoble tradition took place on Tuesday as host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper welcomed Sirius XM host, comedian, and occasional cable news talking head John Fugelsang to the Comedy Central program to discuss his new book on the matter.
Klepper simply asked, “So why write this…
CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will not survive to see the conclusion of the 2028 Democratic Primary, but that isn’t stopping Colbert from using his remaining few months to help kick-start the process. On Tuesday, Colbert welcomed California Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom he praised for “being interesting,” for three segments and joined in fearmongering that there might not even be a free and…
