Alex Christy
It is one thing for critics to question the politicians’, including President Trump, rationale for supporting the war with Iran, but Comedy Central’s Michael Kosta began his week hosting The Daily Show on Tuesday by going several steps further and mocking U.S. Air Force pilots and Kuwaiti air defenders for a friendly fire accident that downed three F-15s.
Kosta introduced a clip of CNN’s John…
Meanwhile, The Daily Show sought to satirize what it considered to be overzealous chest-beating by certain conservative media personalities trying to make political points about liberals and Canada. At the same time, Lydic would not-so subtly suggest that if you wanted to actually compare the U.S. with Canada, then the latter would be better.
Stewart played the role of the straight man when he…
If a nation decides to go to war, it has a moral obligation to those it sends into harm’s way to give them every possible advantage to allow them to win as quickly and with as few casualties as possible. Somehow, this basic idea was offensive to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Michael Kosta, who ridiculed and condemned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for articulating it on…
Thursday's episode of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show had a remarkable double standard on the idea of illegal immigration. On one hand, Americans living illegally in Mexico were sarcastically mocked and denounced for not assimilating into the local culture and having a negative economic impact, but later, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey joined host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper to lead a…
Thursday's episode of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show had a remarkable double standard on the idea of illegal immigration. On one hand, Americans living illegally in Mexico were sarcastically mocked and denounced for not assimilating into the local culture and having a negative economic impact, but later, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey joined host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper to lead a standing…
Both ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show returned on Monday after a week off to offer up some Olympic-sized hockey hot takes. Kimmel would try to turn the gold-medal-winning women’s team into a symbol of the anti-Trump resistance, while Daily Show host Jon Stewart and this week’s Tuesday-Thursday host Desi Lydic used the opportunity to explain why Canada, which both the men’s…
The idea that the late night comedy shows aren’t actually that funny has been discussed at length, but even by their own standard, Wednesday’s interview featuring The Daily Show’s host-of-the-week Michael Kosta and actress Ms. Pat about her BET+ sitcom was so painfully unfunny that Comedy Central might need to change its name. According to Ms. Pat, the United States is “nobody’s country,”…
HBO’s Bill Maher kicked off Real Times’s 2026 run on Friday by claiming that Renee Good’s shooting “was an execution on the street” and lamented to Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy that President Trump won’t use his “cult leader” status to push “comprehensive immigration reform” now that he has proved “he’s the tough guy.” For his part, Kennedy was able to clear up that if you want to reform…
HBO’s Bill Maher’s habit of reducing a chaotic scene to one photograph continued on Friday’s episode of Real Time, where he compared a photograph of the Alex Pretti shooting to The Last Jew in Vinnitsa photograph during the Holocaust. Joining Maher at the table was MS NOW host Joe Scarborough, who, in other Minneapolis news, declared former CNN host Don Lemon’s arrest was meant “to scare other…
CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Sen. Bernie Sanders to The Late Show for the nineteenth and hopefully final time on Tuesday for an obnoxiously long, four-segment softball interview covering everything from Colbert’s employer to Venezuela to Minnesota to socialism.
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Finally, Colbert gushed, “This is a red-letter day for you. Here you are administering the oath of office to Mayor Mamdani and I…
