Alex Christy
The Daily Show is taking the month off, and man-on-the-street guy and occasional host Jordan Klepper spent some of his free time on Tuesday talking to NBC’s Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. While it may seem obvious the goal of Klepper’s field trips is to make Trump voters look dumb, it was still revealing to hear Klepper basically admit it out loud.
Fallon set the table by praising Klepper’s…
CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s invitation to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to appear on Tuesday’s The Late Show preceded the fleeing of Texas Democrats to that state in the wake of the state legislature’s redistricting efforts, but the developments were impossible for Colbert to ignore. Even Colbert, however, recognized the irony of complaining about gerrymandering to the governor of Illinois, but after…
CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s invitation to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to appear on Tuesday’s The Late Show preceded the fleeing of Texas Democrats to that state in the wake of the state legislature’s redistricting efforts, but the developments were impossible for Colbert to ignore. Even Colbert, however, recognized the irony of complaining about gerrymandering to the governor of Illinois, but after…
On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, HBO host John Oliver pointed the finger at two culprits for hunger in Gaza, and neither one of them was Hamas. According to Oliver, it is the U.S. that is “being complicit” in Israel’s campaign to starve Gazans and is unwilling to do anything about it.
One way Israel and others have started replacing truck-delivered aid is through air drops, and Oliver is not a fan…
CBS’s Stephen Colbert kicked off his week of Democratic guests on Monday by welcoming Clinton-era Labor Secretary Robert Reich to The Late Show to promote his new memoir. During their conversation, neither man displayed an understanding of the proper definition of a tax cut, while Reich smeared former President Ronald Reagan for allegedly making the country less inclusive for women and black…
On Friday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is shutting down, and the cast of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour lost its mind as it rolled out the same tired talking points about local news, weather, and children’s educational programming.
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Hylton then turned to politics and journalism professor Jason Johnson and wondered, “Consistently, polling shows that Americans love and…
On Friday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is shutting down, and the cast of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour lost its mind as it rolled out the same tired talking points about local news, weather, and children’s educational programming.
However, guest host Antonia Hylton welcomed GOP Rep.-turned MSNBC Republican-turned current Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Jolly and clearly…
HBO’s Bill Maher returned to Real Time after more than a month off on Friday and, against the backdrop of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claiming that assessments that Vladimir Putin preferred Donald Trump to win in 2016 were false and politicized, tried desperately to cling to the Mueller Probe, insisting there was something there.
During the panel discussion with New York…
New York Times columnist and the allegedly conservative half of Friday’s PBS News Hour’s weekly news recap, David Brooks, praised former Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent interview with Stephen Colbert and agreed with her that “civic capitulation” to President Trump is “a real thing.” Meanwhile, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart explained he quit his job at The Washington Post …
New York Times columnist and the allegedly conservative half of Friday’s PBS News Hour’s weekly news recap, David Brooks, praised former Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent interview with Stephen Colbert and agreed with her that “civic capitulation” to President Trump is “a real thing.” Meanwhile, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart explained he quit his job at The Washington Post because he could not…
