Alex Christy
Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and CBS’s Stephen Colbert were the only late night comedy hosts to address the shooting involving an ICE agent and a driver in Minneapolis on their Wednesday shows. While Colbert saw hypocrisy in Second Amendment supporters, Kimmel hailed Mayor Jacob Frey’s profanity-ridden response so much that he put it on a shirt.
Speaking of shirts, Kimmel…
On Wednesday’s edition of The Late Show, CBS’s Stephen Colbert reacted to the incident in Minneapolis where an ICE agent shot a woman who appeared to drive her car at him by claiming that it was the agent who was wrong and that Second Amendment supporters are being hypocrites.
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Much later, Colbert asked MS NOW’s Chris Hayes to describe what happened. After declaring we do not know…
On Wednesday’s edition of The Late Show, CBS’s Stephen Colbert reacted to the incident in Minneapolis where an ICE agent shot a woman who appeared to drive her car at him by claiming that it was the agent who was wrong and that Second Amendment supporters are being hypocrites.
Colbert dropped his usual cold open for a solemn address to the camera: “Hi, everybody, we have a comedy show for you…
Former late night host Conan O’Brien is so close to getting it. During a Tuesday appearance at the Oxford Union, O’Brien criticized the type of comedian who has reduced themselves to saying nothing except “F Trump.” However, earlier in the event, O’Brien refused to apply this standard to the likes of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and CBS’s Stephen Colbert.
It is a point O’Brien has made in the past: that…
Comedy Central’s Ronny Chieng is The Daily Show’s first host-of-the-week for 2026, and he got off to a rough start on Tuesday when he declared that in the aftermath of the capture of Nicolas Maduro that the American people are being told that “they are now the Evil Empire.”
Chieng began by questioning the legality of the operation, “The world is still in shock over Donald Trump's surprise…
For the left, 2026 will be a sad year in the realm of late night comedy because The Late Show host Stephen Colbert will depart the scene in May. For everyone else, the CBS host’s Monday ode to the Soviet Union with Puck News Washington correspondent Julia Ioffe was a good reminder of why they will not miss him.
After discussing current events, Colbert asked, “So, okay, you have a new book. You…
The late night comedy shows kicked off 2026 on Monday by talking about the big news of Nicolas Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces on Saturday in Venezuela. According to the liberal quintet, the most obvious motivations for President Trump to order such a move were to distract from the Epstein files and because Trump did not like Maduro’s dance moves.
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Earlier, Meyers’s NBC colleague, The…
The late night comedy shows kicked off 2026 on Monday by talking about the big news of Nicolas Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces on Saturday in Venezuela. According to the liberal quintet, the most obvious motivations for President Trump to order such a move were to distract from the Epstein files and because Trump did not like Maduro’s dance moves.
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After a video, Colbert moved on. NBC’s Seth…
The late night comedy shows kicked off 2026 on Monday by talking about the big news of Nicolas Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces on Saturday in Venezuela. According to the liberal quintet, the most obvious motivations for President Trump to order such a move were to distract from the Epstein files and because Trump did not like Maduro’s dance moves.
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Back on CBS, Stephen Colbert began The Late…
The late night comedy shows kicked off 2026 on Monday by talking about the big news of Nicolas Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces on Saturday in Venezuela. According to the liberal quintet, the most obvious motivations for President Trump to order such a move were to distract from the Epstein files and because Trump did not like Maduro’s dance moves.
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As it was, over on Comedy Central, The…
