Alex Christy
Alex Christy |
NBC’s Jimmy Fallon had Thursday off, but for the remaining three late night comedy shows, Thursday presented an opportunity to continue gloating over the midterm election results as they touted Mississippi’s Scott Colom getting his “revenge” on Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. ... Later, Lydic welcomed liberal historian and woman who claimed Charlie Kirk’s killer was a right-winger, Heather Cox…
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After Democrats failed to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week, Desi Lydic, was not happy. In a likely preview of the next two years, Lydic would attack House Democrats from the left for failing to show up to the vote and taking “a major L.” In a segment that thumbed its nose at the idea voters want politicians to focus on…
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Comedy Central’s Jordan Klepper welcomed New York Times billionaires reporter Teddy Schleifer to Thursday’s episode of The Daily Show to, naturally, talk about billionaires. During their discussion, Schleifer suggested that Klepper take James Talarico’s victory in Texas as a cure for his “nihilistic” belief that billionaires control the system and there is no hope for the little guy. Klepper…
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Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, and NBC’s Late Night host, Seth Meyers, both attacked Michigan Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens for endorsing Republican Mike Rogers in the state’s Senate race. In terms of the reasoning behind Stevens’s decision, Meyers completely omitted any talk about concerns over anti-Semitism, while Stewart tried to have it both ways. ... Later,…
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Comedy Central’s Jordan Klepper tried to tie Thursday’s episode of The Daily Show to Halloween by making fun of what he considered to be Republican fearmongering ahead of next Tuesday’s midterms. However, at one point, it was Klepper doing the fearmongering as he noticed a black man in the background of a recent rally featuring Vice President JD Vance and claimed he “might want to slip out a bit…
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Comedy Central's The Daily Show host of the week, Jordan Klepper, was the only one of the late night comedy hosts to discuss the Wednesday report from The New York Times that Alaska Democrats did, in fact, recruit a random guy named Dan Sullivan to challenge incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan in order to confuse voters in the state’s ranked choice voting system.  Klepper admitted to not being a…
Alex Christy |
Comedy Central's The Daily Show host of the week, Jordan Klepper, was the only one of the late night comedy hosts to discuss the Wednesday report from The New York Times that Alaska Democrats did, in fact, recruit a random guy named Dan Sullivan to challenge incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan in order to confuse voters in the state’s ranked choice voting system.  Klepper admitted to not being a…
Alex Christy |
Jon Stewart continued his efforts to drag Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed across the finish line on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Echoing a recurring theme on the show, Stewart tried to pass off concerns about El-Sayed and his radical associations as “Islamophobia.” Stewart played a clip of Trump at a recent rally where he declared, “I'm here to keep a…
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Actor Sebastian Stan is no conservative, but he believes his new movie Fjord is, and he traveled to Comedy Central and The Daily Show on Wednesday to promote it and defend its themes from host-of-the-week Michael Kosta, who wondered if people are “overthinking it.” According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Roxborough, Fjord is about how “a Romanian Evangelical family, headed by father Mihai (…