Thus far, it has been a gloomy 2025 for the late night comedy shows as they have attacked Democrats from the left for not doing anything to stop Republicans, but on Wednesday, a trio of them claimed to have reason for optimism as they reacted to Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour talk. Some suggested he get an award, while others claimed he spoke for all of America, while others tried their hand at media criticism, arguing the media hasn't praised Booker enough
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Back on Comedy Central, The Daily Show’s host of the week, Michael Kosta, attacked the media for insufficiently gushing over Booker’s speech, “And the amazing thing is that Booker didn’t just get out there and read from Wikipedia, he stayed focused on condemning the Trump Administration’s assault on working people and the rule of law, so you can imagine the media had a lot of questions for him about these serious issues.”
Following a montage of reporters discussing how Booker was not allowed to take a bathroom break, Kosta returned, ‘“Senator, senator, senator, senator: pee-pee. Senator, a follow up: poo-poo.’ This is why our country is the shape that it’s in. The media won’t talk about the substance of this speech, they’d rather talk about how he held it in for so long. No one cares about that, but just out of curiosity, how did you do it?”
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