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Actor John Leguizamo stopped by Comedy Central and The Daily Show’s “In My Opinion” segment on Wednesday to give his thoughts on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that upheld birthright citizenship. According to Leguizamo, critics of the decision should be careful what they wish for because once upon a time “every white person was here illegally.”

Monday was a rough night for part-time late night comedy hosts when it came to Sen. Mitch McConnell’s hospitalization. On ABC, Jimmy Kimmel Live! substitute Ike Barinholtz portrayed McConnell as a health care hypocrite for receiving care when allegedly denying it to others.   Similarly, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart claimed that McConnell was smiling in his “proof of life” photo because, thanks…

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart welcomed former special counsel Jack Smith and former FBI acting director Brian Driscoll to Wednesday’s episode of The Weekly Show podcast. After lamenting all things Trump, DOJ, and FBI, Stewart would tell his producers, "Those guys have balls.”

According to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Ronny Chieng, Graham Platner had to end his Senate campaign after being credibly accused of rape and sexual assault because nobody would vote for him except the woman who would have been his opponent: Sen. Susan Collins. In order to make such a claim, Chieng simply assumed the evidence against Planter is as strong as the evidence…

It is not exactly a novel insight to say that Democrats do best in big cities, but Comedy Central’s Ronny Chieng was still floored by the idea on Wednesday’s edition of The Daily Show. During an interview with Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval, Chieng wondered how the Democrat was able to win in a heavily Democratic city while also throwing race into the conversation.

On Monday, Team USA suffered a 4-1 defeat to Belgium in the World Cup, and on Tuesday the late night comedy shows knew who to blame: President Trump.

For the late night comedy shows, the first half of 2026 was defined by the final airing in May of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. But the political agenda of Colbert and his late night colleagues remained unchanged in January through June this year: No one expressing conservative views was ever granted a guest slot on a late night comedy show while 112 liberals were awarded guest…

On the same night, Democratic socialist candidates endorsed by New York's Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani won big in the New York Democratic primaries, with campaigns focused heavily on Israel in the form of ‘Free Palestine,’ Daily Show host-of-the-week Josh Johnson led the comedy show with a joke on the World Cup, specifically Scotland fan. He likened the troves of Scottish fans to an “all-…

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart sat down with New York Times reporters and authors Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan on Comedy Central on Monday to discuss their book on the Trump administration and whether Trump views himself as an Alexander the Great-type figure who thinks America is “too small for him.” Earlier, Stewart, a self-styled comedian, did not appear to understand a joke made by…

During Wednesday’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper showed his most recent man-on-the-street experience designed to make Trump supporters look dumb. This time Klepper and his interviewees were looking ahead to the UFC fight at the White House, which Klepper used to compare Trump to the infamous Roman emperors Nero and Caligula.

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart welcomed liberal historians David Blight and Annette Gordon-Reed to Wednesday’s The Weekly Show podcast to look at competing visions of the country’s history ahead of America 250. According to all involved, conservatives are trying to erase complications and nuances from the country’s efforts, which Stewart wondered is just a way to amass power.

The cast of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show had a busy day of activism on Tuesday. First, host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper reacted to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gifting President Trump a German soccer jersey by implying that Trump wished it was a Nazi one. Later, Desi Lydic interviewed four former federal employees who were DOGE-ed who are now running for Congress as Democrats and gushed…

Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, flipped conservative media the double bird for highlighting instances of violence that occurred in New York after the Knicks won the NBA Finals. He further claimed conservatives who were looking forward to the UFC fight at the White House were being hypocritical in their condemnations. Later in the show, Stewart welcomed Sen. Raphael…

About a year-and-a-half ago, transgender actor Laverne Cox claimed on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show that GOP ads were contributing to transgender suicides. On Wednesday, Cox returned to do some book promotion and to claim that all parts of the LGBT initialism are “divine.”