Video

Colbert: 'Stupid Fearmongering' To Say Dems Want Benefits For Illegals

October 3rd, 2025 10:15 AM

The synergy between the liberal late night comedy shows and the liberal news media was on full display on Thursday night as The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert and The Daily Show’s Ronny Chieng each relied on their journalist compatriots on CBS and The Daily Show, respectively, to claim Republicans are, in Colbert’s words, being “stupid” and “fearmongering” by saying…

Video

Late Night Shows Receive Their Shutdown Talking Points

October 2nd, 2025 10:33 AM

On Wednesday, the late night comedians received their government shutdown-related marching orders. To listen to them is no different than any generic Democratic member of Congress who portrays the shutdown as a showdown between Democrats, who want people to have healthcare, and Republicans, who do not.

Video

Stewart Downplays Motives, Wonders If Shooters 'Are F****** With Us'

September 30th, 2025 10:17 AM

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart tried to present himself as the only reasonable man in America on Monday’s The Daily Show. According to Stewart, everyone is too busy trying to portray perpetuators of violence as members of the other side, but he was determined to show it is not that simple. While Stewart’s point came with some reasonable warnings, he also downplayed known political…

Video

On The Daily Show, Leslie Jones Asks Why America Hates Black People

September 26th, 2025 2:05 PM

Actress and comedian Leslie Jones swung by Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Thursday for one of her irregularly scheduled rants. This time, Jones, who is not exactly struggling financially, demanded other people pay her reparations and wondered why America hates black people.

Video

Daily Show Finds Christianity Useful...To Call Conservatives Racists

September 24th, 2025 3:00 PM

The Daily Show’s only use for Christianity seems to be using it against conservatives, and the latest installment in this ignoble tradition took place on Tuesday as host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper welcomed Sirius XM host, comedian, and occasional cable news talking head John Fugelsang to the Comedy Central program to discuss his new book on the matter.

Video

Late Night Shows, Tapper Applaud ABC Bringing Kimmel Back

September 23rd, 2025 10:20 AM

Three of the four late night comedy shows used their Monday episodes to celebrate ABC and Disney folding to liberal demands to bring back Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday, although nobody seemed to want to discuss his actual comments about MAGA “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”

Video

Meyers, Stewart, Fallon Blast Kimmel's Suspension, Don't Play Remarks

September 19th, 2025 2:37 PM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert freaked out on Thursday’s edition of The Late Show at ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel and downplayed his comments that MAGA was “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” but at least he played the clip. The same could not be said of Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart on The Daily Show and NBC’s…

Video

Late Night Comedians Condemn Kirk Assassination, Some Push Gun Control

September 12th, 2025 10:17 AM

With the exception of NBC’s The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon, all of the late night comedy reacted to the assassination of Charlie Kirk on their Thursday program by hitting on all the proper points about political violence being unacceptable and un-American. Some even criticized some on the left for their reaction to it, but while some may sincerely believe that gun control is part…

Video

Stewart Suggests ICE Heading To Chicago Is Like a Nazi Invasion

September 11th, 2025 5:00 PM

Even by the standards of flippant Nazi analogies, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart had an especially ill-timed Nazi comparison on Wednesday as he taped The Weekly Show podcast before Charlie Kirk’s assassination and ahead of its Thursday release. According to Stewart, President Trump sending ICE to Chicago can be roughly analogized with Nazi invasions in World War II.

Video

The Daily Show Comes For Your Beef

September 11th, 2025 10:24 AM

Politico contributor and climate journalist Michael Grunwald traveled to Comedy Central and The Daily Show on Wednesday to promote his new book, where he attacked eating meat as bad for the environment.

Video

Stewart Accuses SCOTUS Of Letting Trump 'Nullify The Fourth Amendment'

September 9th, 2025 9:45 AM

The Daily Show returned to Comedy Central on Monday after over a month off, with Jon Stewart wasting no time getting back into old form by hysterically warning that the Supreme Court just green-lit President Trump and ICE to “nullify the Fourth Amendment” with their immigration raids.

Video

Daily Show's Klepper Admits To Trying To Make Trump Voters Look Bad

August 6th, 2025 12:46 PM

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.

Study

90 Percent of Jon Stewart's Podcast Guests Have Been Liberals

August 1st, 2025 1:11 PM

We here at the Media Research Center have been counting the guests that appear on the late night comedy programs since September 2022, and The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart is not a fan. On Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show Thursday podcast, Stewart went on an expletive-laden rant against Fox News for citing those studies, so we did the only natural thing we could think of in…

Video

Meyers, Stewart Rail Against 'U.S. Complicity' In Gaza War

July 29th, 2025 10:19 AM

War is a nasty business, which is why it is advised that starting one with a country much stronger than you is a bad idea, but for Comedy’s Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, and NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers, outrage is better directed at the United States because we are supposedly complicit in Israeli war crimes.