Stewart And Rhodes Try To Blame America For Middle East's Problems
Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast host Jon Stewart welcomed MS NOW talking head and former Obama deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes to the show on Wednesday to discuss their problems with American foreign policy. To Stewart and Rhodes, just about everything from the general mess that is the Middle East to Europe’s refugee crisis to ICE’s operations in Minnesota is the…
Daily Show Tries To Equate Trump's America To Putin's Rise To Power
On Tuesday, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper welcomed actor Paul Dano to the set to promote his new movie, The Wizard of the Kremlin, which is a satirical film on Vladimir Putin’s rise to power. According to both Klepper and Dano, the film also has relevant insights for Trump’s America.
Lydic Compares Trump Supporters To Jared Fogle Fans
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Desi Lydic was dismayed on Thursday at recent polling that still showed high levels of support for President Trump among Republicans. Under the guise of self-deprecating humor, she compared those who still support Trump with a fictitious version of herself who set up a Jared Fogle babysitter fan club.
Daily Show Suggests 'A Pile Of S***' For America 250's Time Capsule
As part of the America 250 celebrations this year, a time capsule will be buried with things that represent America in 2026 and will be unearthed in another 250 years in 2276 for the country’s 500th birthday. On Wednesday, Comedy Central sent The Daily Show correspondent Troy Iwata out to see what “present-day patriots” think should be put into the capsule and got multiple excrement-…
Stewart Laughs At The Idea Racism Isn't What It Was In The 60s
Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, welcomed lawyer and professor Sherrilyn Ifill to the program to react to the Supreme Court’s latest ruling regarding the Voting Rights Act. However, Stewart also invited Ifill to give a larger history lesson, which led him to laugh at the Court’s 2013 ruling that got rid of the need for DOJ preclearance for southern states…
Johnson Calls Clarence Thomas 'Uncle Tom' After VRA Ruling
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Josh Johnson reacted on Thursday to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that paved the way for states to get rid of minority-majority districts with all of the scholarly analysis one expects from a comedy show, which is to say none at all. Instead, Johnson just called everyone a racist while also smearing Justice Clarence Thomas as an “…
Stewart Gushes To Platner, Likens To 'Mr. Smith Goes To Washington'
Comedy Central’s host of The Weekly Show podcast and card-carrying member of the Graham Platner Fan Club, Jon Stewart, welcomed the far-left Maine Senate candidate to Wednesday’s go gush over him by comparing him to Jimmy Stewart’s character in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and lament all the focus on his Nazi tattoos.
Daily Show: Conservatives Use 'Lazy Tropes' To Justify Bombing Muslims
Every so often, Comedy Central invites an outsider to The Daily Show to allow them to host one segment while they rant on a topic of their choosing in a segment they call “In My Opinion,” and Wednesday it was comedian Mo Amer’s turn. Amer chose to go after what he considered to be Islamophobia in right-wing America, but while he accused other people of using “lazy tropes” to justify…
Klepper Interviews Foreigners To Try To Get Americans To Dump Guns
Usually when Comedy Central’s Jordan Klepper does his man-on-the-street segments he travels to a conservative event and tries to make conservatives look bad, but on Tuesday he shook it up a bit. After the failed assassination attempt against President Trump at Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner, Klepper traveled to Times Square to interview foreign tourists to make conservatives look…
Stewart Suggests WHCD Should Never Have Invited Trump
Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, kicked off the show by trying to suggest that the shooting at Saturday’s White House Correspondents' Dinner was merely another incident involving guns in America and suggested that the whole thing could have been avoided if President Trump was never invited.
Daily Show Labels Opposition To Drag Queens In Navy Videos 'Extremist'
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Michael Kosta joined forces with Jordan Klepper on Thursday to dumb down the definition of what it means to be an “insane extremist” as they condemned new acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao for opposing the use of drag queens in recruitment videos.
Comedy Shows Tell Zero Swalwell Jokes After Sexual Assault Allegations
This past week, liberal hero Eric Swalwell has been compelled to end his California gubernatorial bid and resign from Congress because of allegations that he is a rapist. While the accusations against Swalwell were disturbing, they also provided the late night comedy shows the opportunity to make fun of a Democrat, but they refused and told zero jokes about Swalwell.
Chieng Thinks Iranian Propaganda Is Better Than White House Memes
Comedy Central’s Ronny Chieng took some time on Thursday’s episode of The Daily Show to examine a different aspect of the war with Iran: the internet meme battle. According to Chieng, Iran’s Lego propaganda video is much better than the memes the White House has been putting out.
Colbert, Daily Show Try To Claim The Pope While Promoting Abortion
After Vice President JD Vance criticized Pope Leo’s recent Iran War comments as being a possible departure from traditionally understood ideas around just war theory, CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, responded on Wednesday by telling Vance to “sit down” because he has been a Catholic since the 60s while Vance only converted in 2019. Colbert then went to a commercial, and…