Comedy Shows Gloat Over Colom's 'Revenge' In Mississippi
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.
Stewart, Sanders Portray Their Socialist Agenda As Democracy Itself
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart teamed up with Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday’s episode of The Weekly Show podcast to advocate for a “Medicare for All” health system and claim such a system is necessary for democracy itself. Naturally, the duo also claimed that anybody who disagrees with them has no problem with people dying because they only care about money.
Daily Show Attacks Dems For Failing To Impeach Hegseth
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.”
Kimmel Cheers Talarico Overcoming 'Exceptionally Vile Lying'
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel was still gloating at Democrats’ midterm election victories on his Monday show as he praised Sen.-elect James Talarico for overcoming Republicans’ “exceptionally vile lying” and took the time to renew his feud with Sen. Ted Cruz by calling him “ugly.” Meanwhile, over at Comedy Central, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow gushed over the “exhilaration”…
Stewart: Dems Beat 'S***iness,' Schumer Must Go For Stevens Support
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart was in a good mood to begin Thursday’s episode of The Weekly Show podcast as he claimed Tuesday’s midterms were “an exciting repudiation of cruelty and shittiness.” However, by the time it came for the audience Q&A, Stewart and his producers demanded that the number one thing Democrats need to do is remove Sen. Chuck Schumer as majority leader, and their…
NY Times Reporter Hypes Talarico Winning As Cure For Nihilism
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.
Despite Dem Wins, Daily Show Suggests Strikes To Combat 'Dictator'
Despite Comedy Central’s Michael Kosta’s preferred team winning on Tuesday, he welcomed Harvard Kennedy School Prof. Erica Chenoweth (pronouns: they/them) to Wednesday’s episode of The Daily Show, where the two strategized how to combat the “dictator” president. One tactic Chenoweth came up with was for “limited strikes.”
Ronny Chieng Claims Haley Stevens Would Push Her Mom In Front of a Bus
Comedy Central’s Ronny Chieng taped Tuesday’s episode of The Daily Show before any results came in, meaning he was still reacting to the pre-election news when the show aired. As part of his monologue, Chieng argued that Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens deciding to endorse GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers was analogous to throwing her mother “in front of a speeding bus.”
Stewart and Meyers Attack Stevens For Endorsing Rogers
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.
Late Night Shows Target GOP Senate Candidates, Let Dems Go Unscathed
The 2026 field of Democratic Senate candidates offered up plenty of material for the late night comedy shows to work with, but, according to a new NewsBusters study, the four regular late night shows told only seven jokes about them during the fall campaign, but 45 about the Republicans (or 87 percent of Senate candidate jokes).
Jordan Klepper Says Black Man at Vance Rally 'Might Want To Slip Out'
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…
Klepper: Alaska Trick Is 'The Kind of S***' Mitch McConnell Would Do
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…
Klepper Tries To Defend Talarico's Remarks About God Being Non-Binary
After Monday’s regular airing of The Daily Show, Comedy Central followed up with a midnight special that featured Jordan Klepper traveling across the country to interview various MAGA people for the purposes of making them look foolish. However, when Klepper tried to defend Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico’s remarks about God being non-binary, it was him who looked rather…
Stewart Claims GOP's Closing Argument Is 'Islamophobia'
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.”
