Comedy Central Sitcom Mocks Hipsters, CNN’s Don Lemon

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Karen Townsend
June 19th, 2017 12:55 AM
Season Two of Comedy Central’s Legends of Chamberlain Heights kicked off its first episode titled “The G-Word” Sunday night. G stands for gentrification and the hood isn’t happy about it. Along the way, hipsters and the intrusion of CNN’s Don Lemon are solidly mocked.
 
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Comedy Central Host Trashes Melania Trump: ‘Wooden,’ ‘Dirty’

Christian Toto
June 17th, 2017 2:15 PM
Remember when First Lady Michelle Obama was off-limits to political satirists? Comedians know not to cross certain lines with their jokes. Take the First Family. It’s all well and good to mock the president, but the First Spouse is a different matter. That’s how it was for eight years when First Lady Michelle Obama lived in the White House.
 

Crazed TV Show ‘Bleeps’ Out Trump’s Name Like Curse Word

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Corinne Weaver
June 13th, 2017 4:32 PM
Typically when the “bleep” sound is heard on television, it means that someone used an expletive or took something to the extreme. But not for Broad City, the Comedy Central show co-created by Ilana Glazer. On that show, when you hear the bleep, it means someone said the word “Trump.” The horror.
 
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New Comedy Central Host Hates the NRA

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Erik Soderstrom
June 12th, 2017 10:03 AM

For an hour, Mr. Mackey sat on my screen chanting “Guns are bad, Mkay.” Just minutes into the June 11th comedy special, all was clear: gun owners are “dumb people” with small—what drives liberals’ constant fascination with human sexual anatomy—who are being led like mindless sheep by the big, bad NRA. Although he never mentions the Brady Campaign or any of Michael Bloomberg’s bevy of anti-gun…

 
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New Comedy Central Host Calls President a Racist ‘Dick’

Christian Toto
June 10th, 2017 12:15 PM
The latest addition to late night's comedy lineup sounds ... familiar. Here comes the latest “fresh” voice from Comedy Central. Stand-up comic Jim Jefferies joined the growing ranks of late night talkers Tuesday with his own weekly program. The Jim Jefferies Show promises to add a fresh voice to the political conversation. 
 

'Daily Show' Host Trevor Noah Says He ‘Exists Beyond Trump’

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Corinne Weaver
June 9th, 2017 12:04 PM
Trevor Noah, host of late-night talk show The Daily Show, would like to inform his audience that he actually “exists beyond” Trump. If his statements of facts “happen to be a thorn in his side, then that’s a byproduct.”
 
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NBC Promotes Anti-Gun Special From New Comedy Central Host

Kyle Drennen
June 6th, 2017 4:14 PM

At the end of Tuesday’s NBC Today, co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer brought on comedian and newly-named Comedy Central late-night host Jordan Klepper to promote his upcoming one-hour special on the cable channel. Based on Klepper’s work routinely mocking gun-owners as a Daily Show correspondent and the trailer for the satirical documentary, viewers can probably expect another typical…

 
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How To Get Ratings: Comedy Central Wants More 'President Show'

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Corinne Weaver
May 24th, 2017 4:13 PM
Late night talk shows are having a great year. The premiere of Comedy Central’s new series, The President Show, had over one million viewers. The late night talk show where actor Anthony Atamanuik stars as Trump is garnered the network’s biggest audience since Broad City, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
 
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Comedy Central: NRA Convention Is ‘Comic Con for Death’

Christian Toto
May 20th, 2017 12:15 PM

A new special promises to bridge the partisan divide on the national gun debate ... but so far it sounds like more of the same. Comedy Central routinely takes a pro-gun control position through its comedic programming. Consider The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Inside Amy Schumer as Exhibits A & B. You may want to add Jordan Klepper’s upcoming special to that list.

 

Thank You, Stephen Colbert

David Limbaugh
May 6th, 2017 4:23 PM
I oppose the push to remove "The Late Show" comedian Stephen Colbert from the air because of his obscene tirade against President Donald Trump. In fact, I wish the video of his boorish diatribe would go viral. The best remedy against the political left's ongoing crusade to remake America in its own vulgar image is maximum exposure of its irrationality.
 
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Comedy Central Debuts New Trump-Hammering 'President Show'

Randy Hall
April 28th, 2017 11:21 PM
Someone needs to tell the folks at the Comedy Central cable television channel that in order to have the word “Comedy” in your name, you should actually be funny. A perfect example of this concept gone wrong aired on Thursday evening, April 27, when the low-rated channel debuted The President Show, which mostly consists of President Donald Trump impersonator Anthony Atamanuik sitting in the Oval…
 
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UPDATED: Donna Brazile Defends Feeding Questions to Clinton

Kristine Marsh
March 17th, 2017 10:57 AM
Thursday on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, former DNC chair and ex-CNN analyst Donna Brazile appeared to talk about her time as chair and the scandal that ousted her from her 14-year-run at CNN. While host Trevor Noah asked her why she gave questions to the Clinton campaign before a town hall, he didn’t push back when Brazile defended her actions and downplayed the controversy as media spin.  
 

NYT Provides Page One ‘Solace’ for Sheltered Libs, Promotes Lefty Talk

Clay Waters
March 14th, 2017 10:22 AM
The front page of Monday’s New York Times documented how liberals are seeking mental comfort food through old-fashioned means -- by binging on left-wing talk and comedy shows in front of the television set -- in “Seeking Communal Solace, Liberals Turn Back to the TV," which began with this unpromising opening line: "There is a new safe space for liberals in the age of President Trump: the…
 
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Meet Comedy Central’s New Trump-Bashing Comic

Christian Toto
March 11th, 2017 12:15 PM
Jim Jefferies will soon bring his liberal humor to the late night scene. It begs the question ... why? Comedy Central is your one-stop shop for Republican-bashing humor. It’s been that way for some time, dating back to Jon Stewart’s tenure at The Daily Show. It blossomed with The Colbert Report, even if that tradition couldn’t keep Larry Wilmore employed via his Nightly Show.