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 “…
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…
Comedy Shows Play Dumb On Trump's Hormuz Blockade Announcement
The late night comedians like to think of themselves as the kind of people who use humor to highlight the absurdities coming from President Trump, but on their Monday shows, all they ended up doing was proving their own ignorance on the matters they chose to talk about. In this case, the subject was Trump’s announcement of a blockade in the Strait of Hormuz after Saturday’s failed negotiations…
Johnson: No Warren Joke At Mullin Ceremony Shows Trump Has Dementia
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Josh Johnson reacted to President Trump’s appearance at Markwayne Mullin’s swearing-in ceremony to be secretary of Homeland Security by declaring that the lack of a Pocahontas joke about Sen. Elizabeth Warren proves that Trump either is getting less racist or has dementia. Naturally, Johnson settled on the latter. Of course, Johnson…
STUDY: Comedy Show Jokes About America Rise To 97% In War's Third Week
In the first week of the Iran war, the late night comedians told 94 percent of their jokes about the American side. By the third week, that percentage jumped to 97 percent, according to a new Media Research Center study.
Amid Iran War, Stewart Decries Alleged U.S. Hypocrisy On Israel
For the last three weeks the late night comedy shows have relentlessly attacked President Trump amid the war in Iran, but on Monday, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart went over the other half of the American-Israeli alliance in an interview with former Biden national security advisor Jake Sullivan on The Daily Show. Both men would also use Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to…
Comedy Shows Mock The Idea Of The Pentagon Needing More Money Amid War
It should be obvious that the reason why the Pentagon is asking for $200 billion amid the war in Iran is to replenish its munition stockpiles after expending several air-defense interceptor missiles, standoff weapons, and other high-tech weapons and to build up the industrial base to lessen concerns about magazine depth going forward. However, late night comedy’s two Jimmies had a hard time…
Late Night Told 94% Of Jokes About U.S. and Allies in War's First Week
The late night comedians reacted to the start of the Iran War with not only a week of disapproval but also a lopsided joke count. According to a new Media Research Center study, the hosts told 94 percent of their war-related jokes about the United States and our allies.