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Daily Show Suggests Jesus Would Approve of Transgender Visibility Day

April 4th, 2024 12:45 PM

The cast of Comedy Central’s Wednesday installment of The Daily Show managed to hit all the wrong notes as it reacted to conservative criticism of President Joe Biden recognizing Easter Sunday as Transgender Visibility Day. Temp host Desi Lydic tried to suggest that Biden had nothing to do with his own proclamations and butchered multiple Biblical references, while correspondent…

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Daily Show Hypes Abortion, Allows Cruz Challenger's Fake News

April 3rd, 2024 10:06 AM

If you are a Democrat who wants a softball interview and the ability to spread fake news unchallenged, you go on a late night comedy program like Rep. Colin Allred going on Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Show to hype his campaign against Sen. Ted Cruz. Throughout the interview, host Desi Lydic would lob him easy questions about abortion and leave unchallenged his claims that…

Column: Jon Stewart, the Tribeca Trickster of Real Estate

March 29th, 2024 5:59 AM

On March 25, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart uncorked a typical not-so-funny sermon about how Donald Trump overvaluing real-estate properties was not a “victimless crime.” Trump has been found liable for fraud despite no banker or financier ever claiming Trump victimized them. It turns out Jon Stewart sold his Tribeca duplex for $17.5 million in 2014, but his tax assessor valuation…

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Daily Show Longs For Abortion In Spoof Ad Portraying GOP As Sexist

March 27th, 2024 10:17 AM

The cast of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show came together on Tuesday to put together a satirical movie trailer about a male GOP politician who becomes a woman after a “freak jacking off accident” and has an epiphany that the party needs to support abortion, all while portraying the party as a bunch of out-of-touch, sex-crazed misogynists.

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Daily Show Goes To Bat For CCP, Condemns TikTok Ban As Hypocritical

March 14th, 2024 10:00 AM

The cast of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show reacted to the overwhelmingly bipartisan vote in the House on Wednesday that would force ByteDance to divest from TikTok by accusing those in favor of hypocrisy and jealousy in a heavily sarcastic satirical news report.

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Stewart Asks If The Constitution 'Got Us Into This Mess'

March 12th, 2024 10:07 AM

Jon Stewart welcomed Harvard Prof. Steven Levitsky to Comedy Central and Monday’s edition of The Daily Show to promote his new book, Tyranny of the Minority, where he wondered if the Constitution is to blame for the “mess” the country finds itself in.

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Daily Show Warns Texas Is Being Invaded By... Republicans

March 8th, 2024 12:51 PM

Comedy Central sent Michael Kosta to Eagle Pass, Texas, to report on the border crisis for the Friday installment of The Daily Show, but according to him, the real crisis is about the reaction to the crisis as Texas is “attracting a flood of Republican governors, Congressional delegations, and even billionaire weirdos.”

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Late Night Hosts 'Cannot [Bleep] Believe' SCOTUS Took Trump Case

March 1st, 2024 10:48 AM

For the men of Thursday’s late night comedy shows, if the “MAGA justices” on the Supreme Court hand Donald Trump a victory by announcing they will hear arguments on his claim to have presidential immunity, it is “terrible news for democracy” because, for them, only when a court rules against Trump is it legitimate. They simply “cannot [bleep] believe” any other version of events.

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Daily Show Smears McConnell, Blames Him For School Shootings

February 29th, 2024 10:19 AM

Comedy Central’s Michael Kosta used his second day of temp hosting The Daily Show to react to Sen. Mitch McConnell’s Wednesday decision to step down as the GOP Senate leader by accusing him of being responsible for school shootings.

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Daily Show Labels It 'Unmoderate' To Keep Boys Off Girls' Sports Teams

February 23rd, 2024 10:00 AM

If Donald Trump is the threat to democracy that the late night comedy shows claim he is, you would think that The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic would put policy differences aside and support Nikki Haley, but you would be wrong. On the Thursday edition of the Comedy Central program, Lydic argued that, on some issues, Haley is worse than Trump and has some rather “unmoderate” positions on…

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Daily Show Reduces Embryos To 'Jizz And Eggs'

February 21st, 2024 10:00 AM

Desi Lydic is The Daily Show’s temp host of the week on Comedy Central and she got started on Tuesday by reacting to the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that embryos are people. Lydic did not take the news well, as she dismissed embryos as “just jizz and eggs.”

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Bitter John Oliver Tries To Bribe Thomas To 'Get The F*** Off' SCOTUS

February 20th, 2024 9:52 AM

The new season of HBO’s Last Week Tonight debuted on Sunday with host John Oliver bitterly attacking Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for making people’s lives “demonstrable worse for decades” and therefore offering him $1 million per year and a new luxury RV if he resigns and gets “the fuck off the Supreme Court.” A day later on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Jon…

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Biden Hasn’t Lost Sycophant Stephen Colbert … Yet

February 17th, 2024 1:30 PM

Thursday, February 8 was the worst day of President Joe Biden’s three-plus years in office.

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'You Idiots': Colbert, Daily Show Worry Willis Affair Endangered Case

February 16th, 2024 10:14 AM

CBS’s The Late Show host Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show temp host Jordan Klepper were the only late night hosts to discuss Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis’s testimony on their Thursday shows and they were not happy with her for endangering the case against Donald Trump.