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The Oceans Rise at CBS as Hosts Melt Over Gore
August 2nd, 2017 12:47 PM
You know it’s a bad sign when the comedy host is a tougher “journalist” than the actual reporters. But that’s what played out as The Daily Show and CBS This Morning both featured interviews with Al Gore. The ex-Vice President is promoting his new climate change sequel and endured this softball from CBS’s Charlie Rose: “So, tell me, in ten years, what has changed that alarms you?”
Liberal Late Night Yearns for Obama: ‘Could Go a Week’ Without Mockery
July 31st, 2017 4:42 PM
The writers from liberal late night shows pine for the days of Barack Obama when they could go a whole week without making fun of the president. According to an article in Variety, “the general consensus” among writers who appeared at a panel in Beverly Hills is “I don’t want this job.” Writer for The Daily Show Hallie Haglund complained, “To try to find a new way to go after that can be really…
'Daily Show' Stars Claim Show Is the Most Accurate News Source
July 24th, 2017 1:53 PM
Last week, Bustle.com published an interview giving insight into the detached reality of two members of Comedy Central's The Daily Show. Desi Lydic is a field correspondent and Michele Wolf is a writer and on-screen contributor for the not-so-funny comedy show. Lydic lamented the horrible world of Trump.
Daily Show Writers Claim to be ‘Factually Accurate’
July 20th, 2017 2:12 PM
Liberals love being depicted as modern saints. The members of the Daily Show cast are just another example of the snowflake daydreams surrounding feminist rights and Hillary Clinton. Bustle writer Martha Sorren did an interview with Desi Lydic and Michelle Wolf of the Daily Show on July 19, 2017.
Daily Show Co-Creator Wants to ‘Shatter Abortion Stigma’
July 6th, 2017 10:23 AM
Would you pay money to see The Vagical Mystery Tour, a comedy show that wants to “grow activist bases” around reproductive rights, namely abortion? Lizz Winstead, co-creator of the Jon Stewart Daily Show and writer for Trevor Noah’s version, organized this tour, hosted by the Lady Parts Justice League, in order to cross over from “anger fluffing” into activism. As bizarre as that sounds, it is in…
'Daily Show' Host Trevor Noah Says He ‘Exists Beyond Trump’
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
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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Jon Stewart Mocks Colbert Audience for Awkwardly Cheering Comey Firing
May 10th, 2017 1:18 PM
Awww, that Daily Show reunion was going so well until breaking news had to intervene. More accurately, it wasn't the breaking news that President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey was so deliciously awkward -- it was the wildly enthusiastic reaction to that news from Late Show host Stephen Colbert's audience.
Late Night TV Comics: 100 Days of Trashing Trump
May 8th, 2017 2:06 PM
Just a few days after CBS’s Stephen Colbert unleashed a vulgar tirade against President Trump, a new study has documented just how unfriendly late night TV has been to the new Commander-in-Chief. The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University counted an incredible 1,060 jokes directed against Trump during the President’s first 100 days in office. That’s more than ten times…
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Noah: ‘F**k You’ Obama ‘Haters!’ ‘Make That Money!’
April 28th, 2017 10:32 AM
The Daily Show started right off the bat Thursday blasting Obama’s “haters,” for criticizing the former president for taking a hefty paycheck from Wall Street for an upcoming speech. While all three networks last night ignored the hypocrisy of Obama cashing in a $400,000 dollar paycheck for speaking to the same group of investors that he had slammed as “fat cats” when he was president, The Daily…
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Daily Show: Fox News Sounds Just Like 'North Korea Propaganda'
March 28th, 2017 2:51 PM
On Monday’s The Daily Show host Trevor Noah compared Fox News to North Korea’s state-controlled media. Noah began the segment playing a clip from FNC’s Justice With Judge Jeanine March 25 show, where host Jeanine Pirro is shown criticizing Paul Ryan for giving Trump a failed health care bill. Noah then mocks Pirro blaming Ryan for the healthcare bill not passing, instead of Trump for not being…
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UPDATED: Donna Brazile Defends Feeding Questions to Clinton
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.
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Jon Stewart 'Hijacks' CBS's 'Late Show,' Rips Donald Trump
February 28th, 2017 6:06 PM
Jon Stewart, former host of The Daily Show on the Comedy Central cable television channel, returned to the TV spotlight by “hijacking” Monday night's edition of The Late Show on CBS, which is hosted by Stewart protégé Stephen Colbert. While he spent most of the segment claiming Donald Trump uses the phrase “Believe me” when the Republican president is lying, Stewart also reminded everyone of his…
Trevor Noah: Donald Trump Presidency Like 'Apocalypse in a Clown Car'
February 22nd, 2017 6:05 PM
During an interview with Matt Wilstein of The Daily Beast website, Trevor Noah -- host of The Daily Show -- declared that he doubts Donald Trump “has the balls to go on a show where people don't like him.” Wilstein noted that even after the Republican president became the occupant of the White House a month ago, the liberal comedian “is still here, still tearing into Trump four nights a week and…
