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Daily Show Uses Boxing Controversy To Spew Fake News About Pro-Lifers

August 6th, 2024 10:00 AM

Comedy Central’s weekly temp host of The Daily Show, Michael Kosta, reacted to the outrage that Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is  allowed to compete in the women’s Olympic boxing tournament on Monday by spreading fake news about pro-life laws in America in an attempt to argue conservatives are being hypocritical. He also conveniently never said the words “failed gender test.”

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Kinzinger: 'Nothing More Conservative' Than Voting For Harris

August 2nd, 2024 10:17 AM

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show doesn’t know what the definition of an echo chamber is. On Thursday’s show, weekly temp host Ronny Chieng hailed former GOP congressman turned CNN talking head Adam Kinzinger for helping the show break out of its bubble as Kinzinger told him what he wanted to hear, mainly that “there is nothing more conservative” than voting for VP Kamala Harris in…

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MSNBC News? 'Morning Joe' Clings to Cat Ladies and Kamala Pom Poms

July 31st, 2024 5:28 PM

It was a tale of two networks on CNN and MSNBC in their 6 am hours today. CNN This Morning devoted a long opening segment to the strike that reportedly killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran. Meanwhile, over on Morning Joe, Joe and Mika might be on vacation, but under the baton of Jonathan Lemire, that same crucial opening segment was all about "cat ladies," "weird,"…

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Daily Show Hints That GOP Wants To Call Harris The N-Word

July 30th, 2024 1:55 PM

After a week off, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show returned on Monday with Jon Stewart in the anchor seat to recap President Joe Biden’s decision to step aside and Vice President Kamala Harris taking his spot as the Democratic presidential nominee. During a segment with correspondent Josh Johnson, the duo claimed that race-based attacks are all Republicans have and even implied that…

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Daily Show Mocks Idea God Saved Trump, Laments GOP Still Likes Guns

July 19th, 2024 3:00 PM

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show took the air early Friday morning for a live reaction show to day four of the Republican National Convention. Host Jordan Klepper was not happy that Republicans are simultaneously claiming that God spared Donald Trump’s life on Saturday while continuing to reject gun control.

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Comedy Shows Smear Republicans As Racist Cultists During RNC

July 19th, 2024 12:15 PM

It was a week of ridiculing Republicans for the men of late night comedy. From Monday to Thursday, the comedians attacked Republicans as racist, cult-like drones and told more jokes about VP-nominee JD Vance in one week than they have about current VP Kamala Harris all year.

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Stewart Attacks Holt For Challenging Biden On 'Overheated Rhetoric'

July 17th, 2024 12:35 PM

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show returned to New York on Tuesday after the security reassessment at their Milwaukee theater changed in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump. However, host Jon Stewart did not take well to NBC’s Lester Holt challenging President Joe Biden if he had done any “soul searching” since Saturday because Biden, according to him, has…

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NY Times, Daily Show 'Horrified' At 'Radicalized' GOP For Roe's Demise

July 11th, 2024 2:07 PM

New York Times national religion correspondent Elizabeth Dias and national politics correspondent Lisa Lerer joined The Daily Show temp hosts Desi Lydic and Jordan Klepper on Comedy Central on Wednesday to promote their new book, The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America. It was a mournful time for all as they mused about “radicalized” Republicans and how “horrified…

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Late Night Freaks Out Over Biden's Debate Performance

July 9th, 2024 11:04 AM

After a couple of weeks of vacation, the full slate of late night comedy shows returned on Monday to reveal their reactions to President Joe Biden’s poor debate performance and subsequent interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. While nobody called for Biden to step aside, there were definitely calls for him to step up his game because democracy is allegedly at stake.

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Late Night DNC: 94 Percent of Late Night Guests Are Liberal

July 2nd, 2024 10:00 AM

In the nine months since the end of the writers’ strike, the late night comedy shows have remained remarkably consistent, as a NewsBusters study determined 94 percent of their political guests have been liberal.

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Jon Stewart Mourns 'A******' vs. '25th Amendment Face' Debate

June 28th, 2024 9:46 AM

Jon Stewart was greatly distressed following the Thursday debate between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. On a special edition of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Stewart lamented that the nation’s two choices for president are an “asshole” and someone who has “resting 25th Amendment face.”

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Daily Show Asks Wade If Willis Affair Was Worth Ending Democracy

June 19th, 2024 2:34 PM

For the Tuesday installment of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, Marlon Wayans broke out his Quan character as he interviewed former Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade to ask if the affair with D.A. Fani Willis was worth ending democracy.

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Stewart Attacks 'Right-Wing Mother*******' For Talking About Gun Crime

June 18th, 2024 1:41 PM

Jon Stewart was greatly displeased on Monday that “right-wing mother[bleeper]ers” have dared to criticize blue city crime rates and especially crimes committed with guns because, in his world, gun crime is Republicans’ fault.

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Daily Show Asks: You Wouldn't Trust The NBA, So Why Trust Pro-Lifers

June 14th, 2024 10:05 AM

Even by the standards of late night comedy, The Daily Show’s Grace Kuhlenschmidt is painfully unfunny. On Thursday’s episode on Comedy Central, she joined temp host Jordan Klepper to do her usual routine of playing an overly excited dumb woman who needs to be told what to do by everybody from the NBA to NASA in a ham-fisted attempt to satirize pro-lifers.