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Stephen Colbert and Kamala Harris Have a Beer After Gushy Interview

October 9th, 2024 10:26 AM

Vice President Kamala Harris continued her tour of friendly interviews on Tuesday as she joined CBS’s Stephen Colbert for four segments and a beer on The Late Show.

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CNN's Wallace Mourns 'Crazy' SCOTUS Made Jack Smith's Life Difficult

October 4th, 2024 10:00 AM

CNN’s Chris Wallace took his 1960 election-related book tour to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday, where he lamented that the “crazy” Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity has made Special Counsel Jack Smith’s life more difficult and sarcastically claimed it was “totally coincidental” that it was a 6-3 ruling along partisan lines with three Trump…

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Colbert Hypes Walz's Fake News While Longing For More Fact-Checking

October 2nd, 2024 10:00 AM

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert was not a fan of his CBS colleagues’ decision to refrain from fact-checking during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate. However, his concerns were one-sided because he implicitly approved of Tim Walz not being fact-checked about his claim that a Donald Trump victory means pregnant women will have to register with the federal government. Later, when…

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Colbert Laments To Trudeau That 'Canada's Trump' May Bring 'Fascism'

September 24th, 2024 10:00 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Monday’s taping of The Late Show in an attempt to help him reverse his collapse in the polls by labeling his Conservative Party opponent, Pierre Poilievre, “Canada’s Trump,” which naturally means he is, in Colbert’s eyes, a fascist, nativist-xenophobe.

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Colbert and Maddow Try To Claim Everyone Loves Harris

September 19th, 2024 10:00 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert might as well rename The Late Show to The Kamala Harris Fan Club because on Wednesday he and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow marveled about how supposedly everyone from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Dick Cheney and from the military to Scientific American loves her.

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'Holy ****, She Crushed That': Comedians Hail Harris After Debate

September 11th, 2024 10:46 AM

Three of the five regular late night comedy programs were able to react to Tuesday’s debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris and all agreed that Harris was the big winner as they attacked Trump for spreading falsehoods while covering for the falsehoods told by Harris and the ABC moderators.

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Late Night DNC: Colbert Plots Strategy With Sen. Kelly

September 6th, 2024 12:47 PM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert turned The Late Show into The Democratic Strategy Show on Thursday as he welcomed Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly to the program to promote his new children’s book and Kamala Harris 2024.

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'That's a Layup': Colbert Tries to Get KBJ to Trash SCOTUS Colleagues

September 4th, 2024 10:00 AM

CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, repeatedly tried to bait Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson into trashing her conservative colleagues on Tuesday, only for her to stymie him with multiple “no comment” responses. At one point, Colbert lamented “that’s a layup” in response to one of her non-responses.

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Hyping Harris: Late Night Comedy's DNC Coverage Goes Soft

August 23rd, 2024 12:08 PM

For the late night comedy shows, the week of the Democratic National Convention provides the hosts with an opportunity to prove that they can make fun of Democrats in the same way they attack Republicans. However, a new MRC study shows they failed to do so this past week. In terms of quantity, the comedians hold 113 fewer jokes than they did during the RNC and 60 fewer jokes about Kamala…

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'Everything We've Been Waiting For': Colbert Hails Harris Speech

August 23rd, 2024 9:54 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert wrapped up his week of live shows from Chicago on the final night of the Democratic National Convention by hyping Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech as “everything we've been waiting for.” To cap it all off, he welcomed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for some additional party promotional material.

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'Another Powerful Evening': Colbert Gets Emotional At Walz Speech

August 22nd, 2024 1:35 PM

After Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president on Wednesday, CBS’s Stephen Colbert reacted on a live edition of The Late Show by claiming that day three of the DNC was “another powerful evening” that “was about remembering that America is good and that we shouldn't give in to hopelessness.”

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Colbert Laments Pelosi's 'Unsatisfying' Answer To Anti-Israel Hecklers

August 21st, 2024 10:11 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s interview with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was derailed late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning on night two of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago by anti-Israel hecklers. The Late Show host struggled as he sought to control the unruly behavior, but also tried to appease them by noting Pelosi’s answers were “unsatisfying to some people” as he…

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Colbert, Clinton Hail Biden's 'Patriotic' Decision To Step Down

August 20th, 2024 9:43 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to a live edition of The Late Show early Tuesday morning in Chicago to recap night one of the Democratic National Convention. Together, the duo would hail President Joe Biden’s “patriotic” decision to step aside after the party brass forced him out.

The Legacy Media’s Last Gasp?

August 19th, 2024 9:48 AM

[Last] week, alleged comedian Stephen Colbert had on CNN's Kaitlan Collins to discuss the 2024 presidential election. In the middle of the interview, Colbert began to ask Collins a question, in all sincerity: "I know you guys are objective over (at CNN), you just report the news as it is." Colbert, presumably, expected his audience — all Kamala Harris fans, since Colbert is the most left-…