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Guthrie: Hiring McDaniel Crossed 'The Line,' Bosses Admitted 'Mistake'

April 3rd, 2024 1:51 PM

NBC’s Today anchor Savannah Guthrie traveled to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday to promote her new book, but before that, Colbert couldn’t help but ask about Ronna McDaniel-gate.  Guthrie claimed that the NBC brass “acknowledged a mistake” in hiring the former RNC chairwoman because “there’s a line and the line is truth.”

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Colbert, Meyers Mock Concern Over WH's Transgender Easter Moves

April 2nd, 2024 12:52 PM

Stephen Colbert, Biden fundraiser and host of The Late Show on CBS, demanded on Monday that those who condemned President Biden for issuing a proclamation on Easter Sunday recognizing Transgender Day of Visibility get over it because Biden, apparently, has nothing to do with his own actions and because Easter sometimes falls on different days. It was a sentiment echoed by NBC Late…

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Zakaria: 'Christian Nationalism,' Islamism, Xi Unite Against Women

March 28th, 2024 10:27 AM

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria took his book tour to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, where he claimed that if there is one thing that unites the “right-wing reactionary movements” of Christian Nationalism (whatever that means), Islamic fundamentalism, and ultra-Orthodox Israelis, it is that belief that “women have gotten to uppity.” For good measure, Zakaria also threw…

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Colbert Fails to Get Breyer to Affirm SCOTUS Is Influenced by Politics

March 26th, 2024 10:11 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert has used The Late Show to routinely condemn Supreme Court rulings after it rejected his legal theories from way out in left field. On Monday, Colbert welcomed former liberal Justice Stephen Breyer to the show to promote the latter's new book and seek affirmation that his views of the Court are correct. Unfortunately for him, Breyer refused to play along.

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Dickerson and Colbert: Biden's SOTU 'Reknits Those Bonds' of Democracy

March 8th, 2024 10:08 AM

CBS chief political analyst John Dickerson joined Stephen Colbert on Thursday for a special live edition of The Late Show, where the two fawned over President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address by claiming that simply by giving the speech, Biden “reknits those bonds” of democracy.

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Colbert Turns Late Show Into Socialist Hour With Sanders

March 7th, 2024 10:02 AM

According to CBS’s Stephen Colbert, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is his second-most common guest. On Tuesday, Sanders was on again as Colbert turned The Late Show into The Socialist Show as he opened the floor to Sanders to predict Donald Trump will lead to more wildfires, the erosion of women’s rights, and the reason why the Biden Economy isn’t doing so well is because of…

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Colbert, Meyers Attack 'Dangerous' SCOTUS Trump-Colorado Ruling

March 5th, 2024 10:11 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Seth Meyers did not take the news that the Supreme Court will not allow Colorado to kick Donald Trump off its primary ballot well on the respective Monday editions of The Late Show and Late Night. The duo portrayed the ruling as everything from hypocritical to "dangerous and extreme" to illogical, but that couldn’t cover up the fact they were…

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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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'Helping Donald Trump': Hayes Condemns SCOTUS For Not Rushing Case

February 29th, 2024 12:45 PM

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes journeyed over to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday to react to the news that the Supreme Court has decided to hear Donald Trump’s argument that he has presidential immunity and therefore cannot be tried in the classified documents and January 6-related cases on an expedited schedule. However, that was not good enough for Hayes, as he told the…

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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.

FLASHBACK: Recalling Years of Liberal Media Mockery of CPAC

February 25th, 2024 10:33 AM

For years, both journalists and late-night comics have ridiculed CPAC as akin to “the bar scene in Star Wars,” “an aviary for far-right ‘wacko birds,’” and an “audience of malignant children.”

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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.

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Colbert, Meyers Struggle To Cope With Colorado's Bad Day At SCOTUS

February 9th, 2024 10:00 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Seth Meyers struggled to cope with Colorado having a bad day before the Supreme Court as it struggled to defend its decision to kick Donald Trump off its primary ballot on the Thursday editions of The Late Show and Late Night, respectively.