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STUDY: 81% Of Late-Night Political Jokes Mocked Conservatives In 2023

January 5th, 2024 10:00 AM

Throughout all of 2023, the late night comedians told a total of 9,518 political jokes, and of these 7,729 or 81 percent were directed at someone or something on the right side of the political spectrum, an MRC study has found.

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Good Riddance: 95% of Late Night ‘Comedy’ Show Guests Are Liberals

May 19th, 2023 9:00 AM

With the Writers Guild of America going on strike, it is likely that America has seen the last of the first half of 2023’s late night comedy shows. Whether America wants them to return is another question as 95 percent of their guests were liberal, a NewsBusters study has documented.

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STUDY: CBS's 'Late Late Show' Partisan Guests Were ALL Democrats

April 26th, 2023 11:30 AM

During his eight-year stint as host of CBS’s The Late Late Show, James Corden could be counted on to use the show to advance the electoral interests of the Democratic Party, a NewsBusters study has found.

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Late Night Responds To Carlson, Lemon With 16x As Many Carlson Jokes

April 25th, 2023 11:37 AM

The Monday news media news surrounding Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon provided the late night comedy shows a golden opportunity to show they aren’t just liberal partisans. However, they would fail this test as individual jokes about Carlson outnumbered jokes about Lemon 32-to-2 with five additional jokes about both men.

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STUDY: Five Months Of Late Night: 93 Liberal Guests, 1 Conservative

February 6th, 2023 10:43 AM

The late night comedy shows ended 2022 with a unanimously liberal guest count and that trend continued into the first month of 2023, a NewsBusters study has revealed.

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Meyers: GOP Criticizing Biden In 'The Dumbest Way Possible' On Scandal

January 12th, 2023 11:03 AM

All of the late night comedy hosts discussed day one of the Biden document scandal on their Tuesday shows to differing degrees of hackery. When Wednesday brought revelations of a second batch of documents, only three could manage to discuss with NBC’s Seth Meyers and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel main takeaway being how terrible Republicans are.

NewsBusters Podcast: Classified Documents and Double Standards

January 11th, 2023 10:42 PM

CBS broke the news on Monday that Biden's lawyers disclosed they have discovered classified documents in an office at the University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center in the nation's capital. The "roughly 10" documents are from President Biden's vice-presidential office at the center, which opened in 2018.

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Meyers Targets Tucker as Late Night Reacts to Biden Document Scandal

January 11th, 2023 11:23 AM

NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers reacted on Tuesday to the revelations that classified materials were found at The Penn Biden Center from President Biden’s tenure as vice president with a random shot at Fox News host Tucker Carlson photoshopped The Joker. Beyond Meyers, the men of late night varied greatly in their response to the news, but all managed to cover it.

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WORST OF 2022: Celebrity Freak-Out Award 

January 1st, 2023 1:33 PM

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: Celebrity Freak-Out Award.

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TOP 10: The Worst Of Late Night For 2022

December 27th, 2022 11:45 PM

Between calls for gun control, the demise of Roe v. Wade, and the regular news cycle, it was a year where the hosts of late night traded in their jokes for liberal rants, lectures, and other wandering pontifications. So, without further ado, here are the top -- or maybe bottom 10 -- moments of late night 2022.

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Comedy Hosts Think Twitter Censoring Hunter Story Is About Nude Photos

December 6th, 2022 10:24 AM

The men of late night "comedy" finally got the opportunity on Monday to address the Twitter Files and the revelations of how Twitter suppressed the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. However, they missed the point about how the Post was censored and insisted the real story was the censorship of nude Hunter Biden photos.

STUDY: 47 Liberals, 0 Conservatives on Late Night During Fall Campaign

November 14th, 2022 1:30 PM

The late-night comedy scene has been reliably liberal for a long time, but the 2022 midterm election was a regular messaging machine for the Democrats, a NewsBusters study has revealed.

MRC analysts found that during the fall campaign, from Labor Day through the Monday night before Election Day, liberal guests outnumbered conservative guests 46 to 0.

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Corden Tells Buttigieg He'd Really, Really Love' Him To Be President

September 8th, 2022 10:12 AM

CBS host of The Late Late Show James Corden welcomed Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg onto his Wednesday-taped show to express relief at “the wonderful news” of President Biden’s student loan order and to tell Buttigieg that he would “really, really love it” if Buttigieg were to be president.

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Late Night Warns of Sex Licenses, Guns Having More Rights Women

June 28th, 2022 12:18 PM

CBS late nights hosts James Corden and Stephen Colbert and ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest host Chelsea Handler all reacted to fall of Roe v. Wade with great horror, decrying it as a loss for the rights of women. There were sorrowful lamentations, references to sex police, and angry denunciations of Republicans, but no passing grades when it comes to understanding what…