Jimmy Fallon

Julia Reinstein critiques Jimmy Fallon in New York Magazine's The Cut, expressing frustration over his perceived lack of political engagement, especially towards Donald Trump. Unlike other late-night hosts, Fallon opts for a neutral stance, focusing on humor over politics. During the period when Jimmy Kimmel faced suspension for controversial jokes, Fallon maintained his usual apolitical…

NBC’s host of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon, stopped by CNBC’s Squawk on the Street on Tuesday to promote his new On Brand. While there, co-host Carl Quintanilla naturally asked about the state of late night, especially in the aftermath of ABC’s brief suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. Fallon insisted that his show isn't that political and contrary to all evidence, that “…

CBS’s Stephen Colbert freaked out on Thursday’s edition of The Late Show at ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel and downplayed his comments that MAGA was “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” but at least he played the clip. The same could not be said of Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart on The Daily Show and NBC’s…

You knew it was coming. “The Tonight Show” is trying something new – extending an olive branch to the half of the country it wrote off in 2017.

The Daily Show is taking the month off, and man-on-the-street guy and occasional host Jordan Klepper spent some of his free time on Tuesday talking to NBC’s Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. While it may seem obvious the goal of Klepper’s field trips is to make Trump voters look dumb, it was still revealing to hear Klepper basically admit it out loud.

The men of late night reacted to the news that CBS has cancelled The Late Show with varying degrees of intelligence on their Monday shows. On the dumb end of the spectrum was fellow Paramount employee Jon Stewart, who reacted on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show by telling CBS to “go fuck” itself and dropping over 40 F-bombs.

For the men of the late night comedy talk shows, the first half of 2025 was an instance of history repeating itself. According to a NewsBusters study, 99 percent of their political guests were on the left, matching the result for the last six months of 2024.

Comedian Bill Burr stopped by NBC on Tuesday to sit down with The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon and go on a rant against billionaires who have supported President Trump, but mostly Elon Musk, calling them “horrible, heartless people.”

Through the first four weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, the late night comedians have told 761 jokes about him. By contrast, in 2021, during President Joe Biden’s first four weeks in office, the late night comedians told a total of 88 jokes about the new chief executive, according to an MRC study.

When the late night comedy shows took to the air on Monday to lament Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, three main themes emerged. The first was that Trump is going to be a national nightmare. The second was that they have gone all in on embracing former President Joe Biden’s “oligarchy” warnings. Finally, it was deemed ironic that Inauguration Day happened to fall on Martin Luther King…

From the beginning of June through the end of December, the late night comedy shows welcomed 120 liberal guests and only one conservative, according to a new NewsBusters study.

The Daily Show’s host-of-the-week Desi Lydic and The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon used their respective shows on Comedy Central and NBC on Wednesday to attack Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his decision to ditch the company’s relationship with fact-checking companies. As Lydic and Fallon tell it, if someone calls themselves a fact-checker, they must be an unbiased observer of…

After a strike-shortened 2023, 2024 was a busy year for the late night comedians. During the last year, the men of late night told a total of 13,676 political jokes, of which 11,226, or 82 percent, were directed at someone or something on the right side of the political aisle, an MRC study has found.

Now, it can be told. President Joe Biden wasn’t capable of discharging his duties as Commander in Chief for large swathes of his single-term presidency. New reporting from The Wall Street Journal shared some, but not all, of the shocking details.