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Study Finds 97% of Late Night Jokes Are About Trump, 3% About Biden

Culture
Gabriel Hays
October 20th, 2020 1:00 PM

Undergoing the kind of painful research project we wouldn’t wish on our worst enemies, one George Mason University media researcher watched a ton of late night material from two major networks and recorded exactly how many jokes were directed at President Trump versus how many were directed at former Vice President Joe Biden.

 
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Maddow Melts for Michelle, Kamala: They Gave Me 'Chills!'

Kristine Marsh
August 21st, 2020 9:55 AM

Rachel Maddow had her own “thrill up the leg” moment while on the Tonight Show, Thursday. The MSNBC host praised the pair profusely boasting how Obama’s speech and Harris’s nomination, gave her “chills.” 

 
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Fallon Fawns Over 'Amazing' Cuomo: 'There For Us When We Needed You'

Kristine Marsh
July 14th, 2020 11:04 AM

The media is engaging in some real revisionist history now that New York is no longer the country’s epicenter of COVID-19. Despite Governor Andrew Cuomo’s disastrous decision to shuffle infected patients into nursing homes, the Democrat has friends in the media who will spin his bungling decisions as “amazing leadership.” Cuomo received his usual adulation from Tonight Show host Jimmy…

 

NYTimes Files 3,500-Word Lament on Fallon's 20-Year-Old Blackface Skit

Clay Waters
June 21st, 2020 5:06 PM

The New York Times on Sunday featured culture reporter Dave Itzkoff’s saddened profile of talk show host Jimmy Fallon, under fire this month after a “Saturday Night Live” sketch from 2000 resurfaced featuring the comedian in blackface portraying comedian Chris Rock. “Jimmy Fallon Is Sorry. That’s a First Step” made for a two-page, 3,500 word (!) spread. The online headline deck was…

 
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'White Fragility' Author Scolds Jimmy Fallon On 'A-Hole' Racist Whites

Kristine Marsh
June 19th, 2020 9:12 PM

To the media, it's perfectly fine if you make sweeping judgements on an entire race solely based on the color of their skin, as long as you’re a liberal. Just look at the amount of free PR and airtime that “White Fragility” author Robin DiAngelo and her “antiracist” comrades have been getting from the media the past two weeks. DiAngelo was on The Tonight Show Wednesday  where she made…

 
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Robert De Niro Again Slams Trump, Compares Him to a ‘Crazy Relative’

Randy Hall
June 13th, 2020 3:14 PM

Liberal Robert De Niro continued his never-ending quest to hammer President Trump on Thursday evening, when the actor was a guest on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Of course, the 76-year-old activist couldn’t even discuss the protests and coronavirus pandemic taking place across the country without slamming the Republican occupant of the White House.

 

Amid Pandemic, Fox News Scores Highest-Rated Month Ever in Primetime

Randy Hall
April 30th, 2020 12:45 AM
Prime time was a great time for the Fox News Channel in April, when the top-rated cable network used its coverage of the coronavirus pandemic to attract its largest evening audience ever and draw its second highest-ratings in total day viewership since its reporting on the Iraq War in 2003. At the same time, the channel delivered an audience of 3.7 million people and 671,000 in the demographic of…
 

Comedy Central Shuts Down David Spade's Non-Trump Bashing Show

Randy Hall
April 7th, 2020 10:00 AM
The coronavirus pandemic has claimed another victim: the Lights Out With David Spade weeknight program on Comedy Central. Spade's show was a rarity: A late night comedy show not fixated on bashing Donald Trump and Republicans. The show featured host Spade and a revolving panel of guests discussing pop culture news. It stopped production on March 12, joining hundreds of other shows in shutting…
 
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Jimmy Fallon Love-Bombs Biden: You're 'So Eloquent,' 'Mind-Blowing'

Tim Graham
April 4th, 2020 7:07 AM
On Wednesday's Tonight Show, NBC's Jimmy Fallon interviewed Biden and didn't ask a single tough question -- which no one who watches Fallon would expect. He tends to love-bomb whoever is booked. Fallon gushed to Biden that he was "so eloquent and beautifully spoken" at a TIME 100 gala they attended, and when Biden recited poetry on stage, "it was mind-blowing." 
 
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Jimmy Fallon Complains to Sanders: 'I Don't Know' What News to Trust

Aiden Jackson
March 12th, 2020 10:06 PM
The Democratic candidates can count on a warm and fuzzy interview wherever they venture on the late-night show circuit. Bernie Sanders dropped by The Tonight Show on NBC on Wednesday to discuss a slew of matters, all of which included jabs at President Trump.
 
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Fallon Fawns Over Hillary's Hulu Documentary: 'What a Great Story'

Aiden Jackson
March 6th, 2020 10:00 AM
The oozing admiration for Democratic politicians is never so tangible in the press as when Hillary Clinton hits the talk-show circuit. Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday’s Tonight Show shared in the media acclaim for Clinton’s newest Hulu Docu-series, “Hillary.”
 
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Fallon Becomes Latest Late-Night Host to Press Warren on Health Care

Aiden Jackson
December 5th, 2019 7:07 PM
Senator Elizabeth Warren has learned first-hand that albeit unusual, even members of her leftist cohort, aka late-night hosts, are capable of asking tough questions when it pertains to Medicare for All. The latest to do just that was Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday’s Tonight Show.  
 
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Late Night Hosts Cheer Impeachment: ‘Holy Crap!’ ‘Finally Happening?’

Aiden Jackson
September 25th, 2019 10:11 PM
Liberals in the media the past two years seem to be a living rendition of the movie Groundhog Day. The same routine is repeated every day, always ending with an “explosive new scandal” that will supposedly lead to President Trump being ousted from the White House. Tuesday’s Impeachment Inquiry announcement from Nancy Pelosi led to mass celebrations in the media, especially on the part of the…
 

Comedian: SNL’s Lorne Michaels ‘Helped Get Trump Elected’

Culture
Alexa Moutevelis
September 5th, 2019 8:41 AM
It’s been almost 3 years and yet liberals are still puzzling over how President Trump won the 2016 election. Comedian Anthony Jeselnik has a new answer: he lays blame at the feet of Saturday Night Live head Lorne Michaels. “I think Lorne Michaels helped get Trump elected,” Jeselnik said in an interview with Matt Wilstein on The Daily Beast’s The Last Laugh podcast, released on Tuesday.