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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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Late-Night Comics: Colorado Kicking Trump Off 2024 Race Is SLAM DUNK!

December 21st, 2023 5:25 PM

On Wednesday night and overnight into Thursday, the three liberal network comedians working this week — CBS’s Late Show host Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon of NBC’s Tonight Show, and Seth Meyers of NBC’s Late Night — were bursting at the seams in excitement (as were their audiences) at Tuesday’s decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to throw Donald Trump off the 2024…

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Meyers Slams ‘Handmaid’s Tale Werewolf’ Ted Cruz, ‘Cavalcade of Goons’

December 21st, 2023 1:09 PM

For this installment of late-night group therapy for rich, white liberals, NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers pointlessly bloviated about how much he hates Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) as a “Handmaid’s Tale werewolf”, just one of Donald Trump’s “weird” “cavalcade of goons”, and someone who, if they were murdered, their colleagues wouldn’t seek to find his killer.

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Meyers, Newsom Team Up To Attack Fox, 'Anti-Black' DeSantis

December 14th, 2023 10:06 AM

California Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled over to NBC and Late Night with Seth Meyers on Wednesday to recap his Fox News debate with GOP presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis where he smeared DeSantis as “anti-black” and, ironically considering he was on Late Night, lamented that Fox was an echo chamber. Meanwhile, Meyers wondered why Republicans are obsessed with…

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Meyers Claims 'No One Gives a ****' About GOP 'Blowhards'

December 8th, 2023 9:44 AM

An annoyed Seth Meyers reacted to the Wednesday GOP presidential debate on the Thursday edition of Late Night on NBC by claiming that “no one gives a [bleep]” and that the four debaters were all a bunch of “blowhards.”

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Meyers FREAKS OUT Over Polls Showing Trump Ahead

November 7th, 2023 2:33 PM

NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers freaked out on Monday over polling that showed Donald Trump comfortably beating Joe Biden in various battleground states. The terrified Meyers would bring out six bleep buttons, four fake cigarettes, and one bottle of alcohol help him deal with his problems.

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Late Night Smears Johnson An 'Anti-Gay, Anti-Choice' 'D*ck'

October 26th, 2023 10:30 AM

The late night comedians welcomed Mike Johnson to the Speakership on their Wednesday shows by not just by noting his generic name, but also labeling him “anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-conspiracy” “dick” who Republicans selected to “bore everyone into forgetting how extreme he is.”

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Late Night Loves Trump and Santos Jokes, But Not Biden and Menendez

October 26th, 2023 10:00 AM

In the first three weeks after the writers’ strike, the late night joke tellers picked right back up where they left off: telling Trump jokes at the expense of almost everything else, including comedy gold mines in Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption scandal and Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulling a Congressional fire alarm, a NewsBusters study has found. At the same time, jokes about Republican…

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Meyers Finds It 'Infuriating' That GOP Attacks Dems After Speaker Vote

October 6th, 2023 10:02 AM

For years, NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers has demanded that Republicans put the country above their partisan self-interest, but when Republicans recently attacked Democrats for not doing so during the Speaker vote, Meyers essentially told Republicans on Thursday that they deserve it.

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Hayes Gushes Over Pelosi Amid Speaker Drama

October 4th, 2023 10:09 AM

MSNBC All In host Chris Hayes traveled over to NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday to discuss the state of the political world including the situation surrounding House Republicans, Kevin McCarthy, and Matt Gaetz. For Hayes, one of the big takeaways was that the whole episode shows just how awesome former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was.

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'Almost Crossed The Picket Line,' Comedy Hosts Cheer Trump Indictments

October 3rd, 2023 10:35 AM

The men of late night returned from the writers’ strike on Monday and other than CBS’s Stephen Colbert no longer censoring Donald Trump’s name, not much changed as the hosts were eager to get back to their Trump jokes.

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Maher, Gaffigan Throw Dirt on Late Night TV’s Grave

September 9th, 2023 1:30 PM

Bill Maher has been a late-night TV staple for years, but he doesn’t consider his HBO show a typical “late night” destination.

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Kimmel Mourns Not Being on Air to Mock Trump's Weight, Indictments

September 8th, 2023 9:46 AM

The late night comedy shows may be on strike which means they’ve had to go four months without offering up their hot takes on the news which they sought the remedy on the Thursday’s edition of their Strike Force Five podcast. When asked which news story he regrets not being able to cover, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel naturally chose Donald Trump.

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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.