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Late Night Shows Celebrate New Pope's Criticisms Of Trump And Vance

May 9th, 2025 10:10 AM

The Thursday editions of the late night comedy shows truly proved that they are simply MSNBC with more jokes. Like that network, they appreciated that the first American pope, the newly elected Leo XIV, has criticized President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on immigration. The fact that he would rebuke their views on abortion, gender, and sexuality were inconvenient things to be…

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Colbert and Maddow Claim GOP Wants To Get Rid of Elections

May 7th, 2025 9:39 AM

The irony was impossible to miss on Tuesday’s edition of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, as MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow joined the eponymous host to declare on one hand that the worst predictions about President Donald Trump have come true, but also that he and Republicans seek to get rid of elections.

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Colbert and Psaki Mourn 100 Days Of Trump's 'Fire Hose of Dirty Water'

May 1st, 2025 10:35 AM

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki joined CBS’s Stephen Colbert on The Late Show on Wednesday for three segments full of loathing President Trump and his “fire hose of dirty water” and “do-nothing Democrats” like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

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Cancelled WHCD Comedian Calls It 'Dangerous' To Roast Both Sides

April 30th, 2025 1:21 PM

NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers writer, CNN host, and cancelled White House Correspondents’ Dinner comedian Amber Ruffin travelled across town to CBS and The Late Show to join host Stephen Colbert to claim “it would be impossible to make jokes about both sides” and even “dangerous.”

Colbert, Warnock Talk Slavery, Jim Crow -- Ignore Democrat History

April 19th, 2025 4:00 PM

Over there on this very site, NewsBusters’ own Alex Christy had a sharp-eyed focus on a curious moment on a recent episode of Stephen Colbert’s late night CBS show. 

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Happy Easter? Colbert, Warnock Suggest Critics Are Like Jim Crow

April 18th, 2025 9:43 AM

On Thursday, two of America’s leading voices for the religious left—CBS’s Stephen Colbert and Sen. Raphael Warnock—joined forces on The Late Show to prepare for Easter by attacking Republicans as un-Christian with some casual Jim Crow and slavery analogies.

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Late Night DNC: Colbert Goes to Bat for PBS, Gushes Over Liz Warren

April 17th, 2025 9:50 AM

The Wednesday edition of CBS’s The Late Show was defined by host Stephen Colbert giving two odes to liberal budget priorities. First, Colbert insisted that PBS documentaries on transgender people in Ohio bowling leagues are of vital importance before marveling at Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s “righteous anger” at President Trump, Elon Musk, and DOGE.

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Colbert: Trump Placing 'Insane Dictatorial Demands' On Harvard

April 16th, 2025 9:50 AM

The idea that the late night comedy shows are just MSNBC with jokes was on full display on Tuesday’s installment of CBS’s The Late Show. Host Stephen Colbert claimed that the Trump Administration’s recent demands on Harvard were “ridiculous,” “insane,” and “dictatorial,” but Colbert never provided any context for why those demands were given.

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Colbert Helps Booker Compare Himself To The Civil Rights Movement

April 8th, 2025 9:59 AM

Sen. Cory Booker continued his tour of adoring media on Monday as he joined CBS and The Late Show host Stephen Colbert for a three-segment interview to look back at his 25-hour talk session and ahead to what comes next. Booker has been eager to compare himself to the Civil Rights Movement, and Colbert was more than willing to assist him in those efforts.

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Comedy Shows Shower Booker With Praise After Speech

April 3rd, 2025 10:55 AM

Thus far, it has been a gloomy 2025 for the late night comedy shows as they have attacked Democrats from the left for not doing anything to stop Republicans, but on Wednesday, a trio of them claimed to have reason for optimism as they reacted to Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour talk. Some suggested he get an award, while others claimed he spoke for all of America, while others tried their hand at…

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Colbert Tries To Defend PBS By Focusing On Children's Shows

March 28th, 2025 10:04 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert tried to have it both ways on Thursday’s taping of The Late Show. On one hand he mocked Republicans for wanting to defund PBS out of concerns its documentaries were sexualizing children because what child watches PBS? On the other hand, he defended PBS against calls to defund it by citing all the children’s programming it does. Later in the show, Colbert would…

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'Mercury Poisoning Is Back': Colbert Freaks Out Over EPA Deregulation

March 14th, 2025 10:02 AM

Joe Biden became president in 2021, which was not that long ago, but according to CBS’s Stephen Colbert, repealing Biden-era EPA regulations is a public health crisis of grave consequence. Colbert made the remarks on Thursday’s edition of The Late Show, where he also expressed his lack of interest in the financial cost of regulations.

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Meyers, Colbert: 'Naked Authoritarianism' To Deport Pro-Hamas Student

March 13th, 2025 9:53 AM

NBC’s Late Night and CBS’s The Late Show hosts Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert were greatly displeased on their Wednesday shows that the Trump Administration is seeking to deport pro-Hamas Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil. As they tell it, Khalil is not the leader of an illegal protest movement that occupied school property and distributed pro-terrorist…

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Colbert, Guests Warn of Trump-Run Nazi Plays, Post-Soviet Oligarchy

March 12th, 2025 10:10 AM

Ham-fisted Nazi analogies and dumb post-Soviet oracles—these are a few of Stephen Colbert’s favorite things. On Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show on CBS, Colbert welcomed actor Nathan Lane and New York Times columnist Ezra Klein to his show to lament the Trump Administration where it was warned that the Trump era will feature pro-Nazi versions of The Sound of Music