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Colbert Asks How To Fix Trust In Media, Hints GOP Is Suppressing Vote
CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Columbia Journalism School Dean, New Yorker staff writer, and MSNBC talking head Jelani Cobb to the Tuesday edition of The Late Show to proclaim that only one of the two parties believes in democracy, imply Republicans want to stop black people from voting, and wonder why trust in journalism is so low.
Late Night Shows Celebrate 'Off-Putting' DeSantis Ending Campaign
The late night quintet spent their Monday shows celebrating the news that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has decided to drop out of the Republican primary by mocking his appearance and making fun of his Winston Churchill blunder by claiming that is what happens when you “ban textbooks.”
STUDY: 81% Of Late-Night Political Jokes Mocked Conservatives In 2023
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.
WORST OF 2023: Celebrity Freak-Out Award
Today we present the WORST OF 2023: Celebrity Freak-Out Award.
Late Night 'Comedy' Bottom Ten Moments of 2023
It was a year of change for late night comedy. The Late Late show was cancelled by CBS after 5,300 episodes since 1995 after James Corden decided to return to England, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show used a series of temp hosts after Trevor Noah walked away at the end of 2022, CBS host of The Late Show Stephen Colbert finally stopped giving Donald Trump the He Who…
Late-Night Comics: Colorado Kicking Trump Off 2024 Race Is SLAM DUNK!
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…
Colbert: GOP Launched Impeachment Inquiry Over Hunter's X-Rated Pics
In December 2022, CBS’s Stephen Colbert proclaimed the reason why conservatives were all upset over Twitter censoring the New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s laptop was because they wanted to see “Hunter Biden's penis pictures.” Fast forward a year to the Wednesday edition of The Late Show and Colbert was at it again, claiming the only dirt Republicans have on President Joe…
Colbert Blames GOP 'Undercutting The Media' For Trump
If there’s one type of Republican CBS’s Stephen Colbert can tolerate, it is one that thinks Donald Trump poses a threat to all things good and decent, but unlike Adam Kinzinger comparing Mike Johnson to the Taliban, Liz Cheney was not thrilled with Colbert blaming GOP media criticism or Ronald Reagan’s saying that government is the problem for the rise of Trump on Monday's installment of …
ABC's Karl Admits He Wrote Anti-Trump Book to Influence 2024 Election
ABC chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl took his book tour to CBS and Thursday’s edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert because if you are a liberal media personality with an anti-Trump book to sell that is simply what you do. During the interview, Karl told Colbert that he wrote the book to preempt arguments from the Trump Campaign that a second Trump term is…
Maddow, Colbert Insist Only They Be Able To Call People 'Fascist'
There are echo chambers and then there is whatever you call it when MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow joins CBS’s Stephen Colbert on The Late Show as that duo came together on Tuesday to promote the former’s book about America, fascism, and the 1930s and mourn that there are people—mainly former President Donald Trump—who also insist on calling other people fascists.
Colbert Continues To Smear 'Awful' Johnson In Buttigieg Interview
CBS’s Stephen Colbert continued his holy war against Speaker Mike Johnson on the Thursday edition of The Late Show when he welcomed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and wondered how he could possibly deal with the “awful” new Speaker.
On Colbert Show, Kinzinger Compares Mike Johnson To The Taliban
Former GOP congressman turned CNN political analyst Adam Kinzinger likes to say that his move away from the party is because of Donald Trump, January 6, and election denial, but on Wednesday, he took his book tour to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where he compared Speaker Mike Johnson’s statements that his worldview is found in the Bible to the Taliban.
Dickerson Hypes CBS's Standards on Hamas War Despite Errors
CBS, like most of the rest of the media, initially uncritically repeated Hamas claims that Israel bombed a Gaza hospital that turned out to be false. Nevertheless, chief political analyst John Dickerson defended the network’s coverage on Tuesday’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, using the hospital as an example of why careful reporting is necessary.
Colbert, Daily Show: Johnson's a Hypocrite For Not Banning Seafood
CBS The Late Show Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central The Daily Show temp host Charlamagne Tha God and correspondent Michael Kosta accused Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday of being a bad a hypocritical Christian because he doesn’t want to ban seafood or ostracize women during their menstrual cycles.
