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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.

CBS The Late Show host 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.

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert will frequently tout how Catholicism has impacted his life and can be very knowledgeable of its teachings. However, getting Colbert to defend all of those teachings on his CBS platform is a different story as evidence by Thursday’s show where he attacked new Speaker Mike Johnson as “extremely anti-LGBTQ” and a “dick.”

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.”

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…

A COVID-ridden Stephen Colbert hosted Monday’s edition of The Late Show on CBS from home and claimed that the GOP could not vote for Jesus in the quest to find a Speaker of the House because “He was worse than a socialist, he was a Christian.”

For the second night in a row, Stephen Colbert welcomed a Democratic member of Congress to CBS’s The Late Show. On Wednesday, it was Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman’s turn as Colbert pretended that Fetterman is the first question to ever be questioned about his health, gifted him a tuxedo T-shirt, and fawned over this “excellent meme game.”

Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost travelled to CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday where he teamed up with the eponymous host to accuse Republicans of being “okay with kids being mowed down at their schools” and instituting poll taxes.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper tied himself into a pretzel on Wednesday’s edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS as he tried to explain that journalists need to “point out what is true and what is not true,” but also to “let viewers make up their mind.” Cooper also laughably implied that this fact-checking genre of journalist is done equally to both parties.

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.

As the late night comedy shows remain on strike, former late night host Conan O’Brien joined Kara Swisher of New York Magazine on her podcast to discuss the future of the format. During their long discussion, O’Brien argued that Trump and the angry reaction to him from current comedy hosts “hurt comedy.”

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

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.

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.