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The late night comedy shows have spent the past two weeks promoting The Odyssey, but Wednesday’s edition of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show decided to insert itself into the debate surrounding some of the casting decisions. Host-of-the-week Desi Lydic welcomed transgender actor Elliot Page and gushed that “your performance…truly took my breath away.” For good measure, both also hyped Canada’s…

The Daily Show’s host-of-the-week Desi Lydic welcomed former U.S. Women’s National Team soccer player-turned progressive culture warrior Megan Rapinoe to Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Show to help her promote her new podcast, Why Are You Like This? During their conversation Lydic and Rapinoe would smear the country as a bunch of sexists, while Rapinoe would claim that New York City Mayor…

For the late night comedy shows, the first half of 2026 was defined by the final airing in May of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. But the political agenda of Colbert and his late night colleagues remained unchanged in January through June this year: No one expressing conservative views was ever granted a guest slot on a late night comedy show while 112 liberals were awarded guest…

The cast of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show had a busy day of activism on Tuesday. First, host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper reacted to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gifting President Trump a German soccer jersey by implying that Trump wished it was a Nazi one. Later, Desi Lydic interviewed four former federal employees who were DOGE-ed who are now running for Congress as Democrats and gushed…

About a year-and-a-half ago, transgender actor Laverne Cox claimed on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show that GOP ads were contributing to transgender suicides. On Wednesday, Cox returned to do some book promotion and to claim that all parts of the LGBT initialism are “divine.”

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Desi Lydic was dismayed on Thursday at recent polling that still showed high levels of support for President Trump among Republicans. Under the guise of self-deprecating humor, she compared those who still support Trump with a fictitious version of herself who set up a Jared Fogle babysitter fan club.

The notion that late night comedy shows have turned into late night liberal group therapy was on full display on Thursday’s taping of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! After the eponymous host alleged Republicans’ goal is to see to it that only white people get elected, actress Meryl Streep stopped by to tell Kimmel that he is the global leader in defending a free press. Later, The Daily Show…

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Desi Lydic tried to rebuke President Trump on Wednesday for condemning Democrats for not standing and applauding certain moments during his Tuesday State of the Union Address. According to Lydic, the reason they refused to stand was because of Trump’s “tyranny and lawless behavior,” but the specific situations that Lydic highlighted did not make…

Both ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show returned on Monday after a week off to offer up some Olympic-sized hockey hot takes. Kimmel would try to turn the gold-medal-winning women’s team into a symbol of the anti-Trump resistance, while Daily Show host Jon Stewart and this week’s Tuesday-Thursday host Desi Lydic used the opportunity to explain why Canada, which both the men’…

The Daily Show’s host-of-the-week, Desi Lydic, took a break from all things Minneapolis on Wednesday to welcome New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill to Comedy Central to gush over her recent executive order to order price controls for utilities.

After the Trump administration reassigned Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino on Tuesday, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show doubled down on the idea that Bovino led some Nazi-like operation in Minneapolis and cited his clothes and haircut as proof.

The world of liberal late night comedy got even more liberal in 2025 with the inauguration of a new Republican president. According to a new Media Research Center study, the late night hosts told 12,011 of their 13,097 political jokes about conservatives, which comes out to 92 percent, up from 82 percent last year.

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show is so desperate to prove that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is not a communist that it sent Desi Lydic to interview Communist Party USA co-chair Joe Sims to insist that Mamdani is not, in fact, one of them. Of course, Sims had to propagandize as well as he lamented his movement’s “bad reputation” and that communism is actually all about freedom to do…

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…