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When Monica Lewinsky traveled to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday to promote her new podcast, she briefly popped the show’s liberal bubble by lamenting to the eponymous host that if what she went through in 1998 were to happen with some future Democratic president, she isn’t convinced the reaction would be any different.

Through the first four weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, the late night comedians have told 761 jokes about him. By contrast, in 2021, during President Joe Biden’s first four weeks in office, the late night comedians told a total of 88 jokes about the new chief executive, according to an MRC study.

Actor George Clooney traveled over to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday to promote the stage adaptation of his 2005 movie Good Night, and Good Luck about Edward R. Murrow and McCarthyism. With modern-day politics an obvious backdrop, Clooney urged journalists to be on the “right side of history” even if it “is not fun at the moment.”

HBO’s John Oliver kicked off the 2025 season of Last Week Tonight on Sunday by recapping the first four weeks of Donald Trump’s return to the White House that included a bit on Elon Musk and DOGE. Oliver would label Musk as “one of the worst white guys South Africa has ever produced” while ignoring questions about whether South Africa really needs or deserves aid. On Monday, Oliver…

Former USAID Administrator Samantha Power was not the only liberal guest on Tuesday to enter the liberal echo chamber that is CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Also making an appearance was CNN’s favorite comedian, W. Kamau Bell, who declared President Donald Trump to be “a first ballot hall of fame racist” and attacked “white people” for being unwilling to say so.

CBS’s Stephen Colbert had an emergency and unscheduled interview with former USAID Administrator Samantha Power on Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show in an attempt to save the agency from President Donald Trump. While Colbert thought he was simply interviewing an expert on what USAID actually does, in reality, Power’s love of the agency meant that she and Colbert spent the entire…

NBC’s resident open borders advocate Jacob Soboroff traveled over to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday to promote his new anti-Trump documentary Separated and claim that “deterrence doesn't work” as a border security strategy and we “need a new approach” to the issue.

CBS’s Stephen Colbert twisted himself into a logical pretzel on Monday’s installment of The Late Show. First, Colbert suggested that President Trump’s immigration enforcement was the stuff of Nazis, but immediately afterwards, he conceded that former President Biden did pretty much the same thing.

It was an eventful evening for CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert. First, during his monologue, Colbert praised Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde’s plea to Trump that repeated several left-wing grievances and claimed Vice President JD Vance was upset during the sermon because he could not have sex with the pew. Second, Colbert later welcomed CBS News’s John Dickerson to give a…

CBS’s comedic duo of Stephen Colbert and Taylor Tomlinson repeated the dishonest talking point that Elon Musk did a Nazi salute at a Trump inaugural celebration on their respective Tuesday installments of The Late Show and After Midnight.

When the late night comedy shows took to the air on Monday to lament Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, three main themes emerged. The first was that Trump is going to be a national nightmare. The second was that they have gone all in on embracing former President Joe Biden’s “oligarchy” warnings. Finally, it was deemed ironic that Inauguration Day happened to fall on Martin Luther King…

As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to the Wednesday edition of The Late Show, where he lobbed a softball her way when he asked, “Could you have been a better cheerleader for the economy?” Also on the subject of Trump’s return, Colbert hailed former First Lady Michelle Obama’s decision to skip the…

From the beginning of June through the end of December, the late night comedy shows welcomed 120 liberal guests and only one conservative, according to a new NewsBusters study.

After a strike-shortened 2023, 2024 was a busy year for the late night comedians. During the last year, the men of late night told a total of 13,676 political jokes, of which 11,226, or 82 percent, were directed at someone or something on the right side of the political aisle, an MRC study has found.