Having outspoken socialist Senator Bernie Sanders as a guest was the perfect opportunity for The Opposition host and comically phony conservative blowhard Jordan Klepper to take some sly potshots. As ever with the cleverly ironic Klepper, there was some truth poking its way through his boorish bro badgering of…
Senator Bernie Sanders is an effortlessly cool dude who is always right about everything, at least far as half of Reddit is concerned (the other half worships a different political idol), and today he once again played to his coolest supporters by hopping on Twitter and saying that he agrees with Cardi B about the…
The Grammy Awards are often the site of vicious musical feuds, like last year’s (actually good-natured) showdown between Adele and Beyoncé, but things might get particularly heated this year in the traditionally sedate Spoken-Word category. That’s because, as reported by The Los Angeles Times, working-class icons…
Yesterday, as part of an ongoing Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the way Russian troll farms influenced the 2016 election, tech giants Facebook, Google, and Twitter were forced to reckon with the fact that they made massive quantities of money off ads that radicalized and misled aunts, uncles, and old…
Here is the tragedy of Ted Cruz’s permanently embryonic comedy career in a single, easily sound-bite-able moment: Even when he unleashes a hypothetically effective zinger—as he did at tonight’s tax debate against Bernie Sanders, referencing the Vermont senator’s Larry David connection by telling him to “Curb your…
Earlier this year, Larry David—always looking for new ways to insert awkwardness into the universe—spilled a secret he wasn’t supposed to share from the then-upcoming season of PBS’s celebrity genealogy show Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, JR. The Curb Your Enthusiasm star was apparently just too delighted…
To be honest, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) really only said one good thing about Donald Trump if you sort of squish together the two guardedly neutral things he finally managed to come up with after a very long “Ummm...” on Thursday’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert. For the record, he agrees with Trump’s campaign…
Punk icon Henry Rollins is already a pretty fiery guy, so bringing him on First We Feast’s “Hot Ones” to suck down the hottest wings on the planet was a tricky proposition. Luckily, Rollins keeps his cool through each tasting, though the heat does seem to tighten his every muscle, making Rollins burrow into himself,…
Today in “Hoo, boy”: Hillary Clinton’s election memoir, What Happened, includes a passage in which she writes that Bernie Sanders’ die-hard supporters are partially to blame for Donald Trump’s win. The excerpt—which has been shared by The Daily Dot and is currently making the rounds—acknowledges Sanders’ support…
Today’s Curb Your Enthusiasm panel at TCA summer press tour opened with a revealing look at the new season, which will see Larry David getting pissed off in the shower, getting pissed off at June Diane Raphael, and of course, pissing off everyone around him. This sizzle reel came on the heels of HBO’s announcement of…
If the Democratic Party truly hopes to dethrone our current president, they’ll need to stop blaming Russia, quit it with the Hillary Clinton fantasy fan fiction, and start figuring out what exactly went wrong. A forthcoming book from Game Change authors John Heilemann and Mark Halperin should offer some perspective,…
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While Hillary Clinton has spent the time since she lost her election going for woodland hikes and attending the inauguration of a man who said he’d put her in prison if he won, Bernie Sanders has had a lot more time to cope with the realization that he’s a loser and has been using that time to be fairly productive.…
As a racist, dangerously ignorant steak salesman makes his way toward the Oval Office despite the majority of Americans voting otherwise, that spurned majority is doing some soul-searching. Namely: Would Bernie Sanders have won? There are countless hand-wringing articles exploring how Hillary Clinton’s candidacy…
Bernie Sanders appeared on The Late Show last night to promote his book, and by all appearances, the fiery presidential contender is ready to start raising hell again. Freed from any need to temper his message while acting as a Clinton surrogate, Sanders was back to challenging the “liberal elite” running the…
Michael Moore typically takes five to seven years between his films, presumably because his feature-length essays take a while to conceive, shoot, and assemble. So it’s especially surprising to see a Moore film hitting theaters and the internet less than a year after his last project. Michael Moore In TrumpLand was…
When not wildly misinterpreting High School Musical or The Walking Dead, YouTube user Bad Lip Reading spends a lot of time on politics as well. Whether it’s the terrible promos the candidates cut or the many debates they undergo, all are fair game under BLR’s terrible ability to figure out what people are actually…
Robert Smigel’s had his hand up inside Triumph The Insult Comic Dog for nearly 20 years now. Sure, one irate t-shirt seller at the Republican National Convention smacks the puppet’s head clean off partway through Triumph’s 2016 Summer Election Special, but Smigel just flaps his naked hand to pursue his line of…
The first day of the Democratic National Convention got surprisingly rowdy last night, as speaker after speaker had to put up with some disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters in the audience voicing their frustrations every time anybody said something positive about Hillary Clinton. However, longtime Bernie supporter…
The line between Bernie Sanders and Larry David has been blurred ever since the Seinfeld creator debuted his pitch-perfect Sanders impression on Saturday Night Live. But it appears we’ve finally crossed through the vortex into a dimension in which the two are simply one person. Last night before his highly anticipated…
