Hey, we’re putting children in cages now. Well, not “we,” as in those Americans with even a tattered scrap of human soul, but the Trump administration. You know, like Secretary Of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, who stared blankly ahead at a White House press conference as reporters from ProPublica played tapes…
Wednesday’s Late Show featured a habitually lying loudmouth who was fired before even technically starting his job arguing with a porn star’s media-hogging attorney. So, you know, presidential stuff. Stephen Colbert started off the two-segment free-for-all that took up the bulk of the episode by asking guests Anthony…
Yesterday, we were all given front-row seats to the diplomatic strategy of Donald J. Trump, which, of course, took the form of a poorly edited faux-movie trailer meant to flatter and impress a known dictator. As the trailer made the rounds online, people began to reach out to “Destiny Pictures,” the production company…
AT&T just bought itself the third-largest media company in the world, apparently, with The Washington Post reporting that a judge has struck down a government antitrust lawsuit and approved the telecom company’s long-planned merger with Time Warner. Hoping to fight back against its rival, Comcast—which bought…
A few days before President Trump’s historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, The New York Times ran an article that claimed Trump, in his own way, “has been preparing for this encounter his entire adult life.” Based on what we know about Trump’s daily routine, we can only assume The New York Times means…
Whenever comic news junkie Seth Meyers pulls in a real newsperson to appear on Late Night, the war is always between talking shop and just swapping bewildered Trump putdowns. Meyers is therefore always happy to welcome CNN Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper. Especially as Tapper, pulling the Sunday morning…
The antipathy between Robert De Niro and Donald Trump is one of the more enjoyable non-hip-hop-related celebrity beefs of our time. It’s a war of words that has given us such hits as De Niro calling Trump “jerkoff-in-chief” at the National Board of Review awards, as well as this response to De Niro banning Trump from…
John Oliver has famously dubbed the ongoing Trump-Russia investigation “Stupid Watergate,” since, as the Last Week Tonight host put it on Sunday’s show, everyone involved in this latest attempt by a sitting president to undermine American democracy is “dumb, and terrible, and bad at everything.” Oliver might have…
After calling Ivanka Trump (presidential daughter and, Samantha Bee was careful to point out, advisor) a “feckless cunt” for doing precisely nothing to curb her father and boss’ family-sundering immigration policies, Bee became the 24-hour cable news cycle’s newest shiny thing, to her regret. On her first Full Frontal …
The entertainment world is still reeling from the fact that Roseanne Barr is actually being punished for making a racist comment on Twitter, with ABC canceling the well-received Roseanne revival yesterday, but it seems like the topic must have come up on Fox & Friends this morning because the most famous TV-watcher in…
Ever-folksy master of horror Stephen King is no fan of Donald Trump, as any one of King’s nearly five million Twitter followers can tell you. On Wednesday’s Late Show, the best-selling author of more than 50 best-selling books and fully 40 percent of all your nightmares touted that day’s court ruling that Trump can’t…
Today, the internet has reacted with predictable glee at the news that Donald Glover fans on Reddit have taken over a subreddit dedicated to Donald Trump, flooding the page with Donald Glover memes, Community gifs, and posts about how Glover should run for president. It’s the kind of fun prank that Reddit excels at,…
On Monday’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert asked New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet if noted Times critic and foot-stamping baby-man Donald Trump has ever called him personally to complain about the paper’s coverage. “Yes,” responded Baquet succinctly, before admonishing the curious Colbert, “But I’m not going to…
Being President famously doesn’t pay much—a scant $400,000 a year, plus expenses—so thank god our current White House incumbent has a few spare revenue sources on hand to keep him out of the poor house. (After all, we’ve heard he’s not actually very rich.) Specifically, Donald Trump is apparently still getting money…
You’d be forgiven for losing track of every detail of the topography of America’s long, bumpy road from November 2016 to the present day, a shitty road trip where every whispered city name provokes an impromptu game of “School Shooting, White Supremacist Rally, or Poisoned Water Supply?” Still, “Charlottesville” is…
Despite getting his start as a moony, painfully earnest cinephile in Dawson’s Creek, James Van Der Beek has become surprisingly adept at parody, first lampooning himself in Scary Movie and Don’t Trust The B— In Apt. 23, then heading up the winking biopic series What Would Diplo Do?. His role in the upcoming FX drama, …
On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver spent the bulk of the episode pooh-poohing all the recent pundit handwringing over what as been the Lionel Hutz-esque debut of new Trump administration legal mastermind and former New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani. From contradicting Donald Trump and Michael Cohen’s already…
With Donald Glover (and Donald Glover as Childish Gambino) tandem-hosting last night’s Saturday Night Live, there wasn’t much room for anyone else. At least that was true during the rest of the quite solid show, but the traditional political cold open brought in seemingly every famous SNL alum and host who was in New…
The year is 2018, and the QVC-grade, cubic zirconium kleptocracy being staged by America’s reality show host turned president, though buffeted by vocal support from Roseanne Barr and Kanye West, faces its most tangible threats in the form of a porn star, the unpaved Ground Zero of Rudy Giuliani’s mouth, and now,…
Remember how excited everyone was for Infinity War? Finally, the culmination of 10 years of movies, with a ton of big-name heroes and one of the baddest villains in comic book history all coming together for a universe-shaking showdown. It was such a big deal that it had the biggest opening weekend ever. This story…
