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It was a mini-summit of people who professionally do not like Donald Trump on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, as Kimmel welcomed Full Frontal host Samantha Bee. While Kimmel took the traditional nightly late-night host shots at Bee’s but once-a-week round of Trump-bashing, they both commiserated over how the current…
There are any number of reasons that a person might have for looking forward to Donald Trump’s first State Of The Union address on January 30—including the likelihood that it’ll be a disaster or that it’ll give them a good excuse to completely disengage from TV and the internet for a night—but Comedy Central is now…
Ah, 2012: A lighter, simpler time. Barack Obama was in the White House, Twitter was a platform for stupid internet jokes and annoying memes (instead of hate speech and presidential proclamations), and the sexual culture was such that a genial morning news show like NBC’s Today could run a long segment openly mocking…
John Hodgman has lived a few places in his life. First, in Massachusetts, where he spent much of his young life. Then, New York—namely Brooklyn, where he grew into adulthood. Now, by virtue of a persuasive wife and the subtle appeal that an unyieldingly rocky coastline provides, he’s somewhere in Maine. All of those…
While in our hometown of Chicago, the Daily Show correspondents stopped by the A.V. Club office for a thoughtful, hilarious Facebook Live discussion about comedy, politics, and the state of the show. In this snippet from that interview, the teams talk about some of the hate they receive from viewers, and how their…
While in our hometown of Chicago, the Daily Show correspondents stopped by the A.V. Club office for a thoughtful, hilarious Facebook Live discussion about comedy, politics, and the state of the show. In this snippet from that interview, the correspondents tell us how they prepare for their field pieces.
While his three-year tenure as a Daily Show correspondent seems like solid preparation for his own satirical late-night series, Jordan Klepper has a couple of major obstacles to overcome as he launches The Opposition With Jordan Klepper. Taking over the plum, post-Daily Show spot held down so ably by Larry Wilmore…
HBO just renewed the contracts for its people who make jokes about the news, with both John Oliver and Bill Maher set to stick around through 2020, but Comedy Central is one-upping those premium cable jerks with an even sweeter deal for its guy who makes jokes about the news. As reported by Variety, Comedy Central has…
If there’s one thing that Donald Trump has truly accomplished (and the coming grand jury is still way out on that one), it’s that his incessant coddling of white supremacists has taken the hazy, eyes-averted embarrassment that many people carry about the existence of Confederate monuments in America and focused it…
With all the controversy about Confederate monuments and the chorus of shrilly racist dog whistles about “Southern heritage” emerging from the Trump administration and its supporters, the fact that a different sort of American history continues to be erased from the national discourse is too often drowned out. That’s…
The TCA press tour continues this weekend, with a number of late-night cable comedy writers assembling this morning to talk about the guy they spend the rest of their weeks talking about, too: Donald Trump. According to The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline, 45-fatigue was a major part of a conversation held today…
Like a lot of people—and all people with human souls—Daily Show host Trevor Noah spent the day trying to come up with the right way to say, “Even for Donald Trump, this is some bullshit,” concerning Ol’ Bone Spurs’ excreted tweets this morning announcing that the brave transgender servicepeople would no longer be…
Almost immediately after joining Donald Trump’s administration, new communications director Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci began deleting old tweets that didn’t reflect his new boss’ destructive, hateful agenda. Adopting Trump’s worldview wasn’t the only thing Scaramucci quickly picked up, though, as a fun clip put…
As co-creator of The Daily Show and during her tenure as head writer, Lizz Winstead helped shape the way an entire generation consumed the news, and she saw amazing talent come through the door. Several years later, the show has produced prominent voices in satire and news like Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert, and John…
Best known as co-creator and former head writer of The Daily Show, Lizz Winstead is no stranger to politics, and though she left the show long ago, she remains as vigilant as ever. In 2012, Winstead founded Lady Parts Justice League, an organization dedicated to fighting back against legislation that blocks women’s…
While opening the faux “Presidential Library” dedicated to all the terrible shit Donald Trump has said on Twitter, Trevor Noah obliquely referenced that time he was excoriated for saying terrible shit on Twitter. “I like the Donald J. Trump tweets because he is the first millennial president, and as a millennial I…
Last night, Trevor Noah revealed that this weekend will mark the debut of The Daily Show’s previously announced Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library. The museum dedicated to the absurd and often nonsensical statements Trump has tapped out will be housed in a locale perfect for trolling the man behind “covfefe.”
In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our next interviewee.
Stephen Colbert’s Late Show has spent the last 13 weeks beating Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show in terms of total viewers, and to guarantee at least another week of free pizza for his crew (assuming he doesn’t get fired), he’s lined up some special guests for his May 9 show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, that…
