Michelle Wolf is having a very busy 2018 – in addition to landing a weekly late night series at Netflix, she also just landed the toughest annual political comedy gig there is: the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. White House Correspondents’ Association president Margaret Talev announced today that Wolf has officially signed on as the featured […]
Continue ReadingLast Week Tonight with John Oliver finally returned to HBO last night, and Oliver devoted most of the episode to exploring the many ways Trump has damaged the US’s reputation, from foreign relations to our country’s so-called “soft power” to, yes, even the constant onslaught of Donald Trump impersonations around the world: “Are any of these […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Kimmel reflects on the horrific high school shooting in Florida earlier this week and calls on Trump and the GOP politicians who “stuff their pockets with money from the NRA” to take action in the form of gun control immediately. “And don’t you dare let anyone […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at the Devin Nunes memo released by Republicans last week that Donald Trump claims exonerates him and Donald Trump Jr. says completely disproves the Russia investigation despite the memo doing neither and even confirming that the investigation began not with […]
Continue ReadingIn 2008, comedian Sarah Silverman encouraged us to get out the vote among the elderly in The Great Schlep. Now in 2018, Silverman has joined Billy Eichner’s movement along with Funny or Die to Glam Up The Midterms in this November’s Congressional elections. I’m Billy Eichner, a three time Emmy Award nominee and an American […]
Continue ReadingDuring his appearance on last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Billy Eichner revealed that he’s teamed up with Funny or Die to launch a campaign ahead of November’s midterm elections called “Glam Up the Midterms.” According to Eichner, the aim of the campaign is to raise midterm awareness, register voters, and encourage millennial voters to show up at […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Full Frontal, where Samantha Bee recaps Donald Trump’s State of the Union address: “Rumor had it this would be an optimistic, glasses-half-full type speech. And it was — assuming that glass is half full of cyanide and I get to drink it.” Bee also recaps the Devin Nunes memo […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at Donald Trump’s recent trip to Davos, his interview with Piers Morgan where he said he’d not a feminist (“You don’t have to ask Donald Trump if he’s a feminist. That’s like asking Hannibal Lecter if he’s a vegan”), the […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s The Opposition, where Jordan Klepper welcomes Citizen Journalist Tim Baltz on the show to break down how right-wing politicians and pundits are “crushing liberals using their own language.” “See, the left is good at attaching virtue to words and then hurling them like stones,” Baltz says. “Attaching virtue to […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s The Opposition, where Jordan Klepper welcomes Citizen Journalist Tim Baltz on the show to break down how right-wing politicians and pundits are “crushing liberals using their own language.” “See, the left is good at attaching virtue to words and then hurling them like stones,” Baltz says. “Attaching virtue to […]
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