Here’s a clip from last night’s President Show, where Anthony Atamanuik’s Donald Trump heads to charm school in an attempt to learn the proper etiquette when it comes to handshakes, greeting world leaders, eating steak, basic world geography, and hand gestures. Unfortunately for Trump, though, the charm school seems to be haunted by a mysterious […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah welcomes “resident Ivanka Trump expert” Michelle Wolf to recap the many cases where Ivanka has claimed to care about progressive issues like climate change and equal pay despite ultimately supporting her father’s decisions like pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, the transgender military […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah takes a look at the latest news in the Trump-Russia collusion story, this time regarding emails Trump aide Felix Sater sent to Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen during the campaign in which he bragged about how he could “get Putin on this program,” “get Donald elected,” […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah takes a closer look at the recently pardoned Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio in a segment called “Profiles in Tremendousness: Pardon Edition.” After recapping some horrific examples of Arpaio’s long history of excessive force and abuse in his prisons as well as the over $140 […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been almost three months since Kathy Griffin tweeted a photo of herself holding a bloody mask made to look like a beheaded Donald Trump — which resulted in a huge online backlash pushed in part by the POTUS himself on Twitter – and in a new interview with The Cut, Griffin gets candid about […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Weekend Update: Summer Edition special, where Alec Baldwin returned with his Donald Trump impression to reenact the campaign rally in Phoenix earlier this week. Like the real-life rally, SNL’s Trump is upstaged by Kenan Thompson as the sign-wielding “Blacks for Trump” guy, and later on, the recently fired Steve […]
Continue ReadingA new wave of comedians probing faults in leftwing politics provoke a crucial debate, but does their exaggerated antagonism hamper the cause?
Identity politics has gone too far. PC has gone mad. These aren’t unfashionable opinions: they’re practically mainstream. What’s new in fringe comedy is that we’re now hearing it from leftwing comics. That’s both a fascinating phenomenon, and a troublesome one. Fascinating because there may be some truth in these propositions, and the left needs to interrogate them. Troublesome because standup doesn’t always favour nuance and fine margins, and one or two of these leftwing comedians – whether they’re mocking champagne socialists, rehabilitating slavery or defending the Iraq war – can start to sound (accidentally or on purpose) pretty rightwing.
Fin Taylor is pre-eminent among them – a rising star whose 2016 show Whitey McWhiteface made hay with white identity and privilege. It was an excellent show, as is its follow-up Lefty Tighty Righty Loosey, with which he again lays siege to the complacency of his (presumed to be) white, leftwing audience.
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Continue ReadingHere’s a video Anthony Atamanuik’s President Show posted on Twitter today that’s two parts impressive and one part extremely terrifying – a roundup of the now multiple predictions the show has made that came true days and sometimes even minutes afterward. From Trump’s “many sides” comment in response to Charlottesville to his decision to stare […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah covers Trump’s campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona earlier this week, in which Trump inaccurately recapped his response to Charlottesville and conveniently left out that whole “on many sides” part. “You can’t leave out ‘on many sides.’ That was the whole reason people were mad. […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show, where Trevor Noah recaps Donald Trump’s primetime speech on his Afghanistan strategy earlier this week, where he revealed no specific details except that he plans to send more troops there at some point in the future. During the speech, Trump said his first instinct was to pull […]
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