Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver recaps a truly insane week of news updates about the Trump administration and the ongoing investigation about Trump’s ties to Russia – or as Oliver calls it, “Stupid Watergate” – as well as why Democrats shouldn’t rush to excitement over mentions of impeachment […]
Continue ReadingBy skillfully (or, perhaps, cluelessly) manipulating Twitter’s allotted 140 characters, Donald Trump has propelled himself into the presidency. Twitter is to Trump… MORE
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Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at the recent news that FBI Director James Comey wrote a detailed memo after a meeting with Donald Trump that reveals Trump told Comey to drop the ongoing investigation against his former national security adviser Michael Flynn. While Meyers points out […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Kimmel briefly talks about how much Donald Trump lies and particularly how that affects and influences young people before introducing a Schoolhouse Rock parody that’s the perfect sendup of the era of “fake news” and “alternative facts” we’re currently stuck in thanks to the POTUS. It’s […]
Continue ReadingIt’s impossible to overstate just how symbolically awful Jimmy Fallon’s September Tonight Show interview with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump became in the weeks and months after it aired, and if Fallon’s current ratings struggles against Late Show’s Stephen Colbert are any indication, his preference for silly games and late night escapism have proven to be a huge […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at Donald Trump’s recent threats against former FBI Director James Comey as well as yesterday’s breaking news that he revealed highly classified information to the Russians last week. “Trump is worse than Nixon — he’s shameless Nixon. Nixon famously said […]
Continue ReadingNext month, Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper is going to fix our nation’s rampant gun problem, in a Comedy Central… MORE
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He’s a likable performer capitalising on the idea that most of his fellow comedians are lefties. So is Norcott’s show Conswervative more wind-up than battle cry?
“Have I got any Tories in?” Geoff Norcott is “the UK’s only declared Conservative comedian,” his publicity claims – which will come as a surprise to Jim Davidson. Norcott has been doing the rounds as a comic for 15-plus years, and it’s only in the last couple that he’s come out as a right-winger. I’d guessed, from afar, that that was just a canny piece of branding. It’s certainly done wonders for his career: he’s now the Telegraph’s go-to man for comedy comment, and earlier this year, out of all proportion to his profile or accomplishment, he was drafted on to Question Time.
In his act, he has the good grace to admit that that gig came about only to satisfy diversity quotas, as he puts it, savouring the irony. In fact, on stage, he’s got good grace all round: I bow to no one in my dislike of the Tories, but Norcott comes across as a likable lad. Yes, his show, Conswervative, is an apologia for this working-class comic’s rightward drift, insulting Jeremy Corbyn, mocking the supposed sanctity of the NHS and defending tax avoidance. But it plays more like a wind-up than a battle cry: Norcott’s politics feel open-ended and lightly worn. I suspect he’d be back in the Labour fold before long, if it weren’t for the current state of the party, or for the shot-in-the-arm that Toryism has given to his standup career.
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Continue ReadingContinuing his two-week streak of skewering Trump on an epic level, The President Show host Anthony Atamanuik took a page… MORE
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Yesterday, Time posted an interview with Donald Trump where he called Stephen Colbert “filthy” and a “no-talent guy” whose show was “dying” before he came on as a guest, so during last night’s Late Show, Colbert went all in with his response. “Making jokes about you has been good for ratings — it’s almost as […]
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