Over the weekend, Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj took on the toughest gig in comedy by hosting this year’s Trump-free White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and like his performance at last year’s Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association Dinner, Minhaj did an excellent job roasting the press while also getting some jabs in about the Trump administration. […]
Continue ReadingAnthony Atamanuik’s The President Show premiered on Comedy Central last night, and with some help from Peter Grosz as Mike Pence and the show’s first guest Keith Olbermann, we finally got to see what a late night show hosted by Atamanuik’s expert Trump impression looks like. “Trump” kicked things off by chatting with Pence about […]
Continue ReadingWe’ve officially had 100 days of President Trump, and everyone’s rushing to give their take on how he stacks up… MORE
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Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at Trump’s first 100 days in office and how he’s either backtracked or made a complete 180 on pretty much every issue and promise he promoted during his campaign, especially when it comes to issues he criticized Obama for like […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers takes “A Closer Look” at what will soon be Trump’s first 100 days in office, all the now broken promises he made to his supporters for his “100-day contract” with them, and his demands for border wall money that might lead to a government […]
Continue ReadingSince Donald Trump became POTUS, there’s been a growing effort by some reporters and TV pundits to break down all the increasingly complicated and sometimes unconfirmed news of Trump and his administration’s corruption and ties to Russia in a way that the regular news consumer can understand. Some journalists have found that the most impactful […]
Continue ReadingIf you want to be disturbed and yet also oddly reassured that American politics cycle through the same themes again and again, look no further than the 1992 political mockumentary Bob Roberts written, directed by, and starring Tim Robbins as the eponymous Pennsylvania senatorial candidate, a Yale educated financial man with a serious fencing habit-turned-down-home, […]
Continue ReadingFor comedy professionals in particular, Aaron Sorkin’s hilariously self-righteous camp classic Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip has to be one of the most hate-watched and lovingly maligned pop culture misfires of all time. The show furiously insisted that an alternately mediocre and bewilderingly pretentious sketch comedy show modeled on Saturday Night Live was so […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver takes a closer look at the upcoming French presidential election and the rising popularity of the very Trump-like candidate Marine Le Pen. “One of the frustrating things about watching this unfold from America is this feels a little like déjà vu: a potentially […]
Continue Reading2017 is turning out to be a disturbingly great year for Nathan Fielder’s Holocaust awareness-focused jacket line, Summit Ice. Last month, Fielder revived the season 3 segment by opening up a pop-up Summit Ice store in Vancouver, and thanks to the Trump administration, it’s tragically taken on much more prescience now that anti-Semitic comments — […]
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