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Seven people who were filming a segment for CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, were arrested Thursday night in the Longworth House Office Building by U.S. Capitol Police. The arrested were escorted out of the Jan. 6 committee hearing earlier in the day for lack of proper press credentials, reports indicate. The…

The late-night community has had its Primetime Emmy Awards hopes hit once again after it emerged that this year there will likely be only four nominees in the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category — losing a spot compared to the 2021 awards. It reduces the chances of preventing Last Week Tonight with John Oliver…

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Show correspondent Dulcé Sloan and writer Josh Johnson are tackling topics such as long engagements, brunch and chiropractors in the latest podcast for the Comedy Central series. The pair will launch The Daily Show Presents: Hold Up later this month. The late-night series, hosted by Trevor Noah…

“I’m just curious how you even know when Rudy Giuliani is drunk,” said Trevor Noah on The Daily Show last night of the president’s former personal lawyer, whom he likened to a “drunk vampire.” “When a normal person is drunk they yell, the say crazy things, they sweat a lot. So how does that work with Rudy? Does it…

John Oliver did not mince words for his show’s former owners. In a tirade attacking companies that have committed unsavory business practices, the Last Week Tonight host zeroed in on AT&T’s monopoly status before their 1982 anti-trust settlement and called them “our business daddy who left for cigarettes and never…

In the wake of mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas, many people are crying out for someone to “do something.” Yet some of the loudest voices in that chorus are among the biggest hypocrites when it comes to creating an atmosphere that promulgates violence among the feeble minded. Bill Maher gave Hollywood a shot across…

UPDATE, 9:05 PM PT: In his first live in-studio appearance since taking office during the pandemic, President Joe Biden sat down today in the City of Angels with Jimmy Kimmel. Watch the full nearly 24-minute interview above. The interview showed why the White House has turned to late night to get its message out…

The Daily Show correspondent Desi Lydic created a segment called “Desi Lydic Foxsplains“ as a way to poke fun at the more “out there” views shown on Fox News. She takes on another persona in front of the camera when she performs for the series, one that she says is not too foreign to her. “That 'woman on the verge'…

John Oliver delivered an impassioned plea on tonight’s Last Week Tonight in opposition of the inevitable rise of support for increased police presence on school campuses. In the wake of the Uvalde shooting several weeks ago, Oliver took conservative pundits to task over their solutions to the increase of school…

Talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! has scored a coup, convincing President Joe Biden to join for an exclusive in-studio interview. The Jimmy Kimmel Live! sit-down will mark Biden's first in-studio late-night appearance as president. Biden’s interview will air on Kimmel’s Wednesday, June 8, show, which is on ABC at 11:35…

Everyone knows the George Gershwin song, “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off,” which features the classic lines, “You like potato, and I like potahto, You like tomato, and I like tomahto.” What they often don’t remember are the lines that come after that couplet. “But oh, if we call the whole thing off, then we must…

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah did a split segment Thursday night about how some Republican lawmakers are deflecting blame for mass shootings by blaming doors — not the Jim Morrison kind but, y’know, the ones that swing on hinges — and what foreigners think about the unique Americana of spraying strangers with…