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UPDATED with latest: Britney Spears’ new lawyer, Matthew Rosengart, made good on his promise to take action to remove her father’s oversight of the singer’s life. On Monday according to multiple reports, Rosengart filed a petition on the singer’s behalf with Los Angeles Superior Court asking for a CPA to be named the…

“Democrats are now the party that can't tell the difference between Anthony Weiner and Al Franken,” said Bill Maher at the close of Real Time on Friday night. He went on to bemoan the increasing rigidity of the Left and the increasing, well, liberalism of the Right. “Once upon a time the Right were offended by…

Tonight on SNL, Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che weighed in on new allegations made against their “favorite Florida congressman.” “Matt Gaetz is back in the news. But this time, it's good,” said Jost. “I'm kidding, it's still the sex stuff.” Reportedly, Jost noted, Gaetz—”who looks like all the dudes…

On Monday, Stephen Colbert returned to The Late Show after a week off the air, spending most of his opening monologue taking Matt Gaetz to task. “I don't pay a lot of attention to the news when we're off,” Colbert admitted, “but this week, I read every possible article about the career implosion of Florida congressman…

Question for anyone who bet against Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” segment leading with anything other than GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz — what were you thinking? Smartly, Colin Jost began by saying the House member from Florida “looks like a caricature artist’s drawing of me.” But then the hits started — and kept…

"If you come anywhere near me, just remember I have hip-hop friends and country friends — two populations that are guaranteed to own guns," a scandal-drenched and lap dance-promising Matt Gaetz was told on Saturday Night Live tonight in no uncertain terms by Lil Nas X in the cold open. In a season that has squandered…

Fox News said there are no serious discussions with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) about joining the network, after he indicated to the Daily Beast that he was talking to them. "No one with any level of authority has had conversations with Matt Gaetz for any of our platforms and we have no interest in hiring him,” a Fox News…

UPDATE, 6:06 PM PT: Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that it was “verifiably false” that he traveled with a 17-year-old female after a New York Times report that he was under investigation. “People can look at my travel records and see that that is not the case,” he said. He said that “what is…

The visuals on news channels were of about two dozen members of Congress walking into a nondescript room. In fact, it was part of an unusual House Republican protest, an orchestrated effort to make the case that the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump is unfair. Led by Rep. Steve Scalise…

Republicans were clearly freaking out in the walk-up to Wednesday’s televised testimony of President Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen, NBC Late Night star Seth Meyers told viewers. No one more so than GOP Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who threatened to Cohen, to try to intimidate him on Tuesday night with a tweet…

The Florida bar is investigating Rep. Matt Gaetz’s threat to President Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen on the eve of Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee. A rep for the state’s bar association confirmed to Daily Beast that the org had opened an investigation into whether the threat issued…