Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee took a look at the final debate of this election cycle, in which political pundits noted Donald Trump had a “decent 40 minutes,” and his “best 30 minutes on policy” of any debate in this race. “Only kindergartners get points for using their inside voices,” Bee chastised. “Our media are so…

Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton Debate 3 smackdown topped Nielsen Social Content ratings for the week ending October 23, besting out all other comers by several laps. That’s saying something, given the week also included the Cubs routing of the Dodgers to advance to the World Series for the first time since 1945. The…

UPDATED with more details: An estimated 71.6 million people tuned in to watch the final debate of the 2016 presidential election on Wednesday. That makes it the most watched Debate 3 in TV history, eclipsing the 1992 Debate 3 that featured Billy Bush’s uncle, George H.W. Bush, Hillary Clinton’s husband Bill Clinton…

Jimmy Kimmel’s first live post-debate broadcast edged out Stephen Colbert’s in demo rating, while Colbert’s show led the pack in household rating, according to early stats issued this morning. In Nielsen’s 56 metered markets, CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert finished first with a household 2.7/7, besting an encore…

“Presidential Debate” clocked 53.2 million social media interactions across Facebook and Twitter from 16.9 million people in the U.S. on Wednesday, Nielsen reports. Activity for the debate peaked between 10:15 and 10:29 PM ET when 4.6M million interactions erupted with the announcement by reality-TV star turned GOP…

UPDATE with video: Stephen Colbert wasted no time on his latest live post-debate Late Show, addressing the jaw-dropping moment of the final presidential debate when moderator Chris Wallace asked Trump if he will accept the results of the election on November 8. Trump had responded: "I will tell you at the time." The…

UPDATE with video: "I was fascinated watching Donald Trump," Jimmy Kimmel said at the top of his first live post-debate edition of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. “His eyes were mostly closed the whole time, his voice was at phone-sex whisper. It almost seemed as if he was doing an impression of Alec Baldwin doing an…

The third and historic final presidential debate looks to have done better than Debate 2, scoring an early overnight 39.7 household rating. Debate 2, which battled NFL on NBC, had bagged an early household 37.2/52 – a nearly 20% drop from the first debate's overnight household 46.2 rating. Among those networks Donald T…

Tonight’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump devoted considerable time to the economy, with both candidates vowing their economic plans would vastly improve things for American industry and workers. Who is right or, more relevantly, whose plan will get the national test drive, remains to be seen. But with…

Donald Trump insisted tonight during the final Presidential debate that the allegations of women who have said he did in fact do those things of which he boasted to Billy Bush in that Access Hollywood tape have been "largely debunked.” "I don't know these people," he said on the stage, claiming again it's part of a…

In an historic first, a presidential candidate from one of the country’s two major political parties has said he may not accept results of the general election November 8. Moderator Chris Wallace asked Donald Trump directly if he would accept the results, owing to Trump’s recent rhetoric the election is rigged…

Tonight's final presidential debate was pretty tame stuff until talk turned to Donald Trump’s Great Wall, during which moderator Chris Wallace cited information from WikiLeaks’ dump of hacked DNC emails. Hillary Clinton pounced. "You are clearly quoting from WikiLeaks and what is important is the Russian government…