The broadcast networks that once hosted Upfront Week mostly have been gobbled up by media behemoths, and the traditional dog-and-pony show gradually is being replaced by daily disgorging of corporate buzzwords. Still, the week had some very memorable moments. Here are few:
Most Stunning Star Appearance
"Why is that…
Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show scored its best Thursday, an overnight metered-market 3.8, playing host to the entire cast of The Big Bang Theory hours after CBS aired the longest running multi-cam comedy’s series finale.
In addition to being Colbert’s best Thursday delivery yet, it’s his second highest metered market…
UPDATED with video: The journalists at CBS This Morning asked the cast of the network's The Big Bang Theory all the predictable questions Thursday morning, before the long-running series’ finale. Clever Stephen Colbert got the cast to anonymously write better ones for him to ask in their interview on The Late…
"Hello, it's great to be back at Carnegie Hall. Despite Lindsey Graham’s advice, I honored my subpoena to be here today,” Stephen Colbert snarked as he took the stage at CBS’ annual Carnegie Hall Upfront presentation.
Like TBS’ Conan O’Brien, NBC’s Seth Meyers, and especially ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, the CBS late-night…
UPDATED with video:Stephen Colbert traveled from our reality to the alternate one of political satire series Veep, to beg them to stop doing horrible things that inspire President Donald Trump.
Just one night earlier, CNN’s John Berman had noticed Trump’s “joke” at his Wednesday rally in Panama City Beach, Florida…
UPDATED with video: Democrats are especially upset Attorney General Bill Barr lied to Congress, Stephen Colbert noted on his CBS late-night show.
We now know, thanks to WaPo and NYT, that special counsel Robert Mueller sent a letter to Barr, complaining about Barr's summary of Mueller’s report on his nearly two-year…
Stephen Colbert’s Late Show will air live after both nights of the first Dem debate, Wednesday, June 26 and Thursday, June 27.
The Late Show did not reveal Colbert’s guests for the broadcasts, saying that info would be parsed out at a later date.
The first Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential primary will be…
UPDATED with video: Former Veep Joe Biden kicked off campaigning today, after teeing up his 2020 race last week with a candidacy announcement video blasting President Donald Trump for his “very fine people on both sides” of the issue at the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
At that rally, neo-Nazis…
Robert De Niro has been angry a lot lately, appearing in public to bitterly denounce the current administration and portraying Robert Mueller in a memorable Saturday Night Live appearance at the end of last month.
So it was surprising to see him in a relaxed and relatively mellow state for his appearance on The Late Sh…
It was Thursday for most of the working world, but it was Christmas morning for late night political talk show hosts, as the long-awaited full report from Robert Mueller was unleashed.
The report, which has been monologue fodder for the late night circuit for more than a year, was devoured by Stephen Colbert, Seth Meye…
It’s the night before the big reveal of the compete report by Robert Mueller. Washington is on edge, as the special prosecutor’s long investigation into potential collusion by the Trump administration with the Russian government during the 2016 election is finally about to be unveiled.
A short condensation of the…
Stephen Colbert marveled at the fire-fighting advice dispensed by President Donald Trump as Notre Dame Cathedral burned.
Seeing the nearly 900-year-old cathedral engulfed in flames via TV news, Trump offered his help tweeting "So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Perhaps flying water…
