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Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to talk about – what else – politics. And naturally, the conversation drifted toward the 2020 presidential race. Stewart confessed that “Biden was not my guy. Wasn’t even in the top four.” But rather than totally dismissing the former…

In a clip released from tonight’s Late Show, host Stephen Colbert relentlessly questions former Trump national security advisor John Bolton about the president. Bolton, of course is promoting a book about his time in the West Wing, and Colbert goes after him for for his previous support of a man Bolton has called…

Stacey Abrams didn’t pussyfoot around about the problems that plagued Georgia’s presidential primary this week. “It was an unmitigated disaster,” the state’s former gubernatorial candidate told Stephen Colbert on tonight’s homemade episode of CBS’ The Late Show. “What was it?” he asked her. “Why was it such a…

Joe Biden returned to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight in a virtual sit-down to discuss, well, any number of topics. The veteran late-night host and erstwhile VP ended up talking about a subject that many pols would have dodged. But Biden did not. In an advance clip (watch it below), Colbert pointed out that…

A humbled Sen. Bernie Sanders paid a visit to The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert tonight and vowed to do whatever he could to help Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump in the November presidential elections. However, asked by Colbert if he was giving a “full-throated endorsement” to Biden’s candidacy, Sanders hedged. He merely…

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is in action, even if the rest of us aren’t. In a clip from tonight’s episode, the CBS late-night host does some revisionist history that involves Charlton Heston, a burning bush, the coronavirus — and, of course, Tiger King. Starting off with a CNN report about how some churches are…

Tough and scary times are ahead for the US, according to the daily White House briefing. That somber tone was seized upon tonight by Trevor Noah on The Daily Show. Noting that President Donald Trump has never seemed so grim, Noah said that if a similar body count was raised on the first-person shooter Call of Duty…

People are getting antsy as the coronavirus quarantines stretch out into a week or more, depending on when you closed the lid on your bunker and began ignoring the shouts from outside. Riding to the rescue are America’s late night comedians, who bring us tidings of comfort and joy from their homes as we all try to…

Strange times breed strange measures, and so it was with the late night television political commentators. Stripped of their audiences over concerns of spreading COVID-19, the commentators tried to carry on as best they could without the laughter, hooting and shouting that marks the audience’s participation in their…

Super Tuesday was a bit of a bummer for Bernie Sanders, or, as Stephen Colbert referred to him, “The DJ who knows you can scream louder than that.” Even though Sanders won four states, many young voters sat out Super Tuesday. Colbert, adopting, Sanders’s voice, chided them, threatening to “come down to one of the…

Stephen Colbert noted at the top of his monologue that “I, for one, am not panicking.” But some people are panicking over the coronavirus: namely, Wall Street. President Donald Trump spoke to the nation the other night, Colbert noted, to reassure nervous investors. “Today, it bounced back by plunging almost 1,200…

Nothing is funnier than a global pandemic that has already caused thousands of deaths and threatens to crash the world economy. At least according to the clown princes of late night political comedy. Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah both took a few shots tonight at the coronavirus panic, trying to mine the government…