Ah, the dangers of pre-taping topical television. Stephen Colbert experienced that tonight, as his obviously pre-recorded monologue focused on Kellyanne Conway and her alleged violations of the Hatch Act was a beat behind the actual news. Colbert started off strong. When he said Conway’s name, resounding boos filled…

President Donald Trump is the gift that keeps on giving to late night comics, and tonight was no exception. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Late Night with Seth Meyers took aim at Trump’s ill-considered remarks to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he would listen to opposition…

Stephen Colbert thinks he’s finally figured what happened with President Trump’s tariff showdown with Mexico over illegal immigration. The entire crisis was “fake.” Last week Trump threatened to impose a 5 percent tariff on all Mexican goods unless our Southern neighbor addressed the crisis at the border by today. The…

Stephen Colbert and CBS’ The Late Show returned from having Memorial Day week off, and the host was unhappy that President Donald Trump “has fled the country knowing we were back on the air.” But the famous “never Trumper” — as in never miss a chance to poke the POTUS — made a game of it. Proceeding to play “Why in…

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…

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…

Renewable energy was on the menu for Stephen Colbert, who mocked President Donald Trump’s assertion that wind power poses a grave threat. Trump contended during an addresses that there should be a memorial to birds at the base of every wind tower. The controversial wind generators, which have been under fire for (yes)…

President Donald Trump really doesn’t want illegal immigrants coming across His Country’s southern border. While that statement is neither breaking nor fake news, POTUS has been ratcheting up the rhetoric lately with comments about how those pesky non-Americans are Coming to Get You while giving our poor Border Patrol…

“You’ve been in the news lately,” Stephen Colbert said as Kevin Hart made his umpteenth TV appearance to promote The Upside, taking yet more questions about not hosting the Oscars. “What?!” Hart incredulity-feigned. The CBS late-night host read quotes from Hart’s interview that morning on ABC’s Good Morning America in…

It’s a busy Election Eve at The Late Show. Host Stephen Colbert just can’t stop angst-ing over those pesky midterms on his CBS late-nighter. Nervously noting in his monologue how once-and-maybe-future Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted on his show last week that Democrats will wrest control of the House from the GOP, he…