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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…

Trevor Noah devoted the first part of his show tonight to an examination of the new indictment of Jussie Smollett – the former Empire actor and “Black Pinocchio,” as Noah termed him – who now faces Chicago justice in this recurring storyline. “I know what he did was wrong, but I kind of feel bad for him,” said Noah…

The impeachment is over, which means that a ready-made treasure trove of comedy gold is no longer available for late night political comedy. But the clown princes of same have adapted and moved on to less high-profile story lines. Now the biggest question is: can they find the funny in more obscure situations like…

Stephen Colbert was going over the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s Senate acquittal, focusing on the gathering at the White House, which some called a victory lap. Colbert referred to it as a “Presidential pity party,” and said that the President claimed everyone had it in for him from the very beginning, “…from…

The clown princes of political comedy had a huge task in front of them tonight. They had to take what was perceived as overwhelmingly bad news to their liberal audiences and try to elicit laughs in the face of a collective abject misery. But the show must go on, so the three late night political comedians tried their…

The topic of the day for The Late Show host Stephen Colbert was whether there will be any witnesses appearing at the Senate presidential impeachment trial. Colbert referenced Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (“pause for booing”) who, Colbert says, believes he has enough votes to stop the move towards calling…

On this third day of testimony in the Senate impeachment hearings, The Late Show host Stephen Colbert noted that on day one of the hearings, there were 11 million viewers watching the proceedings. “That’s a lot of people,” he said. “That’s not Super Bowl ratings, but it’s at least Puppy Bowl ratings. But that’s not…

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert spent tonight looking into the notes of Lev Parnas, an associate of attorney Rudy Giuliani. House Democrats have released correspondence allegedly linking Parnas with Giuliani and other Trump associates who are accused of being involved in the dismissal of US ambassador to Ukraine…