NOT A JOKE: CNN Looking to Hire a Comedian

January 17th, 2023 11:00 AM

CNN’s new boss, Chris Licht, is looking to counter the narrative that late night comedy is dying by bringing a comedian to the network’s primetime lineup, Semafor reports.

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WORST OF 2022: Celebrity Freak-Out Award 

January 1st, 2023 1:33 PM

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: Celebrity Freak-Out Award.

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TOP 10: The Worst Of Late Night For 2022

December 27th, 2022 11:45 PM

Between calls for gun control, the demise of Roe v. Wade, and the regular news cycle, it was a year where the hosts of late night traded in their jokes for liberal rants, lectures, and other wandering pontifications. So, without further ado, here are the top -- or maybe bottom 10 -- moments of late night 2022.

NewsBusters Podcast: The Twitter Files Drop, Journalists Duck & Cover

December 9th, 2022 5:11 PM

There’s been near total silence from the liberal media in regards to the first two batches of the Twitter Files from journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss showing years of deception and lies on the part of Twitter executives and their allies to censor conservatives and any thought that runs counter to their left-wing worldview. Filling in for Tim Graham, Associate Editor Nicholas Fondacaro…

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As Noah Departs, CBS Mourns Decline in Late Night Viewership

December 9th, 2022 10:13 AM

As Trevor Noah stepped down as host of The Daily Show, Friday’s CBS Mornings lamented the general decline of late night TV. As correspondent Michelle Miller went through the data and upcoming Daily Show guest hosts, it never occurred to anyone that liberal activism might have something to do with it.

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STUDY: Trevor Noah's Daily Show Guests Were 86 Percent Democratic

December 9th, 2022 9:00 AM

During his seven-year tenure as host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Trevor Noah brought a reliably liberal bias to the program, a NewsBusters study has found.

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Comedy Hosts Think Twitter Censoring Hunter Story Is About Nude Photos

December 6th, 2022 10:24 AM

The men of late night "comedy" finally got the opportunity on Monday to address the Twitter Files and the revelations of how Twitter suppressed the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. However, they missed the point about how the Post was censored and insisted the real story was the censorship of nude Hunter Biden photos.

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Daily Show Thanks God For 'Basic Human Right' Of Euthanasia

December 1st, 2022 10:47 AM

Filmmaker Ondi Timoner travelled to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Wednesday to promote her film The Last Flight Home, but this isn’t just any other film, it is film that hypes the alleged “basic human right” of euthanasia.

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Noah Tees Up Obama to Blame Fox for State of Political Discourse

November 18th, 2022 9:53 AM

Former President Barack Obama swung by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Comedy Central on Wednesday to promote his foundation’s “Democracy Forum.” With the state of democracy being the prime focus of the conversation, Noah asked why the state of political discourse is so bad. Proving that some things never change, Obama blamed Fox News.

STUDY: 47 Liberals, 0 Conservatives on Late Night During Fall Campaign

November 14th, 2022 1:30 PM

The late-night comedy scene has been reliably liberal for a long time, but the 2022 midterm election was a regular messaging machine for the Democrats, a NewsBusters study has revealed.

MRC analysts found that during the fall campaign, from Labor Day through the Monday night before Election Day, liberal guests outnumbered conservative guests 46 to 0.

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Noah, Abrams Lament 'Vile' Attacks While Spreading Conspiracy Theories

November 1st, 2022 10:15 AM

The last time Stacey Abrams was on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, she compared herself Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainians fighting for their freedom. Now with only eight days until Election Day, she returned to join the show’s namesake host in Atlanta on Monday to decry the “vile” attacks against her while spreading election conspiracy theories and labeling Gov.…

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'Holy S***', Noah Applauds Swalwell's Abortion Scaremongering

October 19th, 2022 10:56 AM

When Trevor Noah eventually leaves Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Democrats will lose a reliable ally in their attempts to scare people into voting for them over the issue of abortion. On Tuesday, Noah spoke out in favor of an ad from Rep. Eric Swalwell depicting a woman getting arrested for an abortion, suggesting it is a very real possibility.

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Noah Seeks To Make Filibusters Great Again With Wendy Davis MSNBC Doc

October 14th, 2022 10:18 AM

Trevor Noah wants to make the filibuster and the disruption of legislative proceedings great again. Now that he is set to leave The Daily Show, Noah has signed on to be the executive producer of a series of MSNBC documentaries entitled The Turning Point, the first of which is about former Texas State Senator Wendy Davis called Shouting Down Midnight and on Thursday,…

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Noah Compares Fetterman To Politicians Who Are Disabled War Veterans

October 13th, 2022 11:03 AM

Trevor Noah used the Wednesday installment of The Daily Show on Comedy Central to defend Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman from criticism he is not healthy enough to serve by comparing him to disabled war veterans Dan Crenshaw and Tammy Duckworth.