"According to a new study, chimpanzees may have the ability to cook. Which is more bad news for fast-food workers demanding 15 dollars an hour!" -- NewsBusted anchor Jodi Miller
Humor
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By NB Staff | June 17, 2015 | 9:27 PM EDT 
By Brent Baker | June 14, 2015 | 12:09 AM EDT
Jimmy Kimmel plugged it as “what is maybe the best bucket list item to have ever been crossed off a bucket list.” From the Wednesday night Jimmy Kimmel Live, video of the 91-year-old Walter “Wally” Thomas, of Woodstock, Illinois, fulfilling the “first and last” item on his bucket list.
By Clay Waters | June 12, 2015 | 12:54 PM EDT
New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff weighs in on comedian Jerry Seinfeld calling the younger generation too politically correct for comedy with an odd, condescending criticism: "Perhaps some of Mr. Quinn’s working-class bona fides will rub off on Mr. Seinfeld, whose recent remarks on political correctness have seen his man-of-the-people status called into question."
By Tom Johnson | June 12, 2015 | 10:53 AM EDT
For most people, humor and comedy are meant to provoke smiles and laughter. According to Salon writer Scott Eric Kaufman, however, conservatives aren’t like most people, since “their version of comedy isn’t intended to be funny, it’s just meant to be mean.” It enables them, he alleged in a Wednesday article, to conceal their “awful thoughts” in supposed jokes.
Kaufman claimed that right-wingers’ deep pessimism precludes a sense of humor: “The situation they believe themselves to be in is perpetually dire…All they see are enemies who need notches whipped into them. They possess, in short, the mindset of an embattled bully being forced to live in a world in which the meek are rising against him en masse, and so they react as any cornered animal of meager intelligence would — they lash out.”
By NB Staff | June 11, 2015 | 3:59 PM EDT
"It’s been reported that President Obama considers himself the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat in the Oval Office. As a result, the President’s close friend, Al Sharpton, is now giving him the cold shoulder." -- NewsBusted anchor Jodi Miller.
By Connor Williams | June 10, 2015 | 10:32 AM EDT
Carrying on the media’s continued effort to poke at Christians, Conan O’Brien cracked a joke, suggesting that evangelicals’ supposed intolerance of gay people may be coming to an end: “Across the country, some evangelical groups are starting to take a second look at the Bible’s stance on gay people. Yeah, they're taking a second look at it. They're noting that if you count Joseph and God, Jesus had two daddies.”
By Brent Baker | June 7, 2015 | 12:25 AM EDT
“Transitions between” serious and not so serious stories “can be a bit rocky at times,” FNC’s Bret Baier noted in setting up a clip, at the end of his Tuesday night show, of just such a transition from HLN’s Morning Express. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live called the video its “Segue of the Day.”
By NB Staff | June 2, 2015 | 8:47 PM EDT
"In April, MSNBC had its lowest ratings in 10 years. To give you an idea how bad it is, the network is changing its slogan from 'Lean Forward' to 'Spiral Downward.'" -- NewsBusted host Jodi Miller.
By Brent Baker | May 31, 2015 | 12:27 AM EDT
Congress was in recess this past week and, FNC’s Bret Baier suggested Tuesday night, some officials and politicians “might want to use this time to catch up on their sleep.” Viewers were then treated to an amusing collection, put together by ABC’s, of sleeping politicians “caught on tape.”
By NB Staff | May 28, 2015 | 7:19 PM EDT
"Hillary Clinton is considering granting an interview to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. The announcement came from her campaign spokesman: ABC’s George Stephanopoulos." -- NewsBusted host Jodi Miller
By Brent Baker | May 24, 2015 | 12:24 AM EDT
One last fun video from the Late Show with David Letterman which ended on Wednesday night. From its last Monday night program, a clip from Vice President Biden’s commencement address the day before at Yale University. The Late Show tagged it “Joe Biden: What?” And watching it will certainly induce a “what?” – at the very least. Biden is the gift who keeps on giving.
By Ken Shepherd | May 21, 2015 | 7:06 PM EDT
Imagine, if you will, that a conservative Republican legislator in Texas who played a role in preventing direct-to-consumer sales of Tesla electric automobiles in the Lone Star State was on the record telling the media that he blamed "Mr. Tesla" for failing to do his part to make nice with the powerful car dealership lobby in Texas. But alas, it was a Democratic state legislator, Rep. Senfronia Thompson, who made the relevant remarks.