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The late night comedy shows were largely upset on Monday at combat operations against Iran that began on Saturday. Three of the five hosts tried to argue they were simply a distraction from the Epstein files while the others still managed to offer up some underwhelming criticisms.

NBC’s Seth Meyers reacted on Late Night to President Trump’s State of the Union address on Wednesday by attacking him for condemning Democrats for not standing up and applauding and for allegedly trying to “co-opt” Team USA's men's hockey gold medal for himself. In both cases, Meyers left out some crucial context.

For some reason, HBO’s John Oliver decided that Elon Musk and his transformation of Twitter/X would make for golden comedic material for his main topic on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. As Oliver tells it, the site has gotten “much darker” since Musk took over, but any reference to the prior problems or his native Britain’s creepy solutions was left unmentioned.

On Monday, CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, denounced FCC chairman Brendan Carr for threatening to use the agency’s equal time rule against the late night comedy shows, which he claimed led CBS to force him to put his interview with State Rep. James Talarico on YouTube. With the equal time rule now in the news, NewsBusters analysts dug into the archive to find out when each of the…

CBS’s Stephen Colbert traveled across town on Tuesday to sit down with NBC’s Seth Meyers on Late Night to reflect on the impending cancelation of The Late Show. When Colbert looked back on the “incredible gift” the show has provided, he could have talked about the jokes or the ability to interview celebrities about their upcoming movies, but he instead chose to focus on his Democratic guests…

MS NOW host Chris Hayes traveled over to NBC and Late Night with Seth Meyers on Monday for an interview that saw him both compare the Minneapolis protestors to those who marched for civil rights in Selma and gush over New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recent snow shoveling video. Late Night was also not the only NBC late night show to gush over the mayor as Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon…

Four of the five liberal late night comedy shows focused a lot of energy on their Thursday episodes on the situation in Minneapolis. According to them, the administration is lying about the female driver being a threat to the ICE agent who shot her, people who agree with the administration are fascists, and Trump plans to use the situation to further his goal of governing without elections.…

The late night comedy shows kicked off 2026 on Monday by talking about the big news of Nicolas Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces on Saturday in Venezuela. According to the liberal quintet, the most obvious motivations for President Trump to order such a move were to distract from the Epstein files and because Trump did not like Maduro’s dance moves.

Late night comedy’s regular trashing of conservatives and Republicans is not confined to the hosts. Oftentimes, guests are brought on to parrot the host's beliefs, and with a new Republican president, an outgoing host, and another that was briefly suspended, those guests had lots to talk about this year. Here are the ten worst.

For the men of the late night comedy talk shows, the second half of 2025 was not good. In July, Stephen Colbert announced his show will be cancelled next year, and in September, Jimmy Kimmel was suspended for peddling conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s assassin’s political ideology. As a result, many guests would often gush over them and portray them as free speech martyrs, and when…

The world of liberal late night comedy got even more liberal in 2025 with the inauguration of a new Republican president. According to a new Media Research Center study, the late night hosts told 12,011 of their 13,097 political jokes about conservatives, which comes out to 92 percent, up from 82 percent last year.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! and NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers were the only late night comedy shows to tape original episodes on Monday, and both used the occasion to prove that Friday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani proved that the latter isn’t the scary monster that conservatives have portrayed him as. At the same time, the duo argued…

NBC’s Seth Meyers continued his attacks from the left on the Democrats who voted to reopen the government on Wednesday’s edition of Late Night by condemning Sen. Angus King for claiming that the shutdown did not work.

Despite being a group of people eager to portray the government shutdown as Republicans’ fault, the late night comedians used their Monday shows to attack Senate Democrats for finally realizing they had no leverage and ending the shutdown.