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Stephen Colbert began the final episode of CBS’s The Late Show by unwittingly highlighting how it all went wrong. Colbert told the audience that he viewed his show as “the joy machine” and that he thought his job was to “feel the news with you,” even if it was not actually that joyful. Later, during a sci-fi skit about the show being sucked into a black hole, Colbert was joined once…

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Not everything CBS’s Stephen Colbert does for The Late Show makes it to air. Some material is only revealed 10 years later, and some gets puts on YouTube. The latter was the case on Tuesday, as Colbert welcomed The Daily Show’s Monday host Jon Stewart to antepenultimate episode of the show. As the duo were discussing how Stewart is the last one standing at Paramount in terms…

Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast host Jon Stewart welcomed MS NOW talking head and former Obama deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes to the show on Wednesday to discuss their problems with American foreign policy. To Stewart and Rhodes, just about everything from the general mess that is the Middle East to Europe’s refugee crisis to ICE’s operations in Minnesota is the…

Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, welcomed lawyer and professor Sherrilyn Ifill to the program to react to the Supreme Court’s latest ruling regarding the Voting Rights Act. However, Stewart also invited Ifill to give a larger history lesson, which led him to laugh at the Court’s 2013 ruling that got rid of the need for DOJ preclearance for southern states…

Comedy Central’s host of The Weekly Show podcast and card-carrying member of the Graham Platner Fan Club, Jon Stewart, welcomed the far-left Maine Senate candidate to Wednesday’s go gush over him by comparing him to Jimmy Stewart’s character in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and lament all the focus on his Nazi tattoos.

Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, kicked off the show by trying to suggest that the shooting at Saturday’s White House Correspondents' Dinner was merely another incident involving guns in America and suggested that the whole thing could have been avoided if President Trump was never invited.

This past week, liberal hero Eric Swalwell has been compelled to end his California gubernatorial bid and resign from Congress because of allegations that he is a rapist. While the accusations against Swalwell were disturbing, they also provided the late night comedy shows the opportunity to make fun of a Democrat, but they refused and told zero jokes about Swalwell.

The late night comedians like to think of themselves as the kind of people who use humor to highlight the absurdities coming from President Trump, but on their Monday shows, all they ended up doing was proving their own ignorance on the matters they chose to talk about. In this case, the subject was Trump’s announcement of a blockade in the Strait of Hormuz after Saturday’s failed negotiations…

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart welcomed former spokesman for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell, to Wednesday’s episode of The Weekly Show podcast to discuss the war in Iran. At one point, Stewart would allege that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gets a perverse sense of sexual satisfaction from the violence he is able to inflict on other people as a result of…

In the first week of the Iran war, the late night comedians told 94 percent of their jokes about the American side. By the third week, that percentage jumped to 97 percent, according to a new Media Research Center study.

For the last three weeks the late night comedy shows have relentlessly attacked President Trump amid the war in Iran, but on Monday, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart went over the other half of the American-Israeli alliance in an interview with former Biden national security advisor Jake Sullivan on The Daily Show. Both men would also use Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to…

The late night comedians reacted to the start of the Iran War with not only a week of disapproval but also a lopsided joke count. According to a new Media Research Center study, the hosts told 94 percent of their war-related jokes about the United States and our allies.