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“The Sopranos” debuted 25 years ago, but what makes it a masterpiece is how much older its themes are. In 1827 Goethe wrote a poem that begins, “America, you have it better.” The German genius ended with the wish that America’s children, when they took up the pen themselves, wouldn’t write stories about “Knights, robbers, and ghosts.”

It was a year of change for late night comedy. The Late Late show was cancelled by CBS after 5,300 episodes since 1995 after James Corden decided to return to England, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show used a series of temp hosts after Trevor Noah walked away at the end of 2022, CBS host of The Late Show Stephen Colbert finally stopped giving Donald Trump the He Who…

Give “Saturday Night Live’s” disastrous Ivy League presidents sketch a little credit. The show indirectly acknowledged the anti-Jewish sentiment flooding the country following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.

Friday’s season finale of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher condemned two media bubbles. First, the New York Times’s progressive bubble after former editor James Bennet penned a lengthy essay in The Economist recounting the 2020 Tom Cotton op-ed and second, the media’s bubble that seeks to blame Israel for the lack of Israeli-Palestinian peace.

CNN senior political analyst John Avlon, with his signature “reality check” segments, fancies himself as someone who calls out political spin and misinformation, but on Friday’s edition of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO it was Avlon who needed and got a much needed reality check on the Biden economy after he said the country was “objectively” better off than in 2020.

Democratic strategist and frequent media talking head James Carville went on multiple emotionally unhinged and factually challenged rants on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO and the Overtime segment broadcast on CNN’s Laura Coates Live. Carville took Speaker Mike Johnson wildly out of context to portray him as worse than Al-Qaeda while earlier claiming…

Former GOP Rep. and current CNN political analyst Adam Kinzinger continued to prove that his turn against the GOP isn’t just related to the aftermath of the 2020 election and January 6 when he traveled to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to once again compare Speaker Mike Johnson to the Taliban.

For Sunday’s edition of Last Week Tonight, HBO’s John Oliver attempted to give what he would consider a nuanced take on the Israel-Hamas War and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict more generally. However, it was hard to take such nuance seriously when he accused the United States of being “heavily implicated” in non-existent Israeli war crimes.

Sen. Ted Cruz took his book tour to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday where, after some mutual backscratching with the eponymous host, the duo battled it out on the left’s history of election denialism, specifically the 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.

Nothing causes a late night talk show host to freak out around election time quite like the fate of abortion and HBO’s John Oliver on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight was no different as he spent most of the program hyping abortion and at one point going gaga over The Satanic Temple naming a facility after Justice Samuel Alito, his mother, and suggesting he should have been aborted.

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria traveled to HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to discuss the Israel-Hamas War and raising anti-Semitism on college campuses, the latter of which he tried to blame on Christians.

Professor, frequent media guest, atheist, and former CNN+ host Scott Galloway traveled over to HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to prove he knows nothing about religious people as he declared that new Speaker Mike Johnson’s belief God ordained him as Speaker proves he is “David Duke-lite.” Fellow atheist Maher did not go that far, but did play the Mussolini card.

HBO Real Time host Bill Maher condemned the New York Times on Friday for their “terrible” headline on the explosion at the Gaza hospital earlier in the week where they uncritically repeated Hamas’s line that the explosion was the result of an Israeli airstrike. At the same time, Times columnist Bret Stephens criticized his employer and the media as a whole on the…

Former Bernie Sanders foreign policy advisor Matt Duss got more than he bargained for when he showed up at Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday as Maher slapped down his attempt to add “context” to Israel, Hamas, and Gaza.