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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Late Night Hosts Sound the Literal Alarm in Final Election Pitches

November 8th, 2022 11:11 AM

From literal alarms over abortion to satirical Christmas songs to the typical anti-Republican diatribe, the men of the late night comedy shows used their Monday programs to deliver one last pitch to voters on why they should vote Democrat.

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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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Bad Joke: Fallon Asks Hillary Clinton About Document Security

September 7th, 2022 9:59 AM

The late night comedy shows returned for their new season on Tuesday and for NBC The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon that meant welcoming Hillary and Chelsea Clinton to promote their new Apple TV show. It also meant asking Hillary, of all people, about document security and the war in Ukraine.

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Meyers Uses Show To Hype Abortion, Noah Calls Justices 'Full of S***'

June 28th, 2022 1:48 PM

NBC host of Late Night Seth Meyers reacted to the demise of Roe v. Wade by turning his Monday show into an advertisement for Planned Parenthood, while Comedy Central’s Trevor Noah used The Daily Show to say that the justices are “full of shit.” NBC’s other late night host, Jimmy Fallon, was less bitter, but still lamented the Court is not in tune with public opinion…

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CBS Hypes Biden Following Line of Presidential Late Night Appearances

June 9th, 2022 10:38 AM

Led by White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe, the cast of Thursday’s CBS Mornings reacted to President Biden’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! not by lamenting Biden only sitting down for softball interviews, but that Biden was following in the history of presidents using late night shows to appear more relatable.

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Late Nights Hosts Defend Beto, Blame GOP, SCOTUS For Shootings

May 26th, 2022 11:24 AM

For the late night hosts, the school shooting in Uvalde provided them the opportunity to use their Wednesday shows to blame “the gun lobby,” Republicans, and the Supreme Court and to praise Beto O’Rourke’s stunt in the push for gun control.

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Vile: Here's the WORST of Late Night on the Leaked Abortion Ruling

May 4th, 2022 11:00 AM

The late night comedy show hosts did not take the draft opinion from Justice Samuel Alito overturning Roe v. Wade well on their Tuesday shows. From lamenting the fall of human rights to references to the Taliban and The Handmaid's Tale, here is a summary of their lamentations.

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Nets Ignore Pathetic New Low: Biden's ‘Easter Bunny’ Protects Prez

April 20th, 2022 9:55 AM

In a desperate new low, the White House used the Easter Bunny to protect the unpopular Joe Biden from any potentially difficult questions from the press. The bunny, who was actually a White House staffer in costume, whisked Biden away from questions about foreign policy. But the evening newscasts on Monday and Tuesday totally ignored this bizarre, embarrassing moment during Monday’s Easter Egg…

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The Late Night Hacks Who Think It’s Racist for GOP to Question Jackson

March 23rd, 2022 9:40 AM

The late-night hacks on Tuesday deemed it racist and inappropriate to simply ask tough questions of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. The same hosts that mocked Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett were unhappy with the GOP.

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Jimmy, He’s No Longer Prez: As Biden Crashes, Kimmel Rants at Trump

January 20th, 2022 12:15 PM

It must be hard for Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert. As Joe Biden’s presidency hits year one, crumbling and unpopular, the two late night Democratic hacks are in a quandary. They could speak truth to power and aggressively mock Biden. But that would require comedic courage. On Wednesday, Jimmy Kimmel spent the first five minutes of his monologue on Donald Trump, who it should be pointed out,…

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Mika Covers for Biden's Weird Whispering Act: 'Practicing ASMR'

June 26th, 2021 10:22 AM

When Morning Joe opens with a Tonight Show of Biden's weird whispering act, Mika Brzezinski finds a way to  cover from him, literally laughing it off in a loving way. Biden wasn't losing it. It wasn't weird. Not at all! "President Biden was practicing some ASMR, perhaps," said Mika ASMR is an unproven notion that various events, including listening to people whisper, can…

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Unhinged Jane Fonda Compares Fossil Fuel Industry to Abusive Boyfriend

April 21st, 2021 9:54 AM

Appearing on NBC’s Tonight Show Tuesday, far-left actress and climate crusader Jane Fonda launched into an unhinged tirade in which she compared the fossil fuel industry to an abusive boyfriend and even wildly claimed that energy producers were responsible for more deaths around the world than the COVID pandemic.

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Don Lemon to Fallon: White Righties Panicked by Changing Demographics

March 12th, 2021 10:51 AM

CNN primetime host Don Lemon appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night to plug his new book on racism and the flaws of white people. He told Fallon that the Capitol riot and all the white unease is over America becoming a "majority-minority" country.