Sunday, April 27, 2025
The WHCA Dinner Skips Comedy but Delivers a Message, and Some Soul-Searching
Last year Colin Jost and President Joe Biden provided the entertainment at the White House Correspondents Assn. dinner, with the former bringing along his wife, Scarlett Johansson, and jokingly telling the crowd she had agreed to “individually meet everyone in this room.” The WHCA proceeded again Saturday night, just without the sitting president, a comedian or any kind of entertainment. But the event still delivered a message about the importance of journalism’s mission — amid an assault on the press by the Trump administration — as well as some soul-searching about its failings. The latter came from Axios reporter Alex…
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Bill Maher Jokes Pope Francis Survived a 38-Day Hospital Stay Only to Be ‘Keeled Right Over’ by JD Vance
Bill Maher kicked off Friday’s episode of “Real Time” by paying homage to the late Pope Francis and, of course, mocking Vice President JD Vance who happened to meet with the religious leader just hours before he died. “He was 88-years-old, had just finished a 38-day stay in the hospital, got a lung infection and pneumonia, met JD for half an hour and keeled right over,” Maher joked. Maher spent a good portion of this week’s monologue talking about Pope Francis, who died Monday after suffering stroke and of subsequent heart failure. “Sad, sad week, the pope died, fentanyl is…
Friday, April 25, 2025
Chris Hayes Mocks Trump’s Rapidly Declining Approval Ratings: ‘He’s Never Been Very Popular’ | Video
MSNBC host Chris Hayes examined Donald Trump’s approval ratings, which continued to tank this week across the board in areas like the economy, immigration, federal funding for healthcare research and DEI policies. “What they are doing is widely unpopular,” Hayes said on Thursday night’s episode of “All In with Chris Hayes.” “Now, the key here is that Donald Trump wants you to believe desperately that he is popular. It’s all part of the con.” The MSNBC host said that “just because he managed to win” even though it was “the first time in three tries” that Trump conflates the idea…
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel Says Trump ‘Should Be Very Grateful’ That His ‘Minions’ Scandals Are Distracting From ‘His Dumb Stuff’ | Video
Jimmy Kimmel had some advice for Donald Trump during his monologue on Wednesday: Really appreciate the people working for you. Not because they’re competent or good at their jobs of course. But because “doing so much dumb stuff, it makes it harder to focus on his dumb stuff.” Ouch. Kimmel got to that joke in a wind-y kind of way, by talking about Donald Trump’s plan to install two 100-foot flagpoles at the White House. “Trump took a little stroll around the White House, he did a little location scouting just like he would do at one of his golf…
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel Jokes Pete Hegseth Leaks So Much He ‘Should Be Wearing Depends to Work’ | Video
Jimmy Kimmel didn’t buy Pete Hegseth’s attempt to deflect criticism of his actions by blaming the people who brought attention to his actions. And in his monologue on Tuesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” he explained in slightly scatological terms. Kimmel got to this as he transitioned from the topic of a search for a new Pope. “So, we have a new Pope on the way, and maybe a new Secretary of Defense soon. If you see white smoke coming from the Pentagon – it means they fired Pete Hegseth,” Kimmel joked. “Pete Hegseth is getting hammered,” Kimmel continued, “not the way…
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel Wonders What the Odds Are Trump Declares He’s the New Pope: ‘They Are Not Low’ | Video
Jimmy Kimmel had a pointed question, and pithy answer, about Donald Trump’s reaction to the death of Pope Francis on Monday. “What are the chances Trump declares himself Pope?” Kimmel asked. “They are not low. They are not low.” The joke came during his Monday night “Jimmy Kimmel monologue which, naturally, focused quite a bit on the Pope’s death. “As I’m sure you know, Pope Francis passed away this morning,” Kimmel said before adding, “don’t clap for that, you’ll go right to hell.” “The Pope, who was very well-loved, he was, seemed to be a kind and humble man, had…
Monday, April 21, 2025
‘The Last of Us’ Fans React to Huge Season 2 Episode 2 Twist: ‘Welcome to the Trauma’
It’s no surprise that the second episode of “The Last of Us” Season 2 is sparking a lot of reaction online. For many fans of the video game series, the events that took place in Episode 2 – “Through the Valley” – was the one to look forward to or dread. In it, Joel (Pedro Pascal) stumbles across Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) while running to avoid a massive horde that has been dormant in the snow. She convinces him to come back to the nearby ski lodge where she and her friends are waiting for her – unfortunately the offer is…
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Bill O’Reilly Says He Has Evidence Democratic Activists Were ‘Piped In’ to Disrupt GOP Town Halls | Video
Bill O’Reilly says he’s discovered that disruptive outbursts and confrontations at separate Republican congressional town halls this week was not “the regular folks coming out” as intended, but activists who were organized – and in three cases, bailed out from jail – by the Democratic party. “So now Congress is on a break, all right?” the former Fox News host said on his No Spin News channel Friday. “The senators and representatives go back to their districts, and many of them hold town hall meetings … they go in, and locals express their concerns to their elected representatives the way it…
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Bill Maher Jokes Trump Is Celebrating Easter ‘by Locking Up Guys Named Jesus’ | Video
Bill Maher talked a lot about how Easter Sunday is this weekend, and unexpectedly, given his well known affinity for cannabis, he didn’t make any jokes about how it happens to be on 4/20 this year. He did however make plenty of Easter-related jokes about Donald Trump and his cronies, among them that Trump is celebrating “by locking up guys named Jesus.” (Obviously pronounced in the Spanish style, a reference to Trump’s escalating war on immigrants.) “It’s good Friday, and this is the day Jesus died for all of our sins. So you know what? Have fun. It’s all paid…
Friday, April 18, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel Says It’s Weird How ‘Anti-DEI’ Trump Has ‘the Same Taste as Liberace’ After White House Gold Makeover | Video
Jimmy Kimmel was taken somewhat aback by Donald Trump’s garish makeover of the White House during his monologue on Thursday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” But it also left him perplexed. Considering how “anti-DEI” Trump is, “ou wouldn’t think he’d have the same taste as Liberace. But he does,” Kimmel joked. “President Trump has been doing an Extreme Makeover of the White House. Everything’s gold now,” Kimmel explained as a photo of the White House — which, yes, has been redecorated just as the ABC host described — appeared onscreen. “Look at this room. It’s all gold.” “The press secretary called it,…
