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Jennifer M. Wood

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Why Jimmy Kimmel Is Demanding to Testify at Trump Trial

Jimmy Kimmel just made history. On Thursday, the late-night host was as surprised as anyone else when his name was brought up during Donald Trump’s...

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Seth Meyers Shreds Trump’s Desperate Campus Protest Conspiracy Theory

“There’s a lot going on right now,” Seth Meyers declared at the top of Thursday’s “A Closer Look”—so much so that he repeated that claim...

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Stephen Colbert Fiercely Defends Campus Protesters From Trump Attack

By the time The Late Show began airing on Tuesday night, police in riot gear had already breached and cleared Columbia University’s Hamilton...

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Seth Meyers Sounds Off on ‘Psycho’ Kristi Noem for Killing Her Dog

Given the speed at which the news cycle is moving these days, it would be impossible for a late-night host to take a two-week vacation and not miss...

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Jordan Klepper Declares Donald Trump ‘The King of Pettiness’

That Donald Trump has a tendency toward pettiness is hardly surprising to those who have been paying attention to the former president’s antics in...

26.04.2024 10

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Jimmy Kimmel Unloads on Kanye West’s New Porn Venture

Jimmy Kimmel and Kanye West have a tumultuous history—and, based on the roasting he gave Ye on Wednesday, the late-night host seems just fine...

25.04.2024 20

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‘The Daily Show’ Co-Hosts Blast Jesse Watters’ ‘Cruel’ Trump Trial Take

On Tuesday, former National Enquirer chief David Pecker testified for the second day in a row as the first witness in Donald Trump’s hush-money...

24.04.2024 10

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‘Daily Show’ Alum Jessica Williams Crashes Jon Stewart’s Trump Trial Rant

If loving a good David Pecker joke is wrong, Jessica Williams doesn’t want to be right. The former Daily Show senior correspondent dropped by her...

23.04.2024 20

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Kimmel Tricks People Into Thinking Lara Trump Song Is New Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift fans have been counting down the seconds until the release of her much-anticipated new album, The Tortured Poets Department , which...

19.04.2024 20

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Jordan Klepper Confronts Rudy Giuliani’s Son Outside Trump Trial

Whenever the MAGA faithful gather together, you can rest assured that Jordan Klepper is probably not too far behind. That was certainly the case this...

17.04.2024 10

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Jon Stewart Takes on Trump’s Embarrassing First Day of Court

Donald Trump was in court on Monday for a pretty momentous occasion: Day one of his criminal hush-money trial—and Jon Stewart could not contain his...

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Caitlin Clark Crashes SNL to Shame Michael Che for Hating on Women’s Sports

Saturday Night Live ’s Michael Che has a history of using jokes to diminish women’s sports, and this week was no different. During Saturday’s...

14.04.2024 10

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Emily Blunt Forces Ryan Gosling to Move on From Ken in Epic SNL Opening

Saturday Night Live is set to take a two-week break, but they gave fans something to remember from the get-go with Saturday night’s show. Ryan...

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Late-Night Hosts Waste No Time Welcoming O.J. Simpson to ‘Hell’

Barely 10 seconds into walking onstage on Thursday, Jimmy Kimmel was ready to begin dishing out the arsenal of jokes he had at the ready following the...

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Seth Meyers Loses His Sh*t Over Claims That Trump Is ‘Pro-Choice’

If flip-flopping were an Olympic sport, Donald Trump would undoubtedly have taken home a few gold medals in his time. But the sheer amount of...

11.04.2024 10

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Conan O’Brien Owns ‘The Tonight Show’ in Long-Awaited Return

More than 14 years after being canned as host of The Tonight Show , Conan O’Brien made a triumphant return to the scene of the crime on Tuesday...

10.04.2024 10

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Jon Stewart Calls Out America’s Terrible Response to Gaza War

Sunday marked the sixth-month anniversary of Hamas’ surprise attack on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip. As such, Jon Stewart decided it was the...

09.04.2024 6

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SNL’s Colin Jost Thinks Trump Knows Too Much About Cocaine

Ever since a mysterious white substance later confirmed to be cocaine was found in the White House in July 2023, Donald Trump has been full of...

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SNL Pulls Out All the Stops for Kristen Wiig’s 5-Timers Club

Inducting a new member into the Saturday Night Live Five-Timers Club—an unofficial collection of celebrities who have hosted the show five or more...

07.04.2024 10

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Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Roseanne Barr for Going Full Mar-a-Lago

From the late 1980s into the late 1990s, Roseanne Barr was breaking new ground for women in comedy and on television with her eponymous TV series....

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Seth Meyers: Biden Risks Losing to Trump If He Doesn’t Act Now

It’s been more than a month since Joe Biden took Seth Meyers out for the world’s most memorable ice cream cone, and the Late Night host appears...

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Stephen Colbert Absolutely Annihilates Lara Trump’s New Single

Being a leader of the Republican National Committee might sound like a full-time job, but Lara Trump—the RNC’s recently elected co-chair, who also...

03.04.2024 10

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Jon Stewart Mocks Media Meltdown Over Trump’s Hogtied Biden Pic

“What is going on?” That question pretty much summed up Jon Stewart’s feeling about the media outrage surrounding Donald Trump’s recent—and,...

02.04.2024 10

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‘SNL’ Audience Groans as Michael Che Jokes About Biden’s Flagging Black Support

Politics were top of mind for Saturday Night Live ’s “Weekend Update,” though not every joke landed—as Michael Che learned the hard way....

31.03.2024 10

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‘Saturday Night Live’ Skewers Donald Trump’s New Bible Grift

Saturday Night Live pulled a classic bait-and-switch with its latest cold open Saturday. After setting the scene for a comedic retelling of the...

31.03.2024 10

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Seth Meyers Calls Bullshit on Trump’s Sky-High Truth Social Valuation

Seth Meyers didn’t choose a career in comedy for his love of math, but the Late Night host knows enough about addition, subtraction, and failing...

29.03.2024 6

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Jordan Klepper Takes on America’s Ronna McDaniel Problem

In the span of just five days, Ronna McDaniel has seen her career as a television pundit be both born then brutally executed for all the world to see....

28.03.2024 10

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Kristen Stewart Gives Drunk Seth Meyers Epic ‘Lesbian Makeover’

Seth Meyers has been day drinking with celebrities for almost as long as he has been hosting Late Night . But the latest edition of “Day...

27.03.2024 10

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Jon Stewart Breaks Down Why Trump’s Brazen Fraud Is No ‘Victimless’ Crime

Like millions of Americans, Jon Stewart has spent the past week waiting with “breathless anticipation” to see whether Donald Trump would be able...

26.03.2024 20

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‘Leave This Woman Alone!’: Kimmel Rips Kate Middleton Haters

Jimmy Kimmel isn’t afraid to admit that when it comes to scandals involving the British royal family, he’s not particularly invested. But he does...

22.03.2024 10

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Jordan Klepper Reveals Only Thing That Can Make MAGA Turn on Trump

Jordan Klepper has spent the better part of the past decade working as a correspondent on The Daily Show —much of that time fully immersed in the...

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Jimmy Kimmel Stumps MAGA Fanatics With U.S. Citizenship Test

Donald Trump’s beef with Jimmy Kimmel just keeps escalating. Ever since Kimmel used the Academy Awards stage to embarrass Trump in front of the...

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Jimmy Kimmel Gives Aaron Rodgers a Taste of His Own Conspiracy Medicine

Jimmy Kimmel had a field day Wednesday when responding to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement that he was...

15.03.2024 30

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Kimmel Absolutely Destroys Aaron Rodgers as RFK Jr.’s Possible VP Pick

On Tuesday, news broke that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is preparing to announce his running mate in the coming...

14.03.2024 20

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Jimmy Kimmel Reveals ABC Tried to Kill John Cena Naked Oscars Bit

In his more than 20 years of hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy Kimmel has endured his fair share of run-ins with the network brass over his particular...

12.03.2024 10

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Jon Stewart Nails the Real Problem With Katie Britt’s SOTU Response

It’s been four days since Joe Biden delivered his rousing State of the Union address, and people are still talking about one thing: Alabama Sen....

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Scarlett Johansson Brilliantly Trolls Katie Britt’s SOTU Response in SNL Cold Open

Saturday Night Live has been struggling with its cold opens in recent months, but the show scored a major hit this week by mocking pretty much...

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Stephen Colbert Trolls All the ‘Thirsty-Ass Bitches’ at SOTU

To celebrate Joe Biden’s State of the Union address and be the first to dish out the post-SOTU snark, Stephen Colbert stayed up past his bedtime on...

08.03.2024 10

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Ronny Chieng Delivers a Heartfelt Apology to ‘Giant Loser’ Nikki Haley

It takes a big man to admit when he is wrong—especially when the recipient of that admission is a “giant loser.” Just hours after Nikki Haley...

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Jordan Klepper Stumps Nikki Haley Voters on Trump vs. Biden

Though it was just this week that Nikki Haley finally managed to win her first Republican primary, the former South Carolina governor’s fans are...

06.03.2024 10

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Jon Stewart Brutally Mocks Trump’s ‘Bigrant Crime’ Nonsense

That America is in the midst of a border crisis is no secret to anyone who watches the news even every once in a while—just as it wasn’t a...

05.03.2024 10

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SNL Gleefully Dances on Mitch McConnell’s Senate Grave

On Wednesday, Mitch McConnell announced that he’ll be stepping down as Senate Republican Leader later this year. While he’ll remain in his current...

03.03.2024 10

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Sydney Sweeney Confronts Her Many Controversies in SNL Monologue

Sydney Sweeney made her Saturday Night Live debut this week, and proved from the get-go that she’s not afraid of poking fun at herself—or her...

03.03.2024 6

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Seth Meyers Deeply Regrets Getting Ice Cream With Joe Biden

When he does his job correctly, Seth Meyers is able to shine a light on his Late Night guests and their upcoming projects. But much to his chagrin...

29.02.2024 20

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Stephen Colbert Brutally Mocks Joe Biden’s Ice Cream Diplomacy

There are certain ways to deliver breaking news regarding matters of international diplomacy. In between licks of an ice cream cone isn’t the most...

28.02.2024 7

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Jon Stewart Calls Out Biden Admin for Giving Israel a Pass

When Russia suddenly attacked Ukraine more than two years ago, politicians on both sides of the aisle seemed to be briefly united in the fact that...

27.02.2024 20

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SNL Shames Terrified Republicans for Surrendering to Trump

Saturday Night Live put up its best cold open in quite a while this week, with a comedic peek at what the GOP’s boot-lickingest politicians really...

25.02.2024 60

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‘Daily Show’ Guest Host Calls BS on Nikki Haley’s ‘Moderate’ Identity

It’s now been more than one year since Nikki Haley officially threw her hat in the ring for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. And even...

23.02.2024 20

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‘Daily Show’ Exposes Huge Problem With Fox’s Biden Attacks

It wouldn’t seem like much of a stretch to think that Jesse Watters is more interested in delivering juicy stories wrapped in jaw-dropping headlines...

22.02.2024 10

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Jimmy Kimmel Fires Back at ‘Preposterous’ George Santos Lawsuit

After returning from what he described as an “eventful” holiday weekend, Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday had one question at the top of his mind: “Did...

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