From the perspective of late-night joke writers, there’s really only one person running for president.
07.10.2020 - 00:55 / hollywoodreporter.com
Following Donald Trump's return to the White House from Walter Reed Medical Center, late night hosts Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, James Corden and Trevor Noah delivered scorching blow-by-blows of the president's handling of his own COVID-19 diagnosis over the past three days.
The hosts' biggest critiques and jokes tended to center on the president's numerous odd photo-ops, the sketchy public statements made by his team of doctors and the still-growing list of Republican senators
.From the perspective of late-night joke writers, there’s really only one person running for president.
Donald Trump, a study released Monday found.That's 455 jokes about Trump and 14 about Democrat Joe Biden, according to the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University. That doesn't even count 64 jokes made about Trump's family or administration, the study said.“When Trump's onstage, everyone else is blacked out,” said Robert Lichter, communication professor at George Mason.He's been studying late-night humor and politics since 1992.
“Saturday Night Live” once again mined the endless mill of comedy that comes from a presidential election season for this week’s “cold open.” The show mocked Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s simultaneous town hall appearances that were held on NBC and ABC on Thursday.
once again mined the endless mill of comedy that comes from a presidential election season for this week's «cold open.» The show mocked Joe Biden and Donald Trump's simultaneous town hall appearances that were held on NBC and ABC on Thursday.Jim Carrey returned to play Biden at a town hall moderated by George Stephanopoulos (played by Mikey Day), who described the vibe they were going for as, «Poorly attended college lecture.»The sketch switched back and forth between Biden's town hall and
Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSaturday Night Live writers were revising the season’s first cold open right up to the last minute after President Donald Trump’s positive COVID test tossed all plans into the air.In a new NBC News interview, SNL creator Lorne Michaels says the long-running sketch comedy show had a presidential debate sketch written for the Oct. 3 season premiere when news broke the day before about Trump’s illness.
QAnon, pressing him and not letting him evade answering. The town hall was a replacement of sorts for the debate Mr.
Donald Trump, an oft-repeated turn of phrase the president used in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic to describe his administration's handling of it. The day Gibney finished the film, months after the virus arrived in the U.S.
The families of Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King Jr. are blasting Donald Trump and his reelection campaign for a new ad in which images of the two civil rights icons are shown.
virus has been spreading faster than an HBO password on a college campus," Trevor Noah said on Wednesday's Daily Show. And not just inside the White House.
Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsPresident Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that the American people should not be afraid of COVID-19, even though the disease has taken nearly 210,000 lives nationwide.
Democratic nominee Joe Biden took the outdoors stage Monday at NBC's presidential town hall, moderated by Lester Holt, where he discussed President Donald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis and reflected on their first Presidential Debate. At the start of the town hall, Holt was quick to question Biden about the news that Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus.
It was a busy week in news from the White House. So busy that John Oliver couldn't even properly address it all on Sunday's Last Week Tonight.
Earlier this weekend, US President Donald Trump confirmed that he and Melania Trump have contracted COVID-19. The POTUS revealed that he and the FLOTUS have been quarantined.
has to keep up.The sketch comedy series returned over the weekend for its season 46 premiere, and the show had to act quickly to address the recent news that President Donald Trump has tested positive for COVID-19.With only two days to incorporate the massive news into their sketches, here's how handled the unexpected development.As expected, Saturday's «Cold Open» sketch still focused primarily on the recent chaotic presidential debate between Trump (once again played by Alec Baldwin) and Joe
“This is a very unusual episode of the show,” declared Stephen Colbert in an unexpected Friday night episode of Global’s “The Late Show”.
Ted Johnson Plans appear to be still moving forward for a vice presidential debate at the University of Utah on Wednesday, even as the future of the two remaining presidential debates is uncertain after President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus.Vice President Mike Pence and Sen.
John Cleese could not help himself on Friday morning, taking to Twitter to revel in Donald Trump being diagnosed with COVID-19. The Monty Python icon has made it clear in the past he is not a fan of Trump's and often criticizes the president via social media.
Dominic West appeared on U.K. morning show “Good Morning Britain” on Friday, and shared his thoughts on the breaking news that U.S. President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
Donald Trump and his wife, Melania Trump, tested positive for coronavirus on Oct. 1. The news came just two days after the first presidential debate, where Trump mocked Joe Biden for how often he wore a mask in public amidst the potentially deadly disease. For months, Trump has been slammed for downplaying the severity of coronavirus, which has led to more than 200,000 American deaths. Now, celebs have a lot to say about the fact that he’s contracted the disease himself.