Trevor Noah Criticizes Cops for "Attacking Protesters With No Provocation"

The Hollywood Reporter picked up on comments from Trevor Noah this week in which he addressed the way in which film and television productions portray police officers, and how these depictions may have a deleterious effect on the way the public views police officers.

As anti-police brutality and anti-racism protests continue to occur nationwide, Trevor Noah highlighted the violence-heavy portrayals of police and law-enforcement officers on TV. "Believe it or not, watching cop shows makes a lot of people see the police as infallible," Noah said.

Jon Stewart is back in his old stomping grounds.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerJoe Biden claimed today at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania that the coronavirus is responsible for 120 million deaths.

Trevor Noah says the lack of true understanding from white corporate America regarding Black people is painfully obvious.

Donald Trump is getting a taste of embarrassment.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorThe comedy fallout over President Donald Trump’s less-than-perfect rally Saturday continued apace tonight as Trevor Noah weighed in. During his monologue for The Daily Social Distancing Show, the host fairly reveled in the embarrassingly low turnout that reportedly (gasp!) made POTUS furious.“Aww, poor Trump,” Noah said.

told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview that will air Sunday. “That’s fundamentally what’s happening in America.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe lyrics “Don’t call it a comeback/I’ve been here for years” from 1990’s hard hitting Mama Said Knock You Out album are rolled out almost every time LL COOL J gets in the cultural ring.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerJohn Bolton, described as a full-time “Got Milk” ad by Trevor Noah, has a new book expected to be out soon, The Room Where It Happened. No, it’s not an homage to the musical Hamilton, which has a song of roughly the same name.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerThere’s a reason Trevor Noah is doing his show from home. “It’s not that I forgot to pay the utility bill at the studio,” he said.

Trevor Noah gave an impassioned speech about the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks during Monday's episode of The Daily Show. On June 12, Brooks fell asleep in his car at a Wendy's drive-thru in Atlanta after drinking alcohol.

Trevor Noah thinks it’s high time police reconsider how they approach arresting people.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorTrevor Noah took on the cancellation of the police docuseries Cops on Wednesday’s The Daily Social Distancing Show. He noted that since the killing of George Floyd, activists and protesters have been rallying around slogans such as “defund the police” and “abolish police,” and while it hasn’t happened yet in communities, it is happening on TV.“I can’t believe that Cops lasted this long,” Noah declared.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorFormer Vice President Joe Biden has been making the rounds of news and talk shows lately, and tonight he did a virtual interview with Trevor Noah for The Daily Social Distancing Show.   “If you were to become president, do you think that there would be a world where defunding the police would be the solution and getting some of these responsibilities away from police forces — police in schools, police handling mental illness, police handling homelessness, etc.?”The

Peter White Television EditorJoe Biden is going on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah as he continues his campaign media blitz.The former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee will appear on the Comedy Central show this evening, June 9.

Trevor Noah tears into U.S. President Donald Trump and the police response to protesters following the death of George Floyd.

The Daily Showreturned from its brief hiatus with an emotional, hour-long episode in which host Trevor Noah soberly discussed the protests against police brutality taking place all over the globe, along with the incidents of retaliation from the police themselves. "Never before in American history has there been an uprising like this, exactly like this, where you have huge numbers of people coming out every single day, in every single state in the country," Noah said.

Keke Palmer is one of the ladies being honored by our sister site, Variety, for its Power of Women issue. The actress-turned-talk-show-host wrote a powerful essay for the magazine about being part of the “revolution” for change in America. Her piece comes just days after she spent time protesting for Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles, and a video showed her urging the National Guard to join the march went viral on the Internet.

Also Read: Scenes From Black Lives Matter Protests in LA With Michael B Jordan and MoreNoah followed this with a truly disturbing supercut of some of the more brazen displays of ugly violence directed by police at lawful protests.