Former late night host Conan O’Brien shared words of warning for comedians who do nothing but bash President Trump, saying they are “just screaming” and need to try harder to come up with “funny” material.
“I think some comics go the route of, I’m going to just say ‘F Trump’ all the time and that’s their comedy. And I think, well now … you’re being co-opted because you’re so angry,” O’Brien said during an interview with the Oxford Union on Tuesday.
He added, “You’ve been lulled. It’s like a siren leading you into the rocks. You’ve been lulled into just saying ‘F Trump. F Trump. F Trump. Screw this guy.’ And I think you’ve now put down your best weapon, which is being funny, and you’ve exchanged it for anger.”
“And that person or any person like that would say, ‘Well, things are too serious now. I don’t need to be funny.’ And I think, well, if you’re a comedian, you always need to be funny,” O’Brien went on. “You just have to find a way. And you just have to find a way to channel that anger into a way … because good art will always be a great weapon, will always be a perfect weapon against power. But if you’re just screaming and you’re just angry, you’ve lost your best tool in the toolbox.”
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The late night alum said it’s “tricky” for comedians to tackle politics.
“I have very strong political feelings and views, but my comedy is something that I don’t have that kind of control over, in a way,” O’Brien said. “There’s so much of what I’ve done in my life that’s impulse.”
Last August, following the announcement that “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert was being canceled, O’Brien predicted that late night television in its current form would soon “disappear.”
“It’s all electrifying a new generation of viewers,” the longtime host continued. “Yes, late-night television, as we have known it since around 1950, is going to disappear. But those voices are not going anywhere. People like Stephen Colbert are too talented and too essential to go away,” he said at the time, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conan-obrien-predicts-late-night-shows-will-disappear-following-colbert-cancellation?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Conan+O%E2%80%99Brien+Predicts+Late+Night+Shows+Will+%E2%80%98Disappear%E2%80%99+Following+Colbert+Cancellation">reported</a>.

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Comedian and host Conan O’Brien allegedly stopped party guests at his home from calling 911 on Nick Reiner last weekend, just hours before legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death, a new report claims.
“They got in an argument, the father and son,&#8221; one source told the Daily Mail. &#8220;It got so bad and loud [that] someone wanted to call the police to report it.&#8221;
“But Conan stepped in and said, ‘It’s my house, my party, I’m not calling the police.’ He talked them out of calling the police,&#8221; the source added.
A second source confirmed the incident and said some guests were concerned about Nick and thought he might need to be placed on a psychiatric hold.
“When the s*** was hitting the fan, somebody said, ‘We need to call the police.’ The conversation was about getting this kid put into a mental-health hold,” the source said. “It makes sense; who wants the cops showing up creating a scene? But the argument between Rob and Nick was pretty intense.”
The star-studded Christmas party was hosted by O&#8217;Brien at his Los Angeles-area home last Saturday night, just hours before the bodies of Rob and Michele Reiner were found by their daughter Romy. The couple were reportedly stabbed to death and had their throats slashed.
Nick, 32, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in and is currently on suicide watch.
According to <a href="https://pagesix.com/2025/12/19/celebrity-news/conan-obrien-stopped-guests-from-calling-911-on-nick-reiner-during-explosive-fight-with-dad-rob-at-holiday-party-report/">reporting</a> from Page Six, Rob Reiner allegedly said at the party that he was &#8220;petrified&#8221; of his son. &#8220;I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I’m afraid of my son. I think my own son can hurt me,” he allegedly said.
Nick was reportedly creeping out party attendees, including comedian Bill Hader. “Nick was freaking everyone out, acting crazy, kept asking people if they were famous,” one insider told People magazine.
Nick was <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/19/nick-reiner-diagnosed-with-schizophrenia/">reportedly</a> diagnosed with schizophrenia just weeks before he allegedly killed his parents. The 32-year-old was placed on a new medication, which made him “erratic and dangerous.” According to a TMZ report, the new meds drove him “out of his head.”
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Former late night host Conan O’Brien weighed in with his thoughts about “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert being canceled, saying he believes the future of this genre is doomed.
“I’ve dabbled in other things, but that’s where I’ve lived,” the former host of “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” “The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien,” and “Conan” <a href="https://www.tvinsider.com/1209424/conan-obrien-predicts-late-night-tv-disappear-amid-stephen-colbert-cancellation/">said</a>, per TV Insider. “And for those of you under 40, late-night television was a service designed to distract college students until science would perfect the internet and online pornography. And boy, did they get that right.”
O’Brien made his remarks as part of a speech he gave while being inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.
“It’s all electrifying a new generation of viewers,” the longtime host continued. “Yes, late-night television, as we have known it since around 1950, is going to disappear. But those voices are not going anywhere. People like Stephen Colbert are too talented and too essential to go away.”
He also commented on Colbert’s situation specifically, saying, “Stephen is going to evolve and shine brighter than ever in a new format that he controls completely.”
“So, technology can do whatever they want,” O’Brien added. “It can make television a pill. It can make television shows a high-protein, chewable, vanilla-flavored capsule with added fiber. It still won’t matter, if the stories are good, if the performances are honest and inspired, if the people making it are brave and of goodwill.”
Commenters on X disagreed, saying that format of programming wasn&#8217;t going away, but that insufferable hosts like Colbert would become a thing of the past.
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&#8220;Late night TV won&#8217;t disappear as Greg Gutfeld&#8217;s late night talk show is thriving,&#8221; one person on X <a href="https://x.com/GoForDawn/status/1957394601133674589">commented</a>. &#8220;Perhaps late night talk shows will simply revert back to the comedy &amp; entertainment from which they were originally created and not the psycho political propaganda and nanny scolding too many became.&#8221;
Another person chimed in, <a href="https://x.com/tibblion2/status/1957414382914175404">writing</a>, &#8220;Because they overinflated the budgets and alienated half the audience; all other options became available through streaming and online services.&#8221;
CBS announced last month that it was canceling “The Late Show” after the upcoming season, which has inspired outsized reactions from the Left. The network described the move as a “purely financial decision.” A recent report stated that the program was losing $40 million annually.
Colbert went off on an expletive-laced tirade during his first monologue following the announcement, blasting President Donald Trump and CBS. Colbert mentioned how the network’s parent company, Paramount Global, paid Trump a $16 million settlement earlier this month after being accused of election interference.
Other late night mainstays such as Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon have come to Colbert’s defense, saying the reports claiming that “The Late Show” was losing tens of millions were “<a href="https://variety.com/2025/tv/awards/jimmy-kimmel-defends-colbert-late-night-tv-not-dying-1236479160/">nonsensical</a>.”

Conan O’Brien Predicts Late Night Shows Will ‘Disappear’ Following Colbert Cancellation

Conan O'Brien Predicts Late Night Shows Will 'Disappear' Following Colbert Cancellation

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Former late-night host Conan O’Brien will return to host the 2026 Oscars amid rave reviews of his job helming this year’s 97th Academy Awards.
O’Brien received praise for his job hosting the 2025 Oscars where the telecast viewership jumped to its highest ratings in five years, according to The <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oscars-conan-obrien-host-2026-1236164868/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=Today+In+Entertainment+March+17+2025&amp;utm_content=594036_3-17-2025&amp;utm_id=594036&amp;utm_term=9718857">Hollywood Reporter</a>.
“We are thrilled to bring back Conan, Raj, Katy, Jeff and Mike for the 98th Oscars,” Academy CEO Bill Kramer and outgoing president Janet Yang said in a statement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday.
“This year, they produced a hugely entertaining and visually stunning show that celebrated our nominees and the global film community in the most beautiful and impactful way,” it added.
“Conan was the perfect host — skillfully guiding us through the evening with humor, warmth and reverence. It is an honor to be working with them again.”
O’Brien later released his own statement, cracking a joke about Adrien Brody, who set a record this year for the longest Oscars acceptance speech when he won Best Actor for “The Brutalist,” <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330694/conan-obrien-oscars-host#:~:text=Comedian%2C%20longtime%20talk%20show%20host,Arts%20and%20Sciences%20announced%20Monday.">NPR</a> noted.
&#8220;The only reason I&#8217;m hosting the Oscars next year is that I want to hear Adrien Brody finish his speech,” the former talk show host said.
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Conan O’Brien will return to host the 2026 Oscars, after earning rave reviews and helping to net a five-year high in total Oscars viewership. <a href="https://t.co/5MPQK4XE0H">https://t.co/5MPQK4XE0H</a>
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) <a href="https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1901710373604212928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
It was initially reported that total viewership of the O&#8217;Brien hosted Academy Awards was down 7%, with approximately 18.1 million people tuning in to watch the 97th Academy Awards on ABC.
However, those numbers were later revised to show that a total of 19.7 million viewers watched the show, making it the most-watched primetime entertainment program of the 2024-2025 season, that wasn’t sports or news, the Academy noted. The Oscars also had the highest rating in the key demographic of adults, ages 18-49, scoring a 4.54 rating, per the Academy.
To put those numbers into context, in 2022, the Academy Awards had 16.6 million viewers, 18.8 million in 2023, and 19.5 million in 2024.
As host of the 2025 Oscars, O’Brien mainly steered away from politics and cracked jokes about things like “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Emilia Pérez</a>” star Karla Sofía Gascón, who became the first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">trans-identifying</a> man in history to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Pretending to be Gascon’s publicist, O’Brien held his hand up to his head like he was on the phone and screamed, “You tweeted what?!” Gascon recently made headlines due to unearthed tweets that went viral, which included critical statements on Muslims and George Floyd.
The 98th Oscars will take place on Sunday, March 15, 2026. It will be held at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live once again on ABC, the Academy noted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-all-the-winners-of-the-97th-oscars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here Are All The Winners Of The 97th Oscars</a>

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Conan O’Brien revealed a few skits he proposed for his hosting gig earlier this month at the 97th Academy Awards that were rejected due to how they presented the famous gold Oscar statue.
The late-night host avoided most hot-button topics and politics during his time onstage, but he did want to have some fun with the Oscar statue. The 61-year-old celeb said the Academy turned him down, however.
O’Brien said his idea was to portray a 9-foot-tall Oscar statue as his domestic partner, Variety <a href="https://variety.com/2025/film/news/conan-obrien-scrapped-oscars-opening-movie-parody-1236336452/">reported</a>. “We’re fighting about things couples fight about,” he said of the concept during a recent episode of the “Conan Needs a Friend” podcast he did with head Oscars writer Mike Sweeney. 
“At one point, I thought wouldn’t it be great if it’s just on the couch? Let’s lay it on a really big couch and I’ll be vacuuming and say, ‘Could you at least lift your feet? Or could you at least get up and help? Load the dishwasher?’ We wanted to do it and they just said, ‘No, no no, that can’t happen.’”
“One of the people from the Academy came forward and said, ‘Oscar can never be horizontal.’ And that blew my mind. Like, wow, this is like the thigh bone of St. Peter. This is a religious icon,” the comedian added.
O’Brien said when he pitched the idea of the Oscar statue wearing an apron and serving him dinner, he was told, “No clothing on Oscar. Oscar is always naked.” 
Another proposed concept that never got off the ground included O’Brien inserting himself into some of the Best Picture-nominated features, starting with “Wicked.”
“It was the idea that, ‘Oh, Conan’s now going to goof on all the movies,’” O’Brien said. “It starts with me and I’m in ‘Wicked’ and I’m all green, finishing ‘Defying Gravity’ or one of those songs. And I finish it and then you cut to the next thing, which is ‘Gladiator II’ and ‘clang, clang, clang’ with swords and you see that I’m a gladiator but then you notice that I’m still green. And then you go on to ‘Conclave’ and you see people voting with their ballots and one of the hands is still green.”
“The whole thing was that the dye wouldn’t come off and we had to shoot it in one day,” he said. 
Overall, O’Brien was praised for his hosting performance, with the major complaint being that the whole thing was played too safe, and the ceremony ended up long and boring.

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Conan O'Brien Reflects On Rejected Oscars Bit: 'This Is A Religious Icon'

Oscars viewership was down 7% this year, with approximately 18.1 million people tuning in to watch the 97th Academy Awards on ABC.
The total number is calculated by adding the Nielsen measurement of viewers on ABC to live streaming viewers watching the ceremony on Hulu. This is the first time numbers have decreased since 2021, when just 10.4 million viewers tuned in following the COVID pandemic, per <a href="https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/oscars-ratings-2025-viewers-1236326364/">Variety</a>.
Viewership has steadily been increasing since then until this year’s drop. The Academy Awards had 16.6 million viewers in 2022, 18.8 million in 2023, and 19.5 million in 2024, the outlet noted.
Despite fewer viewers, the broadcast was the most-watched primetime entertainment program this year that wasn’t sports or news. The Oscars also had the highest rating in the 18-49 demographic, increasing 3% compared to last year.
The outlet also noted that there were technical difficulties for people watching the awards on Hulu, which disrupted the broadcast just before Best Picture was announced at the end of the night.
First-time host Conan O’Brien mostly steered clear of politics and other hot-button issues throughout the night. “I think as host, I cannot ignore the moment we’re in right now, but also it’s threading a needle,” he said ahead of the hosting gig. 
“I want to do it with humor and also make sure the night doesn’t drift into only about that,” O’Brien added.
The comedian took a jab at Karla Sofia Gascón, a trans-identifying actor who was up for Best Actress, over old social media posts and joked about the Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud. He also added a joke about the Catholic Church while referencing the film &#8220;Conclave.&#8221;
“Anora,” a drama about a prostitute who weds a Russian oligarch, was the big winner on Sunday night, bringing home five golden statues. One of the most controversial moments of the evening came when Best Actress winner Mikey Madison thanked the “sex worker community” for her win.
Best Actor winner Adrien Brody refused to leave the stage when the music started playing and proceeded to give the longest acceptance speech in the history of the Academy Awards.
Another controversial moment came after “No Other Land” won Best Documentary Feature Film. The anti-Israel project was directed by Palestinian activist Basel Adra and left-wing Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham.
“We live in a regime where I am free under civilian law and Basel is under military laws that destroy his life and he cannot control, there is a different path,” Abraham <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/best-documentary-winner-gives-anti-israel-speech-slams-u-s-foreign-policy">said</a> during his speech. “There is a political solution without ethnic supremacy, with national rights for both of our people. And I have to say, as I’m here, the foreign policy in [the United States] is helping to block this path.”

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Conan O’Brien praised late-comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/norm-macdonald-says-he-didnt-want-to-leave-anything-on-the-table-as-he-jokes-about-mortality-and-death-in-final-stand-up-special" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Norm Macdonald</a>’s past jokes about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/o-j-simpson-dead-at-76-following-battle-with-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">O.J. Simpson</a>’s murder trial that resulted in Macdonald losing his job at “Saturday Night Live.”
During the late-night talk show host’s appearance on Thursday with CNN’s Jake Tapper, the two talked about the news of the day &#8212; Simpson’s death at 76 following a battle with prostate cancer, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/conan-obrien-recalls-nbc-network-chief-tight-oj-fired-snls-norm-macdonald">Fox News</a> reported.
“It was a huge deal back then,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien said as he noted the murder trial coverage from comedians. &#8220;Most notably – he’s passed on – Norm Macdonald, one of my best guests of all time and one of the great comedians of all time…”
“[He] just told some of the most – did the most brilliant, I think, comedy of anybody during that whole period,” he added, noting the jokes the late-star did following Simpson’s acquittal in the 1995 double murder trial of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
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Conan O&#8217;Brien Says Norm Macdonald Did the &#8216;Most Brilliant Comedy&#8217; About O.J. Simpson on &#8216;SNL&#8217; When &#8216;the Head of the Network Was Tight With O.J.&#8217; <a href="https://t.co/NvFshFEbpq">https://t.co/NvFshFEbpq</a>
— Variety (@Variety) <a href="https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1778805935089091040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
Tapper replied, “Lost his job at ‘SNL’ because he was making fun of O.J. Simpson for being the real killer.&#8221;
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; O’Brien replied, and said that “the head of the network at the time was tight with O.J.,” without naming the executive.
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&#8220;Don Ohlmeyer?&#8221; Tapper asked, to which the comedian laughed, &#8220;Who can remember these names.&#8221;
&#8220;Anyway, water under the bridge,” O’Brien added. “But that was a huge moment in history, I think, of this country.&#8221;
&#8220;It was a, you know, massive – there have been many times in this country where we’ve needed to stop and reassess where we are in our racial history, and where are we, what progress have we made, and that was one of those moments and it was such a watershed moment,&#8221; O’Brien continued.
Tapper then asked O’Brien if he was going to make a joke about Simpson, and he replied, &#8220;I never make a joke about someone the day they pass.”
The late-night talk show host wasn’t the only one remembering Norm’s jokes on Thursday, with clips of Macdonald going viral on social media about his cracks at &#8220;The Juice&#8221; and saying that murder was &#8220;legal in the state of California&#8221; after Simpson&#8217;s acquittal, Fox News noted.
Despite the pro athlete being acquitted during the criminal trial, he was found liable for Brown Simpson and Goldman&#8217;s deaths three years later in a civil trial brought by the victims’ families and was ordered to pay more than $33 million in damages.
Simpson was later arrested in Las Vegas and charged with armed robbery and kidnapping in 2007. He was sentenced to 33 years in prison with a minimum of nine years without parole and was released in 2017 after serving that minimum. The former NFL star was released from parole in 2021.
Amanda Harding contributed to this piece.

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The news out of Haiti the past few weeks has not been very good.
This should come as no great surprise, as the news out of Haiti has not been very good for the past 200 years or so. It is, of course, one of the most miserable and destitute places in the world: 60% of the country lives below the poverty line. The average life expectancy is under 65. I could go on listing depressing statistics, but that’s probably not necessary.
And yet somehow, recently, life in Haiti has gotten even worse. The situation has sunk below Haiti’s already extremely low baseline. If you lived in the country, you would right now be pining for the old days when you were merely miserable, starving, and destitute. That was far better than what’s happening now.
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What’s happening now is that the Haitian government, to the extent that it ever existed, has collapsed. Violent gangs have taken over the country and are prowling the streets executing people at random. The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/09/haiti-corpses-gangs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes the scene</a>:
<blockquote>On a ride through the gang-controlled streets of Haiti’s capital on Friday, past an improvised barricade, the motorcycle taxi reached a crossroad. First came the smell — of something burning. Then, the sight: a corpse, charred black, lying in the middle of street, its bones and feet sticking out of the pile of ash. The night before, Jimmy Boursiquot, a carpenter who lives nearby, heard two gunshots. Peering carefully out his window, checking his watch — it was 8:24 p.m. — he saw two men drive away, leaving the body behind, not far from a university administration office and one of Haiti’s largest telecommunications companies. A few hours later, he said, the men returned and burned the remains. The streets of Port-au-Prince reek with the stench of the dead. It’s a grisly new marker of the violence and dysfunction in this beleaguered Caribbean nation of 11 million people. In the absence of a functioning state, violent armed gangs have taken control of more than 80 percent of the capital, the United Nations estimates. Gunfire crackles at all hours. Residents who dare leave their homes stumble across bodies that have been left where they fell. Port-au-Prince reached a high of 92 degrees on Friday. The smell of decaying corpses, human rights activists say, has driven some people from their homes.</blockquote>
It’s a terrible picture. And it only gets worse, the more you look. Consider the guy who has now seized control of the country — a notorious gang leader going by the moniker “Barbecue” — who has launched a war against the remnants of the Haitian government while attacking prisons and freeing thousands of violent criminals in order to then recruit them into his gang. And if you’re assuming that there must be some horrific reason why the Haitian warlord has been nicknamed “Barbecue,” you’re right. It’s exactly what you think. Reportedly, he earned the name due to his habit of setting people on fire. In fact, Barbecue has been basically the de facto leader of Haiti for a while now. This is in spite of the fact that, nearly a year and a half ago, the UN leveled sanctions on Barbecue. 
As NBC News reported at the time, it was a move that was supposed to bring about “more peaceful days”:
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Well, shockingly, that didn’t work out. The sternly worded letters to the third world gang leader named Barbecue somehow didn’t have any noticeable effect. Barbecue didn’t listen to the UN press conferences and read their letters and say, “Gee, you know what? These folks are right. I should stop brutalizing innocent people.” That was not his response, which no doubt came as a shock to the UN.
Now things have gotten so bad that, according to reports circulating all over social media, the violent gangs terrorizing Haiti have even resorted to cannibalism. That’s the thing about Haiti. If it has proven anything over the past couple of centuries, it’s that a bad situation can always get worse, and then the worse situation can get even worse than that.
Unfortunately for us, here in the United States, Haiti is a violent, war-torn failed state that happens to sit not very far from our own borders. Which means that we have already been taking in thousands of illegal Haitian migrants every year, and those numbers are only going to go up.
How many of the illegal Haitian migrants are members of the brutal gangs terrorizing their country? How many are escaped prisoners? Now we must even apparently ask: how many are cannibals? These are questions that the Biden Administration certainly won’t concern itself with, and hasn’t concerned itself with. We will be called to open our arms to the downtrodden Haitians, even if that means our arms will be chopped off and eaten for breakfast.
But that’s not the point we’re focusing on right now. As important as the point is. Instead, recent events in Haiti have prompted a bit of a trip down memory lane for some conservatives on social media, who have reminded us about one of the many frivolous, media-invented controversies of the first Trump Administration.
You may recall that, way back in 2018, the Left became outraged and deeply offended when it was reported that President Trump had referred to Haiti as a “s***hole” — or craphole, as I will call it. According to reports at the time, Trump referred to Haiti and other third world countries as crapholes during a discussion on immigration. It was one of the many times when Trump reportedly said something that every normal American either has said, or would say.
Certainly, no normal person, if they heard someone in their everyday life call Haiti a crap hole, would respond with shock and horror. “How could you say that about Haiti?! It’s a wonderful place!” That’s not how any normal person would respond. But the media is not comprised of normal people which is why there was a lengthy outrage cycle which was over the top and histrionic even by the Left’s current standards.
The media proceeded to spend several days defending the beauty and majesty of the great nation of Haiti. There were many headlines like this from Mother Jones: “Despite It All, Haiti Is Still Not a Craphole.” And this from the Washington Post: “This is how ignorant you have to be to call Haiti a ‘Craphole.’” By the way, the title of the Washington Post article I read at the start of the monologue is: “Haitians shot dead in street and there’s no one to take the corpses away.” What a difference a few years makes. I wonder: can we call Haiti a craphole now, or would that still be “ignorant”?
But back to 2018, where this became a subject of discussion and condemnation on the late night alleged comedy shows as well. Here was Stephen Colbert registering his objections:
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Yes. Amen. Donald Trump isn’t the president of Haiti. Instead the de facto president of Haiti is a genocidal warlord named Barbecue. And he’s so much better than Donald Trump. After all, Donald Trump will use vulgar language that hurts your feelings. Barbecue will hack you into pieces and throw your mangled body into a bonfire. Which, I’m sure we can all agree, is greatly preferable to having our feelings hurt.
But Colbert wasn’t the only late night host sticking up for Haiti. Conan O’Brien was on the case as well:
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Absolutely. Lovely people. Even the cannibals. They are the loveliest cannibals the world has ever seen. And Conan didn’t stop there. 
He then embarked on a campaign to defend Haiti’s reputation. It was a campaign that even had its own merchandise:
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Just as a general rule here, if you can “make a difference” for a country by selling t-shirts, that’s a pretty good indication that it is not, by any reasonable metric, a great country. A second general rule is this: if a country is a failed state stricken by mass poverty and run by criminal gangs led by a guy named Barbecue, it is not a great country. It is not a great country now. And it wasn’t back then. Despite the claims of leftists who are so determined to oppose Donald Trump on every single point that they were even baited into pretending that Haiti is a utopian paradise.
My dream is that, if Trump wins in 2024, the first thing he’ll do is declare that it’s not a good idea to get into a rocket ship and fly directly into the Sun, so that Stephen Colbert will try to prove him wrong on that point too. “Oh yeah? You think the Sun isn’t a good place to visit? At least Donald Trump isn’t president of the Sun,” Colbert will declare moments before being incinerated.
Not to belabor a point that normal people don’t need explained in the first place, but, no, Haiti is not a great country. The word “great” in this context may have some ambiguity to it — people can define great in different ways — but at the most basic level a great country is one where its people are generally able to thrive and prosper. “Great” can mean more than that, but it must mean at least that. It is incoherent to describe a country where almost nobody prospers as “great.” It is much more coherent to describe such a country as a craphole. Indeed, you can usually detect the craphole countries, and distinguish them from the great countries, because people from the craphole countries are always trying to get into the great countries. It never goes the other way around. There has never been a flood of illegal migrants from the United States going into Haiti. The flood has always gone the other way.
And of course that brings us back to the most important point in all of this. The end result, the self-fulfilling prophesy we might say, which is that America becomes less great the more that it allows unchecked immigration from the very not-great countries. We are not a craphole like Haiti. But import enough of Haiti into this country, and we might eventually get there.
Then we will be the utopia that Stephen Colbert and Conan O’Brien dream of. Then maybe they’ll wear “America is Great Already” hats. And walk proudly down the street in that attire. Before they are descended upon by the cannibal hordes and promptly consumed. That’s what greatness is to them, apparently.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/adam-sandler">Adam Sandler</a> admitted that being around one celebrity in particular makes him nervous.
The 57-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comedian">comedian</a> made the revelation during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8vS0Ac3bNs">episode</a> of SiriusXM&#8217;s “Conan O&#8217;Brien Needs a Friend” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">podcast</a>. Sandler told O’Brien that his feelings of discomfort around international superstar Taylor Swift have everything to do with his two daughters, 17-year-old Sadie and 15-year-old Sunny, who he shares with his wife, Jackie.
&#8220;You know what, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-swift">Taylor Swift</a>, because what she means to my kids, I get a little f***ing jumpy. Just cause I don&#8217;t wanna blow it for my kids,&#8221; Sandler said during a conversation about celebrities who make them feel a certain way. &#8220;So I&#8217;m a little like, &#8216;Taylor, Taylor,&#8217; like I talk a little too loud or something. I don&#8217;t act as cool as I can.&#8221;
&#8220;You yell her name outside her house. Taylor!&#8221; O&#8217;Brien quipped. 
&#8220;Talk to me,&#8221; Sandler replied.
&#8220;Speak to me. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah. She&#8217;s this whole other level now,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien said.
&#8220;People talk about The Beatles of it all and her… I mean, so many smash hits. There&#8217;s not a word my kids don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Sandler continued.
&#8220;Yeah, my daughter, it means so much,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien replied.
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&#8220;I know them too, by the way. But they know them inside and out,&#8221; Sandler said. &#8220;But it&#8217;s, just remember The Beatles, every f***ing song on the record, you knew? That&#8217;s Taylor Swift too. You just, there&#8217;s not a song you skip. You go, that one&#8217;s pretty damn cool.&#8221;
“Very few people have hit that level of fame,” O’Brien said, joking that he’s one of them. 
Sunny performed a cover of Swift’s hit song “Lover” at one of her dad’s stand-up comedy shows in October. 
The comedian was also spotted <a href="https://people.com/taylor-swift-hugs-adam-sandlers-daughters-eras-tour-film-8356274">attending</a> the Los Angeles premiere of the smash hit movie, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” along with his two daughters. Swift was photographed stopping briefly to hug Sandler, Sunny, and Sadie on her way out of the theater at the film’s conclusion. 
Sandler previously talked about his love for his daughters.
“My daughters, Sadie and Sunshine,” he <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1395042/adam-sandler-has-plenty-of-nsfw-jokes-while-accepting-peoples-icon-award-at-2024-peoples-choice-awards">said</a> while accepting People’s Icon Award at the People’s Choice Awards earlier this month. “Not a minute goes by without me thinking of and how much I love you. You’re my best friends and my darling wife Jackie, you are my partner for life. I love every car ride and every kiss we’ve ever had.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harrison-ford">Harrison Ford</a> mocked late night host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/conan-obrien">Conan O’Brien</a> for having his iconic “Star Wars” character&#8217;s name written in his notes.
The incident occurred during a recent episode of the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast after the “Indiana Jones” actor realized that O’Brien had “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/star-wars">Han Solo</a>” written in his interview notes. 
“I refer you to this piece of paper right here,” O’Brien said. “That says, ‘Born and raised in Chicago to an Irish German father—&#8217;”
When Ford leaned over and looked at the paper, he noticed that it included notes about his role as Han Solo, as <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/harrison-ford-roasts-conan-obrien-han-solo-note-reminder-interview-1235662615">Variety</a> reported.
“Well if that’s a quality of your research, and I imagine it is because right there it says ‘Harrison Ford’ and then you had to write ‘Han Solo,&#8217;” Ford said. “You can’t f***ing remember that?”
“No I can’t. I can’t remember Han Solo,” O’Brien jokingly replied. “I wrote it down because I heard that you were in some of the ‘Star Wars films, and this was news to me because I’ve seen those films and I don’t exactly think that you &#8216;pop.&#8217;”
“I’m sorry. But I mean, I remember Chewbacca, I remember the bad guy with the black helmet and then … there’s some people,” the podcast host added.
The pair continued with their verbal sparring. 
“You came on my show many many times, on the ‘Late Night’ show,” O’Brien told Ford. “And over the years people would say, ‘Who’s one of your favorite guests?’ And I would say, ‘Harrison Ford, because he’s so g**damn funny.’ You are so hilariously funny and you tossed me around like a rag doll, verbally, on these shows, and they’re some of my favorite segments of all time. You are a hilarious man and I’ve always loved being around you.”
“You guys wrote some great stuff,” Ford said. “I don’t remember any of it.”
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Ford, 80, previously said that “Indiana Jones 5” will be his last film playing the character. The movie had a $60 million opening against a $295 million budget. Ford was notorious for saying he objected to anyone else portraying the action star that he’s been playing since the first movie premiered in 1981.

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Former late-night host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/conan-obrien">Conan O&#8217;Brien</a> mocked the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house">White House</a> on Wednesday, making a crack about the administration downplaying and denying the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/economy">economic</a> <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/recession">recession</a> hurting Americans.
Treasury Secretary <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/janet-yellen">Janet Yellen</a> turned heads over the weekend when she denied that the U.S. economy is in a recession, instead saying we&#8217;re in a “period of transition in which growth is slowing,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yellen-were-not-in-a-recession-were-in-a-transition-in-which-growth-is-slowing">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
&#8220;The White House now says it’s only a recession if you see a salamander wearing a top hat,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien mocked on Wednesday.
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The White House now says it’s only a recession if you see a salamander wearing a top hat.
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Despite the White House denial, the U.S. has suffered two consecutive quarters of negative growth, which most economists widely define as a recession, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-in-a-recession-after-second-straight-quarter-of-negative-growth">reported</a> Thursday morning.
“This is not an economy that’s in recession,” Yellen contended, speaking to NBC host Chuck Todd on Sunday. “But we’re in a period of transition in which growth is slowing and that’s necessary and appropriate and we need to be growing at a steady and sustainable pace. So there is a slowdown and businesses can see that and that’s appropriate, given that people now have jobs and we have a strong labor market.”
Again trying to deny the economic reality, a White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/07/07/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-3/">post</a> last week told Americans that the nation is “stronger economically than we have been in history.&#8221;
“While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle,” the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2022/07/21/how-do-economists-determine-whether-the-economy-is-in-a-recession/">insisted</a>. “Instead, both official determinations of recessions and economists’ assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data — including the labor market, consumer and business spending, industrial production, and incomes. Based on these data, it is unlikely that the decline in GDP in the first quarter of this year — even if followed by another GDP decline in the second quarter — indicates a recession.”
Further, on Tuesday, Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese said, “two negative quarters of GDP growth is not the technical definition of recession,&#8221; seemingly trying to bail out the Biden administration.
“It’s not the definition that economists have traditionally relied on,” the Biden economic adviser said, appearing at a White House press briefing, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/27/white-house-takes-heat-after-biden-adviser-accused-of-redefining-recession/">reported</a>.
However, by Wednesday, comments from Deese back in 2008 resurfaced online.
“Economists have a technical definition of recession, which is two consecutive quarters of negative growth,” Deese said in 2008, according to RNC Research.
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Biden’s economic advisors know a recession is defined as two quarters of negative GDP growth. They’ve said so:
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Comedian Conan O&#8217;Brien and actor Jeff Goldblum recently bonded over the fact that they both almost met legendary singer and songwriter Bob Dylan — but at the last minute, in both cases, something had happened to derail the meeting.
Goldblum, speaking to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/sean-penn-conan-obrien-denounce-cancel-culture-calling-it-soviet/">O&#8217;Brien</a> on Sunday&#8217;s episode of the comedian&#8217;s podcast &#8220;Conan O&#8217;Brien Needs a Friend,&#8221; said that he had seen <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/bob-dylan-to-sell-catalog-for-upwards-of-300m/">Dylan</a> while he was shopping with his wife, former Olympic rhythmic gymnast Emilie Livingston.
O&#8217;Brien began by referencing a previous meeting with Goldblum when the latter had recommended a good place to go for jeans. &#8220;It&#8217;s like the John Wyck hotel, but for clothes,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien explained, saying that there was a place in the back where they also made hats.
&#8220;You know who I ran into there once? I was with Emilie, we went there to pick up a pair of jeans or a hat or something. And, um, it was just us and Bob Dylan,&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/jeff-goldblum-under-fire-for-questioning-anti-gay-anti-woman-aspects-of-islam/">Goldblum</a> explained, to which O&#8217;Brien exclaimed, &#8220;Oh my God!&#8221;
Goldblum went on to say that he had been talking with someone about his own purchase when he saw Dylan walk in, and by the time he had wrapped up his own business, Dylan had already come and gone.
&#8220;He got his hats from that guy. I saw him outta the corner of my eye. I kept — I had really important business. I was talking about a hat and he came in and before I could say anything to him, he left,&#8221; Goldblum said. &#8220;But I think Emily, I don’t know if she said anything.&#8221;
O&#8217;Brien seemed surprised. &#8220;You didn&#8217;t go up to him?&#8221; he asked — and Goldblum replied, &#8220;No, no. I wish I had.&#8221;
The comedian then revealed his own almost-history with Dylan, saying that he had been backstage at a Dylan concert waiting to meet the singer when then-Vice President Al Gore had swept in and gotten all the attention.
&#8220;I went to see some concert of his and I was backstage and someone pushed me to the front of a line and there he was, the great Bob Dylan. It’s my one chance to meet him. All the conversation stopped and Bob Dylan looked at me and he went, &#8216;I know you from the TV,'&#8221; O&#8217;Brien said. &#8220;And just then, the other person backstage was Vice President Al Gore. And then I hear &#8216;Conan, Conan, it’s me Al Gore.&#8217;
&#8220;And I go, what? We’re all there for — We’re all there for a concert to see Bob Dylan performing. And he goes like, &#8216;I love rock and roll,&#8217; you know? And suddenly he’s talking to me and, and I see Bob Dylan scuttle away. I was c***-blocked with Bob Dylan by Vice President Al Gore. That’s a true story!&#8221; O&#8217;Brien concluded.
Listen to the full episode here:
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