<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comedy">Comedian</a> Jon Lovitz said the overt biases of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">late-night show</a> hosts are becoming tedious.
The former “SNL” cast member discussed his feelings about hosts like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/stephen-colbert">Stephen Colbert</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/seth-meyers">Seth Meyers</a> constantly pushing a leftist political agenda on their shows. While Lovitz agreed that they were free to talk about anything they wanted, he also said these shows have become more political and less entertaining over the years.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t like it. I don&#8217;t like it,&#8221; Lovitz told Fox News Digital during a recent <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/jon-lovitz-tears-colbert-kimmel-pushing-political-agenda-late-night">interview</a>. &#8220;They were comedy shows. And now, except for Jimmy Fallon, they&#8217;ve all become very political. And for me, it&#8217;s just- it&#8217;s too much.&#8221; 
He continued, “I mean, Johnny Carson would, you know, he would do two or three jokes about whoever was president then or what was going on then and that was it. But they were entertainment shows.&#8221;
&#8220;I know all those guys. And they&#8217;re very nice guys. Very talented. I know Seth. I know Stephen Colbert. I know Jimmy Kimmel. I think they&#8217;re funny, you know,&#8221; Lovitz said. &#8220;But when they started doing the political stuff, like, so one-sided, it&#8217;s like- and that&#8217;s all it is, the whole thing, it&#8217;s just like, that&#8217;s not the shows that I used to go on. You know, it was ‘The Tonight Show’ and David Letterman.&#8221;
Lovitz discussed how much the format of late-night shows has changed over the years, and in his opinion, it’s not for the better.
&#8220;It&#8217;s their show. They can do whatever they want. But you&#8217;re asking me, do I like it, and I&#8217;m like, no,&#8221; the 66-year-old comedian said. &#8220;If I want the news, I&#8217;ll watch the news. I&#8217;m not watching those shows. They&#8217;re late night entertainment, but it&#8217;s all political, except for Jimmy Fallon. And they keep getting mad at Jimmy. &#8216;Why don&#8217;t you go into politics?&#8217; Because he&#8217;s doing a silly, like, escapism entertainment show.&#8221;
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Lovitz said most late-night hosts have sacrificed the humor and fun for partisanship.
&#8220;They just hammer it to death… they&#8217;ve become, &#8216;Here&#8217;s my political agenda.&#8217; They&#8217;re very open about it,&#8221; he went on. &#8220;And I&#8217;m like, well, all right. I have no say in that. It&#8217;s their show, you know. But I don&#8217;t particularly- I don&#8217;t like that they&#8217;ve become that because where&#8217;s the comedians and the stand-up and the bits, you know, like Letterman. It was comedy.&#8221;

Jon Lovitz

Jon Lovitz Trashes Late Night Hosts For Rampant Political Agendas: ‘They Hammer It To Death’

Jon Lovitz Trashes Late Night Hosts For Rampant Political Agendas: 'They Hammer It To Death'

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Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Kimmel

Seth Meyers

Stephen Colbert

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Five late-night comedy hosts announced plans for a joint podcast, and got a live roast in return.
Comedians Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and Seth Meyers – whose shows are on a forced sabbatical due to the ongoing writers and actors strike in Hollywood – announced plans for &#8220;Strike Force Five.&#8221; The joint effort is expected to last at least through the remainder of the strike and proceeds will go to support their staffers while they are out of work.
&#8220;MAJOR LIFE UPDATE &#8211; for the remainder of the strike @StephenAtHome, @JimmyFallon, @SethMeyers, @IamJohnOliver &amp; I are joining forces for a new podcast called @StrikeForceFive. Hear the first episode tomorrow 8/30. ALL proceeds (thanks to @Casamigos and @MintMobile) go to support our out of work staffs. Listen now — <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://t.co/qsyo28mYSV" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://bit.ly/44tflxq</a> @SpotifyPodcasts,&#8221; Kimmel shared via X. 

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MAJOR LIFE UPDATE &#8211; for the remainder of the strike <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenAtHome</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jimmyfallon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JimmyFallon</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/sethmeyers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SethMeyers</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IamJohnOliver</a> &amp; I are joining forces for a new podcast called <a href="https://twitter.com/StrikeForceFive?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StrikeForceFive</a>. Hear the first episode tomorrow 8/30. ALL proceeds (thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/Casamigos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Casamigos</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Mintmobile?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MintMobile</a>) go to support… <a href="https://t.co/Czyvlpmba2">pic.twitter.com/Czyvlpmba2</a>
&mdash; Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) <a href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel/status/1696612559661736081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Meyers <a href="https://twitter.com/sethmeyers/status/1696635013687558435" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> with a joke, saying, &#8220;I had NO idea this was being recorded &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Late night unite! Your new favorite podcast Strike Force Five premieres tomorrow with all of our proceeds going to staff and crew affected by the ongoing writers strike. Check it out on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts,&#8221; Fallon added.
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Late night unite! Your new favorite podcast Strike Force Five premieres tomorrow with all of our proceeds going to staff and crew affected by the ongoing writers strike. Check it out on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. <a href="https://t.co/PQVgLEiftN">pic.twitter.com/PQVgLEiftN</a>
&mdash; Jimmy Fallon (@jimmyfallon) <a href="https://twitter.com/jimmyfallon/status/1696637418454053235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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But critics weren&#8217;t so sure that anyone really needed them to come back.
&#8220;Five insufferable one-trick ponies doing a podcast to echo each other on Trump and DeSantis and anyone who doesn&#8217;t have a D next to their name. And if you forgot these guys haven&#8217;t been on the air for months, you&#8217;re not alone,&#8221; Joe Concha said in a post on X.
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Five insufferable one-trick ponies doing a podcast to echo each other on Trump and DeSantis and anyone who doesn&#39;t have a D next to their name. And if you forgot these guys haven&#39;t been on the air for months, you&#39;re not alone. <a href="https://t.co/RKsHu7RVEX">https://t.co/RKsHu7RVEX</a>
&mdash; Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1696942807829627195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Not a lawyer but pretty sure this podcast will violate the Geneva Conventions,&#8221; Grabien media founder Tom Elliott <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1696878030235328809" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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&#8220;Can&#8217;t wait for the first episode about Trump&#8217;s mugshot and how bad the new strain of covid is,&#8221; @thefirstontv <a href="https://twitter.com/TheFirstonTV/status/1696903174177604080" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
&#8220;It is super cringe that they coordinated to all sit in very &#8216;regular person&#8217; rooms, as though they don’t all have home offices that clearly illustrate their wealth and success. Just be you, you d*** phonies,&#8221; Noam Blum <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1696867728512995349" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
&#8220;They have banished all the late night hosts to a podcast,&#8221; Ashley St. Clair posted. &#8220;Nature is healing.&#8221;
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they have banished all the late night hosts to a podcast
nature is healing <a href="https://t.co/t0uw4RUMqS">https://t.co/t0uw4RUMqS</a>
&mdash; Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) <a href="https://twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1696710363406872946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Late night group therapy for libs actually becomes group therapy for libs,&#8221; Stephen L. Miller <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1696636706961924120" target="_blank" rel="noopener">replied</a>.
&#8220;Breaking Points&#8221; cohost Saagar Enjeti took a slightly different approach, <a href="https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1696629378992460262" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, &#8220;I am begging studio execs to cave so we can end this abomination.&#8221;

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon – Season 4

Late-Night Hosts Team Up To Pitch A Podcast, And All They Get Is A Live Roast

Hollywood

John Oliver

Late-night hosts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cult-cringe-x-100-jimmy-fallon-mocked-for-song-about-new-covid-variant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Fallon</a> and Seth Meyers have reportedly stepped up to foot the bill for staffers during the ongoing Hollywood writers strike that started earlier this week.
The hosts of &#8220;The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon&#8221; and &#8220;Late Night with Seth Meyers&#8221; will help pay their crews after both shows went dark due to a labor dispute between production studios and the Writers Guild of America (WGA), sources told <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-strike-jimmy-fallon-seth-meyers-nbc-to-extend-staff-pay-1235354983/">Deadline</a> magazine
NBC will reportedly cover the first two weeks after the strike began, with the comedian late-night hosts taking over the financial support for the third week, the outlet noted.
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NBC late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are helping to cover their staff’s pay during the Writers Guild of America strike <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/THRNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#THRNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/gAUE5ifWc5">pic.twitter.com/gAUE5ifWc5</a>
&mdash; The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href="https://twitter.com/THR/status/1653874575111868417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The health benefits for the NBC late-night crew will also reportedly be extended through September.
On Monday, Meyers talked about the impending strike and said he stood by the writers.
&#8220;I love writing. I love writing for TV. I love writing this show,&#8221; the host said. &#8220;I love that we get to come in with an idea for what we want to do every day and we get to work on it all afternoon and then I have the pleasure of coming out here.&#8221;
&#8220;No one is entitled to a job in show business,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But for those people who have a job, they are entitled to fair compensation. They are entitled to make a living. I think it&#8217;s a very reasonable demand that&#8217;s being set out by the guild. And I support those demands.”
The move comes following <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colbert-kimmel-fallon-late-night-shows-immediately-halt-due-to-screenwriter-strike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that WGA members voted last month to authorize a strike if the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), a trade association that represents a collective of studios, did not approve a new contract with increased minimum compensation and larger contributions to benefits, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hollywood-writers-slam-execs-wga-strike-1235476552/">Hollywood Reporte</a>r noted.
On Tuesday, union members were told to inform their agents, lawyers, and managers that they are &#8220;immediately instructed to engage in no further negotiations, meetings or discussions with any struck company concerning my performance of writing services on future or pending projects, or for the sale or option of literary material I have written, alone or with a writing partner,&#8221; <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-strike-wga-tells-members-they-cant-seek-work-1235353659/">Deadline</a> noted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colbert-kimmel-fallon-late-night-shows-immediately-halt-due-to-screenwriter-strike">Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon Late Night Shows Immediately Halt Due To Screenwriter Strike</a>

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon – Season 6

Late-Night Hosts Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers To Help Pay Staff During Writers Strike: Report

Entertainment

strike

The late night shows hosted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Kimmel</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/stephen-colbert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Colbert</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-fallon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Fallon</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/seth-meyers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seth Meyers</a> will cease production on Tuesday as a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/labor-unions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">union</a> of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood</a> screenwriters initiates a strike.
Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) <a href="https://www.wgacontract2023.org/updates/strike-authorization-vote-results" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> overwhelmingly earlier this year to authorize a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/screenwriter-strike-could-grind-hollywood-to-a-halt-this-week-heres-which-shows-could-be-hit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strike</a> if the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), a trade association that represents more than 350 studios, did not approve a new <a href="https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/pattern-of-demands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contract</a> with increased minimum compensation and larger contributions to pension and health plans. Union members are <a href="https://www.wgacontract2023.org/strike/strike-rules" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prohibited</a> from working on their shows as of Tuesday.
“Though our negotiating committee began this process intent on making a fair deal, the studios’ responses have been wholly insufficient given the existential crisis writers are facing,” WGA <a href="https://twitter.com/WGAWest/status/1653242480106815491" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on social media, noting that six weeks of deliberations with firms such as Netflix, Amazon, Sony, and Disney under the AMPTP umbrella ultimately failed to produce a new contract.
Colbert was scheduled to host Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Chita Rivera on Tuesday, while celebrities such as Chris Hayes and Michael J. Fox were scheduled to appear later in the week, according to a <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-strike-late-night-shows-to-shut-down-immediately-1235352054/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Deadline. Fallon was supposed to welcome Ken Jeong, Jennifer Lopez, and JJ Watt this week, while Kimmel was slated to host Dr. Phil and Ricky Gervais. The shows are instead expected to air reruns on Tuesday.
Production for shows such as “Real Time With Bill Maher,” “Saturday Night Live,” and “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” is also expected to cease this week, according to a WGA <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-04-20/writers-guild-warns-analysts-investors-may-2-strike-means-no-late-night-shows-delay-fall-season" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> recently obtained by The Los Angeles Times. The document noted that production delays could inhibit the ability of Disney, Paramount Global, and Comcast NBCUniversal to produce episodes for the fall network television season, while streaming platforms carrying broadcast shows would likewise be impacted.
Meyers said on his Monday show that he supports the strike and wants his writers to receive higher pay.
“No one is entitled to a job in show business. But for those people who have a job, they are entitled to fair compensation,” he said, as recorded by Deadline. “They are entitled to make a living. I think it’s a very reasonable demand that’s being set out by the Guild. And I support those demands.”
Kimmel and Colbert were impacted by a similar strike between 2007 and 2008, when WGA members picketed for three months as a result of failed contract negotiations, causing production delays and shortened seasons for multiple studios.
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The current strike occurs as the shift toward streaming contributes to diminished profits in television and cinema. WGA officials also cited the advent of artificial intelligence as a possible mechanism to increase work capacity for screenwriters, a phenomenon which could enable studios to decrease their headcounts and thereby provoked calls from the union to regulate material produced with the technology.
The union previously <a href="https://www.wgacontract2023.org/updates/bulletins/writers-are-not-keeping-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that firms have “used the transition to streaming to cut writer pay and separate writing from production, worsening working conditions for series writers at all levels.” The share of writers working at the minimum <a href="https://www.wga.org/news-events/news/connect/10-3-22/animation-writers-have-been-paying-the-price-for-studio-greed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">standards</a> established by the most recent WGA contract has risen substantially in recent years, producing a 23% median compensation decline when adjusted for inflation, even as series budgets increase.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Colbert, Kimmel, Fallon Late Night Shows Immediately Halt Due To Screenwriter Strike

Late Night Shows Immediately Halt Production Due To Screenwriter Strike

Bill Maher

Economy

Labor Unions

Vice President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> appeared to stop just short of saying that children should be the federal government&#8217;s responsibility during her Monday evening appearance with comedian <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/seth-meyers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seth Meyers</a>.
Harris joined the host of NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Late Night with Seth Meyers,&#8221; and at one point during the interview, she argued that the government had to prioritize climate change if it were serious about prioritizing the children.
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KAMALA HARRIS: &quot;When you see our kids, and I truly believe that they are our children, they are the children of our country, of our communities, I mean, our future is really bright if we prioritize them, and therefore prioritize the climate crisis.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/4NTK0wdIwF">pic.twitter.com/4NTK0wdIwF</a>
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&#8220;Truly, when you, you know, when you see our kids, and I truly believe that they are our children,&#8221; Harris said waving her arms in a circular motion to indicate that &#8220;our&#8221; meant &#8220;everyone&#8217;s.&#8221;
&#8220;They are the children of our country, of our communities, I mean, our future is really bright if we prioritize them, and therefore prioritize the climate crisis and the need to address it,&#8221; she continued.
Harris, who was tapped just after President Joe Biden&#8217;s inauguration to lead the administration&#8217;s efforts in addressing illegal immigration, also took the opportunity while talking to Meyers to attack Republican governors like Ron DeSantis (FL) and Greg Abbott (TX) for taking matters into their own hands.
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Kamala calls out TX Gov. Greg Abbott for sending buses of illegal immigrants to her house: “Talk about political theater&#8230;If you’re a leader, participate in a solution.”<a href="https://t.co/o7qJkXIjIO">pic.twitter.com/o7qJkXIjIO</a>
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&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about people who have fleed great harm, who have fled great harm,&#8221; Harris said. &#8220;And they are coming here seeking refuge. And &#8230; talk about political theater, I mean, playing games with people&#8217;s lives, with their lives. There are mothers with sleeping babies getting off those buses. And I just think it&#8217;s an absolute dereliction of duty.&#8221;
Harris argued that when Republican governors sent migrants — via bus or plane — to self-described sanctuary cities, they were derelict in their own duties.
&#8220;If you&#8217;re a leader, participate in a solution,&#8221; Harris complained.
According to the most recent data, the United States will see a record two million border-crossers this year alone — a fact pointed out by NBC&#8217;s <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/chuck-todd-is-clearly-not-buying-kamala-harris-claim-the-border-is-secure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Todd</a> during Harris&#8217; recent appearance on &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221;
Responding to Harris&#8217; insistence that the southern border was &#8220;secure,&#8221; Todd pushed back. &#8220;We’re gonna have 2 million people cross this border for the first time ever. You’re confident this border is secure?&#8221;
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&quot;We’re gonna have 2 million people cross this border for the first time ever.&quot; Chuck Todd doesn&#39;t appear to buy VP Harris&#39; claim that the border is secure. <a href="https://t.co/7K6Txsxc0Z">pic.twitter.com/7K6Txsxc0Z</a>
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Harris deflected, first blaming the crisis at the border on former President Donald Trump and then arguing that immigration could be reformed if Republican governors would stop &#8220;playing politics.&#8221;

Late Night with Seth Meyers – Season 10

Kamala Harris’ Latest Word Salad Stops Just Short Of Saying Kids Belong To The Government

Kamala Harris' Latest Word Salad Stops Just Short Of Saying Kids Belong To The Government

Children

Climate Change

Federal Government

Kamala Harris

&#8220;Border czar” Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>&#8216; big plan to stop <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-has-lost-her-gourd-veep-claims-border-is-secure-yet-blames-trump-for-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal immigration</a> is to enact mass amnesty.
Promising citizenship to millions who break the law in hopes of deterring people at the border makes little to no sense, but neither does much of what Harris had to say on &#8220;Late Night With Seth Meyers&#8221; Monday evening.
&#8220;I just think it&#8217;s an absolute dereliction of duty,&#8221; Harris said in response to conservative governors sending migrants to sanctuary cities and other <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/welcome-home-now-get-the-hell-out-illegal-aliens-already-bused-out-of-marthas-vineyard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic enclaves</a>. The veep, or any Democrat really, has never explained why liberal towns would declare themselves open for all &#8220;refugees&#8221; if they didn&#8217;t have the actual resources to welcome dozens of individuals from the southern border in the first place.
Contrary to all evidence, Harris told funny-man Meyers that the Trump administration and anti-amnesty Republicans are to blame for the current <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-press-secretary-on-illegal-immigration-its-not-like-somebody-walks-over-actually-millions-do" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal alien invasion</a>.
&#8220;If you see a problem, and if we agree that we need to address it, then if you&#8217;re a leader, participate in a solution, right?&#8221; she added. &#8220;When we first came in office, the first bill that we proposed was for a pathway for citizenship &#8212; was to fix a broken immigration system, which was broken under the previous administration.&#8221;
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Biden&#8217;s idea of fixing a &#8220;broken immigration system&#8221; was to sign executive orders <a href="https://knpr.org/npr/2021-01/biden-suspends-deportations-stops-remain-mexico-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspending deportations</a>, canceling former President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Remain in Mexico&#8221; policy, halting construction of the border wall, and reversing an executive order from Trump <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/578880-anatomy-of-bidens-catch-and-release-catastrophe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">directing</a> the federal government “to employ all lawful means to enforce the immigration laws of the United States.&#8221;
Advocating amnesty was only icing on the cake. The result of such policies has been millions of illegal aliens crossing the border, and if caught, released into the interior of the U.S. as they&#8217;re trusted in good faith to show up for their asylum court hearings.
As Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) pointed out on Monday, what critics of GOP governors also ignore is that Biden himself has shipped migrants all around the country.
&#8220;When the people that are doing the condemnation didn&#8217;t say anything when the President, in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aircraft-records-reveal-secret-migrant-flights-across-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the early hours of night</a>, was sending people all over the country by airplane and trying to hide it,&#8221; Grassley said. &#8220;These Governors aren&#8217;t trying to hide it, they&#8217;re trying to bring attention to the major problems for their states that the President not enforcing the law is doing to their economy and state budgets.&#8221;
Instead, it would appear that Democrats want border states to shoulder 100% of the problem exacerbated by feckless border policies.
&#8220;Just think of what that signal sends from Texas, Arizona, and Florida, it&#8217;s not &#8216;just a Texas problem,&#8217; or a &#8216;border states problem,'&#8221; Grassley added. &#8220;It affects all 50 states because these people are going to end up in all 50 states in large numbers or small numbers.&#8221;
Regardless, Harris told conservatives that they should &#8220;participate in the solution because we are offering solutions,&#8221; claiming that we get &#8220;gamesmanship with real human beings who trust us.&#8221;
Yet Harris isn&#8217;t offering solutions for border security. Nothing she proposes will reduce illegal immigration.
Instead, as observed Saturday, she&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-advocates-pardoning-pothead-illegal-aliens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offering plans</a> to shore up a new Democratic voting bloc by the millions. You don&#8217;t have to be a political scientist to suspect she and her colleagues only want amnesty because they think it will help them stay in power.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Kamala Harris, Seth Meyers

‘Absolute Dereliction Of Duty’: Kamala Pushes Mass Amnesty, Blasts Migrant Busing On Late Night TV

Kamala Pushes Mass Amnesty, Blasts Migrant Busing On Late Night TV

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That didn&#8217;t take long.
Hours after Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced he would resign following an explosive report alleging he sexually harassed at least 11 women, late-night comedians roasted the sex pest.
“Cuomo announced today that he will resign amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment, so tune in to CNN tonight for … I don’t know, a rerun of the History of the Sitcom?” Seth Meyers joked on &#8220;Late Night.&#8221;
Meyers also mocked the governor, who made more than a million dollars with a book on his response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that he will resign amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment. And this is, frankly, amazing — he made the announcement via book,&#8221; he said.
Amy Poehler, who was a guest on the show, joked about the “Cuomo go-go,” then the two discussed the ways Cuomo said he greeted people, including sometimes touching their stomach.
&#8220;That&#8217;s going to be a no, dog,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That&#8217;s a very forbidden place.&#8221;
Stephen Colbert opened his “Late Show” by saying it&#8217;s “a beautiful day here in New York City” because “this afternoon Andrew Cuomo resigned.”
“Don’t let the door hit you on the butt on the way out,” he said, prompting cheers from the audience. “But if it does, that door should also resign.”
Colbert then mocked Cuomo for saying he would not relinquish power for two weeks, saying he was doing so “for reasons that I do not understand.”
“For now, Cuomo’s still governor, because, for reasons I do not understand, Cuomo’s resignation will take effect in 14 days. Evidently, he gave himself two weeks’ notice,” Colbert said.
The comedian played some clips from Cuomo&#8217;s press conference in which the governor sought to explain his actions, which was also widely mocked on social media.
“Cuomo took full responsibility for his actions — sort of?” Colbert said, making a funny face.
Colbert also roasted Cuomo for claiming he “didn’t realize” he crossed “a line that has been redrawn.”
“I don’t know exactly what line he’s talking about, but hopefully he’ll explain it in his new book, ‘Andrew and the Purple Crayon,&#8217;” Colbert said.
“Warning — that’s not a crayon in his hand,” Colbert said as a cartoon of the governor appeared. “But it is purple.”
The funnyman also noted that Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who will become the first woman to be governor of New York, will be taking the seat vacated by Cuomo, adding, “Hopefully after putting a towel down first.”
Jimmy Fallon opened “The Tonight Show” by saying it was “big day here in New York as Andrew Cuomo announced that he’s resigning as governor.”
“During his remarks, he said that it was best that he step aside — and then every woman in the room took two steps aside,” Fallon said.
&#8220;It’s gonna&#8217; be tough for Cuomo — with a track record like this, his only future is either president or Supreme Court justice,&#8221; he said.
Fallon also mocked CNN, saying after Hochul “was announced as New York’s next governor, CNN offered a prime time show to her sister.”

The Love Is Gone: Cuomo Roasted By Late-Night TV Comedians

Andrew Cuomo

Writing in <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/samantha-bee-is-wrong-about-comedy/amp/">National Review</a>, Kyle Mann, the editor-in-chief of the Babylon Bee, the conservative Christian satirical site, slammed late-night television talk-show hosts, asserting, &#8220;The Left is increasingly the party of self-righteous zealots, disciples of a leftist religion that they cannot laugh about.&#8221;
Mann began his essay by stating:
<blockquote>They think the point of comedy is to make “really targeted jokes,” to “undermine” things, or to “target” things they — and presumably their audience — disagree with. Over the last decade, late-night hosts across the board began to lay aside their relatable, everyman’s brand of comedy and pivot toward lecturing the crowd on their moral values. They went from chasing laughter — no matter who the butt of the joke may have been — to chasing applause. The result has been anything but funny.</blockquote>
“If you find yourself unable to laugh at something, unable to find anything worthy of satire — especially in a politician like Joe Biden — you may be blinded by your own worldview,” Mann pointed out. &#8220;A president who has been in politics for five decades promising hope and change. A politician who campaigned against the abuses of the Trump administration and then, once elected, did the very things his party once decried. A president heralded as a return to normalcy who is now proposing ideas that threaten our <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/joe-biden-says-senate-filibuster-being-abused-must-be-changed-n1262079">norms</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/us/politics/biden-supreme-court-packing.html">institutions</a> at a far more fundamental level than Trump ever did.”
Mann wasn’t shy about criticizing his own side of the political aisle: “Let’s admit something here: Conservatives can be pretty bad at comedy. … I’ve gotta admit, I’ve written some stinkers in my day too. But we’ve got to be honest with ourselves. Conservatives have tried and failed to put out good comedy shows and films to rival the late-night propaganda emanating from the left every weeknight. The problem with many of these attempts is that they were trying to make a point first and be funny second.”
Then he turned to the talk-show hosts, who from Jimmy Kimmel to Stephen Colbert to Seth Meyers to Jimmy Fallon all hail from the political Left, as well as other &#8220;comedians&#8221;: &#8220;[T]he Left is increasingly the party of self-righteous zealots, disciples of a leftist religion that they cannot laugh about. The great pronoun debate is a goldmine of contradictions and absurdities, but they will not touch it.&#8221;
Mann concluded satirically:
<blockquote>Ultimately, it’s up to us, the audience. We have a choice when we hear jokes that criticize what we believe. We can chuckle and think, “I never thought about it that way,” and maybe change for the better, or at least have a healthy and humble sense of humor about who we are. Or, we can choose to be offended, to cancel the comedians that would dare criticize our dogma and demand they be replaced with self-righteous moral lecturers who are preaching to the choir.</blockquote>
Unlike the one-sidedness of the talk show hosts Mann describes, The Babylon Bee, despite its conservative perspective, has also targeted figures on the political Right. It <a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-now-most-acquitted-president-in-history">kidded</a> President Trump after he had been acquitted in his second Senate impeachment trial, saying he stated, &#8220;I am now the most acquitted president ever &#8212; even more than Clinton.” The Bee also targeted televangelist Joel Osteen in 2017, writing, “Joel Osteen Sails Luxury Yacht Through Flooded Houston To Pass Out Copies Of ‘Your Best Life Now.”

ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” – Season 15

‘Disciples Of A Leftist Religion That They Cannot Laugh About’: Babylon Bee EIC Skewers Late-Night Talk Show Hosts

Babylon Bee

Jimmy Fallon’s re-education is coming along nicely.
The press initially battered the “Tonight Show” host, the least partisan comic on the late night scene, for <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/media-bullied-fallon-hating-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">daring to humanize</a> then-candidate Donald Trump. More recently, social justice warriors <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/cancel-culture-howard-stern-jimmy-kimmel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">slammed Fallon</a> for a blackface sketch he performed 20 years ago.
In response, the “Saturday Night Live” alum has been hammering President Trump on a nightly basis like his more aggressive peers.
Here, Fallon attacks President Trump for going to war against TikTok, a Chinese social media platform with billions of users worldwide.
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<blockquote>Fallon: What is he doing, the president of the United States or the preacher from “Footloose “? This is a real national security threat, the knowing which Americans can and can’t dance. I am sure it has everything to do with national security and nothing to do with the TikTok teens that sabotaged his Tulsa rally.</blockquote>
Not to be outdone, the host of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” trotted out random information to suggest a president can’t do more than two things at once, a strawman of the first order.
<blockquote>Meyers: The death toll is climbing, wait times for tests are rising and tens of millions of Americans struggling to survive the worst economic crash since the Great Depression just lost a $600 unemployment benefit because Republicans couldn’t be bothered to extend it or, God forbid, make it permanent. And Trump couldn’t care less about any of that. Time is running out on his presidency and all he can hear is — TRUMP: “TikTok.”</blockquote>
Why would big, bad Trump want to cancel TikTok?
Fallon and Meyers won’t say, of course. They’d rather keep that information from you. So would much of the press.
A few media outlets have shared the alarming details. Here’s a <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2020/06/28/tiktok-beneath-its-fun-exterior-lies-a-sinisterpurpose/#3765a4803b79" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">warning from Forbes.com</a>, hardly a right-wing site, on the wildly popular platform.
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… the US armed forces have forbidden personnel from using it and describes it as a threat to cybersecurity. Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point has investigated it and concludes it has backdoors and major vulnerabilities, as well as overall security issues. The US government is also investigating it. Meanwhile, Reddit CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman describes it as a “fundamentally parasitic app that is always listening” and warns against installing what he calls “spyware”. Several child advocacy groups say it poses a clear risk to children. Apple claims it has caught TikTok using clipboard capture mechanisms to spy on millions of users.
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Odd that none of that information made it into the late night monologues, right?
Stephen Miller, a right-leaning journalist, <a href="https://spectator.us/media-tiktok-blindspot-national-security/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">shared more worrisome information</a> recently on the subject.
<blockquote>It’s understood to be hacking and using data collected from its users’ phones. Everyone from the Department of Defense, to the US military to the Joe Biden campaign has banned it. The app is now in talks to sell its US operations to Microsoft in order to abate the controversy, a move backed by Chuck Schumer which Trump says he ‘wouldn’t mind.’</blockquote>
Later, Miller spells out why the platform, which appears both creatively challenging and harmeless, is anything but for parents.
<blockquote>It took a random developer on Reddit to dig into exactly what TikTok does to a user’s phone. He reverse engineered the application and posted what he found saying ‘TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network. If there is an API to get information on you, your contacts or your device…well, they’re using it.’</blockquote>
Team Late Night went for the easy laugh, and for some in the audience it worked.
Those looking for reality, though, came away hungry for information.
Hope their kids choose their social media apps wisely.
More from Christian Toto: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/toto-late-night-gaslighting-host-seth-meyers-ignores-portland-riots-chaos-to-hit-trump">Late-Night Gaslighting: Host Seth Meyers Ignores Portland Riots, Chaos To Hit Trump</a>

TOTO: Fallon, Meyers Purposely Ignore TikTok’s Toxic Side Effects To Slam Trump

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In a way you can’t blame Seth Meyers.
The far-left host of “<a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/seth-meyers-uses-hillary-scandal-smite-john-mccain/">Late Night with Seth Meyers</a>” likely feasts on the same corporate news his Hollywood peers read. That means alternate voices, be it The Daily Wire, National Review or other respectable, right-of-center sites, rarely crack his news feed.
It’s one possible explanation for his extreme gaslighting earlier this week regarding the raging Portland riots. Or, he’s a stone cold liar.
What riots, you say? The media has done all it can to <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/07/23/nets-portland-coverage-evaporates-after-antifa-attempted" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cover them up</a> or <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2020/07/24/ny-times-propaganda-right-wing-media-not-nuanced-portland-riots" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">explain them away</a>. For those counting at home, the riots have gone on for <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/24/portland-protests-have-no-goal-except-violence-and-anarchy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">nearly 60 days now.</a>
<blockquote>Day after day, hundreds and even thousands take to the streets and claim the territory as theirs. They cycle through a number of chants like “All cops are bastards” and “F- -k the police.” A large number of them participate in violent criminal acts such as arson and assault. They’ve made it a game to lure law-enforcement officers out of buildings so they can assault them with blinding lasers, paint, rocks and other weapons.</blockquote>
Luckily, brave reporters like Andy Ngo are doing the essential, dangerous work to capture the violence. That helps defuse the late-night gaslighting attempting to twist the truth into a pretzel.
<a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=298659?utm_source=cliplist20200723&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=cliplist&amp;utm_content=story298659" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Meyers’ first mistake</a> is leaning on MSNBC to get the full scope of Portland’s woes. The far-left news channel, much like CNN and other outlets, downplays the violence caused by BLM and Antifa activists.
MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes described the fallout from the protests as “graffiti” and “light property damage” in the clip Meyers’ show shared. If it’s your house, your business or your property, the word “light” might sound like a slap in the face. And it should.
Meyers used that farcical news byte to savage President Donald Trump.
“You’re going full dictator over some graffiti,  What’s next, sending Seal Team Six to arrest love struck teens carving their initials into a tree,” Meyers cracked.
“Our government used graffiti to justify sending secret police to an American city to abduct protesters in unmarked vans without telling them who they are, where they’re going or why they’re being arrested,” he continued, echoing both the media and the Democrats’ new talking points on the subject.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-rules-federal-agents-dont-have-to-identify-themselves-while-making-arrests-in-portland" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A legal process</a>, by the way.
“What they’re actually doing is even worse. They’re snatching peaceful protesters off the street. They’re kidnapping people and not even telling them what they’re being charged with.”
Again, Meyers turns to MSNBC to buffer his outrage.
What’s missing? Context, the law and a heaping helping of violence.
Yes, the corrupt press continues to call the riots plaguing several major cities “protests,” and often “mostly peaceful” ones at that. It would be laughable if the consequences weren’t so profound … and deadly.
National Review’s Rich Lowry<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/the-portland-dhs-operation-is-legal-and-proportionate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> offers the insights</a> Meyers’ writing team refuses to even consider regarding Portland’s plight.
The officers are operating under clear legal authority. 40 U.S. Code § 1315 says that the DHS secretary “shall protect the buildings, grounds, and property that are owned, occupied, or secured by the Federal Government (including any agency, instrumentality, or wholly owned or mixed-ownership corporation thereof) and the persons on the property.”
These aren’t gentle protesters shouted slogans and waving placards. It’s a mob intent on destroying as much property as possible, including the federal courthouse.
Let Andy Ngo, one of the bravest journalists alive today, offer more proof via his essential Twitter feed.
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Rioters broke the barrier protecting the Portland federal courthouse again. They rush inside but are chased out by federal law enforcement. However, one person is arrested and dragged inside. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/antifa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#antifa</a> <a href="https://t.co/WdgD4LnyIc">pic.twitter.com/WdgD4LnyIc</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1286210079352479744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“Mostly peaceful,” eh, Meyers? Need more? Ngo has it, and then some.
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War-like scenes again as federal officers stand guard outside the Portland federal courthouse and are hit with projectiles thrown by rioters. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/antifa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#antifa</a> <a href="https://t.co/7GpBsINcJq">pic.twitter.com/7GpBsINcJq</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1286946911648284674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Rioters are using a circle saw to cut apart the fence protecting the federal courthouse. Video by <a href="https://twitter.com/livesmattershow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@livesmattershow</a> <a href="https://t.co/okZ56jpH5B">pic.twitter.com/okZ56jpH5B</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandRiots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PortlandRiots</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1286915433828724736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The same peaceful protesters that Meyers fears are the target of the new Gestapo also attacked Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler earlier this week.
The progressive leader hoped to show support and encouragement to those tearing up his own city. Let that sink in.
Instead, the<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-trump-slamming-mayor-visits-protesters-to-offer-support-gets-cursed-out-told-to-resign-teargassed" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> rioters cursed him out</a>, threw projectiles at him and demanded he resign.
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler is entering the protest crowd right now. People are already confronting him. <a href="https://t.co/H7uJSGYlma">pic.twitter.com/H7uJSGYlma</a>
&mdash; Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) <a href="https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1286151667780476930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Remember what <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/adam-carolla-aoc-insane/">Adam Carolla</a> warned us about the far-left in society today – “<a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/carolla-prager-pc-police/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">you retreat, they encroach</a>.”
Wonder if that footage will be part of a hilarious Meyers bit coming soon?
Need even more proof of <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/24/there-are-no-peaceful-protesters-in-portland/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">surging violence</a> far greater than mere graffiti? Here’s the Dept. of Homeland Security describing some of the “mostly peaceful” folks in action.
<blockquote>Consistent with tactics employed in previous nights, rioters attacked federal officers’ eyes with lasers – which can cause permanent blindness
Around 10:30 p.m. local time, rioters attempted to push over the fence while rioters also started to throw flaming objects over it. Mortar-style fireworks continued to be launched at federal property and officers as well.</blockquote>
It’s also worth noting Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who inexplicably blamed her city’s soaring crime rates on President Trump, just agreed to let Trump’s “stormtroopers” <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/23/trump-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-agree-to-deployment-of-feds/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">help quell the Windy City’s violence.</a>
Is Mayer Lightfoot a dictator now, too?
UPDATED: Far-left British comic John Oliver<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/07/27/john-oliver-downplays-violent-protests-in-portland-as-mostly-peaceful/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> joined the gaslighting movement</a> on his latest episode of “Last Week Tonight.” Oliver similarly downplayed the extreme violence roiling the city for weeks. Instead, he blamed the police and President Trump for the mayhem.
More from Christian Toto: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/toto-nick-cannon-reminds-us-why-cancel-culture-is-a-joke">Nick Cannon Reminds Us Why Cancel Culture Is A Joke</a>
A version of this piece was also published on HollywoodInToto.com

Late Night with Seth Meyers

TOTO: Late-Night Gaslighting: Host Seth Meyers Ignores Portland Riots, Chaos To Hit Trump

Portland

Late Night TV has aggressively chased half of America away in the age of Trump. The hosts’ anti-conservative rhetoric all but drowns out what used to come first from the format.
Jokes.
The Kimmel-Meyers-Noah-Colbert-Bee-Oliver-Maher Borg spins progressive narratives before any gut-busting gags. It’s why the term “<a href="https://ricochet.com/210993/archives/laughter-vs-clapter/">clapter</a>” captures the new format so well.
The current crisis finds some of these far-left hosts doubling down on their anti-Trump rhetoric. Seth Meyers, for example, called President Trump a “sociopath.”
The host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” attempted to savage Trump for his handling of the pandemic … before Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/crenshaw-wrecks-bill-maher-over-trump-coronavirus-response-internet-erupts-likely-run-for-president-one-day">Dan Crenshaw schooled him</a>.
Something else is sneaking into these late-night sermons – an elitist streak that could turn off even some left-leaning viewers.
Maher himself inadvertently kicked it off last year when he cheered on a recession in order to topple Trump. That arrogance multiplied in recent days thanks to the pandemic.
For example, the host of TBS’s “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” served up a disturbing rant earlier this month. The far-left comic, as Trump-obsessed as her peers, trashed the President for a curious reason.
Trump has been offering a beleaguered nation hope of a better tomorrow via his daily pressers. He’s the Optimist in Chief, and a nation literally shut down by COVID-19 could use a dash of that pluck.
Enter Bee, who <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/samantha-bee-trump-hope/">fired back</a> against that sentiment.
“He IS a cheerleader. He even came up with his first cheer!” she cried, then played a clip of Trump spelling out COVID.
Here’s betting some of Bee’s viewers hope the president is right.
We think.
Over at Colbert’s “Late Show,” the Trump-hating host <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/colbert-trump-coronavirus-protestors-985703/">took his fury out on average Americans</a> struggling to pay their bills. Colbert is collecting his usual paycheck, which <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/10/stephen-colbert-extends-cbs-contract-host-the-late-show-august-2023-1202762277/">last year got a sizable bump</a>. He previously earned <a href="https://money.com/stephen-colbert-net-worth/">$15 million a year</a>.
The progressive host punched down, big time, by attacking Ohio and Michigan residents eager to get back to work.
Protestors demonstrated outside their respective state houses, blocked traffic (not that there’s much traffic right now with shelter-in-place orders in effect), and waved giant flags, including Confederate ones. “Because nothing says ‘never surrender’ like a Confederate flag,” Colbert said with a wink.
Meanwhile, a clueless James Corden turned to the women who, on Feb. 24, endangered many lives with these <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-hits-pelosi-for-urging-crowds-to-assemble-in-chinatown-as-coronavirus-spread">public statements</a>.
“It’s exciting to be here, especially at this time, to be able to be unified with our community,” Pelosi told reporters. “We want to be vigilant about what is out there in other places. We want to be careful about how we deal with it, but we do want to say to people ‘Come to Chinatown, here we are – we&#8217;re, again, careful, safe – and come join us.&#8217;”
Yes, multi-millionaire Nancy Pelosi, also known as the Speaker of the House, appeared on “The Late, Late Show” for a stilted, laugh-free segment.
The “highlight?” Viewers got a glimpse of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-shows-off-eating-ice-cream-rubio-expertly-trolls-her-cruz-joins-in">Pelosi’s massive refrigerators</a>, stuffed to the brim with ice cream.
Marie Antoinette would be proud.
These hosts thrive, in part, due to our increasingly splintered landscape. “The Late Show” typically rules the ratings roost today, but its numbers can’t compare to Johnny Carson’s audience in his “Tonight Show” prime.
That’s no longer the goal.
Colbert and co. can afford to chase away large numbers of viewers as long as their far-left base sticks around. Those fans will cling to their monologues in perpetuity.
Independent viewers, or just those feeling the vise-like grip of the national shutdown, may seek out different shows should their elitism continue.

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You might think President Trump&#8217;s hopeful message of wanting to re-open the economy by Easter would give comedians some good news to bring to their viewers. Not surprisingly, that’s not the case for late-night hosts.
While 3.3 million Americans filed for unemployment last week and most Americans face an uncertain future as SARS-CoV-2 sweeps across the nation, late-night TV hosts are bashing Trump for trying to re-open the economy and imploring him to keep it closed.
But the TV hosts are scolding the president from their multi-million dollar mansions, aware that their multi-million salaries are not in jeopardy and, with so many Americans isolated in their homes, their audiences could actually even grow.
Take Trevor Noah, host of &#8220;The Daily Show.&#8221;  He&#8217;ll still be getting his <a href="https://comparilist.com/trevor-noah-net-worth/">estimated</a> $8 million a year salary and keeping his $10 million <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trevor-noah-new-york-apartment-tour-photos-2017-3">penthouse apartment</a>, which occupies the 17th and 18th floor of a building in midtown Manhattan.
Noah has been posting videos, sticking with his &#8220;Daily Show&#8221; format, on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JINuIu0Th-Q&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=396">YouTube</a>. In one, he says: &#8220;The the story that&#8217;s got everyone talking is that while more and more countries around the world are shutting down to stop coronavirus from spreading, Donald Jamison Trump is preparing for a grand opening.&#8221;
Trump said Tuesday he would “love to have the country opened up” by Easter, which is April 12. “It’s such an important day for other reasons, but I will make it an important day for this: I would love to have the country opened up, and they are just raring to go, by Easter,” the president said in a Fox News virtual town hall from the White House Rose Garden. “We’re opening up this incredible country. Because we have to do that. I would love to have it open by Easter.”
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Noah said, &#8220;President Trump said he wants to re-open on Easter. Which makes sense, I mean, Easter is all about resurrection, after all. Happy Easter, everyone — He is risen. &#8216;He&#8217; meaning coronavirus.&#8221;
Noah added: &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to be a genius to see why the president&#8217;s plan is alarming a lot of people right now.&#8221;
&#8220;Late Night&#8221; host Seth Meyers was even most distraught at the idea of Trump&#8217;s optimism that the economy could be re-opened by April 12, posting his own video on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku5C9vpaG4k">YouTube</a>.
Meyers, who&#8217;s still pulling in his <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/seth-meyers-net-worth.html/">estimated</a> $3 million annual salary, did the video from his $7.5 million <a href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/step-inside-seth-meyers-manhattan-duplex">Manhattan duplex</a> in Greenwich Village. Meyers played a clip in which Trump said:  &#8220;Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy. There’s tremendous hope as we look forward and we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel.&#8221;
Meyers responded, saying: &#8220;Light at the end of the tunnel? What are you talking about? Are you sure you’re not just staring at the sun again? &#8230; Trump cares more about the Dow than saving lives. It’s that simple.&#8221;
On Trump saying he hoped the U.S. could be open by Easter, Meyers said, &#8220;You just came up with yourself? Did you decide to cede the decision to&#8221; the Easter Bunny (as an image of the holiday bunny. Impersonating Trump, Meyers said: &#8220;He’s bringing the eggs whether we like it or not, I say be ready.&#8221;
Then as himself, he added: &#8220;Don’t just pull dates out of your a**. That’s unsanitary. &#8230; He randomly concocted a date against the advice of virtually all public health experts.&#8221;
Meyers&#8217; YouTube subscriber count, by the way, has doubled since the pandemic swept America.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel also posted a video — from one of his <a href="https://www.dirt.com/entertainers/performers/jimmy-kimmel-house-hermosa-beach-11950/">three houses</a> in Hermosa Beach, California (he bought one for $2.1 million in 2004, another for $2.25 million in 2014 and a third for $8 million in 2017). His annual salary was <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/13/top-4-late-night-tv-hosts-make-millions-of-dollars-a-year.html">estimated</a> at $15 million back in 2017.
In response to Trump&#8217;s hope to re-open by Easter, Kimmel said in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yS4MBk-y1E&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=181">video</a>:  &#8220;By Easter?! That&#8217;s in two and half weeks. Even Jesus is like, &#8216;Jesus! Calm down let’s think this through.&#8217;
&#8220;We’re all going to die so the president can eat Peeps,&#8221; Kimmel said.
Comedian Victor Dweck, who like Noah and Meyers lives in Manhattan, told The Daily Wire that he hopes the late-night hosts can channel their skills into bringing more of a hopeful message to America.
&#8220;Now, more than ever, we need laughs. We need funny people. The late-night hosts are very skilled, very gifted comics. I hope they can direct their talent and energy into bringing smiles to millions of people in this difficult time. With the huge reach that they have and the wind of success at their back, I think they are in a unique position to bring Americans together with a message of hope,&#8221; he said.
For content creators like Dweck, the pandemic has thrown them all a curveball. “We had just completed a pilot we shot for an original series and were literally a day from sending it out to studios in Hollywood, and then the pandemic took over America. Just about every industry has paused and entered a crisis management mode. For creators, it’s forced us to re-think how we can shoot and deliver new content right now.&#8221;
And now, that field is even more crowded, what with the late-night TV hosts posting their own content exclusively on the internet.
Dweck has his own take on virus, a YoutTube video titled “<a href="http://bit.ly/corona-dweck">Love in the Time of Corona,</a>” in which two people on a first date run into an issue because neither want to take off their protective masks.
&#8220;I&#8217;d like to bring as many laughs to as many people as possible. As a comedian, that means just focusing on delivering funny, not dread.&#8221;
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