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No Laughing Matter: Comedy Shows Tell 92% Of Their Jokes About Conservatives
Alex Christy
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Alex Christy
@alexchristy17
@Newsbusters staff writer, joke counter, and analyzer, Seattle sports hot take peddler, typo distributor. Opinions are mine
- Jimmy Kimmel claims "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it" and "This is not how an adult
00:00 - You know you want it, a late night election reaction 🧵. First, Stephen Colbert with a solemn address to camera "'I'm so grateful to be with... with you people at home, because especially in times like this, what do we most want to be? Not alone. So thanks for being here."
00:00 - Joe Scarborough: "I hate criticizing the mainstream media...almost a desperation for them to pretend this race is like every other race. And the false moral equivalency is getting pretty bad" Jeffrey Goldberg: "he is saying abnormal things and we're treating them the same"
00:00 - Jake Tapper tries to shame GOP Rep. Brandon Gill on PBS defunding, "learned to read by watching 'Sesame Street' and 'Mr. Roger's Neighborhood' and 'The Electric Company.' That's literally how I learned to read as a kid. Why do you not think PBS is important?" After Gill says its
00:00 - Ali Velshi doesn't like it when Andrew Roberts, an actual historian, comes on and debunks is British Monarchy=Slavery nonsense
00:00 - Yasmin Vossoughian, with a straight face, reports on the fire alarm pulling "'Congressman Bowman did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote, the congressman regrets any confusion,' just to clarify some things on that."
00:00 - Replying to @alexchristy17Kimmel: MAGA 'Desperately Trying' To Portray Kirk Killer As Not 'One of Them'
- George Conway tells The Daily Show that after the election "we still have to live with those people [Trump supporters] and we are going to have to deprogram them at some point."
00:00 - Replying to @alexchristy17COLBERT: "Well, [bleep]. It happened...Today, I wore my 'I am questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of humanity' sticker...the majority has spoken, and they said that they don't care that much about democracy"
00:00 - Youngkin winning also proves you don't have to be an unrepentant a-hole to be a "fighter"
- CNN's Sara Sidner and Rep. Tim Burchett got into it on the media and the FD-1023, "I don't have a base. I'm a journalist. I don't have a base, Democrat or Republican...You don't know my politics, sir. You really don't know my politics" Burchett: "Nobody believes that, ma'am"
00:00 - Stephen Colbert does a campaign ad for Justin Trudeau, telling him "the far-right and flirtations with fascism at the very least is rising across the globe, even in Canada, your Conservative Party leader your opponent there has been called Canada's Trump and I’m sorry about that"
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