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The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host took on footage of Trump bragging about committing sexual assault and his half-assed apology. ‘This is on you, too,’ he said of the GOP leadership. “The second presidential debate wrapped up half an hour ago but we taped this before it began,” said John Oliver, “so I don’t know anything…
The Trump campaign pulled its entire team off the Sunday morning talk shows, sending out Rudy Giuliani to speak on behalf of the Republican presidential nominee on all four broadcast networks. His appearance with Chuck Todd on Meet The Press didn’t go so well, as the show’s host confronted the former New York mayor with…
The blowback to a Fox News segment this week that was chock full of Asian stereotypes has been loud and swift. Activists, Asian American organizations and journalist associations have called Jesse Watters’s man-on-the-street interviews for “The O’Reilly Factor” racist and demanded explanations. Then, on Thursday night, “The Daily Show” responded with the kind of angry critique of Fox News that was the…
the oppressor and the oppressed Oh dear, there is trouble in the Fox News family again. Megyn Kelly appears to be equal parts amused and appalled by how much time Sean Hannity spends on his knees for Donald Trump, so after the first presidential debate, she tooooootally Mean Girl-ed him during Fox News coverage of…
How to fix ABC in 5 easy steps by Marc Berman Added 27 hours ago The season is only two weeks old, but ABC has sprung a leak While two weeks does not a season make, it is more than enough time to know that there are problems aplenty at ABC. Based on…
Earlier this week, Adult Swim’s executive vice president and creative director Mike Lazzo was accused of purposely not taking on any female creators or showrunners by anonymous employees at the network because “when you put women in the writers room, you get conflict, not comedy.” Adult Swim, according to a recent Buzzfeed report, has the lowest…
Myles Aronowitz/Netflix The highly anticipated new series Luke Cage premiered on Netflix on Saturday, which naturally resulted in countless binge-watchers indulging in all 13 episodes of the first season. Apparently Netflix crashed in isolated areas, leaving Luke Cage fans WITHOUT LUKE CAGE! As you can imagine, it was a nightmare for those people. Just so we’re all the same…
NBC YUGE SNL Debate: Alec Baldwin’s Trump Gets Trounced by Kate McKinnon’s Hillary As promised, Saturday Night Live’s 42nd season premiere opened with the highly-anticipated showdown between Kate McKinnon’s Clinton and Alec Baldwin’s Trump. If this past Monday’s first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was the most anticipated political event in modern…
NEW YORK (AP) — In his years as a reality TV boss on “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump repeatedly demeaned women with sexist language, according to show insiders who said he rated female contestants by the size of their breasts and talked about which ones he’d like to have sex with. The Associated Press interviewed more…
Don’t let the wide Harlem avenues and neon-lit side streets fool you. Marvel’s Luke Cage is a Western. Its ex-con hero washes dishes and tends bar at a nightspot after dark and mops floors at a barbershop during the day. But in his heart, he’s a gunfighter who swears he’s left that life behind. He…