He is delighted with her re-entrance to the political limelight and points out that like all revival acts, she hauled out her greatest hits in her endorsement of Donald Trump. He then does a dead-on impression of her speaking style.
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Seth Myers points out yet another example of what is well known. There is absolutely nothing that president Obama can do, short of eliminating all government regulations and all taxes for those earning over $250,000, that will not be childishly criticized by the Republicans.
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This year’s nominations for the Academy Awards have been criticized for their lack of diversity despite the existence of worthy contenders. Even the president of the Academy expressed disappointment. Roy Wood Jr. reveals to Trevor Noah why it is so hard for black people to get even nominated and what they should do to get greater recognition.
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Here’s Stephen Colbert speaking before the debate about Jeb Bush, turtles, the Trump-Cruz feud, and the Republican race in general.
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I: As Ed Pilkington reported after attending Donald Trump’s rallies, his main weapon is humor. Trump gets the crowd laughing before setting them afire with his incendiary statements. But comedy is hard and as any stand up comic on tour can attest, you have to keep generating new material to keep the fans coming.
And so it was with one Trump fan who complained that his rallies were becoming boring because his jokes were getting a little old. He said that Trump needed to create new material but was booted out of the rally for his helpful comments.
In a post earlier today, I discussed the serious issues surrounding Donald Trump’s charge that Ted Cruz may not be eligible for the presidency. But there is a lighter side to it and what Cruz should really worry about is what Orly Taitz thinks.
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The last segment of The Nightly Show features the evening’s guest joining Larry Wilmore and a selected panel of (usually) comedians to discuss a current issue. The weakness of the segment has been that the topic often had no connection to the background or expertise of the guest. But last week Wilmore had Bernie Sanders again on his show and they had an extended discussion on the issues that Sanders is addressing and it was an informative discussion, funny and yet serious.
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People make a lot of jokes at the expense of women about how some of them seek to own many pairs of shoes. The person who carried that to the extreme was the infamous Imelda Marcos, wife of the former autocratic leader of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos who, when he was ousted in 1986, fled with her husband to Hawaii, leaving behind around 1,000 pairs of shoes and 800 purses.
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I often succumb to the temptation to mock, or relay the mocking by others, of the efforts of the extreme right wing fanatics who speak with such a loud voice in US politics. Matt Taibbi, while also laughing at the antics of the armed people who have taken over a remote wildlife refuge in Oregon as a stand against government tyranny, addresses the question as to whether this is a good thing.
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