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Ex-late-night host cast as lead in new political comedy

From The Daily Show to headlining their own late-night show, one ex-host is now making the jump to scripted television. The former late-night TV host known for roasting politicians and cable news ...
The Globe and Mail

Still talking to Americans: 22 Minutes’s Dan Dillabough on CBC comedy’s hour-long pre-election special airing Monday

This Hour Has 22 Minutes Has 44 Minutes: A U.S. Election Special will be a first for the long-running Canadian political comedy show now in its 32nd season. A night before the fake-news crew’s usual ...
The New York Times

End of a Colbert-a

Stephen Colbert’s “Colbert Report” satirized politics. Then his “Late Show” confronted a moment when politics became self-satirizing. Credit...CQ Roll Call/Associated Press; Scott Kowalchyk/CBS ...
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RFK Jr slams late-night comedy 'collapse,' says Kimmel replaced laughs with political preaching

WASHINGTON, DC: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has weighed in on the ongoing debate over late-night television, amplifying a viral social media post that criticized what it ...