“It just seems like there’s this aggressiveness toward the Trump administration,” Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer pressed. Dr. Anthony Fauci wasn’t having it.
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Stand-up comic Sam Morril tells “The Last Laugh” podcast how he managed to release two specials in 2020 despite the pandemic and defends his right to tell “dark jokes.”
“If you sue someone for a billion dollars, it sounds like a joke,” the host said. “But when you sue them for $1.3 billion, you start to think, ‘Oh, they might have some evidence.’”
Fox News “hard news” anchor Harris Faulkner had a disturbing amount of trouble comprehending that an artistic illustration was not, in fact, a literal image of the Oval Office.
“I was just sitting there trying to keep warm,” Sanders told Seth Meyers Thursday night.
Biden’s chief medical adviser did not hold back in drawing a sharp contrast between the new president and his predecessor.
“I don’t want to be considered an enemy of the people,” McCain whined at one point.
“What we saw today was the opposite of gaslighting,” the “Late Show” host said. “Today, we were reality-boarded, and I am here for it.”
“Now that we’re waging war on white supremacists, can somebody tell us in very clear language what a white supremacist is?” the Fox News host asked Wednesday night.
By contrast, CNN commentators called Trump’s parting message to America “embarrassing” and “repulsive.”