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#EndorseThis: Michael Moore Says He'd Prefer A President Pence

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#EndorseThis: Colbert Likens Trump To Your Racist Grandpa

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#EndorseThis: The Origin Story Of Anthony Atamanuik's Trump Impression

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Captain Sully To Trump: You're Grounded

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#EndorseThis: Scaramucci Tells Colbert He Would've Fired Bannon

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#EndorseThis: Michael Moore Says He'd Prefer A President Pence
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore painted an optimistic picture for the Democratic party as a guest on Seth Meyers's Late Night on Thursday.
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#EndorseThis: Colbert Likens Trump To Your Racist Grandpa
President Trump's impromptu presser in the Trump Tower lobby in Manhattan on Tuesday — during which he went off-script and explicitly suggested that some of the TIKI torch-wielding white supremacists marching in the weekend's "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, weren't neo-Nazis — was "one for the ages," says Stephen Colbert: "Specifically 1939 to 1945."
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#EndorseThis: The Origin Story Of Anthony Atamanuik's Trump Impression
Anthony Atamanuik, host — you could say — of The President Show on Comedy Central guested on Seth Meyers's Late Night on Tuesday. He explained the origin of his knockout Trump impression, which started as an audience suggestion at an improv show, grew into a nationwide tour, and ended up a cable TV show.
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Captain Sully To Trump: You're Grounded
America's most famous airline pilot has shot down President Trump's proposal to privatize the nation's air traffic control system. “Our air traffic control system is the best and safest in the world," declares Captain Chesley Sullenberger in a new video produced by the Alliance for Aviation Across America.
By Jefferson Morley
#EndorseThis: Scaramucci Tells Colbert He Would've Fired Bannon
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#EndorseThis: Weird Al Helps John Oliver Deescalate Tensions With North Korea
To give the indoctrinated people of North Korea "a sense of how America is feeling right now," Oliver enlists Weird Al Yankovic, who plays the "international language" of the accordion "like a fucking angel."
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#EndorseThis: Bill Hader Returns To SNL As 'The Mooch'
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#EndorseThis: Trump Is International 'Laughing Stock,' Explains Seth Meyers
Here Late Night host Seth Meyers explains "word bingo" — a game some European diplomats play whenever Trump talks at international gatherings.
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#EndorseThis: Colbert Calmly Predicts, "We're All Gonna Die"
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#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Explains The Hypocrisy Of Trump's 'Working Vacation'
Late Night host Seth Meyers on Monday took "A Closer Look" at President Trump's 17-day "working" vacation at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
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#EndorseThis: John Oliver Pokes Holes In Trump's Proposed Border Patrol Surge
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Detroit Is Not A Movie
Oh, never mind. By all means, see the movie if the marketing campaign has persuaded you it’s the kind of entertainment you like. But please don’t think you are going to gain any deep insight into what happened in Detroit in 1967. Or what’s happening now. Or most importantly what you could do to reduce the destructive grip of white power on our society going forward.
By Frank Joyce
#EndorseThis: Scaramucci's Steamy 'President Show' Farewell
The real Anthony Scaramucci lost his job on Monday, but the President Show iteration — played by Mario Cantone — hung around for three days to deliver his farewell address on Thursday night.
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#EndorseThis: Dave Chappelle Amends 'Give Trump A Chance' Plea
In his monologue as host of Saturday Night Live in November, Dave Chappelle controversially encouraged Americans to "give Trump a chance." Now, almost nine months into Trump's presidency, the former Chappelle Show host is amending his plea.
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#EndorseThis: Jimmy Fallon Introduces New LinkedIn For Former Trump Staffers
It's called KickedOut — tagline: "The only jobs website made for people who've been fired from the Trump administration" — and it eliminates from your résumé any indication that you've ever worked in Trump's White House.
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'Dunkirk' Is A Morality Story For Shared Blessings Of Peace
The movie Dunkirk recounts an astounding story of courage and self-sacrifice, without which Hitler might have won World War II. One can draw a straight line from Britain's heroic solidarity in the war to the welfare state that emerged in peacetime.
By Froma Harrop
#EndorseThis: Colbert Bids Weepy Farewell To The Mooch
"The Mooch" was canned on Monday, little more than a week into his stint as White House communications director. This was devastating news especially to the host and fans of The Late Show, as Stephen Colbert was — for ten days — late night TV's preeminent Scaramucci roast master.
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#EndorseThis: John Oliver Exposes Alex Jones's Snake Oil Empire
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#EndorseThis: Trump Crashes Focus Group On 'The President Show'
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#EndorseThis: "Bernie Sanders" Debunks Avocado Toast On '@midnight'
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#EndorseThis: Jeff Sessions (Of A Sort) Responds To Trump Criticism On 'Late Show'
Stephen Colbert allowed "beleaguered" Jeff Sessions onto The Late Show to address his fast deteriorating relationship with President Donald Trump, who has this past week publicly criticized the attorney general for recusing himself on matters relating to the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with the Russian government.
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#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Initiates Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci
Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci — a "human pinky ring," the "human embodiment of a double-parked BMW," "The only magician you could get on short notice" — got the "Closer Look" treatment from Late Night host Seth Meyers on Monday.
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#EndorseThis: 'Daily Show' Sends Off Sean Spicer With Greatest Hits Montage
For approximately the last month, recently departed press secretary Sean Spicer's blunders took place behind closed doors since the White House instilled a no-cameras policy for daily briefings. In that time, one was easily liable to forget just how incompetent Spicer actually was. So, as a farewell bid, The Daily Show compiled some of his greatest hits to jog one's memory.
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#EndorseThis: Stephen Colbert Books The Infamous Presidential Suite At Moscow Ritz-Carlton
According to an unsubstantiated dossier that BuzzFeed News had the abandon to publish in full in January, President Trump (then just a questionably wealthy pariah) hired a gaggle of prostitutes to "perform a 'golden showers' (urination) show in front of him" on the bed in the Ritz-Carlton Moscow's "presidential suite" — room 1101 — where then-President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama had stayed during a diplomatic visit to Russia.
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#EndorseThis: Stephen Colbert Hangs Out With An Oligarch
As part of the Late Show's "Russia Week," host Stephen Colbert palled around with oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, the multi-billionaire owner of the Brooklyn Nets ("Nyets") who made his fortune after buying a state-owned nickel mine "for just pennies on the nickel."
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MLB Games Keep Getting Longer: 4 Fixes To Pick Up The Pace
When the world threatens to get you down, there is always baseball — an absorbing refuge, an alternate reality entirely unto itself. To a person of my temperament, the MLB package on satellite TV constitutes the entertainment bargain of the century. A man can read and write only so many hours a day.
By Gene Lyons
#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Talks To The New York AG Who Sued Trump University
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#EndorseThis: Stephen Colbert Kicks Off "Russia Week"
'Late Show' host Stephen Colbert kicked off his "Russia Week" on Monday evening. In his first of five field pieces — which will air throughout the week — Colbert sat down with his Russian counterpart, Ivan Urgant, who hosts the late-night talk show, 'Evening Urgant.'
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#EndorseThis: Conan Casts Russia Scandal Made-For-TV Movie
Conan O'Brien is rarely acknowledged for his political comedy. And this bit is hardly as cutting as, say, Colbert's monologue on any given night.
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