Farewell to Shrill: truly radical TV that laughs in the face of fatphobia | Television
[ad_1] Warning: this article contains spoilers for all three series of Shrill on Hulu/BBC Two. “I am not concerned with whether or not fat people can change their bodies through self-discipline and ‘choices’. Pretty much all of them have tried already. A couple of them have succeeded. Whatever. My question is, what if they try […]
John Oliver places fake sponsored content on to local news: ‘Far too easy’ | Late-night TV roundup
[ad_1] John Oliver traced the fine, evermore corrupted line between local news and sponsored content on Last Week Tonight, going as far as successfully placing (on HBO’s dime) a bogus “sexual wellness blanket” on several local stations across the country. So-called “brandigation placement”, in which product representatives pay stations to conduct padded interviews about consumer […]
Stephen Colbert: ‘Republicans think that if they don’t talk about January 6, no one else will’ | Late-night TV roundup
[ad_1] Stephen Colbert The House approved a 9/11-style commission to investigate the 6 January attack on the Capitol on Wednesday, though 175 Republican members opposed the bipartisan body. “Even though they were in the building when it was attacked by the bloodthirsty mob, they opposed it,” Stephen Colbert explained on Thursday’s Late Show. “Why? Apparently, […]
‘I’m a black lesbian woman’: Sam Jay looks to disrupt late-night TV comedy | TV comedy
[ad_1] When Sam Jay got a deal with HBO for her own talkshow, she was clear on what Pause, her six-episode, half-hour series premiering this Friday, would not include: no desk and no straight-to-camera monologue. Those staples of late-night television, one of the most consistent – and consistently white, straight and male – genres in […]
Kimmel: Capitol attack commission to ‘look into what we saw happen with our own eyes’ | Late-night TV roundup
[ad_1] Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel opened on Wednesday with ominous legal developments for Donald Trump, as the New York attorney general’s office announced a criminal investigation into the former president’s business activities. “They’re looking now at bank fraud, tax fraud, insurance fraud – it’s starting to look like the guy who ran a fraudulent charitable […]
Trevor Noah: ‘Unemployment checks are not subsidizing laziness’ | Late-night TV roundup
[ad_1] Trevor Noah On Tuesday’s Daily Show, Trevor Noah discussed the difficulty restaurants across the country have faced in finding enough workers as business gets back to pre-pandemic speed. The shortage of job applications is largely down to workers finding better pay, hours and benefits in other jobs. But that hasn’t stopped numerous commentators on […]
Colbert: ‘Americans are seeing friends again, instead of bingeing Friends’ | Late-night TV roundup
[ad_1] Stephen Colbert A semblance of social normal returned to the US this weekend, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised that vaccinated Americans can socialize without masks or distancing. “Finally, Americans are seeing friends again, instead of bingeing Friends again,” quipped Stephen Colbert on Monday’s Late Show. Colbert also discussed the multibillion-dollar […]
Saturday Night Live: Keegan-Michael Key’s Michael Jordan a dunk, rest of show… dank | Saturday Night Live
[ad_1] Saturday Night Live opens with a special message from Dr Anthony Fauci, played by Kate McKinnon. “The patron saint of Purell” attempts to answer the public’s questions about the loosening of masking protocols: questions such as “What does that mean? “What the hell are you talking about?” “Is this a trap?” Fauci has assembled […]
John Oliver on ‘stand your ground’ laws: ‘Rosetta Stone for justified homicides’ | Late-night TV roundup
[ad_1] On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver discussed one corner of endemic gun violence and the influence of the gun lobby in the US: so-called “stand your ground” laws, which provide legal cover for shootings in which the perpetrator claims justified fear. Stand your ground laws, which have proliferated in numerous states in the past […]
Kimmel on the pipeline hack: ‘If you mess with America you will get $5m’ | Late-night TV roundup
[ad_1] Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel reacted to the ransomware attack by Russian hackers on the Colonial Pipeline in the south-east US, which incited panic and a run on gasoline that had people hoarding gas in plastic bottles. To get their network back online and stave the crisis, the company reportedly paid $5m in ransom to […]
