9 h. ago Jimmy Kimmel trolls Trump after beating him in approval poll: ‘I am more popular than the president’

A new YouGov poll gave Kimmel a 16-point lead in favorability over the president

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32 h. ago Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward

US media giants have bowed before Maga after Trump’s many lawsuits and the Jimmy Kimmel firestormParamount Skydance, the newly merged conglomerate which owns CBS News, has hired the journalist Bari Weiss as the network’s editor-in-chief – and acquired the Free Press, the publication Weiss co-founded in 2021 as a challenger to the establishment media, for a reported $150m.Weiss has made her career as a center-right critic of progressivism, and the Free Press is a contrarian, loosely conservative and ardently Zionist publication that views itself as a speaker of hard truths and protector of free discourse. Tellingly, Weiss will answer directly to Paramount’s chief executive, David Ellison, rather than to the president of CBS News, or the head of CBS. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Jimmy Kimmel more popular than Trump after show suspension, poll finds

Economist and YouGov poll finds president had a 16-point deficit in terms of popularity compared with late-night hostJimmy Kimmel emerged as more popular than Donald Trump after a spat with the president’s administration temporarily left the talkshow host off the air in September, according to a recent poll.The survey, published by the Economist and YouGov, asked 1,656 adults in the US whether they viewed Kimmel and Trump favorably. Kimmel registered a net favorability of +3 after 44% of respondents indicated they viewed him favorably, 41% unfavorably and 15% undecided. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Saturday Night Live recap: Bad Bunny trolls MAGA over halftime show as season premiere hits Trump’s late

SNL skewered Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump tonight, while host Bad Bunny delivered his monologue partly in Spanish

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4 d. ago Bruce Springsteen's embarrassing karaoke set as punters didn't realise it was him

Bruce Springsteen - AKA The Boss - told Jimmy Kimmel how he had been put off karaoke for life after an embarrassing incident at a London bar for a cringeing crowd

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4 d. ago Jon Stewart hijacks Jimmy Kimmel monologue to deliver gag about Trump’s late

Stewart joked that ‘the job security’s not really there right now’ for late-night talk show hosts

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5 d. ago FCC Chair Brendan Carr to testify before Senate panel after Jimmy Kimmel suspension backlash: reports

Carr will reportedly testify before the Senate Commerce Committee in November

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5 d. ago Jane Fonda relaunches free speech committee founded by her father after Jimmy Kimmel suspension

Fonda’s initiative has already garnered support from more than 550 celebrities, including Pedro Pascal, Whoopi Goldberg, and Billie Eilish

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6 d. ago Newsom trolls ‘Marie Antoinette’ Trump over decision to protect his ballroom while pushing cuts: ‘No health care for you’

‘TRUMP “MARIE ANTOINETTE” SAYS, “NO HEALTH CARE FOR YOU PEASANTS, BUT A BALLROOM FOR THE QUEEN!’ California governor’s press office tweets

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6 d. ago Jane Fonda relaunches committee to protect free speech founded by her father following Jimmy Kimmel suspension

Fonda’s initiative has already garnered support from more than 550 celebrities, including Pedro Pascal, Whoopi Goldberg, and Billie Eilish

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6 d. ago Jimmy Kimmel makes 'unprecedented move' to spite Trump days after show return

Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has marked his return to TV screens by welcoming Stephen Colbert onto his show in a move he predicted would drive Donald Trump 'nuts'

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6 d. ago JD Vance calls Trump the ‘trolling master’ as he pins government shutdown on Democrats

Vance was praising House Speaker Mike Johnson for resurfacing old video of Democrats arguing against a government shutdown

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6 d. ago Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert on one another’s shows to ‘drive Trump nuts’

Kimmel returned to TV after his show’s suspension in the wake of comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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6 d. ago Jimmy Kimmel mocks Donald Trump's sex life and fitness routine after show suspension

Jimmy Kimmel has been back to his old ways of mocking Donald Trump since returning to television after his show was suspended following his controversial comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination

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7 d. ago FCC chair claims he never threatened TV networks over Jimmy Kimmel

Brendan Carr earlier said ‘we can do this the easy way or the hard way’ as he urged networks to take action on KimmelBrendan Carr, the tough-talking, pro-Trump chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), claimed on Tuesday that Democrats and the media had “misrepresented” critical comments he made about Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talkshow.Television conglomerates including Nexstar and Sinclair opted to pull the show for “business” reasons, Carr argued, not because of anything he said. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Donald Trump's private text message to Rory McIlroy in dressing room after Ryder Cup

Rory McIlroy received a text from Donald Trump after Team Europe trolled the US President by chanting his name in the dressing room following their Ryder Cup victory

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7 d. ago How Rory McIlroy trolled Trump over Ryder Cup win: ‘We thought we’d have some banter’

A text from the US president led to a taunting chant from the European team that mysteriously emerged online

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7 d. ago Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings revealed days after huge viewership spike for return

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ was taken off the air following a controversy sparked by the host’s comments about the death of Charlie Kirk

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8 d. ago The Donald Trump text message that triggered brutal Team Europe troll after Ryder Cup triumph

Double-winning skipper Luke Donald delivered an insight into the mischievous video wind-up

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8 d. ago Donald Trump stuns the world with response to brutal Ryder Cup troll as foul mouthed USA sinner pays the price

The President of the United States of America broke a habit of a lifetime as he ditched the snark

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