Colbert on Pelosi calling Trump a vile creature: ‘You know who agrees? Most Americans’
Late-night hosts looked back on comments made by Nancy Pelosi about Donald Trump and examined the last-minute campaigning for the New York mayoral race.On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert spoke about the big night for New York.He said that election night in the US is known internationally as “Guys, come look, they’re about to do something stupid!”He spoke about Zohran Mamdani’s late campaign push, hitting multiple clubs and bars in an episode that was taped just before the Democratic candidate made history winning the majority of votes.His major competition, Andrew Cuomo, picked up endorsements from Elon Musk, Eric Adams, George Santos and Stephen Miller, AKA “everyone New Yorkers love”.Colbert also joked that support came from “subway seat puddle” and “your neighbour with the trumpet”.
This week also saw Nancy Pelosi call Donald Trump a “vile creature” and the “worst thing on the face of the Earth”.Colbert said that would place him in between “eating half your sandwich before realising it’s moldy” and “that fish in the Amazon that swims up your peehole”.He added: “You know who agrees with Nancy Pelosi? Most Americans.”Because this week a new opinion poll was published showing that Trump has reached a new second-term low in his approval rating with a showing of 37%, down from 47% in mid-February.The week also saw the death of Dick Cheney, at the age of 84.
Colbert said that his family are “asking well-wishers, in lieu of flowers, to please shoot a friend in the face”,On Jimmy Kimmel Live! the host spoke about the California vote over redistricting, joking that whatever the result was, “Trump’s just gonna redraw everything with a Sharpie himself”,The president has already called the vote “unconstitutional” and “a giant scam”, which Kimmel said were “also adjectives someone might use to describe him”,He moved on to the New York mayoral race, calling Eric Adams a “clownishly funny” mayor who will next be seen on Dancing With the Stars,It was also day 35 of the government shutdown and Trump has threatened to delay Snap benefits, something his press secretary had to walk back immediately.
It would affect 42 million people, a sign of callousness that explains why “his kids are like that”.Kimmel added: “The guy who never missed a happy meal in his life is deciding who gets to eat in this country.”The administration was ultimately forced into an agreement to pay half and it all led Kimmel to announce that he would be helping local organisations with a “big beautiful food bank” in the studio’s parking lot, asking viewers for food donations.Trump was also asked this week about former prince Andrew being stripped of his royal title as a result of the Jeffrey Epstein association.He told reporters he felt “very badly” for the royal family.
Kimmel said it was “like Bill Cosby feeling bad for R Kelly” and there were also dozens of photos of Trump and Andrew together.Ticket sales at the Kennedy Center have also plummeted since Trump took over and demanded less “woke” programming with sales at 57%, down from 93% this time last year.“Everything he touches dies,” Kimmel said before joking: “Good news, Melania, you’re gonna live forever.”On Late Night, Seth Meyers also spoke about the big New York election day, talking about a recent CNN profile of Mamdani’s wife.“Bad news ladies, he’s married, and even worse news, Cuomo isn’t,” he joked.
This week has also seen Trump threatening possible military action in Nigeria on social media which led the Pentagon head, Pete Hegseth, to reply: “Yes, sir.”Meyers called it “gross” and said they were “like those couples who wish each other happy anniversary on Facebook”.Sotheby’s is also set to auction off a sculpture of a solid gold toilet called America, which led Meyers to joke: “I don’t know if that’s fair though since the toilet actually works.”
Seth Meyers on Mamdani’s win: ‘The kind of energy Democrats have been desperately seeking for years’
Late-night hosts reacted to Democrats’ slate of wins across the country and Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in the New York City mayoral race.On Late Night, Seth Meyers celebrated Mamdani’s historic victory in the New York mayoral race, becoming the first south Asian and Muslim mayor of the biggest city in the US, as well as New York’s first mayoral candidate since 1969 to receive more than a million votes.“This is the kind of energy Democrats have been desperately seeking for years,” said an enthusiastic Meyers. “I haven’t seen a crowd of New Yorkers this excited since the time the real Timotheé Chalamet stopped at a Timotheé Chalamet lookalike contest in Manhattan.“And if you thought Trump was bummed about the results before Mamdani’s speech, he probably felt even worse” when he heard Mamdani say: “Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: turn the volume up!”“OK, first of all, you do not need to tell him to turn the volume up,” Meyers joked
Garden shed of vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner added to heritage at risk register
Hut where father of immunology trialled first smallpox vaccine among 138 additions to Historic England listA rustic, ordinary-looking English garden hut regarded as the birthplace of immunology – revolutionising global public health and saving countless lives – has been added to the nation’s heritage at risk register.The hut belonged to Edward Jenner (1749-1823), regarded as someone who has saved more lives than any other human. It was there that he first trialled a vaccine for smallpox in the late 18th century.The hut, built from brick and rubble stone with a simple thatched roof, was christened “the Temple of Vaccinia” by Jenner.Today the structure in Gloucestershire is in a sorry state and is one of 138 buildings and sites added by Historic England to its annual heritage at risk register
Miss Piggy movie on way from Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone and Cole Escola
Miss Piggy is getting the movie star treatment, courtesy of Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone.A feature film about the diva puppet is in the works at Disney, which owns the rights to the Muppets franchise, Variety reported on Wednesday. Lawrence and Stone will serve as producers, working with a script from Oh, Mary! creator Cole Escola.“I don’t know if I can announce this but I am just going to … Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie and Cole is writing it,” Lawrence revealed on Las Culturistas podcast hosted by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. When the excited cohosts asked whether Lawrence and Stone, longtime friends and two of the most successful film actors of their generation, would co-star in the project, Lawrence teased: “I think so
Colbert on Pelosi calling Trump a vile creature: ‘You know who agrees? Most Americans’
Late-night hosts looked back on comments made by Nancy Pelosi about Donald Trump and examined the last-minute campaigning for the New York mayoral race.On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert spoke about the big night for New York. He said that election night in the US is known internationally as “Guys, come look, they’re about to do something stupid!”He spoke about Zohran Mamdani’s late campaign push, hitting multiple clubs and bars in an episode that was taped just before the Democratic candidate made history winning the majority of votes.His major competition, Andrew Cuomo, picked up endorsements from Elon Musk, Eric Adams, George Santos and Stephen Miller, AKA “everyone New Yorkers love”.Colbert also joked that support came from “subway seat puddle” and “your neighbour with the trumpet”
De Niro to JLaw: should celebrities be expected to speak out against Trump?
If you were hoping Jennifer Lawrence might be able to tell you who to vote for and why, you’re in for some disappointment. “I don’t really know if I should,” the actor told the New York Times recently when asked about speaking up about the second Trump administration – and she’s not the only one. “I’ve always believed that I’m not here to tell people what to think,” Sydney Sweeney recently told GQ, after a year in which she was the subject of controversy over a jeans ad and a possible Republican voter registration. This marks a shift from Donald Trump’s first term, when more celebrities seemed not just comfortable speaking out against the administration, but obligated to do so. Now voters will no longer be able to so easily consult with Notes-app-made posts on Instagram to decide who and what they care about before they head to the polls
Jon Stewart on Trump’s Gatsby party: ‘The theme was apparently gross income inequality’
Late-night hosts reacted to Donald Trump Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party held just hours before millions of Americans lost their food stamp benefits.On the Daily Show, Jon Stewart mocked House speaker Mike Johnson’s insistence that Trump is “desperate for Snap benefits to flow to the American people”, even as his administration let the largest food assistance program in the nation, supporting around 42 million Americans, lapse during the government shutdown.Stewart played a clip of Johnson assuring that Trump “is a big-hearted president”.“Is he? Big-hearted? Loves us?” Stewart replied. “Because again, and maybe I’m misinterpreting it, but he did just recently dump diarrhea on all of us
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