“Daily Show” host Trevor Noah last night gave an impassioned analysis of the weekend’s deadly mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando. “This is a clearly complicated incident with elements of terrorism, homophobia, mental health,” Noah said. “But it … Continue reading
“Just a month after Donald Trump announced his run for president, people were already blaming “the media” for creating his candidacy. That theme has been sounded again and again, by NBC News, which claimed last summer that TV news’ blanket … Continue reading
Regular readers of this blog know that my admiration for Jon Stewart knows no bounds and his near total absence from broadcast media since ending his run on the Daily Show has been disheartening for so many reasons. In this, his first … Continue reading
From climate change through reproductive rights and gender equality and on to LGBTQ rights and same-sex marriage, Ted Cruz denies them all. In that respect, he ought to be the perfect alternative candidate to Donald Trump, at least within the … Continue reading
Donald Trump decided to drop out of the Republican party nomination debate on Fox News which may have disappointed the rabble that he loves to rouse, but that wasn’t the only positive outcome. “If Fox News has no Trump, then I … Continue reading
Sarah Palin‘s appearance at Trump’s stump speech in Iowa was supposed to be a big surprise, but the ‘secret’ such as it was, leaked within hours of Trump’s teaser announcement. Even so, her appearance was met with plenty of whooping … Continue reading
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has had a good laugh at Donald Trump‘s expense throughout his Presidential nomination campaign, but with him continuing to ride high in the polls, Jordan Klepper decided to see what kind of person would … Continue reading
The Daily Show railed into U.S. gun culture challenging the frequently espoused talking point that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is good guys with a gun.” Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper sets out to go “from gun idiot to … Continue reading
We all suspected that there was something very creepy going on with Donald Trump. His racist demagoguery quite frankly makes my stomach churn. Even so, the idea that he can ‘joke’ about having relations with his own daughter has seen him … Continue reading
“For me, as an African, there’s just something familiar about Trump that makes me feel at home” – the new Daily Show host, Trevor Noah thinks that “The Donald” has the makings of a great African dictator. Watch the video … Continue reading
Political discourse in the US & the UK has often been closely aligned, especially since the Reagan- Thatcher era set what we now know as the ‘neo-liberal’ consensus. But it is the failure of so-called trickle down economics and the … Continue reading
“The eulogies have been delivered, the set disassembled and the echo of Jon Stewart’s parting “bullshit-is-everywhere” monologue is fading. What now? After 16 years as America’s leading comedy/political TV satirist, Stewart leaves no clear successor even as America enters a … Continue reading
Jon Stewart has a long-standing feud with Fox News, and the host of The Daily Show made sure to use his last week to go out in style. The comic and media critic was lambasted by Fox after it was … Continue reading
“For nearly all of Jon Stewart’s opening segment on his final Monday night Daily Show it seemed as if Donald Trump would be left entirely unmentioned. That’s because this time the target of the host’s scorn was this past weekend’s … Continue reading
Given the confusion surrounding the value of providing a fully rounded sex education to children and the embarrassment that many adults feel about even discussing the subject with each other, let alone a group of giggling teenagers, it is hardly … Continue reading
I Am Incorrigible 