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Late-night hosts discussed Trump’s response to the outbreak and the fallout from the South Carolina Democratic debate read more...
Late-night hosts discussed Trump’s response to the outbreak and the fallout from the South Carolina Democratic debate
Stephen Colbert noted at the top of his monologue that “I, for one, am not panicking.” But some people are panicking over the coronavirus: namely, Wall Street. President Donald Trump spoke to the nation the other night, Colbert noted, to reassure nervous investors. “Today, it bounced back by plunging almost 1,200 points, the largest single
Trevor Noah examined the continued spread of coronavirus and offered an ingenious, although medically dubious, way to protect oneself from the disease on The Daily Show Thursday. Coronavirus has spread to 52 countries, prompting governments to take drastic action, whether it’s Japan closing schools for a month or Saudi Arabia shutting its doors on people looking to make the traditional pilgrimage to Mecca. “It doesn’t matter where you are in the...
Like everyone else, "The Daily Show" is thinking a lot about coronoavirus, and on Monday "senior medical correspondent" Roy Wood Jr. came out to explain how we can all stay safe — and then promptly exposed Trevor Noah to coronavirus. Obviously Wood didn't actually do this. The gag was something of a parody of an Iranian official who did something similar more than once last week. It was a welcome bit of levity considering how scary the headlines...