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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Daily Show' Makes An 'Ass' Out Of Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Using 1 Wild Acronym
'Daily Show' correspondent Ronny Chieng on Thursday revealed why President Donald Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' (or BBB for short) is reminding people of an acronym with a far different meaning. Chieng tossed to a CNN clip of 'Full Disclosure' host Roben Farzad mistakenly referring to the BBB as the 'BBL' (an acronym for Brazilian butt lifts, a procedure to alter the look of a person's buttocks) before catching his gaffe. 'Share your screen right now!' quipped Chieng of Farzad's on-air fumble. Chieng suggested that perhaps BBL was a 'better name' after all. 'Because this bill is thick and mostly ass!' he added. The bill — which the House passed on Thursday —slashes Medicaid funding, cuts $290 billion for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (or SNAP) and extends Trump's 2017 tax cuts at a cost of about $4 trillion. 'The only way this could be more cartoonishly mean to poor people is if it said Bob Cratchit has to work on Christmas Day,' said Chieng as a photo from 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' flashed alongside him. He later continued, 'But this vote was very controversial even among Republicans who didn't like how it increased the debt by $4 trillion. Do you realize how much money $4 trillion is? No, you don't, because none of it went to education!' Watch more of Chieng's Thursday monologue on 'The Daily Show.' 'Daily Show' Roasts The 'F**k' Out Of This 'Piece Of Junk' Trump Gift Stephen Colbert Reveals The 1 Thing Trump Has Made Americans Truly 'Horny' For They Won't 'Say A Word': Jimmy Kimmel Nails Republicans On Biggest Trump Hypocrisy
New York Times
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Late Night Thinks Trump's ‘White Genocide' Video Was a Bit Much
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. Lie, the Beloved Country On Wednesday, President Trump lectured the visiting president of South Africa, claiming that genocide was being carried out against white farmers in his country (and subjecting him to a dubious video on that subject). In turn, Trump got a lecture from late-night hosts, who dismantled his false claims. 'There's a right-wing conspiracy theory bubbling right now that says they're killing all the white people in South Africa,' Jimmy Kimmel explained on Wednesday night. 'Trump apparently has seen this online, so he brings the president in, he turns the lights down and makes him sit through a multimedia presentation about his own country titled 'White Genocide.'' On 'The Daily Show,' Ronny Chieng said Trump had turned the White House meeting 'into a murder podcast.' The Punchiest Punchlines (Golden Dome Edition) The Bits Worth Watching On 'Everybody's Live With John Mulaney,' the host's future self (played by Peter Gallagher) warned him against a stunt planned for next week's finale, which will have disastrous consequences. What We're Excited About on Thursday Night Shaquille O'Neal will be a guest on 'The Tonight Show,' giving him ample opportunity to explain an N.B.A. draft conspiracy theory. Also, Check This Out As the season finale of 'Everybody's Live With John Mulaney' approaches, here's how and why this gonzo talk show is breaking the rules of late night.
New York Times
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Ronny Chieng Tackles Kristi Noem's Takes on Immigration
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. Flunking Out Pop quiz time — what's the definition of habeas corpus? The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, fumbled the answer to this question during congressional testimony on Tuesday, and 'The Daily Show' was not about to let it slide. 'If Kristi Noem was just a random person on the street, I'd get it if she was, like, 'Habeas corpus? That's a Harry Potter spell, right? Makes you invisible?'' Ronny Chieng said. The Punchiest Punchlines (Big, Beautiful Edition) The Bits Worth Watching On Monday night's show, Jimmy Kimmel disclosed that he has become the first working late-night host to be a grandfather since Jimmy Carson. He also warned President Trump against dating his granddaughter. What We're Excited About on Wednesday Night 'Everybody's Live With John Mulaney' will air its penultimate episode of the season, with the actors Sigourney Weaver, Natasha Lyonne and Amy Sedaris, as well as a planned topic: 'Is Uber Good?' Also, Check This Out George Wendt, a.k.a. Norm of 'Cheers,' died on Tuesday. Our critic raises a glass to television's favorite barfly.
Daily Mail
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Woke Daily Show host says getting US citizenship makes him feel like he's joined an 'evil empire'
A Daily Show host compared becoming a US citizen to joining an 'evil empire' during a podcast appearance. Ronny Chieng, 39, made the remark while discussing his decision to move to to the US from Malaysia to pursue his comedy career on Variety's Awards Circuit Podcast this past Friday. Chieng filed for citizenship 10 years ago, but only received it recently, he revealed, The Daily Show correspondent hailed the development as being decades in the making, before using it to pan the US's politics. The stand-up star said 'it was a weird time [for it happen]' considering he filed back when Barack Obama was still president. 'So it's weird to join,' he said. 'It's like you're joining this evil empire, but that's not why you joined it,' the left-leaning late night host continued in an apparent swipe at the Trump administration. 'It just so happened, the evil empire had some really nice TV shows, and they do stand and they do stand-up comedy in The Death Star.' 'I've been trying to come back to America since I left in '93 when I was seven years old,' Chieng added at another point, recalling a visit to the states that he said spurred his career. The comic is seen here with his father and sister outside the White House before that trip back overseas 'I've been trying to come back to America since I left in '93 when I was seven years old,' Chieng added at another point, recalling a visit to the States that he said spurred his career. 'I've been trying to come back to do stand-up comedy, and I finally got to come back in 2015, 10 years ago, and then citizenship nine years later,' he said. 'So, this Trump thing is all I've known. 'This isn't that new, to be honest,' Chieng said, referring to the media circuses that have surfaced during the conservative's two terms. 'Since I came to America, his shadow has been looming or in charge,' he recalled. The satirist then said Trump's second term has been 'outlandish' - comparing it to a 'car wreck [that occurs] every day'. He also likened his and his coworkers' continued coverage of the presidency to those of surgeons in 'an emergency room.' 'You kind of get numb to it,' the comic melodramatically explained. 'It's something new coming in, and it's something you have to comment on. 'It seems outlandish, but at the same time, it's been outlandish for nine years.' 'So is it outlandish?' he asked himself, before offering an answer. 'That's the feeling,' 'Anyone can apply for US citizenship under Obama,' the comedian joked at another point. 'That's easy, Golden Age. Great. 'If you really wanted it, [you did] it [then]. And that's what I did!' DHS announced last week that in Trump's first 100 days over 152,000 migrants were deported, many of them to prisons in El Salvador, Cuba and Panama. The Trump administration also announced a program that would pay migrants to self-deport. Border czar Tom Homan has warned protesters who impede ICE operations will face consequences. 'They can trespass, they'll be arrested,' 'If they impede, they will be arrested,' He told Fox News. 'If they knowingly harbor and conceal, they'll be arrested [too].' Trump's migrant deportations have proven popular among voters after years of unfettered and uncontrolled illegal immigration under President Biden. But the Trump administration has also faced criticism for failing to follow due process and has been accused of wrongly identifying innocent asylum seekers as dangerous gangsters, then shipping them to a terrifying El Salvadorean super prison. Chieng is married to Hannah Pham. The two met while studying studying commerce and law at the University of Melbourne.
Fox News
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
'Daily Show' star who recently became US citizen says becoming American is like joining 'evil empire'
Ronny Chieng, host of "The Daily Show," compared becoming a U.S. citizen to joining an "evil empire" during an appearance on Variety's "Awards Circuit" podcast on Friday. Chieng, who was born in Malaysia and moved to the U.S. as a child before returning to Malaysia at age seven, described his eventual return to America in 2015 as "30 years in the making." He said he came back to the U.S. to pursue his career in stand-up comedy and that it was a "weird time" to become an American. "I turn down offers to tour overseas all the time," Chieng said. "I've got no interest in it, because I came from there. I've been trying to come here… so it makes sense for me to get citizenship, because if I do leave the country, I know I can come back in to the stuff that I've been building here." Chieng told Variety that the type of things that attracted him to America were "Back to the Future" and "Seinfeld" and not "the Iraq War." "It's like you're joining this evil empire, but that's not why you joined it. It just so happened, the evil empire had some really nice TV shows, and they do stand-up comedy in The Death Star," he said. Beginning his tenure on the "Daily Show" in 2015, Chieng noted that "this Trump thing" is all he's known, saying that since he came to America, President Donald Trump's "shadow has been looming or in charge." "He's [Trump's] been talking s--- for a long time now. We're used to him talking s---," he explained. "He's been throwing chaos in the mix for a long time now. So in that sense, it doesn't feel like anything new in terms of coverage." Chieng also compared covering Trump's second term on the "Daily Show" to "being in an emergency room," describing the non-stop coverage of the president as "outlandish." "You kind of get numb to it, because it's always a car wreck every day. It's something new coming in, and it's something you have to comment on," Chieng said. "It seems outlandish, but at the same time, it's been outlandish for nine years. So is it outlandish? That's the feeling."
