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Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Scale of Stephen Colbert's liberal bias revealed
The true scale of Stephen Colbert's liberal bias has been exposed in the number of times he hosted fellow progressives on his show, including one guest who appeared more than 20 times. Notorious Donald Trump critic Anderson Cooper appeared 21 times on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ,' which was suddenly axed by CBS last week. The show, which he took over from David Letterman in 2015, will now end in May 2026, network executives and Paramount, its new parent company, announced. Colbert, 61, had previously hit out at Paramount Global for settling a defamation lawsuit with Donald Trump for $16 million, calling the decision a 'big fat bribe' during his opening monologue on his show. And now the curtains have been drawn back on just how many left-wing journalists, hosts and Trump-hating liberals have joined Colbert inside New York's Ed Sullivan Theater. At least 200 episodes of 'The Late Show' featured popular left-wing media stars, including Cooper, Rachel Maddow, Jake Tapper, Niccole Wallace, Joy Reid and George Stephanopoulos, among others, Fox News Digital tallied. Not only has Cooper been on Colbert's show nearly two dozen times from 2016 to 2025, but the journalist threw his support behind him on Monday during a cameo with other famed talk show hosts replicating the viral Coldplay concert moment. In the clip, a cartoon sketch of Trump was seen hugging a Paramount symbol, seemingly getting embarrassed when cameras panned to him just as former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and HR chief Kristin Cabot did. While Cooper appeared on the show numerous times, he is not the only one who has done so. Jake Tapper, who was recently been pushed into the spotlight over his new book revealing former President Joe Biden's 'decline,' joined Colbert 12 times on his show. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow appeared eight times, along with 'The View' co-host Whoopi Goldberg. Colbert also had several of his CBS colleagues join him on stage, including Gayle King with 14 appearances, John Dickerson with 19, Norah O'Donnell with six and Margaret Brennan with three. The talk show host also had on Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Tommy Vietor, the former Obama staffers who started the 'Pod Saves America' political podcast. They joined him 11 times. Joy Reid, whose MSNBC show was canceled in February, appeared in four episodes of his show. MSNBC analysts John Heilemann and Alex Wagner were both on the show at least 10 times, some of which were occurred as they hosted the political docuseries 'The Circus.' The series aired on Showtime, the sister network of Paramount. Although he appeared to keep his CBS co-workers close, Colbert did not shy away from inviting rival liberal media stars from coming on his show. ABC's George Stephanopoulos, who put the network in the hot seat after saying the Trump was found 'liable for [sexual assault]', made it on two episodes. The network agreed to pay Trump $16 million after the president sued over Stephanopoulos's remark . Trump was not found liable of [sexual assault] in the case involving writer E. Jean Carroll. He was find liable of sexual abuse. NBC's Savannah Guthrie joined once along with Craig Melvin, the new Today Show anchor. Steven Zeitchik, senior editor of technology and politics at The Hollywood Reporter , argued in a new piece that Colbert's defiant stance against the Trump administration will sway the voting body at the Television Academy. Zeitchik speculated that the increased attention and Colbert's willingness to stand up to Trump could result in The Late Show finally snagging an 'sympathy' Emmy win . Colbert won an Emmy for his work on The Colbert Report, a satirical show that ran on Comedy Central from 2005 to 2014. After he replaced David Letterman on The Late Show, the program was nominated for the most Outstanding Talk Series at the Emmys from 2017 to 2022. Every year during that period, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver won the award. Oliver is arguably the most liberal of the late-night bunch and often spotlights politics on his show.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
True scale of Stephen Colbert's liberal bias exposed...with famous anti-Trump guest on his show more than 20 times
The true scale of Stephen Colbert's liberal bias has been exposed in the number of times he hosted fellow progressives on his show, including one guest who appeared more than 20 times. Notorious Donald Trump critic Anderson Cooper appeared 21 times on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,' which was suddenly axed by CBS last week. The show, which he took over from David Letterman in 2015, will now end in May 2026, network executives and Paramount, its new parent company, announced. Colbert, 61, had previously hit out at Paramount Global for settling a defamation lawsuit with Donald Trump for $16 million, calling the decision a 'big fat bribe' during his opening monologue on his show. And now the curtains have been drawn back on just how many left-wing journalists, hosts and Trump-hating liberals have joined Colbert inside New York's Ed Sullivan Theater. At least 200 episodes of 'The Late Show' featured popular left-wing media stars, including Cooper, Rachel Maddow, Jake Tapper, Niccole Wallace, Joy Reid and George Stephanopoulos, among others, Fox News Digital tallied. Not only has Cooper been on Colbert's show nearly two dozen times from 2016 to 2025, but the journalist threw his support behind him on Monday during a cameo with other famed talk show hosts replicating the viral Coldplay concert moment. In the clip, a cartoon sketch of Trump was seen hugging a Paramount symbol, seemingly getting embarrassed when cameras panned to him just as former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and HR chief Kristin Cabot did. While Cooper appeared on the show numerous times, he is not the only one who has done so. Jake Tapper, who was recently been pushed into the spotlight over his new book revealing former President Joe Biden's 'decline,' joined Colbert 12 times on his show. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow appeared eight times, along with 'The View' co-host Whoopi Goldberg. Colbert also had several of his CBS colleagues join him on stage, including Gayle King with 14 appearances, John Dickerson with 19, Norah O'Donnell with six and Margaret Brennan with three. The talk show host also had on Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Tommy Vietor, the former Obama staffers who started the 'Pod Saves America' political podcast. They joined him 11 times. Joy Reid, whose MSNBC show was canceled in February, appeared in four episodes of his show. MSNBC analysts John Heilemann and Alex Wagner were both on the show at least 10 times, some of which were occurred as they hosted the political docuseries 'The Circus.' The series aired on Showtime, the sister network of Paramount. Although he appeared to keep his CBS co-workers close, Colbert did not shy away from inviting rival liberal media stars from coming on his show. ABC's George Stephanopoulos, who put the network in the hot seat after saying the Trump was found 'liable for rape', made it on two episodes. The network agreed to pay Trump $16 million after the president sued over Stephanopoulos's remark. Trump was not found liable of rape in the case involving writer E. Jean Carroll. He was find liable of sexual abuse. NBC's Savannah Guthrie joined once along with Craig Melvin, the new Today Show anchor. 'Morning Joe' co-hosts and couple Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who are known for their critiques of Trump, made four joint appearances. MSNBC political commentator Nicolle Wallace made three appearances. Her colleagues, Lawrence O'Donnell, Jen Psaki and CNN International's Christiane Amanpour did the same. Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, Kaitlan Collins, Jim Acosta, and Van Jones are just a few other CNN and MSNBC stars who have joined him over his talk show career. Steven Zeitchik, senior editor of technology and politics at The Hollywood Reporter, argued in a new piece that Colbert's defiant stance against the Trump administration will sway the voting body at the Television Academy. Zeitchik speculated that the increased attention and Colbert's willingness to stand up to Trump could result in The Late Show finally snagging an 'sympathy' Emmy win. Colbert won an Emmy for his work on The Colbert Report, a satirical show that ran on Comedy Central from 2005 to 2014. After he replaced David Letterman on The Late Show, the program was nominated for the most Outstanding Talk Series at the Emmys from 2017 to 2022. Every year during that period, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver won the award. Oliver is arguably the most liberal of the late-night bunch and often spotlights politics on his show.
South Wales Guardian
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South Wales Guardian
New George Smiley novel will not be glamorous like Bond, says Nick Harkaway
The 52-year-old, from Cornwall, is the son of John le Carre, who died in 2020 aged 89, and wrote the original spy series about an intelligence officer who works for The Circus, Britain's overseas intelligence agency. Harkaway, whose real name is Nicholas Cornwell, published his first continuation novel, Karla's Choice, last year. Speaking to the PA news agency, he said: 'Last time I was kind of deliberately unaware of how much pressure there actually was. 'I sort of sat down (to write) and didn't really think about it. And then, after I finished, and as the reviews started to come out and they were positive, I got retrospective terror. 'I realised… and particularly when you read the reviews, what you realise is that all of them begin with 'I really expected to hate this book, and I don't'. And I thought 'Gosh, that would have been really awful'.' He continued: 'There's a lot of reasons why it shouldn't work… So I think everybody had sort of legitimate fear, and I have great respect for that.' In the new novel, The Taper Man, George Smiley is sent, for the first time, on an operation to America to pursue an old communist network across the West Coast. 'We have Smiley going to America, to the United States, for the first time, into the kind of culmination of the Civil Rights decade,' said Harkaway. 'It's a period of massive, massive, tumultuous change, and not all of it peaceful, you know – there's some quite extraordinary acts of domestic terrorism in the early '60s, around desegregation. 'It's a deep dive, and I'm kind of daunted by it, but you do these things with respect, and you feel your way, and you learn,' he said. A post shared by The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (@spyonstage) The novel is set in 1965, 18 months after Karla's Choice, and amid the backdrop of the Vietnam War as well as the Civil Rights era. 'I'm not just writing to the 1960s, I'm also writing to the world of George Smiley and he's not the guy who shows up at a Beatles concert,' said Harkaway. 'We're not going to see the kind of glamorous '60s that you see in a James Bond film from the period; we're going to be looking at, always, the shadows and the grey spaces and the places where things have potential to go seriously wrong. 'And looking for somebody who can potentially make them go right, and will that person be heard? It's always about ambiguity, rather than the kind of acid orange of the '60s.' It has also been announced that Harkaway's father's global best-selling thriller, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, is to be staged in London's West End for the first time in November. Harkaway told PA: 'I am excited about that… I have seen the play. I saw it at Chichester, and it runs on rails towards the kind of inevitable, staggering conclusion of the story… It's incredibly powerful.' Le Carre, whose real name was David Cornwell, wrote best-selling novels including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Night Manager. Prior to his career as a writer, he worked in British intelligence throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Career intelligence officer Smiley became the author's best-known character and was made even more famous by Alec Guinness in the TV series of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy which aired in the late 1970s. Film versions of Le Carre's novels include 2001's The Tailor Of Panama, starring Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush and Jamie Lee Curtis; 2005's The Constant Gardener, starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz; and 2011's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy. Harkaway has written novels including The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, Tigerman, Gnomon and The Price You Pay (as Aidan Truhen). – The Spy Who Came in From the Cold will play at Soho Place from November 17 2025 until February 21 2026.
Glasgow Times
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
New George Smiley novel will not be glamorous like Bond, says Nick Harkaway
The 52-year-old, from Cornwall, is the son of John le Carre, who died in 2020 aged 89, and wrote the original spy series about an intelligence officer who works for The Circus, Britain's overseas intelligence agency. Harkaway, whose real name is Nicholas Cornwell, published his first continuation novel, Karla's Choice, last year. Speaking to the PA news agency, he said: 'Last time I was kind of deliberately unaware of how much pressure there actually was. 'I sort of sat down (to write) and didn't really think about it. And then, after I finished, and as the reviews started to come out and they were positive, I got retrospective terror. 'I realised… and particularly when you read the reviews, what you realise is that all of them begin with 'I really expected to hate this book, and I don't'. And I thought 'Gosh, that would have been really awful'.' He continued: 'There's a lot of reasons why it shouldn't work… So I think everybody had sort of legitimate fear, and I have great respect for that.' In the new novel, The Taper Man, George Smiley is sent, for the first time, on an operation to America to pursue an old communist network across the West Coast. 'We have Smiley going to America, to the United States, for the first time, into the kind of culmination of the Civil Rights decade,' said Harkaway. 'It's a period of massive, massive, tumultuous change, and not all of it peaceful, you know – there's some quite extraordinary acts of domestic terrorism in the early '60s, around desegregation. 'It's a deep dive, and I'm kind of daunted by it, but you do these things with respect, and you feel your way, and you learn,' he said. The novel is set in 1965, 18 months after Karla's Choice, and amid the backdrop of the Vietnam War as well as the Civil Rights era. 'I'm not just writing to the 1960s, I'm also writing to the world of George Smiley and he's not the guy who shows up at a Beatles concert,' said Harkaway. 'We're not going to see the kind of glamorous '60s that you see in a James Bond film from the period; we're going to be looking at, always, the shadows and the grey spaces and the places where things have potential to go seriously wrong. 'And looking for somebody who can potentially make them go right, and will that person be heard? It's always about ambiguity, rather than the kind of acid orange of the '60s.' It has also been announced that Harkaway's father's global best-selling thriller, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, is to be staged in London's West End for the first time in November. Harkaway told PA: 'I am excited about that… I have seen the play. I saw it at Chichester, and it runs on rails towards the kind of inevitable, staggering conclusion of the story… It's incredibly powerful.' Gary Oldman and John Le Carre arriving for the UK premiere of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy at the BFI Southbank in September 2011 (Ian West/PA) Le Carre, whose real name was David Cornwell, wrote best-selling novels including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Night Manager. Prior to his career as a writer, he worked in British intelligence throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Career intelligence officer Smiley became the author's best-known character and was made even more famous by Alec Guinness in the TV series of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy which aired in the late 1970s. Film versions of Le Carre's novels include 2001's The Tailor Of Panama, starring Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush and Jamie Lee Curtis; 2005's The Constant Gardener, starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz; and 2011's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy. Harkaway has written novels including The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, Tigerman, Gnomon and The Price You Pay (as Aidan Truhen). – The Spy Who Came in From the Cold will play at Soho Place from November 17 2025 until February 21 2026.
South Wales Argus
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South Wales Argus
New George Smiley novel will not be glamorous like Bond, says Nick Harkaway
The 52-year-old, from Cornwall, is the son of John le Carre, who died in 2020 aged 89, and wrote the original spy series about an intelligence officer who works for The Circus, Britain's overseas intelligence agency. Harkaway, whose real name is Nicholas Cornwell, published his first continuation novel, Karla's Choice, last year. Speaking to the PA news agency, he said: 'Last time I was kind of deliberately unaware of how much pressure there actually was. 'I sort of sat down (to write) and didn't really think about it. And then, after I finished, and as the reviews started to come out and they were positive, I got retrospective terror. 'I realised… and particularly when you read the reviews, what you realise is that all of them begin with 'I really expected to hate this book, and I don't'. And I thought 'Gosh, that would have been really awful'.' He continued: 'There's a lot of reasons why it shouldn't work… So I think everybody had sort of legitimate fear, and I have great respect for that.' In the new novel, The Taper Man, George Smiley is sent, for the first time, on an operation to America to pursue an old communist network across the West Coast. 'We have Smiley going to America, to the United States, for the first time, into the kind of culmination of the Civil Rights decade,' said Harkaway. 'It's a period of massive, massive, tumultuous change, and not all of it peaceful, you know – there's some quite extraordinary acts of domestic terrorism in the early '60s, around desegregation. 'It's a deep dive, and I'm kind of daunted by it, but you do these things with respect, and you feel your way, and you learn,' he said. The novel is set in 1965, 18 months after Karla's Choice, and amid the backdrop of the Vietnam War as well as the Civil Rights era. 'I'm not just writing to the 1960s, I'm also writing to the world of George Smiley and he's not the guy who shows up at a Beatles concert,' said Harkaway. 'We're not going to see the kind of glamorous '60s that you see in a James Bond film from the period; we're going to be looking at, always, the shadows and the grey spaces and the places where things have potential to go seriously wrong. 'And looking for somebody who can potentially make them go right, and will that person be heard? It's always about ambiguity, rather than the kind of acid orange of the '60s.' It has also been announced that Harkaway's father's global best-selling thriller, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, is to be staged in London's West End for the first time in November. Harkaway told PA: 'I am excited about that… I have seen the play. I saw it at Chichester, and it runs on rails towards the kind of inevitable, staggering conclusion of the story… It's incredibly powerful.' Gary Oldman and John Le Carre arriving for the UK premiere of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy at the BFI Southbank in September 2011 (Ian West/PA) Le Carre, whose real name was David Cornwell, wrote best-selling novels including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Night Manager. Prior to his career as a writer, he worked in British intelligence throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Career intelligence officer Smiley became the author's best-known character and was made even more famous by Alec Guinness in the TV series of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy which aired in the late 1970s. Film versions of Le Carre's novels include 2001's The Tailor Of Panama, starring Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush and Jamie Lee Curtis; 2005's The Constant Gardener, starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz; and 2011's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy. Harkaway has written novels including The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, Tigerman, Gnomon and The Price You Pay (as Aidan Truhen). – The Spy Who Came in From the Cold will play at Soho Place from November 17 2025 until February 21 2026.
