6 comedians roasting the mainstream media

Jon Stewart attacked Fox News early and often during his “Daily Show” reign. That’s hardly a shock.

The progressive still found time to mock CNN. He even created a website, LetsBuyCNN.com, to shame the channel’s wobbly news coverage.

Today’s late-night hosts, by and large, refuse to skewer any non-Fox network. “Saturday Night Live” is the same, and most mainstream comics also won’t slam the rise of Fake News.

The following comedians are the exception to that new rule. They know modern journalists are too often cheerleaders for Democrats or so-called “approved” narratives.

They may not get mainstream media adoration like Stephen Colbert or John Oliver for their observations. They’re fed up with the lies and misdirection and use their platforms to rage against CNN, the New York Times, and other outlets.

Joe Rogan

Rogan may be the biggest name to routinely bash the press.

Reporters gave the “Fear Factor” alum a personal reason to do so in 2021. He contracted COVID-19 and gulped down several medications, under a doctor’s orders, to smite the virus. They included ivermectin, the drug journalists mocked as “horse de-wormer.” That narrative ignored its Nobel Prize-winning properties.

Rogan got his revenge, and then some. He interviewed CNN’s on-call Dr. Sanjay Gupta and rhetorically pummeled him for the channel’s duplicitous coverage.

“It’s a lie on a news network … and it’s a lie that they’re conscious of. It’s not a mistake. They’re unfavorably framing it as veterinary medicine.”

Rogan, who pals around with rebel pundits like Michael Malice, wasn’t done with Fake News purveyors. He argues most people understand not to fully trust the press.

“The most optimistic person says, ‘Well, they lie sometimes.' That was never the case with Walter Cronkite.”

Adam Carolla

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Fellow podcaster Carolla may be the most consistent media critic in his comedy peer group.

Carolla, his ex-“Loveline” co-host Dr. Drew Pinsky often by his side, pummels the corrupt press on both “The Adam Carolla Show” podcast and “The Adam and Dr. Drew Show.” The latter is relentless in exposing press corruption.

Last month, the former “Man Show” star summed up his fury against the media with cold, hard facts.

“Every mainstream media narrative of the last five years has been wrong, if you really think about it, or skewed or morphed into something. … Maybe you start with Russian collusion and the Steele dossier. ‘There’s a tape. There’s a pee-pee tape.' And you roll it all the way through COVID or George Floyd or Kyle Rittenhouse … and Hunter Biden’s laptop.

“They’ve been wrong. And not wrong around the edges … there’s always wrong around the edges. They’ve been flat-out f***ing wrong about all of it.”

Why isn’t his old “Man Show” partner saying the same from his well-funded ABC bully pulpit “Jimmy Kimmel Live?”

Tim Dillon

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Comic Dillon doesn’t fit into any snug box, politically speaking. He may lean to the right, but he’s happy to punish conservatives with alacrity.

He recently mocked the press for running cover for former President Bill Clinton after the former leader’s name repeatedly appeared in the Epstein files.

“It’s very important that NBC and all the other news networks that we know and trust come out and first and foremost defend the honor of the man who’s mentioned 50 times in the human trafficking docs. Who will do it, if not NBC?” Dillon said. “Being friends with the human trafficker, being on the plane of the human trafficker, having the human trafficker’s friend at the wedding … it just happens.”

Rob Schneider

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We may be biased, considering that "Saturday Night Live" alum Schneider celebrated his 60th birthday — and conversion to Catholicism — in a piece for Align in November.

But even if he hadn't, we'd still applaud his departure from Hollywood liberal groupthink and his willingess to skewer CNN for its "lies, distortions [and] fake sources" — and to celebrate when the network endures another brutal ratings period.

“CNN records lowest weekend ratings in demo in recorded history… More people see MY tweets than watch the Liberal partisan dumpster fire that is CNN.”

Sue Costello

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Veteran comedian Costello is no stranger to mocking the press. She recalled going on stage after news broke in November 2017 about Louis C.K.’s gross sexual behaviors in front of unsuspecting women.

The Boston-bred Costello could have piled on C.K. Instead, she told Blaze News how she used her mic time to mock a craven "New York Times" reporter for circling her "like a vulture" for more dirt on the disgraced comic.

Costello has squared off against what she calls unscrupulous journalists since then, using platforms like her “SueTV” videos and X to hold the media accountable.

Her legal battle with CBS over her deal to create and star in a “pro-female” TV series continues, and she’s fearlessly exposing how even the most forward-thinking liberals in Hollywood play nasty when there's money on the line.

Jimmy Dore

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Liberal comic Dore would seem an unlikely media critic. Why rage against a machine supporting your ideological leanings? Instead, Dore hammers the press on his “Jimmy Dore Show” podcast, a satirical smash-up of comedy and punditry.

He’s been doing it for some time, calling his podcast “What the Daily Show would be if it wasn’t hosted by a millionaire.”

Dore called out the “Russian collusion” hoax from the jump and later praised Rogan for revealing the baked-in biases of too much modern journalism.

“In a minute and a half, Joe Rogan has already done more truth than MSNBC has done in 10 years,” Dore quipped on his show. “He told you about the Hunter Biden [laptop] was true and real and was suppressed.”